TROY'S TAKE ON THE CAMACHO AFFAIR

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IGNORING THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM...YOUR ROOM

By Tim Rohr

In a recent self-described "rant," Kandit News host, Troy Torres, "ranted" about how "the church" systematically used its power and influence to cover up decades of sex abuse within its ranks. 

In my opinion, and as the one primarily to blame for uncovering this "coverup," Troy gives "the church" too much credit and the people and culture of Guam not enough.

To illustrate this we need look no farther than what has continued to occur in Guam nearly a decade after the church's sins were exposed.

According to a 2021 story in the Guam Daily Post, the Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Family Violence, a local organization, "the percentage of minors sexually assaulted on Guam has risen from 69% of reported cases in 2018 to 71% in 2019, and to 75% in 2020," and  "about 1,000 child abuse cases were referred to Child Protective Services in 2020, an increase of nearly 5%."

According to the same story, the rate actually decreased a bit in 2020, but according to Governor Lou Leon Guerrero, that dip was an "anomaly" which the governor credited to underreporting due to the Covid lockdown at the time. 

Remember now, Apuron had already been ousted in 2016 and was found guilty and permanently banned from Guam by 2018. Given the "scare" we put into the church leadership, there have been no reported cases of child sexual abuse since then (other than old claims), but meanwhile, the local population has continued to abuse its own children at an increasingly devastating rate.

Despite there being an occasional clergy abuser from the outside (e.g. Louis Brouillard), they were only "occasional." The majority of abusers over all these decades were local clergy from local families. In my opinion, what happened in the Church, and especially why it was never exposed, is because it was just an extension of what was already happening in local families for generations, and, as the above facts demonstrate, is still happening. 

(Note: This observation should be no surprise. I've lived in Guam for nearly 40 years and have heard of this sort of thing happening many times. Guam isn't unique. Most sex abuse cases, especially of children, no matter where, are by someone known to the victim, and almost always a family member.)

Of course, this excuses no one, and I am glad we've at least been able to get rid of some of the more cancerous clergy. However, aiming only at the mostly past sins of the church and crediting its leadership for masterminding decades of coverup when all they were really doing was stumbling along is ignoring the elephant in the room...your room. 

And then there is one final fact that the governor loves to ignore: A culture which slays its own while still in the womb is more likely to abuse them once they leave it.

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SO THAT THIS SH*T NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN!

By Tim Rohr

Troy's post (or here) titled "The Archdiocese is being dishonest, feigning remorse but now blaming their rape victims" provides much to comment on, everything from the accusation in the title to the other side of the story to the real reason to attend Mass in the first place. 

So let's give it a go.

Troy is upset over an announcement at a recent Mass wherein parishioners were asked to contribute money in order to purchase a parish property which was forfeited as part of the archdiocesan bankruptcy settlement to compensate victims of clergy sex abuse. 

Upon hearing the announcement, Troy writes:

I sat there embarrassed, feeling bad. I felt ashamed. And then I thought, fuck you. I was ashamed when my St. Anthony School vice principal raped me for the first time on December 8, 1993, and then scores more over the next several months. I was 13. I’m tired of the shame that I was raped by a Catholic school teacher when I was a kid. I’m tired of the Catholic Church covering up for its holier than thou pedophiles and pedo sympathizers. Sick miscreants. Piss off, and then when your little penises scrape the last pieces of shit stuck in your degenerate and pedophile  anal canals, piss off again. 

I can somewhat empathize with Troy. Several months ago as the bankruptcy case came to a close, there were several announcements after many Masses about the financial hardship my particular parish would be facing. And there I stood in my pew, feeling like all eyes were on me, since after all, the bankruptcy had its genesis on this very blog.

Given what the fallout of my actions to expose the largest clergy sex abuse machine in the whole Catholic world (per capita) cost me, I've often second guessed myself, especially since, other than ridding the church of Apuron and closing down the fake seminary, nothing much has changed. 

The Neo's are still here and going strong. The Neo-priests, one of whom appears to now be Troy's new hero, are still here. And several who aren't here are still on our payroll. And the sordid moral culture which gave both rise and cover to the sexual perversity that spawned the worst record of clergy sex abuse in the whole Catholic world is still here. 

So while standing there at Mass, all alone in my pew (because I lost my family), and hearing how the church and parish is now suffering as a result of my actions...well...let's say I certainly did feel singled out. But I stopped short of feeling "embarrassed" or "ashamed" as Troy relates. 

I can also relate with Troy on another thing. I don't talk about it much but I have referred to it in previous posts: I was also "abused" by a priest in my teens. (Note: Troy was abused by a teacher, not a priest.) He didn't get very far with me because I ran away. But just the "approach" violated me, especially since the priest had showed such interest in me - which I thought was genuine, but turned out to be "grooming."

And that was just the beginning of the damage. The only way I can explain the damage that followed is to refer to that scene in Fiddler on the Roof where Tevye sings "And one little time you pull out a thread, and where has it led? Where has it led?"

Tevye was referring to "tradition," tradition as the thing that keeps everything together. In the family I grew up in, the Church and the pastor were everything, especially for my father who was not only the head usher, the president of the Holy Name Society, and the parish troop Boy Scout Master, he was also the pastor's right hand man - the man who the pastor called in the middle of the night when the rectory roof was leaking or the toilet wasn't working.

I didn't tell my father what happened to me. I didn't really know what happened to me. I just knew something was wrong and I had gotten away from it. But a few years later I inadvertently discovered the pastor in a sexual situation with an adult man who lived next to the church in a house that the parish owned, and a house my father had often worked on free of charge. It turned out that the neighbor man was not only in a sexual relationship with our pastor but was living in the house rent free and helping himself to the parish funds as a perk for being the pastor's boyfriend.

Learning all this, especially way back in the 70's before any of this was known, devastated my father. He stopped going to Mass, developed a hatred for the Church and especially for priests, and things went downhill for him from there. As things descended for my father, so did they descend for the rest of us, leading to the death of my brother which my father blamed on himself, causing him to descend ever further. 

"One little time you pull out a thread, and where has it led? Where has it led?"

In the meantime, all this caused me to become a warrior, not against the Church, but for it. I hated what the Judases were doing to my faith, my religion, my Church, and my family, and it made me hyper-vigilant to anything that smelled of the smoke of Satan, particularly in the sanctuary. 

I ran into it again when I was a teacher in the U.S. Virgin Islands. No need to go into that story here, but it was almost a replica of what happened in my home parish years earlier. So I wasn't new to this stuff when the Apuron thing showed up in my face. In fact, it had been showing up ever since I moved here in 1987, especially living in Agat with all those stories about "the Agat boys."

In January of 2015, I related these experiences to an Apostolic Visitator (aka "Inquisitor") named Archbishop Savio Hon, the then-Secretary for the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The same Hon would be appointed Apostolic Administrator to this archdiocese after Apuron fled Guam over one year later. 

I don't remember how those stories came up when Hon interrogated me, but they did. And upon telling Hon of my past experiences with the likes of Apuron, Hon accused me of carrying out a personal vendetta against Apuron. 

