PERHAPS AN EXORCISM FIRST?

On Saturday, May 2, our archbishop will reconsecrate our island to Our Blessed Mother. The reconsecration will coincide with the U.S. Bishops doing the same on May 1. 

It's good timing. For Catholics, May is traditionally the Month of Mary "and it is the occasion for a "moving tribute of faith and love which Catholics in every part of the world [pay] to the Queen of Heaven."

And while the reconsecration of our nation and our island to the Blessed Mother is a right and good thing, Fr. John Zuhlsdorf is imploring bishops "to pronounce the exorcism in Title XI Chapter 3 of the Roman Ritual over their dioceses" before the consecration:

"Before the consecration of these USA to the Blessed Mother, I call on all bishops to pronounce the exorcism in Title XI Chapter 3 of the Roman Ritual over their dioceses."

Because:

In the history of salvation, there have always been spiritual purifications before blessings and consecrations. 

• In the traditional rite of baptism there are exorcisms.
• In the traditional rite of consecration of a church there are exorcisms.
• In the traditional rite of the blessing of Holy Water there are exorcisms.
• Before Isaiah was given the office of prophet by God, the holy angel purified his lips with a burning coal.  Only then was he made God’s prophet.
• In the traditional rite of Holy Mass, before the reading of the Gospel the image of the angel with the coal is invoked before God’s blessing is begged.

An exorcism first - or at least the public rejection of Satan - also follows the pattern of the annual renewal of our baptismal vows, which, had we been permitted to attend Mass on Easter, we would have done:

V. Do you reject Satan?

R. I do.

V. And all his works?

R. I do.

V. And all his empty promises?

R. I do.

V. Do you believe in God, the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth?

R. I do.

V. Do you believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was born of the Virgin Mary was crucified, died, and was buried, rose from the dead, and is now seated at the right hand of the Father?

R. I do.

V. Do you believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting?

R. I do.

V. God, the all-powerful Father of our Lord Jesus Christ has given us a new birth by water and the Holy Spirit, and forgiven all our sins. May he also keep us faithful to our Lord Jesus Christ for ever and ever.

R. Amen.

Before reconsecrating ourselves to the Blessed Trinity we are asked to reject Satan, all his works, and all his empty promises. Of course, rejecting Satan before participating in anything holy follows the same pattern as to why we go to confession (or used to) before we receive communion. 

Given the absolute decades of "filth in the Church" which have been uncovered in the last few years (the real plague by the way), not to mention our electing as governor the first president of People for Choice*, Guam's first pro-abortion activist organization, which, beginning in 1990, paved the way for thousands of murdered infants, mostly Chamorro (the following chart only shows 2008-2017)...

LINK

...perhaps an exorcism first?

* Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology, edited by Shirley Hune, Gail M. Nomura, Pg. 375

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WHERE ARE OUR CATHOLIC LAWYERS???

Guam has plenty of them. Wouldn't it be great if one of them went to bat for our church like this AG is doing?

Reopen churches to in-person services or face legal action, AG says

FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) - Attorney General Daniel Cameron is calling upon Gov. Andy Beshear to reopen churches to in-person services or face legal action.

During a Tuesday press conference outside the Capitol, Cameron said, “The Governor should allow churches to resume in-person services, consistent with the (U.S.) Constitution and CDC guidelines.  And if he doesn’t, we will be forced to file a lawsuit and allow a judge to determine whether his order, as it pertains to religious groups, is constitutional.” (CONTINUED)

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WE NEED A HERO

After Fr. Paul Gofigan, representing the Archdiocese of Agana, nicely asked Governor LLG for permission for Catholics to once again attend Mass, baptize babies, and anoint the sick - amongst other sacramental acts, Governor LLG, via her Director of Public Health, Mrs. Linda Unpingco DeNorcey, basically said HELL NO:

"DPHSS neither supports, nor approves any sacramental services..."

What an awesome opportunity we have here! 

Let's face it. In the wake of Apuron's atrocities and now the world's largest clergy sex abuse scandal (per capita), it is understandable that certain Catholic Church leaders might be shy about standing up to Caesar LLG. But this is exactly what "they" need to do. 

And I say "they" because, unlike the Apuron scandal wherein it was the laity who led the way, the laity cannot do a thing to restore the sacraments only priests can provide. 

It's actually too bad the legislature didn't pass the bill which would have given Caesar LLG the power she wanted to arrest violators of her edicts. Just imagine the powerful regenerative power for our Church if Caesar LLG arrested Archbishop Byrnes - or any priest for that matter - for celebrating Mass! 

