THEY DESPERATELY WANT TO SHOOT AT HIM...AND ME

By Tim Rohr

Buried in Apuron's scripted drivel of May 7, 2025, is a not so thinly veiled reference of WHO Apuron (or more precisely, his puppet masters) is aiming at...once again. 

This is the first time I have seen Apuron take direct aim at someone who is a priest in the context of the accusations that took him out. In the past, it has been "Tim Rohr and his associates..." or his accusers. But in his gleeful little speech about his innocence he accuses a priest of transforming Guam "into a place of casinos, drugs, and prostitution," and who unites with "powerful people and corrupt regimes." 

Hmmm. I wonder who he is talking about? It's not hard. There is only one priest who Apuron has always been green with envy of. Apuron did everything he could to destroy him 10 years ago, and his lawyer did too. 

In 2017, Apuron's puppet masters went to the Neo-rag "La Stampa" and did a hit piece on me and the priest. 

In 2012, a blog called “Jungle Watch” was created online, attacking Archbishop Apuron and the Neocatechumenal Way, accusing them of manipulating the prelate and “colonizing” the entire Agaña diocese. The site is managed by Tim Rohr, a real estate agent employed by Msgr. Benavente and involved in the projected sale of the seminary. 

Really? We are supposed to believe that an Italian newspaper heard about our little ruckus in Guam and investigated? Nope. Somebody fed that story to them. And I think we all can guess who. 

Note: The "trained lawyer" is quoted at length in the story, and the author of the story, Salvatore Cernuzio, is a Neocat: 

https://www.instagram.com/cernusalvo/p/BIDz_zSD5AP/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/cernusalvo/p/BIkh_goDHC7/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/cernusalvo/p/BiYyIzpDwWv/?hl=en&img_index=1

https://www.instagram.com/p/C_wxmBKxjii/?hl=en

And by the way, there were no posts about Apuron until the Fr. Paul Gofigan thing blew up in July 2013 (not 2012). And even then, there were no "attacks," there were posts about what was already in the news. The only "attacking" would come from Apuron and his in-house freaks: Adrian and Edivaldo.

While I might be a real estate agent, I was NOT employed by Msgr. Benavente as one. I was managing the gift shop. But you see, Apuron's little puppet masters needed something to explain why stories about Apuron in JW, by Sep. 21, 2017, the date the La Stampa story was published, were getting tens of thousands of views and comments. 

Apuron's puppet masters needed a motive for Tim Rohr to be doing what he was doing. So they made up the story about my being "involved in the projected sale of the seminary"...for the purposes of selling to a Chinese gambling interest. Here's more from the La Stampa story:

Everything began in 2002, when a group of Chinese entrepreneurs first laid eyes on the Accion Hotel in Yona, built as a Japanese resort in 2000 but which soon ended up in bankruptcy and set among 20 hectares of seaside property. When it first opened, the property was valued at between $60-80 million. David Lujan, their local lawyer, was authorized to offer $5 million for the site. The idea was to transform the hotel into a grand casino; this was part of a larger strategical project aiming at turning the island of Guam into a “Las Vegas of the Pacific” which would attract gamblers from China, Russia, Japan and Korea. 

In later news stories, Apuron (his attorney actually) kept up the "casino" story, and, as you can see, in his little "I am innocent" speech of May 7, 2025, Apuron returns to it.

This is not about Apuron

Apuron knows he's guilty as hell. The Vatican said so. The pope said so. The new archbishop said so. So, as I have continued to infer, this is not about Apuron. This is about fixing the black eye the Neocats got here in Guam. No seminary in the Neocat world had ever been closed...until it was closed by Archbishop Byrnes (and you see what they did to him). 

It's a long shot at this point for the Neocats to ever restore a seminary in Guam, however, to the rest of the world's bishops where they are and where they are trying to expand, they need a story to explain what happened in Guam. 

So even though they'll never restore Apuron, they can keep going with the story about how he was railroaded by "Tim Rohr and his associates" who "orchestrated" a conspiracy against poor Apuron which led to the closing of their seminary and all the bad press. 