There were others in the room, including Archbishop Martin Krebs, the then-apostolic nuncio. Upon being accused by Hon, I stuck my hand in his face and said "Stop! I am the father of eleven children and all I'm trying to do is get them into heaven, and I'm having to fight against clerics like you to do it."

Hon adjourned the inquisition and showed me the door. Archbishop Krebs walked out with me. When we got outside, he put his arm around me and said "good show." Krebs knew what was going on. And I believe he knew that Hon had not been sent to Guam to get to the bottom of the problem, but to save the Neocatechumenal Way, which is exactly what we would find out a couple years later.

(At the time Hon was taking orders from Cardinal Filoni, the "Red Pope," and the Neocats main man in Rome.)

And this is what makes this thing with Troy weird. As mentioned, his apparent new priest-hero is the neocat priest, Harold Colorado Prieto, who Troy is now defending (I wrote about it here and here), yet Harold was not only Apuron's right hand man and constant companion for several years, but he was also part of the cabal that worked to shut me up and shut me down so that the same clergy abuse that Troy hates so much would never be exposed.

Weird.

Now, let's get back to the thing that Troy is mad about.

Usually when I see a post from Troy about church, it's about Mass at St. Anthony's in Tamuning. However, the thing Troy describes happened at San Juan Bautista in Ordot. So I don't know if Troy was visiting or not, but per a comment by Ron Eclavea on Troy's FB post, if Ron's account is true, then Troy missed the Mass where there was more context to the announcement. Here's what Ron says:

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Ron Eclavea

I go to 6:30pm mass on Sundays at Ordot.

Can you provide a transcript of exactly what was said regarding blaming of the victims? If that is really the case it is definitely wrong.

A few months ago the parishioners were informed of the land parcel in question being up for sale as a “result” of the “court litigation”.

Everyone in the world is basically aware off this sad scandal in the church here on Guam.

The truth regarding the land is that the Ordot Parish put out a questionnaire asking the parish members what to do whether to simply let the process go as is ….or to attempt to re-acquire the property.

The overwhelming response was to re-acquire.

So this is what the parish will attempt to do based on the parishioners wishes.

We have to be very mindful and well informed regarding priests ….

Zechariah 13:7

“Strike the shepherd and the sheep scatter.”

Scattered sheep are lost sheep.

Satan’s time is short now and is brilliant today at discrediting the priests & the priesthood and he is using every method available to him to do this!

God established the priesthood in Leviticus and it is perpetual and everlasting!

No priests …no forgiveness of sins.

People abandoning the church and the priests is EXACTLY the aim of Satan in his quest to take souls

It is quite evident…he’s winning around the world. 🙏🏻⛪️🙏🏻

Divide …& conquer

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So according to Ron's account, it was the parishioners who decided they wanted to purchase the property back. This is both allowed and reasonable. For properties for sale in the settlement trust fund, there is a provision in the listings which gives the "Archbishop of Agana" (the Church) the RIGHT TO REPURCHASE.

And, per Ron's account, it was the parishioners of this parish who decided they wanted to raise the money to repurchase the property, and not "the Church" acting selfishly or insensitively as Troy seems to perceive it. 

That piece of land isn't going to do the victims any good. The only good that land is going to do for the victims is if it gets sold. The bottom line is that the money for the purchase of the property, regardless of who purchases it, ends up in the trust fund for the victims. So why does Troy care who buys it?

As an aside, even though I was at the root of the stuff that led to the bankruptcy, after the bankruptcy proceedings were finalized, I advocated for parishioners to do exactly what these parishioners are doing: come together, organize, and buy back their properties, but this time keep the title under an entity separate from the "Archbishop of Agana." 

There's a few other things Troy says that I want to comment on:

TROY: "Just like hundreds of religious and lay people within the Archdiocese of Agana said and did nothing while hundreds of boys and girls were being raped by priests and Catholic school teachers for decades."

ME: Yes, that's true: "hundreds of religious and lay people...did nothing." Why did they do nothing? And I don't want to hear about fear or respect for the priest, blah, blah, blah. Here's what I think it was. I think it was the same bullcrap that goes on in families all the time, the same thing that shuts you up about what Uncle Bill is doing to your daughter because you don't want to shame the family or cause trouble in the "familia." I think it also has to do with some of these lay people (maybe a lot) getting favors from Fr. Whoever, maybe greasing the skids for an annulment or overlooking the fact that your cousin isn't a practicing Catholic and letting him be the godfather anyway. 

TROY: "The archdiocese is going to blame me and the other victims for what they did? They sound like government of Guam elected officials. At least elected officials aren’t child rapists dressed in desecrated garments. At least corrupt politicians aren’t covering for a system that perpetuates sexual assault against children."

ME: Actually, Troy, that's a bit laughable. This stuff happens in public schools all the time. In fact, when we were working to get the bill passed which gave Troy and others the right to sue the archdiocese, the main concern coming from certain senators was whether or not the law could be used to sue the government. I forget the details but there was something like "sovereign immunity" which protected government entities, or at least limited the extent of the suit. Once the senators were assured the public schools and GovGuam wouldn't suffer, they were all for it - since they knew it was really just aimed at the archdiocese.

And that brings me to something else before I forget. And it's something I said before. The initial victims, those who had the courage to take a public stand before there was any law to protect them - and did not hide behind their initials but used their real faces and names, did not want money damages, they wanted an apology, an apology from Apuron. 

But Apuron ran away after the first public allegation from Roy Quintanilla in May 2016. And that's when Harold's "Red Pope" sent Hon out here to kill the uprising. I say "Harold's Red Pope" because it was the Neocat master, Cardinal Filoni, who was calling the shots. I point out "Harold" because, as already referenced a couple of times, Troy is now his best buddy. 

Hon failed to put down the uprising because of a very few faithful people, mostly older, who refused to sit down and shut up. And, on orders from Filoni, Hon made a last gasp attempt to sink the bill lifting the statute of limitations after it received unanimous support from the legislature and made its way to the governor's desk, when Hon put out an all points bulletin to all the parishes to sign a petition demanding that then-Governor Calvo not sign it.

Remember now, Hon was acting on Filoni's orders, and this was all about saving Harold and the Neocats, and particularly the fake seminary. 

Thanks to the people who wouldn't shut up or sit down, which did not include Troy at the time, Filoni and Hon failed, Governor Calvo signed the bill into law, and victims like Troy had a path to $$$$, be it via private settlement, as it appears to be the case with Troy, or those who stuck it out for the full-fledged lawsuit and bankruptcy proceedings.

I'm actually disappointed that so many "settled" for out of court settlements. By doing so they kept their names and an account of what happened out of the public record. And those of us who fought so hard and lost so much would have really liked to see those records. 

Yes, yes. I understand about the need for privacy and to avoid further shame and all that. But people, other people, many people suffered and lost much to win justice, not just for you, but for this whole archdiocese. And the only way to insure that justice was really done was to run up all those names and details on a flagpole so that this sh*t never happens again! Private settlements took that away from us and leaves the door open for it to happen again and again and again.

Troy also takes a slap at Archbishop Jimenez and the church's anti-abortion stance saying that if life is so important why not use the money to support the fight for life instead of buying the property.