Faith in our Church would be restored JUST LIKE THAT!

But even without getting arrested, our ordained Church leaders can accomplish the same thing by simply doing exactly what they nicely asked Caesar LLG for permission to do. 

There is not a thing Caesar LLG can do to stop them. Only "they" can stop them.

Oh, and P.S. It's time for you to move all of your accounts out of the Bank of Guam. 

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CATHOLIC CHURCH TO GOVERNOR LOU LEON GUERRERO

Link to PDF

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YOUNG PEOPLE: "PLEASE GIVE US BACK THE HOLY MASS." OLD GUYS: "STOP WHINING."

“Such return to normalcy is still far away,” he added. But he insists that one should allow certain Masses with hygienic measures.

German cardinal: Access to public Mass is a ‘fundamental right’
'It is about a fundamental right that is essential for our free society.'

Woelki's statement comes at a time where one of his fellow German bishops, Bishop Gerhard Feige of Magdeburg, is calling those faithful who are asking for the Sacraments “whining,” and “belligerent.” (FULL STORY)

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ARE WE FREE TO ENTER? .... YOU ARE NOW (SMH)

And while Walmart and other commercial enterprises will profit exponentially from the "virus-crisis," the real reason churches have been closed has nothing to do with their motives...only ours - or should we say - no motive at all. Shame on us. 

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SIGNS OF THE TIMES...BUT ONLY BECAUSE WE LET THEM

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BUYING BOOZE...OKAY. CATHOLIC MASS?...NOT SO MUCH

CNA Staff, Apr 21, 2020 / 06:00 pm (CNA).- Public religious services cannot be stopped “indefinitely” during the pandemic, especially when liquor stores are considered “essential” businesses, two law professors argued in the New York Times on Tuesday.

Bans on religious gatherings cannot last indefinitely, warn law professors

“Religious leaders and congregations will have to remember that the First Amendment is not an exemption from law applicable to all. And government officials must not forget that religious exercise is at the apex of our national values.” (CONTINUED)

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POPE FEARS TV MASS WILL LEAD TO GNOSTICISM

"A familiarity without community, a familiarity without the Bread, a familiarity without the Church, without the people, without the sacraments is dangerous. It can become a familiarity - let's say - that is gnostic, a familiarity for me alone, detached from the people of God. The familiarity of the apostles with the Lord was always communal, was always at the table, a sign of community. It was always with the Sacrament, with the Bread...Even the Sacrament: today you have it, the Eucharist, but the people who are connected with us, only spiritual communion. And this is not the Church - From the homily of Pope Francis for Mass at Santa Marta on the morning of April 17, 2020

The Pope Against Masses on TV: "This Is Not the Church"

On March 12, Pope Francis had all the churches of his diocese of Rome closed, on account of the coronavirus pandemic. But he immediately regretted it, and the day after he had them reopened. CONTINUED

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BAPTISTS BRING SUIT AGAINST THEIR GOVERNOR - SHOW THE CATHOLICS HOW TO DO IT

“Plaintiffs are likely to suffer irreparable harm in the form of denial of their constitutional right to the free exercise of their religion, arising from state-imposed restrictions on religious exercises that are not narrowly tailored to further the compelling governmental interest in halting the spread of COVID- 19, and which are more severe than restrictions on some comparable non-religious activities.” - John W. Broomes, United States District Judge

Judge Blocks Kansas From Limiting Attendance at Religious Services

A federal judge blocked Kansas from limiting attendance at religious services during the coronavirus pandemic Saturday.

Wichita U.S. District Judge John Broomes blocked an order from Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, limiting attendance at religious services to 10 people or fewer. (CONTINUED)

Read the full Decision and Order here. 

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WITHOUT THE GRAVEST OF REASONS

"But it remains a tremendous spiritual loss to be unable to participate in the Mass, and it is obviously a serious abuse to prevent the faithful from participating without the gravest of reasons."

Beware: Sacramental Presence is always person-to-person
By Dr. Jeff Mirus (CONTINUED)

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MAYBE THIS PLAGUE IS GOD'S JUDGMENT AFTER ALL

Let "the Church" (or even anybody who goes to church) speak publicly against such things as abortion and same-sex marriage, and he/she/they can expect to be immediately crucified on the cross of "separation of church and state." But let "the State" bully the Church - as it now is - and there doesn't seem to be a peep of protest.

