On Wednesday, March 5, Pacific News Center did a story on Archbishop Apuron's refusal to sponsor Aaron Quitugua to an off-island seminary. Since Aaron did not want to speak to the media, I spoke in his behalf. To get the Archbishop's side, the PNC reporter, Janela Carrera, called the chancery and spoke with Fr. Adrian. Fr. Adrian declined comment and said he wouldn't respond to rumors - though the "rumors" were his own words in an email to Aaron. He later called Janela and told her to look in the U Matuna for the answer to her questions.
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Friday, March 7, 2014
WHO TEACHES AT BLESSED DIEGO?
In the wake of all the questions about the educational worthiness of the Blessed Diego Institute which is supposed to provide the academic formation for our seminarians, and which we are asked to financially sustain, it might be wise for the Institute to update its list of professors.
While perusing the list, I came across the name of a friend who has not taught at the Institute since 2003. Yet, even after more than a decade since his last class, he is listed as one of the "Visiting Professors." Also, I came across the name of Dan Bradley, who the Institute recently fired because, according to Bradley, he wouldn't give the seminarians a passing grade in Latin if they didn't deserve one.
TO THE RELIGIOUS SISTERS OF GUAM
Just an FYI. Here is why the Neos are not encouraging vocations to your orders, at least not here in Guam. Apparently you are all too old and sick, and training aspiring nuns would give you too much "stress" and will kill you. NOT MAKING IT UP:
Anonymous March 6, 2014 at 7:05 PM
If the sisters were ever asked, they are only going to say yes because they're obedient. You're the one who is going to end up killing them early by giving them stress. The elderly and sick is supposed to be cared for, not be driven with hard work that may cause them stress.
MY COMMENTS IN RED
From: Dennis Santo Tomas <coronetst@live.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:30 PM
Subject: Local Teen Denied Sponsorship to Off-Island Seminary, Archdiocese's Reasons Unclear
To: "news@k57.com" <news@k57.com>
Dear K57 News,
If you are going to publish news then present the facts as they are stated in online publications and not just one person's viewpoint or opinion. In your PNC story entitled "Local Teen Denied Sponsorship to Off-Island Seminary", you stated the following:
Thursday, March 6, 2014
SEE YOU ON TV
One of the reasons we appreciate comments from the opposition is because of how much time they save us. Rather than spend years trying to figure out what these people believe, they are simply handing it to us with their comments. In fact, we are able to learn more than people in the Way themselves since it takes many years to go through all those steps to become a real Christian. (Where is THAT in the Bible?)
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
LOCAL TEEN DENIED SPONSORSHIP TO OFF-ISLAND SEMINARY
VIDEO: Local Teen Denied Sponsorship to Off-Island Seminary, Archdiocese's Reasons Unclear
The story mentions both the "we can't afford it" reason the chancery gave Aaron and the "we have the resources" story it gave us. I'd say "we don't know who to believe", but then that would be a (another) lie, wouldn't it?
To read email exchange between Aaron Quitugua and Fr. Cristobal go here.
To read email exchange between Aaron Quitugua and Fr. Cristobal go here.
DON'T MESS WITH THE CAPS
Our specimen of a neo-seminarian in that last post said something to which I could only respond "HUH?" But now that I'm done choking, let me help out this poor man. Here's what he says:
I am not saying that what the Capuchins had taught us are wrong but you need to realize that their actions in how they handle the parish community is influenced by their formation and it is not the only formation that exists. I always wondered why my parish took so long to rebuild itself(the church building). I realized it was the Capuchin way of life. Money was not made of an issue. The vow of poverty sort of forced the priest to make due with what already existed, even if it meant patching an already termite infested panel with another on top of another.
Look, let me do you a favor. You don't mess with the Caps. You want a revolution? A real one? You want real pitchforks and torches instead of just nasty comments on this blog? Go ahead, mess with the Caps. They were here way before you neons. Maybe you don't recall what happened in 2009. Look it up. Meanwhile, we're looking you up.
HERE'S WHAT THAT ONE MILLION BUCKS A YEAR IS GOING TOWARDS
A seminarian from RMS writes (see original comment here - my comments in [red]):
You are all making an issue of MONEY. Stop and listen to yourselves. You are blaming the existence of an RMS for the neglect of the Parish Financial debts. The RMS, remains our diocesan seminary. [Okay, you need to stop and listen to yourself. The Archdiocese just published a two page long defense of the existence of your seminary VERSUS the need to establish another one that is for the formation of diocesan priests. If RMS was a diocesan seminary, NOT just a seminary located in our diocese, then there would be no need to establish a second seminary FOR this diocese. Obviously this is an admission by the Archbishop himself that RMS is NOT a diocesan seminary.]
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
SECTION 7
In this past Sunday's U Matuna, in the centerfold ad 2014 Archdiocesan Annual Appeal, the question is asked in Section 7:
In the past, seminarians were sent off island for studies and formation, is this still being done today?