That's sort of a stretch, but it's not uncommon to hear something to the same effect, i.e. "if you care about the unborn so much then why don't you do this and why don't you do that, etc." I'm not going to go there on that. The bottom line is what I've already said. According to Ron Eclavea, the parishioners decided to do this, not the archbishop, not the pastor, and not the church. 

Lastly, I want to address some stuff in the comments where people, agreeing with Troy, say that this is why they still believe in God and love Jesus, but don't go to church anymore. 

I can only say what I've said many times before: Don't leave Jesus because of Judas. And while I can love Jesus and pray to him anytime, anywhere, there is only one place I can receive Him, Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. And that's at the Catholic Mass. And to be received Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity by YOU is why he was born to this world, suffered, died and rose again. 

Next time, just don't stay for the announcements.

THERE HAS BEEN NO APOLOGY

By Tim Rohr

In ONCE UPON A TIME HAROLD WAS NOT THE HAROLD TROY NOW KNOWS, I responded to a post by Troy Torres of Kandit News which appeared to be defensive of the Neocatechumenal Way and specifically Father Harold Colorado Prieto, now assigned to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Agat. This post addresses Troy's concerns in more detail.

TROY: As a returning newcomer to my Catholic faith, I wasn't much informed of the politics surrounding the archdiocese and I had no idea Father Harold was among the priests often targeted by JungleWatch due to his association with the Neocatechumenal Way. I remember finding that out a few weeks into my journey back into Christianity and thinking, 'Gosh, I have no idea what's so wrong with Father Harold, and now I wonder about all this other stuff being said against the Way.’

As set forth in my previous post, "Harold was not the Harold Troy now knows." I don't know that for sure since I haven't had any experience with Harold in nearly ten years, but what I do know for sure is the Harold of ten years ago when he was one of Apuron's fiercest defenders, albeit a bit more behind-the-scenes than the likes of Edivaldo and Adrian. 

And what was Harold defending Apuron from? He was defending Apuron from the few brave people who had finally summoned the courage to call out Apuron for what he was eventually found guilty of and which resulted in his being permanently removed from Guam by Pope Francis himself. He was defending the man, Apuron, who had not only permitted but engaged in the rape and molestation of young children, which, as Troy has told us, he was one. 

Had Apuron admitted his crimes or even met privately to apologize to his initial accusers, the archdiocese might have been spared the loss of millions and millions of dollars in legal fees and properties, most of which had been given to the Church by common, hard-working Catholics who sacrificed their own comfort and family security to help the Church they loved.

In fact, Apuron, if he really did not do what he was accused of, would not have even had to apologize. He could have just met with those initial accusers and heard them out. I was involved with those initial accusers and I can state for a fact that all they wanted to do was confront the man they believed who had hurt them in their childhood. They did not want to sue - there was no way for them to do that in the beginning anyway, they did not want to hurt the Church, they did not want to do anything other than to assuage their childhood pain.

But what did Apuron do? He blocked the door to the Church with the likes of Adrian and Edivaldo and ultimately Harold and the rest of them, ran to Rome, and threatened to sue EVERYONE, including me. 

Tim Rohr and his associates launched a vicious and calumnious attack on the Archbishop and the Church...Those who are orchestrating this campaign are inciting people into hatred of the Archbishop and the Catholic Church. They have produced scandal, confusion and grave errors with the cruel intent to injure the Archbishop, the Catholic Church in Guam and many other people of good will who have been outraged and harassed. Therefore, the Archdiocese of Agana is in the process of taking canonical and legal measures against those perpetrating these malicious lies. - Press Release, Archdiocese of Agana, May 31, 2016

Around this time, certain members of the NCW, through proxies, initiated communications with certain members of my family who were rightly upset that I was putting my family in danger by standing up to Apuron and the neocat cabal which was backing him. Because I do not want to hurt my family, I won't go any further into this at this point, but eventually I had to make a decision: to shut up and let the whole thing go or lose my family. I didn't let it go. 

At that point, no one else was willing to go face to face, in the news, on TV, on the radio, and in the newspapers, to go after the vile "filth in the church" (as Pope Benedict called it) that had ruined the childhoods of innocent children like Troy. I could never have lived with myself if I had let it go. My decision, to stand up to Apuron - protected by the likes of Harold, brought immeasurable suffering and damage to my family, especially my youngest ones. 

TROY: But if we're being honest, it wasn't just the Way. The clergy sex abuse was happening before the Way was even conceived. Decades before the Way found its way to our shores, parishioners and ordinaries were looking the other way when priests and Catholic school teachers were molesting and raping children.

Exactly right. No one blamed the decades of clerical decadence on the Way. In fact, the real culprits are the parents who knew this was happening, and as Troy says "were looking the other way." But finally, those parents did rise up to end this when, at last, a few brave people began standing up. 

The real villains in this vile saga are those who did everything possible to interfere with truth and justice, including those who destroyed my family, and Harold was one of them. And they did this to save the Neocatechumenal Way in Guam, especially the crooked and ill-gotten seminary. 

As we would later expose, the real enemy of the Catholics of Guam was the leadership of the Neocatechumenal Way all the way up to the "Red Pope," Cardinal Fernando Filoni, the Neocats main man in Rome. 

On September 7, 2016, after a group of Catholics, otherwise known as the Laity Forward Movement, attempted to visit the Redemptoris Mater Seminary in Yona and were turned away (another door blocked), a letter from then-Rector of the Seminary, Msgr. David C. Quitugua to then-Vicar General, Fr. Jeff San Nicolas surfaced. In the letter, Quitugua tells San Nicolas: "Cardinal Filoni's instruction is that "no 'visit' can be made to the Seminary." 

This is the seminary that Guam Catholics had been supporting for 16 years and for which they had contributed millions of dollar, a supposed "Seminary for Guam." 

Quitugua's letter confirmed what we had known for quite awhile, the Archdiocese of Agana was being run by the Neocat leadership all the way up to Rome, and that leadership, with the local seminarians including Harold as their "boots on the ground," had one mission: protect Apuron at all costs, protect the man who had perpetrated and presided over the insidious evils that Troy rightly has railed against.

TROY: My dad was part of the Way, and I never knew him to be a happier person prior to his membership in the community where he belonged. In fact, every person I know and I have met who has been in the Way is a joyful, excited Catholic...goodness overflows everywhere, within the Way, among the traditional Catholic laity and ordinaries, within the communities of our Protestant brothers and sisters, among agnostics and non-believers. We are all on different parts of a journey, each of us in need of encouragement and at times correction without prideful and wicked admonishment and abandonment.

Throughout the "Apuron Wars," the authors of JungleWatch have done their best to distinguish between the Neocat leadership, who we usually referred to as "Kiko's," and the type of members like Troy's dad. In fact, I, in particular, often wrote in praise of the Way for doing what the rest of our Church so sadly fails at: encouraging and providing for the catechesis of the laity, especially adults. I always believed that the attraction of the Way for most was that they were hungry for what their pastors should have been providing, but, save for a few, did not. 

It wasn't the fault of the common member that they were often being taught heresy, a fact that has been demonstrated time and again, and rightly labeled as such by Bishop Athanasius Schneider. The common member, whose faith formation usually consisted of little more than a few years of CCD, had little to compare the ways of the Way to. 