It just seems odd that if we can go to the grocery store, the post office, the hardware store, the gas station, and even an auto repair shop - so long as we social-distance, why can't we go to church? The same precautions used in these places of business - such as tape on the floor, requiring masks, and greeters who spray disinfectant on your hands - could be applied at churches - at least for Sunday Mass.

We could even receive Holy Communion. We would line up 6 feet apart. Tape could be put in the aisle to insure this. The priest could wear a mask and even gloves -which he would put on just to distribute communion so that the gloves only touch the hosts. The host, even if it was contaminated, would not pose a health threat because once it is ingested, the stomach acids would kill the virus. (The virus has to get into your lungs to cause a problem.)

What is particularly disconcerting is the seeming embrace of so many Catholics of what is essentially Protestant worship. Protestant worship consists mostly of listening to a sermon and praising and praying, all of which can be done alone or remotely. Catholic worship is something different altogether. In fact, the first few verses of this past Sunday's first reading describes it exactly:

ACTS 2
They devoted themselves
to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life,
to the breaking of bread and to the prayers.

We don't go to Mass to hear a sermon, though we may. We don't go to Mass to sing and praise or even pray, though we may. We can do those things by watching Mass on television or on our phones. We go to Mass for the "communal life" and "the breaking of the bread."

That's not something we can do at home.

And then there's the cute stuff floating about social media posted by well-meaning people about how the church isn't a building, and "we are the church," etc. That is true to a point, but it stops at the Mass which (barring an indult) cannot be celebrated outside a consecrated space on a consecrated altar. But once again, that's why Catholicism is different. 

On another, but related note, it is also a curious thing that the same governor who has issued the edict to close our churches is the same governor whose main concern only a few months ago was to recruit an abortionist. Of course, nary a peep was made about that either. 

Maybe this plague is God's judgment after all. It wouldn't be the first time. Or maybe just a warning?

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SEX ABUSERS’ PARADISE (Sounds familiar)

New allegations rock diocese of Honolulu

Honolulu (ChurchMilitant.com) - New homosexual clerical abuse claims are being leveled against the diocese of Honolulu, with accusations the Church knew about it and did nothing.

On Tuesday, attorney Mark Gallagher and noted clerical sex abuse law firm Jeff Anderson & Associates issued a press release regarding a new lawsuit filed against the diocese of Honolulu in reference to the sexual predation of Honolulu priest Bartholomew O'Leary and Bp. Joseph Ferrario — both now deceased. (CONTINUED)

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LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE WONDERING

Can Priests Cancel Public Masses, and Say a Private Mass Instead? by Cathy Caridi Q:  I’d like to help my fellow parishioners clarify the difference between “canceling all Masses,” and priests who are saying a “private” Mass and either recording it or live-streaming it for the faithful to watch from home. Would this be a correct statement: It’s not that Masses are cancelled; it’s that the faithful coming to […]

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GUTTING THE OPEN GOVERNMENT LAW NEVER OK, EVEN IN A CRISIS

"So, with a couple of strokes of her pen, the governor enabled regulatory chicanery, destroyed the public's right to know what its government is doing and violated the doctrine of separation of powers by invading the province of the Legislature."

Gutting the Open Government Law never OK, even in a crisis
By Robert Klitzkie
Apr 1, 2020

Full News Item here.

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PELL TO BE FREED

Soon after Apuron was accused by a lone accuser in 2016 - which caused "TONY" to "run to Rome," Cardinal Pell, who was in Rome at the very same time, was similarly accused. 

But unlike Apuron who went into hiding, Pell immediately boarded a plane to Australia to face his accusers. And now this...which should tell you all you need to know. 

Cdl. Pell unanimously acquitted of sex abuse charge by Australian High Court, will be freed

Full Story

But things aren't over for Apuron. 

There is a civil trial coming up in Federal Court. And he is still maintaining his innocence. His defense is that he was a victim of a real estate conspiracy LED BY "Tim Rohr."

"Tim Rohr and his associates launched a vicious and calumnious attack on the Archbishop and the Church." AOA - May 31, 2016

I hope I get called to testify. Because there are a lot more people than Apuron THAT I NTEND TO EXPOSE.

Some of whom are hiding IN PLAIN SIGHT....and some who are just hiding...just as fast as they can.

I don't quit.

GOOD JOB. KEEP IT UP. IT'S ALL PART OF THE SAME SCAM.

Local group questions suspension of Open Government Law

A local organization is protesting the governor's suspension of the Open Government Law, saying it "encourages abuse of public trust." CONTINUED

THE SAME SCAM

Remember whose house Apuron was found hiding in. 