Here's the chancery's answer:
NOTICE
Okay, guys, I actually have to get some work done. So won't be approving any comments till tonight. Meanwhile, fire away.
YOU ARE NOT WINNING
As we have become quite accustomed to, the neo-defenders, driven to carelessness by their mad obsession to "WIN", tell us much more about their agenda than we could ever expose by any investigation. And here's a good one.
FROM JANET B
See original context for comment here.
To Tony from a lot of really pissed off people of Guam:
$1,000,000 per year to train these 40 or so priests, and only one really belongs to us...Junee Valencia? Some will go back to Samoa, Dallas, or elsewhere. All the Neo, most of whom come from outside our community (Guam, not Neo) will eventually be assigned by Kiko and Giuseppi to Africa/Asia. Wow, $1,000,000/year that could be used for schools, parish outreach, Catholic Social Services, and so much more. It could be used to reduce the parish cash drain so they would not have to charge for funerals and weddings. $1,000,000 per year so Kiko can have us fools on Guam train priests for his charism that insults the Church with lack of respect/obedience. All the while he gets super rich off all the merchandising he has going with communities not allowed to be truely Catholic. That is quite a story, but saddest of all is that it is reality.
Monday, March 3, 2014
SEND US YOUR "AUDIT" STORIES
...like this one:
Anonymous March 3, 2014 at 7:22 AM
The Archdiocese was indeed audited, and we were told there would be a meeting for all the clergy and office staff, mainly finance and secretaries, to discuss the findings of the audit, and what the parishes would need to do to make sure money is not being diverted. The meeting never happened. In fact, the findings of the audit were never revealed.
P.S. That was really dumb to give so much credibility to JungleWatch in the Umatuna yesterday. Everyone knew the reason for it.
Anonymous March 3, 2014 at 7:22 AM
The Archdiocese was indeed audited, and we were told there would be a meeting for all the clergy and office staff, mainly finance and secretaries, to discuss the findings of the audit, and what the parishes would need to do to make sure money is not being diverted. The meeting never happened. In fact, the findings of the audit were never revealed.
P.S. That was really dumb to give so much credibility to JungleWatch in the Umatuna yesterday. Everyone knew the reason for it.
SOME QUESTIONS
So on Feb. 8, 2014, an aviso appears in the Umatuna telling us that Fr. Jason Granado, then-pastor of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Agat, is being sent on a one year mission to the Diocese of Chalan Kano, Saipan.
WHILE I WAS SLEEPING...
...over 1000 views. Puts us past 180,000. Since I was sleeping, and you (on Guam) probably were too, that means there must be a lot of views coming from other time zones. Hmmmm. But then again, I know the haters don't sleep. They are here. Even now.
Sunday, March 2, 2014
APPEALING THE APPEAL AND MISSING ZEROES
Today in the U Matuna, the newspaper for the Archdiocese of Agana, there was two-page centerfold ad for the Archdiocesan Annual Appeal. You'll have to find a copy to flesh out this story, but for now, here are our comments.
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| The "chapel" at Guam's "seminary" |
THAT FULL TWO-PAGE CENTERFOLD SPREAD IN THE UMATUNA TODAY...
...explaining and justifying the "appeal" is a complete admission that not only is the chancery reading JungleWatch, they believe many others are too. Of course we knew that. We'll be commenting on it soon. Ya'l come back now, hear?
HOW ABOUT A BIG "HELL NO!"
I know it's hard to come in on the middle of some of these conversations, but some of these comment strings are too entrenched in previous conversations to try to relate the whole context each time we copy a comment to a post like this one and offer our own comments to the comment. Follow that?
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COMMENT OF THE DAY
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Anonymous March 2, 2014 at 8:34 AM
Chuck you can gather million ammo. If it's the work of God you can't simply uproot it. God exist in all these claim. God bless you and your family.
Tim March 2, 2014 at 8:50 AM
You are right. We can't uproot it. God has told us that he will let the weeds grow with the wheat. And then he told us what he will do with the weeds. Feel free to grow.
Anonymous March 2, 2014 at 8:34 AM
Chuck you can gather million ammo. If it's the work of God you can't simply uproot it. God exist in all these claim. God bless you and your family.
Tim March 2, 2014 at 8:50 AM
You are right. We can't uproot it. God has told us that he will let the weeds grow with the wheat. And then he told us what he will do with the weeds. Feel free to grow.
Saturday, March 1, 2014
THE HEART OF THE THING
Here is a comment that is quite easy to deconstruct, or destroy. I haven't decided which I will do yet. But I'll save said deconstruction for another post. For now, let us look at what this says - on its own merit - about the Neocatechumenal Way.
THE PROBLEM WITH KIKO'S TABERNACLE
One of the first things one would notice upon attending a Neocatechumenal "eucharist" is the dominance of the "eucharistic table" (not an altar), by a Jewish MENORA, a nine-branched candelabrum, sitting front and center where normally a Catholic would expect to see a crucifix.
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