In fact, regular Sunday church-going Catholics will rarely ever hear a reference to the Catechism of the Catholic Church or be encouraged to read it...or read anything for that matter. And I have never heard any recommendation from the pulpit to pray the Liturgy of the Hours, something the Neocats are unwaveringly devoted to.

Despite all the "goodness everywhere within the Way" (Troy), the bad boys from New Jersey and Rome were using Guam's Hafa Adai and Inafa' maolek spirit, not to mention the unquestioning local loyalty to our Catholic Church, to bilk us for millions, insert heresy through its seminary, and protect the man who oversaw, protected, and participated in the rape and molestation of many innocent, young bodies and the mutilation of their souls. 

And in all this, Harold was Apuron's right hand man. 

So if it took "prideful and wicked admonishment and abandonment" (Troy) to out the filth, then I am proud to have been a part of it. Meanwhile, we have yet to hear an apology from Harold or any of his buddies who are still here. And the real reason there has been no apology, is because they are not sorry. In fact they are still here because Harold and his pals are not only not going away, they are preparing for their next move, and in my opinion, the appointment of Ryan Jimenez as our new archbishop was a significant step in that direction. I'll leave it to Jimenez to prove otherwise.

ONCE UPON A TIME HAROLD WAS NOT THE HAROLD TROY NOW KNOWS

By Tim Rohr

In his post of Sep. 22, 2024, Troy Torres of Kandit News, both gives me kudos and takes me to task. 

"A note from JungleWatch's Tim Rohr to me about not letting Judas come between Jesus and me opened my mind to the idea that I could be more than just a cafeteria Catholic."

"Father Harold was among the priests often targeted by JungleWatch due to his association with the Neocatechumenal Way." 

Troy then references "the scapegoating of the Way," which, of course, is a direct reference to "JungleWatch's Tim Rohr."

To get to the point, Troy likes Father Harold (Colorado Prieto) and has "learned so much from this priest." Troy continues: "I'm glad I didn't write him off based on what others had said or written about him."

What was "said or written about him" is a reference to what was "said or written about him" on JungleWatch, and JungleWatch, for the most part, is Tim Rohr.

I'm glad Troy has returned to his Catholic Faith and that he has found a priest he can "learn so much from." I'm also glad that it appears Fr. Harold has matured from his days as Apuron's "Boboboy," as Frenchie called him, and is taking his priestly ministry seriously. 

What was "said or written" about now-Father Harold, mostly was about what happened ten years ago (when he was a deacon), when just a few brave lay people were standing up to pure hell, and a hell that some of us still suffer because of what it cost us and continues to cost us - while so many others have cashed in.

Rather than recount how Harold was involved in all that, I'll list and link the posts where his name appears in JungleWatch at the end of this post and let readers read what was "said or written about him" once again, or maybe for the first time.

One thing that Troy may not know is how close I was to most of the first seminarians, including Harold, for several years before things went down hill. 

In 2005, when I opened John Paul the Great Book and Gift Shop in the Agana Shopping Center, a group of seminarians, including Harold (if I remember right) came with their guitars and voices and participated in the opening ceremony and blessing. 

Thereafter, seminarians and priests from RMS often visited the store and we had many great visits. Those visits led to our forming an alliance to set up a table at the Wednesday Night Market at Chamorro Village, where we passed out Catholic literature, sold books and Catholic items, and evangelized anyone who would talk with us. 

About the same time I was running a chemical and cleaning supply company and the seminary was one of my customers. I serviced their dish machine and other chemical dispensing mechanical devices in the seminary kitchen and I would usually be invited to stay for lunch if I happened to be around during lunch time. I had many great conversations in those days over lunch at the seminary and was personally close with Fr. Ivan. 

I also had started a Catholic apologetics study group for lay people and we used to meet at the seminary every Saturday for several months with some of the seminarians attending. 

All was well until the Fr. Paul Gofigan canning blew up in 2013, followed by a similar canning of Msgr. James Benavente in 2014. Then there was the discovery of Apuron's secret alienation of the archdiocese's most valuable asset.

Then there came John Toves in late 2014 with his public outing of Apuron's misdeeds with his cousin. This led to a massive mess with Apuron and his neo-backers on one side and everyone who wanted the truth - including Troy - on the other. 

Given Toves' accusation and what a lot of people already knew or suspected about Apuron, it was no surprise to anyone that Harold, the "cutest" seminarian (Troy calls him "cute") was Apuron's ever present "boy" and his driver. Later on we learned that Apuron and Harold travelled together. 

It's not Harold's fault. Like many of the RMS seminarians, he was brought here from South America or Africa, or some place far away by the Neocat generals (the Gennarini's et. al), with the promise of becoming a priest in paradise. Where were these guys going to run to if something went wrong? (Actually some did run. The name "Daniel" comes to mind.)

Harold, like most of the other RMS guys, were mostly just caught in the crossfire between the Apuron protectors and the people on the street who were sick and tired of being lied to, stolen from, and having their sons raped - including, per Troy's own story, Troy.

It's nice to know that Harold has become a priest we can now "learn so much from." But once upon a time, Harold was not the Harold who Troy now knows. 

And thank God for that. And thank God for the people who stood up to the evil in this place so that people like Troy could finally find justice.

March 4, 2014 FROM JANET B

May 27, 2014 A SAD DAY FOR GUAM

May 29, 2014 NOTE TO DEACON HAROLD

June 13, 2014 YAWN

August 11, 2014 MSGR. JAMES FIRST MASS AT ST. ANTHONY...

October 13, 2014 UNFKGBELIEVABLE

October 23, 2014 YOU'RE WELCOME

October 24, 2014 BREAKING

November 7, 2014 THE ARCHBISHOP'S CAMPAIGN OF LIES CONTINUES

December 28, 2014 REPORT ON MASS (?) WITH FR. (?) HAROLD

January 1, 2015 ON THE MATTER OF THE TEACHING THAT "JESUS IS A SINNER"

January 5, 2015 THE SCHEDULE

January 17, 2015 EDIVALDO

January 19, 2015 EMAIL FROM MANILA

January 27, 2015 POPE STALKERS - WITH NEW NOTES

February 18, 2015 FATHER HAROLD HAS EVERY THING UNDER CONTROL

Saturday, July 4, 2015 WHAT'S UP, BARRIGADA?

July 31, 2015 LOOKS LIKE THE VATICAN IS KEEPING AN EYE ON HAROLD

September 2, 2015 SMH

September 3, 2015 SENDING FAXES, ARCHBISHOP?

October 27, 2015 WHERE IS HAROLD?

October 28, 2015 FROM THE MAN WHO WOULD BE BISHOP

October 29, 2015 HASTA LA VISTA BABY!

October 29, 2015 OH HAROLD! AREN'T YOU THE VICE-RECTOR? LOL!

November 2, 2015 HEY HAROLD, GOING "ON MISSION"??? - LIAR

November 6, 2015 SO JUST LIKE....

November 6, 2015 REMEMBER DANIEL? ARCHBISHOP?

November 16, 2015 MORE HUSH MONEY?