Accusers locate Apuron

And it appears certain wallets have run out of money.

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CORONA VIRUS - APURON - AND "ONLY GOD REMAINS"

by Tim Rohr

March 17 (Guam Time, St. Patrick's Day - Patron of the Yona RMS), was the second anniversary of the Vatican announcement finding Anthony S. Apuron "guilty." 

While the Vatican's announcement was skillfully worded to protect Apuron (probably the work of Filoni, et. al), Apuron's appeal, later denied by Pope Francis himself, left no doubt as to what Apuron had been found guilty of. 

Apuron's war is not over. He still faces civil litigation in both local and federal courts. And do not doubt that "his people" have given up on "him." 

I refer to "his people" and "him" in quotes because Apuron himself is not capable of carrying on this war. In fact, he was always their stooge -  from the outset. A rubber stamp. And expendable at that. 

As we have noted for years now, most of the drama to exonerate Apuron has nothing to do with exonerating Apuron, and everything to do with saving the multi-billion dollar, international underground, clergy-trafficking syndicate that masquerades as an "itinerary" of faith formation and has wormed its heretical "Way" deep into the heart of our Church more deeply and deadly than the corona virus. 

Apuron - because he was a bishop - and more importantly, because he was a bishop who would do their bidding - was key to their plans. And so was Cristobal, who basically sold Apuron to the Neocat hierarchy for less than 30 pieces of silver in exchange for a guarantee of Apuron's mitre.

But then there was JungleWatch...and YOU. And so JungleWatch shall remain. And shall remain vigilant. But while we work quietly for now, we will use this forum for matters we deem relevant - if not appropriate - in the service of our ultimate cause: truth. 

Moving on, here is a link to an good article that Catholics should care about:

What Americans Can Learn From the Coronavirus in Italy

Pull Quote: 

"Our Lady spoke at Fatima about a series of scourges that would fall upon sinful humanity, followed by a general conversion and consequent restoration of Christian civilization. Many did not heed her words, not because of a doctrinal objection but rather because of the conviction – more pragmatic than intellectual – that this world would last forever. They believed that they could continue to enjoy it undisturbed. However, the coronavirus crisis teaches us that things can change and even quickly. We cannot take anything for granted. This state of affairs is not eternal. Everything can vanish; only God remains."

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CRISTOBAL OUT

NOTE: Actually the real reason pending proof of his abuse, is more likely gross disobedience. Cristobal has refused to return to the Archdiocese of Agana as ordered by Archbishop Byrnes. In his "heyday," Cristobal was front and center in trying to stop us from uncovering what is now, per capita, the largest clergy sex abuse crisis in the world. Specifically, Cristobal tried to stop Tim Rohr and Associates: "Tim Rohr and his associates launched a vicious and calumnious attack on the Archbishop and the Church." Cristobal is still trying to stop "Tim Rohr and Associates." 

PDN: Archdiocese moves to strip Father Adrian Cristobal of priestly duties over abuse of minors

"The civil lawsuits alleged that Cristobal's sexual abuse of minors happened between 1995 and 2013. One plaintiff said the priest abused him for about 18 years, at two parishes, the school, the priest's residence, his vehicle and at a private beach in Ipan. 

After consulting with Rome, the archdiocese initiated an administrative penal process last year against Cristobal." 

FULL STORY

GUAM DAILY POST: Former chancellor to lose priest role

FULL STORY

PNC: Archdiocese moves to ‘laicize’ Father Cristobal; awaits Rome decision on appeal

FULL STORY

KUAM: Father Adrian Cristobal appeals decision to laicize him

FULL STORY

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Pageviews last 30 DAYS: 40,115 = 1,337 Pageviews per day. 

APURON OUT - PART 1

The following is an excerpt from an article entitled "Put Vigano on trial?" which can be read here. 

The most egregious recent example of justice not being seen to be done is, arguably, the case of Archbishop Anthony Apuron, the disgraced former leader of the Church in the U.S. territory of Guam. In 2017, after years of complaints, a Vatican judicial commission investigated him and tried him. The tribunal, led by Cardinal Raymond Burke, found Apuron guilty of two counts out of the six with which he had been charged. 

We know that Apuron’s nephew claims he suffered sexual abuse at the hands of his uncle. That would have been either in 1989 or 1990, at a family gathering. Apuron was also allegedly involved in several other scandals: real estate deals done in the shade; influence peddling; abuse of office; financial mismanagement and underhandedness – all against a backdrop of “family tensions” on an island where everyone is somehow related to pretty much everyone else. 

