GUAM RMS VS A REAL SEMINARY, (PART III) SECTION B

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Continued from Part 3A

It is now a well established fact, that the founders of the NCW used the Goodwill of John Paul II to gain access to many doors inside the Vatican, and that they shamelessly used his name in vain, to advance their agenda of a new version of the "body snatchers". Until now, except for some minor regional setback, they have been successful well behind the real power of their organization.

Guam has been until very recently one of their most striking demonstration of how a Catholic Diocese could be completely taken over. Part of their strategy has been the establishment of the RMS on Guam, which we have demonstrated is nothing but a crude scam.

A little less than two years ago, under the mounting pressure of a public who was becoming more and more aware of the catastrophic situation of the seminary, and slightly a year after the eviction of fr Paul as the vocation Director and his replacement by Cristobal, Archbishop Apuron decided to pull out of his magical hat a new seminary, this one was supposed to be dedicated to the candidates to the priesthood that did not wish to go through the Neos ' system of education.

Never being short on the sensational, Apuron, egged on by his Catechist the evil Pius, decided to name this new institution :

ST. JOHN PAUL THE GREAT ARCHDIOCESAN SEMINARY OF GUAM.

ON THE MATTER OF THE TWO SEMINARIES FOR GUAM: PERHAPS AAA'S BIGGEST LIE!

TO THE APOSTOLIC VISITORS TO THE ARCHDIOCESE OF AGANA

ON THE MATTER OF TWO SEMINARIES FOR GUAM

Prepared by Tim Rohr for the Apostolic Visitors:
Most Reverend Archbishop Savio HON Tai-Fai
Your Excellency Archbishop Martin Krebs
Reverend Father Nowak

timrohr.guam@gmail.com

December 28, 2014, Hagatna, Guam

Recently, Archbishop Apuron returned from a photo-op with Pope Francis, boasting about how pleased the Holy Father was that Guam had two seminaries.

Dear honored visitors, this has to be the lowest any prelate has ever sunk: lying directly to the Holy Father’s face and then bragging about it.

YOU'RE WELCOME

Now that the Archdiocese has "erected" the St. John Paul the Great Seminary in Malojloj, I would be happy to say "you're welcome", but no one from the seminary as yet has said "thank you". In the spirit of charity and good sport, however, I'll give them a "You're welcome" anyway.

Let's review why a "You're welcome" from me is appropriate.

Since 1999, the Catholics of Guam were told that the Redemptoris Mater Seminary was "for Guam". In fact, a 2010 publication celebrating itself declared the seminary to be "A Miracle for Guam." In the publication we are told that the seminary was both diocesan and missionary. There's nothing unique about that, the Church by its nature is "missionary". 

So, no problem. The people of Guam continued to pour lots of money into the seminary thinking all the time that it was their seminary and it was producing priests for Guam. It did occur to some that there were a disproportionate amount of foreigners coming to the seminary. But since we were told that they were coming to serve the Church in Guam, most figured "no problem". 

DON'T BE SUCKERED AGAIN

We've heard much about the financial problems and needs of this Archdiocese. Recently Msgr. James Benavente was made out to be the cause of most of them, even though some very smart financial people profoundly refuted the lies about Msgr. James spat forth from the usual suspects. 

But if our archdiocese is seriously as hard up as the chancery suspects say they are, then we need to look at the biggest financial hole of all: our two seminaries.

According to Question #6 on a Q&A about the Archdiocesan Annual Appeal posted on the archdiocesan website, the Archdiocese "provides approximately 10% financial support to RMS." The amount budgeted for the support for RMS in 2014 is said to be $98,000. This means that RMS, in 2014, has cost $980,000 to run. 

As per the 2014 Gala Dinner booklet, there are currently 38 seminarians, including transitional deacons, who are at RMS. That's about $26,000 per seminarian per year. And of course we don't know if that number includes all the travel these people do. 

FOR THOSE WHO CARE

For those who care about the proper priestly formation of our local vocations to the real diocesan priesthood, let us proceed with the following course of action:

1. Those who are charged with the formation of the JP2 seminary, approach the Archbishop and ask him if he will sponsor seminarians who wish to attend the Pacific Regional Seminary of St. Peter Chanel. I said "sponsor" not "pay for"....since he says we don't have any money to send seminarians off island (though we apparently have plenty of money to fly his neos in from all over the world...and then to fly them back all over the world later.)

2. If he says no, then end of story. And let it be a very public "no", and never mind trying to set up the JP2 seminary. His real intention of producing NOTHING other than neo presbyters will be revealed. If he says yes, then let us establish a foundation to fund their education. We know there will be plenty of money because instead of supporting the neo seminary with galas and appeals, we will simply divert the money to this fund. 

Non-neo clergy, it's your move. 

THE "REAL" SEMINARY

The Catholics of Guam are once more being asked to build and support a seminary. This time it is the Saint John Paul II Archdiocesan Seminary located in what was the Retreat Center in Malojloj, which was, prior to that, the Carmelite monastery. 

As we have already noted in several posts, there should be no need for another seminary. We were told for more than a decade that the Redemptoris Mater Seminary WAS the seminary FOR the Archdiocese of Agana.

So why are we being asked to build and support another seminary? Because the Redemptoris Mater Seminary is EXCLUSIVELY a seminary which "prepares men for the priesthood...following the life and itinerary of the Neocatechumenal Way." (Article III. Articles of Incorporation, RMS.)