Never mind that the Vatican sent a delegation to Guam to directly investigate Apuron. Never mind that the court of the First Instance, a Vatican tribunal, found Apuron guilty. Never mind that the court of the Second Instance, an appeal personally overseen by Pope Francis, upheld Apuron's guilty verdict. Never mind any of that. "Look over here. Look at us. Look at all the pretty things we are doing." That's what they are saying to the bishops. And you can bet they are playing up the voluntary dismissals as a verdict of "innocent." 

Trashing Tagle

We know that they are doing this because the La Stampa story was recently repeated in a story that was curiously aimed at preventing Cardinal Tagle from ascending to the papal throne: "Tagle, the cardinal who loves casinos." The date says everything: May 6, 2025. One day before Apuron took to the cameras to repeat his casino theme and one day before the conclave convened. 

When you read the Tagle story, you will see the coordination between whoever was behind that story and Apuron's references the very next day to a certain priest and this priest's alleged connections to "powerful people and corrupt regimes." Apuron had not said this before. But in his May 7 victory speech, it comes at the very end and most pointed part of his talk. He - or rather his handlers - is aiming at someone specific. And for a reason.

But why are the Neocats shooting at Tagle? 

Two reasons. One, Tagle hugely embarrassed them back in 2014 when the Neocat puppet masters were shouting about how their "initiators" (Kiko and Carmen) had been invited to Manila by Tagle. It, like everything they do and say, turned out to be a lie. And a letter, personally written by Tagle saying so, showed up on JungleWatch in a story titled NOW CLICK HERE. 

The attack on Tagle by the Neocats is easy to trace. I just did a stat search on JW for the most viewed posts in the last 90 days, and guess which one is Number 1?

Really? Over 1000 views of an 11 year old post? Oh, and then suddenly a hit piece on Tagle one day before the conclave...with a reference by Apuron the very next day? 

It's well known (in some circles) that Apuron hated Tagle. Back in the day,Tagle was just a young priest leading retreats for the clergy of the Archdiocese of Agana in Tagaytay, Philippines, a place that became immortalized on JungleWatch after Apuron, at a retreat there in May 2014, talked filth about Fr. Paul. See TANGO IN TAGYTAY.

Back to Apuron v Tagle

Tagle was a young priest when Apuron and the boys first started going to Tagaytay for their annual retreats. And of course Apuron was a high and mighty Archbishop, but also a red-hat (Cardinal) wannabe. And Tagle beat him to it. 

Worse (for Apuron), Tagle and Msgr. Benavente became friends. That's because that's what Msgr. Benavente does: make friends. And he makes friends because he's friendly. Apuron didn't make friends because he wasn't friendly. 

But on to the second reason. Had Tagle ascended to the Chair of Peter, there's a good chance Msgr. Benavente, might have gone along with him in some capacity. And that would make Benavente harder to shoot at. And they desperately want to shoot at him...and me.

More to come.

Here's Cardinal Tagle's letter:

GUAM: "THE WORLD'S LEADER ON STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS REFORM"

“In 2016, Guam became the world’s leader on SOL reform when it simply erased child sex abuse SOLs backwards and forwards. The result is that nearly 50 Guam survivors have come forward so far and the dangers to children hidden from plain sight are coming into focus. Bishop Apuron and Fr. Brouillard have been sued by many. Even a woman has come forward, defying the false assumption that the abuse by priests is limited to boys.”

FULL ARTICLE

My Note: When then-Governor Eddie Calvo signed Bill 326-33 into law, his accompanying comments clearly indicate that he expected the law to be constitutionally challenged. 

"I recognize Bill 326 has several legal and technical concerns. A major concern is over the bill's retroactive application of the civil statute of limitations for child sexual abuse cases. Whether such retrospect will pass constitutional muster is unclear...Despite these questions, today I will err on the side of the aggrieved. If am wrong, then the courts will tell me so. Or perhaps the Legislature will craft new legislation in order to clarify these issues."

The challenge never came. 

Prior to Calvo's signing, there was a concerted effort by the archdiocese to convince Calvo to veto the bill. The effort came at the instigation of certain very competent lawyers. After Calvo signed the bill, I found it curious that the same "competent lawyers" did not mount a constitutional challenge to the bill in behalf of the Archdiocese.