November 25, 2015 THE MITER MYSTERY

December 3, 2015 A MILLION BUCKS A YEAR...FOR WHAT?

December 30, 2015 DON'T FORGET THERE ARE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS

January 22, 2016 WAVING FOR NOTHING

February 9, 2016 LOL. A VALENTINE'S FLEECING!

March 5, 2016 DAVID THE VG'S "ARDUOUS AND PAINFUL CLOSURE" TO HIS OWN ASSIGNMENT

March 21, 2016 AND MEANWHILE, THERE'S THIS

April 20, 2016 $$$$$$$$$$$$ GOING STRAIGHT TO THE NEO'S

October 23, 2016 TRICKY DICK AND HIS IRRESPONSIBLE RESPONSE - PART 5

March 20, 2017 KIKO ARGUELLO WAS IN DENVER ON MARCH 11. GUESS WHO ELSE WAS THERE?

March 20, 2017 GENNARINI TELLS THE KIKOBOTS: PERSECUTION IN GUAM

October 22, 2017 WHERE IN THE WORLD IS HAROLD?

October 27, 2017 ANONYMOUS: "BRAIN DEAD GUAM"

June 30, 2018 MORE OF THE SAME FROM DIANA AND HER HANDLERS, PART III

June 29, 2021 THEY ARE BAAAAACK!

July 5, 2021 UPDATE ON FR. HAROLD, AKA BOBOBOY

August 16, 2021 HOW THE MC CARRICK STORY TIES WITH OUR STRUGGLE WITH THE NCW HERE ON GUAM

April 22, 2024 THE GOOD SHEPHERD

SHARON O'MALLAN REPLIES TO TROY TORRES

As set out in the previous post, Troy Torres of Kandit News had some harsh words for the Guam Catholic Pro-Life Committee and specifically its Chairman, Sharon O'Mallan. To Kandit's credit, Sharon's response was posted on its website and Facebook Page. We copy it here.

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Kandit is misinformed and misinforming readers on doula issue, pro-life agenda • By Sharon O'Mallan

On Friday Kandit’s Facebook ran a not so friendly discussion about myself and our pro-life group.   I was busy over the weekend, like most people, and also didn’t have a computer to respond.   Let me try and see if I can respond to Troy’s thoughts.

I am currently the Guam Catholic Pro-Life Committee Chairman.  There have been great chairmans before me and surely will be after me as we all serve on limited terms as per our Mission Statement.   It’s actually a very busy job.  We don’t just have meetings but we do a great deal of other things which involve not just abortion, but our main mission is to pray for conversion and change of hearts for people who do not understand the true harm of abortion, the death of a human being and the life long harm done to anyone involved in the abortion.

Our group can be seen out in the streets praying for an end to abortion or burying deceased abandoned babies and deceased unborn babies.  Some of our members assist in the burial of unclaimed adults.  Some of us are involved in food pantries for our brothers and sisters living in the streets or in substandard conditions.  Some of us are involved in bereavement ministries or Faith Formation groups.  We also are involved in Rachel’s Vineyards which offers post-abortion healing retreats for woman and men and families.  We get involved with other Christian groups and work together to help anyone who needs help from before conception to after death.  We hold pro-life conferences which present different wonderful volunteer groups which are out there everyday trying to improve and help and support all our brothers and sisters who need help (no matter what religion or ethnic background or belief they have). 

Troy’s accusations that we have tunnelled and insulated ourselves from the larger and actual pro-life agenda has me confused.  We don’t go out seeking recognition as we truly believe that life is from conception to natural death and beyond.   So the media does not seek us out as we are not what they want to talk about in a positive light since we are pro-life.

Prior to Roe v Wade being overturned in June 2022 our committee discussed the ramifications of that happening.   We all agreed that should Roe v Wade be overturned it would mean a lot of work for pro-life groups in each state and here on Guam.   We did not think anything would be easy.  As suspected, by April of 2023 the start of extreme abortion bills started coming out of the 37th Guam Legislature.

Bill No. 106-37 came out April 2023 by Tom Fisher and Tina Muna-Barnes.  Then Bill No. 111-37 came out in May 2023 by William Parkinson.  Both Bills were almost duplicate of each other and were extreme and harsh abortion bills.  Both bills would make abortion up to birth legal.  It would return partial birth abortions.  Both bills implied that abortion was not legal here on Guam when it is. 

On August 2, 2023 the 9th Circuit of Appeals put out an Opinion which stated that “in-person consultation” was needed before abortion.  This stopped telemedicine abortions which were happening on Guam.   The Opinion also went on to assert that abortion does not involve just one life, but two, the mother and the unborn baby. 

On August 8, 2023, William Parkinson and Tom Fisher put out Bill No. 162-37.   A bill that would change the law in regards to in-person consulting and this would make telemedicine abortions legal on Guam. 

Each time I have had to go and testify against any of these bills, it seemed that the same people were coming out to testify in support of the bills.   Same senators, same faces of supporters, etc.   

Now to the current Doula issue which I believe is what has you Troy all upset about.   In January of 2024 (this year), I was talking to an individual about the upcoming Rachel’s Vineyard retreat which offers post-abortive healing.   I was then informed about abortion doulas who were on the island.   I had never heard of a doula and mentioned it to the committee that there were abortion doulas on the island.   I actually did research on them not only on Guam but in the United States.   The particular group of doulas on island were headed by the Birthworkers of Color Collective which provides “full spectrum doula services”.  In other words, they trained abortion doulas.   I learned all this back in January of 2024.   So when Bill No. 318-37 was introduced to give $400,00.00 to an unregulated and abortion training group, of course I was going to object. 

Is it my fault that the same people supporting this bill are the same people supporting all the other abortion bills?    Only this bill had many more sponsors which I actually tried to talk to the two who you claim are extremely pro-life senators.  But because of the nature of abortion doulas which this group does not deny they do, I cannot sit back and not protest just because they are also adding that they will help women and children.    They claim that the word abortion is never mentioned in the bill, but all news articles and interviews related to the group all openly talk about the hope for better abortion help because of the doulas.   How are we supposed to turn our head and ignore this just because two senators are pro-lifers.   And just because a senator who you, Troy Torres do not like, is Opposing this Bill 318-37, this upsets you.   

Who is not being true to themselves here Troy?   Pretty words, pretty doulas and a pretty picture which are all apart of this doula bill CANNOT hide the ugly truth of what this bill is going to do:  Train Abortion Doulas. 

Another issue Troy is that you claimed that I attacked at least two doulas.  Shame on you Troy.  I sent you on a private text (between you and myself) because you asked where I came up with the idea that they were training abortion doulas.  I sent you on our private conversation, the “quoted” articles and words of the doulas from newspaper articles.  Their words, not mine.  I wasn’t attacking them, I was informing you as to what they said and not me.  You claim that by my attack on these innocent young women is where I lost you as an advocate.   

If you read or heard my testimony opposing this Bill 318-37, I asked that these resources of $400,000 be directed elsewhere to midwife programs, nursing programs, etc where these resources would help a larger variety of people.   Also where a doula is trained in three (3) days versus a certified trained nurse or midwife who receive several years of medical training and be medically certified to assist in all medical needs. 