Most of the rest is guesswork, though, since the Vatican never published the list of charges, and waited more than a year to announce the verdict. He was acquitted of some charges, found guilty of others. Then, not two months after the announcement of the split verdict, Apuron was on a stage with Pope Francis for a major international gathering at Rome’s Tor Vergata park.

There are a couple things to note:

"after years of complaints" - From what we know, the first public complaint against Apuron involving sex abuse of minors was made by Roy Quintanilla in May 2016. So really only one year of complaints. However, the author may know about other complaints against Apuron that were not public. Indeed, we heard whispers for years and it is quite likely that many of those whispers made their way to the Vatican. Even Walter Denton's graphic complaint to the Vatican about what Apuron did to him when he was a 12 year-old altar boy was initially sent back to him without any action by the Vatican due to a lack of corroboration. In hindsight we can see that the Vatican (specifically the then-nuncio, Archbishop Krebs), did not send Denton's complaint back to Denton because Krebs was trying to dismiss or hide it, but because Krebs knew it to be true and that Krebs knew that the only possibility of helping Denton was for Denton to first help himself by getting someone to corroborate his story. And, as we now know, Denton did. 

"the Vatican never published the list of charges, and waited more than a year to announce the verdict" - Those of us close to this case knew that Apuron had been found guilty long before the verdict was announced (it's called a "sentence" in Vatican-speak). And we also knew that the long delay was due to Apuron's protectors doing everything possible to first keep Apuron from being found guilty, and then to keep the sentence under wraps once he was. The problem for Apuron's protectors was that the Catholic faithful in Guam would not put their signs down, continuing a weekly picket in front of Apuron's cathedral for 54 weeks straight, and even for a time, also protesting the Vatican administrator (Archbishop Hon) who appeared to be part of the conspiracy to cover for Apuron. Eventually the Vatican decided to throw Apuron partially under the bus, announcing Apuron's sentence in an extremely weakened way that appeared to let Apuron off the hook for the most egregious accusations. 

To be continued. 

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A LESSON TO THE WORLD IN WHAT THE LITTLE PEOPLE CAN DO

In this past Sunday's Umatuna (the "newspaper of the Archdiocese of Agana, Guam") there was printed on page 6 an article entitled: Shepherding amid scandal: Archbishops talk about healing." 

The author of the article is Cindy Wooden of the Catholic News Service and the editor's note says that the article was based on a June 2019 CNS interview with Archbishop Byrnes.

The article begins:

ROME - The first time Archbishop Michael J. Byrnes of Agana, Guam, celebrated Mass in his cathedral, he had to cross a picket line to do so.

and goes on to state:

When he arrived in 2016, protesters had been gathering outside the cathedral before every Mass the former archbishop celebrated. To celebrate his first Mass there, Byrnes had to cross the picket line.

This is FALSE. 

First, Archbishop Byrnes did not have to "cross a picket line" to enter the Cathedral. The Cathedral has multiple entrances, including the entrance from the sacristy. The picketers did not block any of the entrances, restricting their activity to the public sidewalk in front of the Cathedral.

Second, Archbishop Byrnes actually JOINED the picketers in a gesture of solidarity. The Pacific Daily News memorialized the Archbishop's "joining" the picketers in its news report dated February 2, 2017:

Four days after briefly joining peaceful protest in front of the cathedral, Coadjutor Archbishop Michael Jude Byrnes said he supports and respects clergy sex abuse victims’ and their supporters’ quest for justice, which he said is ongoing both at the Vatican and in the civil courts.

Third, it was not his first Mass. Archbishop Byrnes came to Guam in 2016, and the one time he JOINED the picketers was on January 29, 2017, as the Pacific Daily News memorializes:

Cindy Wooden also reports that Guam's Catholics "were in an uproar." 

The appointment “was a little overwhelming,” the archbishop said. Guam was far away and Catholics there were in an uproar.

This is also FALSE.

Other than praying the rosary and singing hymns, the public protests and picketing were absolutely silent. And almost all of the participants were elderly, some even "walking" the picket line in their wheelchairs and walkers. 

It is very doubtful that Archbishop Byrnes gave CNS such false and destructive information, so it is either the CNS author embellishing her story or the information came from someone else in the chancery, and perhaps from the same people who tried to paint us as an angry mob when Apuron was still running things. 

Such false dramatization hurts the Church. If there is anything that happened on Guam it is lesson to the rest of the Catholic world in what the "little people" can do, did do, and still do. 