Later, as the Archdiocese was preparing to succumb to bankruptcy, I (and others) again wondered why there was no challenge to the retroactive component to the legislation given the "several legal and technical concerns" the governor had already expressed upon signing. There seemed to be an open door.

But the people "on the Hill" remained silent. 

My guess is that the Archdiocese was in such turmoil at the time - Apuron going AWOL, Hon's fumbling, the insertion of a completely unprepared Byrnes into the hottest spot on the Catholic globe, and the almost daily drumbeat of new clergy sex abuse allegations - that Archbishop Byrnes simply folded.

But did Byrnes fold on his own or was he told to? Recall that Byrnes himself told us that he answered to Cardinal Filoni:

“Byrnes added that Filoni, as the prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, is something like his superior and that he reports to Filoni.”- Guam Daily Post, Feb. 16, 2017

And while Filoni has since been removed as prefect, he wasn't removed until December 2019. The Archdiocese filed for bankruptcy in January 2019. 

Filoni was replaced as prefect by Cardinal Tagle, Archbishop of Manila, a prelate known to be friendly to Guam. Does Byrnes - or whoever is running this place - now answer to Cardinal Tagle? 

I don't think so. And the reason is this. There is no "chain of command" above a bishop. He doesn't work for a Vatican bureaucrat, not even the pope, and is only answerable - and only to the pope - in very narrow ways, usually in matters that only concern church teaching relative to faith and morals. 

This is what sounded "so wrong" when Byrnes told us he "reports to Filoni." We knew that the Kiko's were running Filoni - at least in Guam. Filoni is gone. Byrnes is pretty much gone. But Kiko isn't. And Gennarini - surprise - is suddenly here. 

MY SOURCES

Posted by Tim

In a reply to some more b.s. from The Diana, I mentioned the "Tagle Letter" and received a few comments inquiring about it. Actually the Tagle Letter had nothing to do with the letter Mother Dawn intercepted and forwarded to Rome, but it gives me an opportunity to say something about my "sources." 

But first, to answer those who do not know about the Tagle Letter affair. 

In May of 2014, a neocat reporter submitted a story to the Umatuna claiming that Cardinal Tagle of Manila had invited the Kikos to Manila "to hold a vocational meeting with the youth." 

INTELLECT, HUMBLE LIFE, COMPASSION FOR THE POOR. SIGH.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Pope Francis will be welcomed in this Catholic heartland on Thursday by a Filipino cardinal who might one day succeed him: a boyish-looking priest who rode the bus as a bishop and has impressed many with his intellect, humble life and compassion for the poor.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/14/cardinal-luis-antonio-tagle_n_6470298.html

CARDINAL TAGLE HERE ON GUAM TODAY

His Eminence, Cardinal Tagle*, Archbishop of Manila, Philippines, will be the homilist today, Friday, July 18, 2014, at 4:00pm, on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Presbyteral Ordination of Monsignor James L.G. Benavente, KHS, celebrated at the Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral-Basilica.

LOL

I thought this was over, but I guess not. Enjoy!

*****

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "H-E-E-E-E-E-E-R'S ZOLTAN!!!!": 

More BS from Bernie on Diana's heresy and propaganda blog.

Anonymous June 15, 2014 at 11:09 AM

Some people ask why would Jungle blog's one man show be morally corrupt? Why has Jungle blog lost its moral sense? The answer is simple: because it is obvious after you read just any single post or any single comment there to find very disturbing evidence of moral decay! It is especially true in the 16 posts and 548 comments made about the invitation of Cardinal Tagle to the evangelization event in the Philippines. Jungle blog tries to change the topic away from this event because of the obvious misdeed, scheming and betrayal committed by these posts and comments. I chose one of the very typical comments from the “Isn't It Funny" blog post to show:

QUIZ TIME

Which document showed the invitation from Cardinal Tagle to be false? The Erratum printed in the U Matuna or the actual letter from Cardinal Tagle?
Answer: Both

Which document was publicly available first? The Erratum printed in the U Matuna or the actual letter from Cardinal Tagle which I posted?
Answer: The Erratum printed in the U Matuna

Who knew first about the Cardinal's letter? Jennifer Dulla and the U Matuna staff/chancery or Tim Rohr?
Answer: Jennifer Dulla and the U Matuna staff/chancery

Who is being criticized and condemned? The people who concocted the lie and withheld the truth about Cardinal Tagle's letter or Tim Rohr who had nothing to do with the lie or its cover up?
Answer: Tim Rohr

Who SHOULD be criticized and condemned for concocting the lie and covering up the Cardinal's letter until all the Neos were safely on the plane to Manila? Jennifer Dulla and the U Matuna staff/chancery or Tim Rohr?