You also mentioned a couple things which show me where you are truly coming from.   Contrary to what you are saying, we don’t sit around and sing Trump’s name or wear MAGA hats that has made us paranoid and Trumpian politicians.   We are too busy to do those things. 

Then you brought up the story of the woman who died because Georgia law made laws against abortion.   “The rest of the story...”   The poor young mother went to another state to get abortion medication pills because her state has a law banning abortion.   She took the medication and as stated as one of the warnings, sepsis is a possible side effect of taking medication abortion pills.   The babies in the womb died but they didn’t come out.  She developed sepsis and when she went to the hospital the doctors didn’t perform the necessary treatment she needed and her organs were already shutting down and she sadly died.   It made no difference about the laws against abortion.  It all points back to the dangers of abortion medication and medical malpractice on behalf of the hospital.  You said that you are hearing crickets from the pro-life groups because of the deaths, when in fact the media is covering up the true story and the pro-life groups are grieving for the unnecessary deaths. 

And you should note that according to the Committee Report of Bill 318-37, there were 617 people who OPPOSED this bill as there were only 14 people who supported it.   Yet these senators who know that the public voters have voiced opposition to this bill, have now injected it into another Bill 355-37 trying to side-step the voting public thinking they are dumb and uninformed.   Very sad.

While I have had to waste my time and energy on this letter I still have much to do.  We are planning our Life Chain, burying an unclaimed brother/sister, having a Novena to the Unborn Jesus, doing our Prayer Warriors on Wednesday and planning our next Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat in November 2024.   And yes Troy, I still have you on my daily prayer sheet.   Don’t get lost in politics, it will drag you down down down.

Respectfully submitted.

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Sharon O’Mallan is the chairwoman of the Guam Catholic Pro-Life Committee and a resident of Agana Heights

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By Tim Rohr

Troy Torres at Kandit News recently penned a post titled The Guam pro-life movement is biting off more than they can chew, and turning off supporters. (It's also here on Facebook.)

Troy's main point appears to be that by opposing Tom Fisher's "Doula" bill (318-37), the Catholic Pro-Life Committee has become "myopically anti-abortion," and in doing so, risks "putting off people like me and others who have not formed a full conviction on the matter of abortion on demand."

First, I would advise Troy (and others) to develop his convictions independent of what anyone else is doing. However, it appears that Troy already has a well developed conviction:

I am a pro-life advocate and have been since I was 16. My advocacy is based on a singular principle: that the non-natural termination of life at any stage of life (except in the defense of yours), is homicide. 

So I'm not sure why he says at the end of his post that he has "not formed a full conviction on the matter of abortion on demand."

Meanwhile, though, Troy highlights a real problem with the term "pro-life." I have consistently railed against this term, especially when it is preceded by the word "Catholic" - which I am. I have railed against it for the precise reason that Troy exploits here: 

Being "pro-life" cannot and should not stop at valuing life in the womb. The mother's life matters, too. 

He's right. And that's the problem. The Catholic Pro-Life Committee is in fact "myopically anti-abortion" because that is exactly what it was constituted to do. It is not, and should not, be focused on quality of life issues, war, or even the death penalty. Those matters are all secondary to life in the womb, which is life at its most helpless, most defenseless, and most vulnerable. 

Abortion, to use a term from Vatican II, has "pride of place" among all moral issues.  As St. Mother Teresa said:

 “We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, of killings, of wars, of hatred. If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other.”

In other words - as if this needs any explaining - abortion is the gateway to every other evil - if not to Hell itself. And this coming from a saint who spent most of her life picking up the dead and dying off the streets of Calcutta and founding communities across the globe to care for the sick, the impoverished, the marginalized. If there ever was a truly "pro-life" person it was St. Mother Teresa and she plastered abortion as the root of every other evil.

When a few friends and I started The Esperansa Project in 2008, we were sure not to use the words "pro-life," not only in the title of our organization, but also to define anything we did. We were unapologetically ANTI-ABORTION and over the course of the next 8 years we backed 12 legislative measures which sought to restrict abortion to the fullest extent allowable under Roe and Casey. 

Eight of those measures were enacted into law. Our aim was to make abortion so publicly "onerous," a term Troy uses, that no doctor would want to perform them. In 2018 the last abortionist shuttered his business and no other doctor, despite the vocal support of some and the current governor's best efforts, has wanted to take up this filthy business. 

During the legislative fight for these measures, our people were hammered and hammered and hammered again by the senatorial pro-aborts over the same thing Troy brings up: that by pushing these measures we were somehow more concerned for the babies than we were for the mothers or the the children's "quality of life" after birth. In other words we were allegedly NOT "pro-life" really. 

We won every round because we did not let them get away with that crap. Not only did we have many examples of the very people in front of them actively working to assist mothers and adopting babies, we forced the pro-aborts to confront the real cost of abortion in Guam which, given the abortion reports, was and still is the self-genocide of the CHamoru people. 

This was exactly the argument of the late Senator Elizabeth Arriola when she advanced the now much-embattled Public Law 20-134:

"Let me tell you, at the rate Guam Memorial Hospital is aborting children, between 400-600 a year, and most of them are not even reported. Where are the lives that we are going to protect and preserve? Here we go talking about indigenous rights and self-determination. What good is all that if we don't have our followers to follow and enjoy the fruits of our labor, of this generation's labor, of your labor and my labor to fix this island and have autonomous rights to govern our people?" - quoted in: Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology, pg. 372, edited by Shirley Hume, Gail M. Nomura

So my advice - again - to the "Pro-Life Committee" is to fix your name. Call it the Catholic Anti-Abortion Committee or something more general like The Esperansa Project with anti-abortion specifically set forth in the mission statement.

But what of Troy's "The mother's life matters, too." The inference is that if you are strict anti-abortion that you prioritize the life of the child over the life of the mother. I can't speak for any individual but I can speak for the Catholic Church, or more specifically, I can let the Catholic Church speak for itself:

"Never and in no case has the Church taught that the life of the child must be preferred to that of the mother. It is erroneous to put the question with this alternative: either the life of the child or that of the mother. No, neither the life of the mother nor that of the child can be subjected to direct suppression. In the one case as in the other, there can be but one obligation: to make every effort to save the lives of both, of the mother and the child." (Pope Pius XII, Allocution to the Association of Large Families, AAS (1951), XLIII, p. 855.)

In fact, especially in cases where the mother's life is actually in danger due to an ectopic pregnancy or a diseased pregnant uterus, the Church allows, under the principle of "double effect" for the removal of the diseased portion of the woman's body even if it means the indirect killing of embryonic life. 

The key word is "indirect." Abortion is the direct, willful, and intentional killing of an unborn child. The removal of a diseased part of a woman's body is not the direct, willful, and intentional killing of an unborn child. Even medicine recognizes this by calling these procedures salpingostomy and hysterectomy and not abortions. (Go here to read more on this.)

Troy's real beef is the opposition to Senator Fisher's Bill 318-37 which seeks to fund the training of "doulas" through the Bureau of Women's Affairs. A doula is literally, a "female helper or maidservant." In the context of the bill a doula is a "non-medical" person who is trained to 'help women and persons who are or who become pregnant to have healthy pregnancies and deliver health babies."