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REFLECTIONS ON A BUSY WEEKEND FOR THE CATHOLICS OF GUAM

(posted by Frenchie)

This past weekend was particularly busy for many of Guam's Catholics.

While certain parishes were holding retreats for the upcoming candidates to confirmation.

St Anthony and St Victor was hosting the annual Catholic Men's conference.

St Anthony was also receiving Bishop Schneider from Astana Kazakhstan, a leading spiritual

leader of the traditional Catholics, who was invited by the Concerned Catholics of Guam.

Bishop Schneider celebrated a novos ordo Mass in Latin,  on Saturday evening, before being the guess speaker at a banquet held at the Sheraton.

Archbishop Byrnes and other clergy members were in attendance for the banquet.

On Sunday morning Bishop Schneider also celebrated Mass at the Cathedral/Basilica, following the 

rite, under the presidence, and at the invitation of Archbishop Byrnes.

THANK YOU (AGAIN) TO THE DIANA

By Tim Rohr

Just a short thank you to The Diana for crediting JW for bringing Bishop Athanasius Schneider to Guam. 

If in fact I had anything to do with Bishop Schneider's coming to Guam, I would have been posting about it for months, especially given that he has called out the likes of The Diana as subscribing to a "Jewish-Protestant Heresy." 

However, other than a re-post of CCOG's flyer a couple days ago, not only did I have nothing to do with bringing Bishop Schneider here, I purposely refused to get involved as I did not want to bring controversy to his visit, since ultimately his ability to visit Guam rested on the authority of Archbishop Byrnes to invite him.

The real credit for bringing Bishop Schneider to Guam goes to the CCOG and I can't remember the last time I have been to one of their meetings. 

But while I'm at it, I want to again thank this same Diana for getting rid of Apuron and RMS for us. 

As you may be aware, the only "weight" JW could ever bring to this battle was the number of our pageviews, which you can see are now over NINE MILLION. And I would estimate that a good 90% of those views are due to The Diana keeping the debate alive, as - per her current mention of JW -"she" still is, and once again, driving even more views to JW.

It seems so long ago now, but the whole thing was pretty much dead only a few weeks after the Fr. Paul thing in the summer of 2013. But thanks to The Diana, and with a lot of help from certain clerics in the chancery, JW was given an endless stream of things to fire back at, and fire back we did, which in turn produced tens of thousands of comments.

Ultimately it was the comments which drove the blog as more and more people would tune in just to see the comments, which exponentially drove up our numbers. And with each click up on the counter in the right side bar there was another "thump" of the tell-tale heart 'neath Apuron's bedroom floor.

By October 2013, those "thumps" from our counter began to drive Apuron crazy and he ran to Rome to try to shut me down - a move I learned about when on 10 October 2013 I received a cease and desist letter from Cardinal Edwin O'Brien, then-Grand Master of the Equestrian Knights of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem:

Read more here.

It was when I received this letter from the Vatican that I knew that I was on to something, but still did not know what, because while I had heard rumors of what eventually led to Apuron's demise, I had no knowledge of it and knew no one who did. 

The question was why was Apuron so afraid about my then-little blog, and so afraid that he ran to Rome? I really had nowhere to go for answers but thanks to The Diana, JW continued to grow and the comments came flooding in. And within those comments were increasing references to "the Agat boys." 

The rest is history and I'm no longer interested in entertaining thousands of comments, or - as you can see - even posting. But, via a friend who sent me a copy of The Diana's recent post about JW, I was just reminded as to how The Diana helped JW become the powerhouse it became, and eventually led to the first ever "ridding" of a bishop, not only by the action of the laity, but in the face of absolute opposition from the Vatican, not just by O'Brien, but by the prelate who has now taken his place: Cardinal Fernando Filoni. 

By the way, five years after O'Brien ordered me to stop picking on Apuron, O'Brien was named by Archbishop Vigano as one of the prelates involved in the homosexual cabal in the Vatican (Page 5). 

NOTE: There's a lot more to the Apuron-O'Brien-Filoni connection. And maybe I'll get around to it. Meanwhile, if you have comments, visit the JungleWatch Facebook page and leave them there. 

Courage. 

WE HIT NINE MILLION WHEN WE WEREN'T EVEN LOOKING

And now views from 207 countries. The latest is Uzbekistan. 

And 44,000 views in the last 30 days and we hardly posted a thing. 

Hmmmm. 

What could be happening?

THIS IS NO SMALL DEAL. BISHOP SCHNEIDER IS ONE OF THE FEW.

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