If you answered Tim Rohr for the last one...BINGO! You qualify to be a kiko. Congrats.

BEHIND THE CHANCERY WALLS - ERRATUM 2.0

The outrage over Tim Rohr's obtaining a copy of Cardinal Tagle's letter has reached fever pitch and is producing the most incredible accusations: evil scheme, international plot, even collusion with Freemasonry. Wow! 

The reason for the outrage of course is that for weeks the kiko's (militant neos) were taking great glee in the fact that someone so important as Cardinal Tagle, the archbishop of one of the largest dioceses in the world, had personally invited not only the one and only Kiko Arguello to Manila but that the Neo communities of Guam had been personally invited as well. 

DONT' RUSH THE BRUSH!

They are going nuts over there on the other side. I received the following as a comment which you can see here. To verify the source, the exact comment is copied below from "Diana's" blog.

A POSTSCRIPT TO THE PREVIOUS POST

So we all now know that four important neo's either had a copy or knew of the letter from Cardinal Tagle on May 29: Jennifer Dulla, Fr. Adrian Cristobal, Msgr. David C. Quitugua, and Archbishop Apuron (and most probably Fr. Pius too).

So "Bernie" and Diana, instead of accusing Tim Rohr of: 

• withholding confidential information
• withholding said confidential information with the intent to incite emotions
• following an evil script
• following said evil script to entrap readers
• conducting a shameful hatchet job
• manipulation
• collusion with an international plot
• and engaging in an evil scheme

...why don't you just ask the people named above, your supposed allies, your fellow walkers, your neo-community buddies, your leaders...why don't you just ask them why THEY DIDN'T TELL YOU?

AMAZING!

THE KIKO'S NEVER FAIL TO AMAZE!!!

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "NOW CLICK HERE": 

(Tim's note: I have removed the guess at "Bernie's" last name made by the original commenter. However, the link on "comment" above will take you to the original comment.)

As per a post in Diana's blog by Bernie. Could this be Bernie ...?

I DON'T KNOW. THEY JUST TOLD ME NOT TO PLAY IT.

I figured this would happen. The posting of Cardinal Tagle's letter and exposing the BIG LIE has sent the kikos into a predictable rage. Not able to take me down they are aiming at people who are close to me, particularly priests. 

I don't care if the cowardly kikos come after me. As you have seen, I have put up with months of their cowardly crap. But now that they are trying to hurt others it's time to start with some of the things I haven't wanted to post...till now. 

CLARIFICATION ON U MATUNA STAFF

In recent comments there appears to be some confusion about the Umatuna Staff. The confusion is due to erroneous information on the Archdiocese of Agana website. 

Under this link 

http://www.aganaarch.org/diocesan-offices/diocesan-related-offices-agencies-ministries/ 

the following is listed:

APURON MUST DECIDE IF HE IS GOING TO BE A BISHOP OR A BROTHER

"Fooled you all!"

I will respond to this in a post since it has appeared in the comments a couple of times. Here is Diana's explanation:

1. 
   DianaJune 6, 2014 at 11:03 PM

   Dear Catholic United,
   
   Apparently, there was a miscommunication. The truth is that the NCW in the Philippines invited Kiko and then invited the cardinal to meet with Kiko. An invitation was sent to Kiko from the Philippines, but somewhere there was a miscommunication, which is understandable. Humans will always make simple errors.

ERRATUM?

So here's what the U Matuna did with Cardinal Tagle's letter:

Some points:

1. First, this is badly written. In the first line it says that the "U Matuna reported". And then in the last line we are told that it was not the U Mautna that reported but that the incorrect information was provided in a story that was "submitted". We already know that the U Matuna did NOT report the erroneous information because the byline for the original story said "Jennifer Dulla - For the Umatuna Si Yu'os". So it looks like the U Matuna will need to print an ERRATUM to its ERRATUM. But don't hold your breath. 