Fisher prefaces his bill with a landslide of horrible facts about Guam's maternal, fetal, and infant mortality rate, which is, according to Fisher, five times higher than the rest of the country and its territories. That's pretty bad, so Fisher's bill sounds good. 

However, the "pro-life" people are opposing the bill because they believe the $400,000 appropriation to a bureau run by Jayne Flores will be used to train doulas to "assist women and persons who become pregnant" NOT "to have healthy pregnancies and deliver babies," but to kill them.

Troy argues that the word "abortion" doesn't appear in the bill. That's true, however, the name BIRTHWORKERS OF COLOR COLLECTIVE (BWOCC) does. It appears five times, and with a couple of clicks on its website it is quite clear that BWOCC trains doulas to assist women in killing their babies.

Troy admits this:

There is no nexus from a doula to an abortion, except for doulas who provide comfort and care to women who choose to get an abortion.

Troy goes on to castigate the bill's opponents as paranoid conspiracy theorists:

The political arena can turn the most wonderfully motivated people into paranoid conspiracy theorists unwilling to see people who disagree with them as people who may be on the same page on different issues. For instance, just because Tom Fisher is a pro-choice advocate and pro-choice champion Jayne Flores is the director of the BWA, some in the Guam pro-life community will sustain suspicion against anything those two do. And, thus in the minds of the paranoid pro-lifers, because Mr. Fisher introduced the doula funding bill to benefit Ms. Flores' agency, there must be a subliminal pro-abortion agenda at hand.

The problem is that if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck then it's a you know what. Fisher and Jayne are not just pro-choice advocates or champions, they are vigorous, relentless, and, at least in Fisher's case, even vicious pushers of abortion.

Fisher's Bill 162-37 is by the far the most viciously pro-abortion legislation ever introduced in Guam if not the entire country, and Jayne's "johnny one-note" agenda to make abortions happen in Guam is a well documented news item. What's not so well-documented is the paper trail showing Jayne's efforts to get Guam sued by the ACLU. (Read about it here.) So these two aren't your run of the mill pro-choicers. There are baby-blood-red flags every where on this deal. 

Troy promotes two co-signers, Sens. Chris Duenas and Jesse Lujan, as "the legislature's two most prolific pro-life proponents." Really, show me their anti-abortion legislation. I mean, I like them both, have voted for them both, and will vote for them again, but "prolific?" Not. 

However, it's not hard to see why Fisher recruited them to sign on to his nice-sounding bill. Fisher needed their names for exactly what is happening now: COVER. What Duenas and Lujan can do if they want to save the bill and still be "prolific" is amend the bill to prohibit any funds going to the training of "abortion doulas" - though that would need a very precise definition. 

Another thing Troy does is slam the pro-life committee for spending "energy and resources...to oppose this life-involving legislation," and argues that said "energy and resources "could be better spent on life advocacy from pre-natal care to postpartum assistance."

Well, exactly. So instead of spending $400k on training people who cannot provide medical pre-natal care and postpartum assistance, then why not spend that money on people (doctors, nurses) who can, not to mention some improvements at GMH - as Dr. Akimoto regularly and rightly shouts about. 

The real thing is this though. If Guam mothers and babies, in the womb or out, are dying at five times the national average then what the hell is really wrong and would giving "come-and-sue-us" Jayne $400k help?

If you think so, then you might as well go to the Birthworkers of Color Collective website and "click here to get started." 

I'LL BE READY FOR THAT

By Tim Rohr

Troy Torres at Kandit News has posted a piece titled "Priest in Guam 'dumped' here after sex scandal, archdiocese remains silent after report in The Times."

There is no reason for the archdiocese, or, specifically, Archbishop Jimenez, to remain "silent." Troy says he contacted Archbishop Jimenez on Sept. 7. The date of the article is Sept. 15. So it's been a week. 

I know Jimenez is new to the job, but given that it was the sex abuse scandal that ultimately led to his new job, Jimenez cannot be unaware of what he was getting into. At minimum, he should say "I don't know, I'll look into it." But according to Torres, he has said nothing. 

That's not good.

That said, let's take a look at the New York Times article itself. 

When we read "New York Times," it's easy to think "New York." And then why else would New York be paying attention to something so far away unless it was really, really big. However, as is the case with  most big media, they have lots of freelance people all around the world who write stuff for their publications, and this report is one of them. 

Here's the blurb on Pete McKenzie:

Pete McKenzie is a freelance reporter who covers power, politics and the environment in New Zealand and the Pacific. He is a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington and Columbia Journalism School, which he attended on a Fulbright scholarship.

When I first saw the story I didn't pay attention to it because for us in Guam this is old news, and we didn't need the media's help to do something about it. We did it ourselves. In fact, we are still doing it. David Sablan and the Concerned Catholics of Guam remain ever involved and vigilant, although more quietly these days. I decided to look into Troy's take on the NY Times story after several people sent me a link to a comment about me - which I'll get to later.

The only thing that could have made this "new" news would be if in fact there is an "itinerant priest" (the story calls him that) ministering here in Guam who was "dumped" here after being credibly accused or convicted of sexually abusing minors elsewhere. 

At the link to the aforesaid "blurb," McKenzie gives a video presentation of all the research he did behind his story. And given this, it is curious why he names no names since he obviously has them - or does he?

A deeper read of the NY Times story reveals that most of what McKenzie is reporting happened "over a period of decades," and thus probably decades ago. However, McKenzie writes in a way that makes the casual reader believe that it is happening now, and he outright states that one of these priests, a priest who moved here in the 1990's, "still serves as an itinerant priest in Guam."

Most moved to or served in 15 countries and territories in the region in the 1990s, but one still serves as an itinerant priest in Guam...

"Itinerant" is usually synonymous with priests formed in and for the Neocatechumenal Way. There are still several "neo" priests in Guam, but most or all of them were ordained here, and I don't know of any "itinerants" who came to Guam in the 1990's. So who is McKenzie referring to and why won't he tell us? 

I would encourage Troy to contact McKenzie. If there is a credibly accused priest hiding here in Guam and McKenzie knows who it is, Kandit could do us a big favor by pressing McKenzie on who it is, especially if Jimenez isn't talking.

Meanwhile, regarding how the article came to my attention: Troy posted a link to his story on Facebook and a certain "Patrick Iriarte" left this comment:

If he's "just joking," that sure is a long "joke." I checked out his profile and this Patrick guy doesn't appear to be using his real name, nor a real profile. And he sounds exactly like the Apuronites I've dealt with so often in the past when Cristobal and Edivaldo were accusing "Tim Rohr and Associates" of a "calumnious attack on the Archbishop and the Church" for the purposes of profiting via the sale of the RMS property to a Chinese gambling syndicate:

Everything began in 2002, when a group of Chinese entrepreneurs first laid eyes on the Accion Hotel in Yona... (La Stampa, "The Guam problem, a diocese rocked by financial and sexual scandal," Sep. 21, 2017)

Well that property has been long since sold and not a single penny can be traced to my name, and for the record, it has been converted to apartments, not a casino. 

"Iriarte" is also wrong about the media protecting the identities of the victims. The media not only published the names of the victims who publicly came forward but also plastered their faces all over the news for many weeks. Later, victims, perhaps at the recommendation of their lawyers, resorted to using only their initials to protect their privacy in their legal filings. 

I was against this and even tried to get compensation to those who hid behind their initials reduced with the lion's share going to those who were brave enough to go public and who had to endure the criticism and ridicule of the Apuronites - something I know well. 

While the case against the archdiocese has been settled, the case against Apuron by his individual accusers has not. I don't know when or if that will happen. If it does then I have no doubt that Apuron will attempt to do what he said he was going to do which is to prove that he was a victim of "Tim Rohr and Associates." 

I'll be ready for that.

APURON'S REAL GHOST WRITER AND THE NEW JERSEY MACHINE

By Tim Rohr

In my initial response to Troy Torres’ editorial, “The archdiocese is a mess and needs a leader,” I noted that there were “some holes…and other missing links” in Troy’s history of what I’ll refer to as the "BJ Cruz matter" and mentioned that I might fill in the holes and missing links at some point. 

Troy responded that he was “very much looking forward to (my) next piece on this.” 

It’s actually a very small hole, but first I shall copy the following from Troy’s editorial:

“A mutual friend of Guam Public Auditor Benjamin F. Cruz, Jr. vouched for Mr. Cruz’s devotion to his Catholic faith during a tumultuous time for him. Apparently, when Mr. Cruz introduced a same-sex marriage statute and was attacked (quite ironically) by now-disgraced former Archbishop Anthony Apuron, the former legislative speaker continued going to Mass. Our friend despised how Apuron and others were treating Mr. Cruz. (Cruz)…tried convincing our friend to remain faithful despite the shortcomings of the church’s leaders. 'F***that,' this friend said of the Archdiocese of Agana. And just like that, the church lost yet another parishioner."

It appears that the "attack" referred to is an incident that occurred between certain members of the legislature, including Mr. Cruz, and select members of the clergy at a meeting at the Guam Hilton in October 2009. 

THE FOUR LAST THINGS - AND THE ARCHDIOCESE DOES NOT NEED A "LEADER"

By Tim Rohr

Initially, I had much to say about Troy Torres’ editorial “The archdiocese is a mess and needs a leader.” 

I was very personally involved in much of that “mess;” and, according to some, I am responsible for quite a bit of it. 

So I thought about all that could be said about Mr. Torres’ editorial - especially since I know most of the actual history and the good and bad actors behind the headlines. 

But never mind that. 

The real matter is the Archdiocese of Agana does not need a “leader.” 

The Archdiocese of Agana simply needs, as bishop, a humble priest who will consistently and persistently restate, reaffirm, repeat, and dogmatically reference…what the Catholic Church has already said and has always said relative to the most severe moral challenges of our time and of every time - and in the context of the Four Last Things: “Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell.” 

There is no other outcome. 

 

THE FURNACE OF AFFLICTION

By Tim Rohr

Troy Torres of Kandit News has a lot to say in this editorial:

The archdiocese is a mess and needs a leader

He's right about the title. However, there are some holes in the history and some other missing links that I may fill in at some point. But for now, thank you to Troy for keeping this "mess" in the news.

I do want to address one thing Troy says and it is this:

"BJ Cruz and I both found our way back to the church, despite significant shortcomings of many of its past and present leaders. But, it was a struggle; an unnecessary one for many who grew up sitting on those same pews that now are bleeding parishioners. There has to be a simpler way."

BY TROY TORRES: THE ARCHDIOCESE TEACHER WHO RAPED ME AND THE CHURCH THAT SAVED ME

This is quite a testimony by Troy Torres of Kandit News, and not because he mentions me. Link to Troy's post on Facebook and Kandit website. The JW post that Troy refers to is here. 

The archdiocese teacher who raped me, and the Church that saved me • By Troy Torres

Twenty nine years ago today, a St. Anthony School teacher raped me for the first time. I was 13. When he was done taking my innocence, he showered as I put my school uniform back on, then stared at the salt-water aquarium he kept in his living room. 

His ruse for taking me to his house from the school campus was he needed to pick something up at home before taking me to eat. So, when he was done doing as he pleased - the hour on that December 8, 1993 afternoon approaching the start of the procession to Our Lady of Camarin - my consolation prize was one of those microwaveable treats. I think it was a pizza bagel or a pepperoni hot pocket. As he handed it to me, he said, “You better stop eating these. You’re getting pimples.”

I published this story along with many other details this day last year. I struggled with the idea of retelling this story today, and decided instead to focus on what happened after the first rape.

He took me to Agana for the procession, but dropped me far from where people could see me leaving his car. I’m pretty sure it was the parking lot, where Winchells is now. As I walked to the Cathedral grounds, the music became louder, and families leaving their cars to assemble began walking with and past me. I was with so many, but ironically very much alone in my first night as a prisoner of my own mind.

DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN

(Posted by Frenchie)

The standoff between our dearly departed John Toves and corrupt Adrian Cristobal

the Chancellor for Apuron, is now part of our local history.

What followed was now the infamous : "the Archbishop is innocent, for sure for sure" from Deacon Claros, who had replaced Deacon Martinez who dared call Apuron to task, in regards to the Fr.  Luis Camacho affair.

This was the perfect visualization of the corruption of the Apuron administration.

What John did not do was using foul language, or go knock on Apuron's door in the middle of the night. John remained a perfect gentleman about it. Yet the point was made in no uncertain terms.

By the same token, Junglewatch did not try to destroy the Church, as claimed by the Kikos, but instead thanks to a continuous flow of revelation and testimonies, as well as interventions with the legal Church authorities, we continued to try to protect our Church from the wolves in sheep clothing

What we got for our effort, was a flow of insults, threats and bird calls.

We were threatened with lawsuits, by reputable entities in our Church.

In return we turn the other cheek , volunteers picketed the Cathedral/Basilica, the courageous ladies of the LFM "welcome" the American leader of the NCW, Mr Genarrini and his escort at the airport.

To this day, the kikos accuse Tim of having fabricated and invented the complaints against Apuron and the cadre of corrupted people around him.

The Vatican after two and half years begged to differ.

Yet the concert of fake news continued.

Tim got personally attacked .

That being said, here comes gadfly extraordinaire Mr Torres, who based on the fact that the people at Mt Carmel met with Archbishop Byrnes, and not knowing the content of that meeting, concluded that the "Catholic Church" was guilty of coverup.

Worse, Mr Torres who otherwise can do decent investigation, is so dead set on condemning the Church and the Archbishop, rather than trying to go after the real people guilty of coverup.

Actually he is a lot more interested in doing this, that he was in pursuing his own case

See here

This more and more looks like some interested parties are pulling the strings of Mr Torres, for their own benefit.

The question remains :

Where is Adrian Cristobal?

We at junglewatch have helped expose the evil doers within the Church.

The last thing we need, is some Johnny come lately, try to capitalize on over 6 years of hard work.

Of course that is going to make a few people go mad and accuse the Jungle for shining light on all the corners of the picture, and they don't like it.