NOW CLICK HERE

Let's first reread some choice lines from Diana's Blog. The context is here. The original is here.

DIANA: "All I said is that Kiko was invited to the Phiilippines by the Cardinal."

DIANA: "the Pinoy Catholic website only VERIFIED what I stated.....that the Cardinal DID invite Kiko."

DIANA: "...what Tim is saying is that he has more INSIDE information about their cardinal in the Philippines than the Pinoys (Filipinos) who actually live in their own country. Clearly, this does not sound like a man who is willing to listen."

ANONYMOUS TO DIANA: "Tim Rohr is carelessly looking for a flaw. I hope the guy don't get a stroke swinging at the air. His audience don't realize little by little he is punking out."

Now click here.

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P.S. Diana "herself" told us where the lie originated: 

"Kiko Arguello will be visiting the Philippines. It is not yet in the news report that after the Philippines, he will be visiting Japan. We know because we received the word from Kiko who told it to the Archbishop and the Team Catechists here in Guam. If you do not believe me, that is not my problem."

I WANT YOU TO READ THIS VERY CAREFULLY

Diana

Here's a copy of something from Diana's blog that I would like to ask you to read very carefully and to remember what is said here. You will know why I am asking you to do this in a little while. Never mind the comparison of the Archbishop's silence to the silence of Jesus and even Padre Pio. That is so asinine it is not worth a comment. Read the rest...and check back later today. [I added some notes in red.]

THANK YOU FOR THE PERSECUTIONS

"Persecution". It's a word the Kiko's use to counter any question or challenge to their ways. Like so much of what is "Kiko", it is stolen from true Christianity and made to serve a new master. 

I first heard it used by a Kiko shortly after Archbishop Apuron publicly challenged Cardinal Arinze on KOLG in 2006. The whole island was disturbed by what they had heard. And I was further personally disturbed by the following attempt to cover it up - something I will relate in detail one day soon. 

I had asked a friend who was in the Neo what she thought about the Archbishop's open refusal to comply with the directive from Rome. Her answer: "Thank you for the persecutions." 

SHINDIG IN PARANAQUE

More mystery. The big shindig with Kiko this weekend is supposed to take place at the El Shaddai International House of Prayer. If so, then Cardinal Tagle would have no authority to invite anyone to the affair. 

Cardinal Tagle is the Archbishop of Manila. The El Shaddai International House of Prayer is located in a different diocese, the Diocese of Paranaque and its bishop is Bishop Jesse Mercado. 

DIANA MAKES IT "WORSE" FOR ARCHBISHOP APURON

I received the following copy of the conversation at Diana's blog as per the Cardinal Tagle affair. Apparently not only is "Diana" sticking with the story that Kiko was personally invited to Manila by Cardinal Tagle, according to Diana Kiko has also been personally invited to Japan by the Japanese bishops.

Here's a transcript of the above:

Anonymous June 1, 2014 at 8:26 PMDiana, I guess you're going to have to go to The Pinoy Catholic blog to set them straight. They're claiming that "In a few weeks, another self-proclaimed Messiah will descend and plague the country, and it is no other than KIKO ARGUELLO, founder of the Neocatechumenal Way."  

The blog is also starting "The Neocatechumenal Way Cult Series"
BTW: Have you heard that Cardinal Tagle did NOT invite Kiko Arguello to the Philippines, despite what the Archbishop's Catholic "Newspaper" claimed on May 18? I think that's what Tim Rohr was referring to when he said he would make sure that things would get worse. I wonder if the Archbishop will issue an apology to the Cardinal for allowing that lie to be printed. What do you think?

Diana June 1, 2014 at 8:46 PMDear Anonymous at 8:26 p.m.,
Kiko was invited to the Philippines by the Cardinal. After the Philippines, Kiko will be traveling to Japan. He was also invited by the Japanese bishops.

Diana, you have no idea how hard you are making this for Archbishop Apuron...unless that is your intent.