JungleWatch

We do enjoy hearing from our neocatechumenal friends...and even our "unfriends". And today we heard from several. We like to hear from them because in addition to pumping up the numbers on the ever critical "pageviews", their comments make a better case against the Neocatechumenal Way than we can ourselves.

WHOAH!!!

It appears the Holy Father has done his homework. From the Catholic News Agency reporting on his meeting with the NCW:

The Pontiff then offered some words of advice to those being sent to evangelize.

“Have the greatest care to build and conserve the internal communion of the particular Churches where you will go to work,” he emphasized.

WHISPERERS

While it may look like it, our target is not Archbishop Apuron, though ultimately he must take responsibility. Our target is the shadow people, the real power brokers, the people that have insinuated themselves into chanceries and curias worldwide with all the right whispers.

POPE TO MEET WITH MEMBERS OF NEOCATECHUMENAL WAY

In anticipation of this meeting, members of the local NCW have been throwing us the usual "just wait you'll see, the pope is on our side." Nothing new of course. They've been doing it for decades, turning every meeting into a photo op, and every photo op into the equivalent of a dogmatic proclamation of a major council. It doesn't matter the actual content of the meeting. What matters is the optics, the visual.

ITEM #5

Early 2011: Archbishop Apuron is approached by the Neocats to transfer the title to the property currently occupied by the Neocat seminary (RMS), to RMS, a corporation separate from the Archdiocese of Agana, and 75% controlled by foreign Neocats.

September 2011: Because the conveyance of the title involved a transaction valued at over one million dollars, and because it involved an "alienation of the patrimony of the Archdiocese of Agana", the matter, as dictated by Canon law, was put before the Archdiocesan Finance Council (AFC). With the Archbishop present, and with the advice of the archdiocesan legal counsel, four of the five members of the AFC voted to deny the transfer of said title. Further, at the direction of the Archbishop, the president of the AFC, Mr. Richard Untalan, was instructed to write the letter of denial and notify the rector of RMS of the AFC's decision. And so he did.

End of story? Not.

HE WASN'T JOKING

The interesting thing about the Archbishop doubling down on the parishes to come up with exponentially greater amounts of money to fund the Neocatechumenal seminary, is the fact that the Neocatechumenal Way is probably more responsible for the collapse of collections in general than anything else, and NOT just because an increasing number of people are objecting to the NCW, but because the NCW itself is extracting people from their parishes and pulling money out of them that would have otherwise gone to the parish.

IT'S NOT JUST ON GUAM

Is the Neo-Catechumenate Way Compatible with Religious Life?

NEOCATECHUMENATE COMMUNITY - Archdiocese of Melbourne - Report of activity in one parish

Neocat violation - open letter to Prindiville

Neocat assault

Open Letter to the local Neocatechumenate communities at St. Nicholas of Tolentino, Bristol, England

NEOCATECHUMEN INFILTRATION - Testimonial from members of the Good Shepherd Parish in Kelmscott Perth Western Australia

PETITION FROM PARISHIONERS OF ST GERARD MAJELLA

IN OTHER NEWS: FOR PARENTS OF IEP STUDENTS

http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2014301300019

Workshop today for parents of IEP students

If your child is receiving special education services and has an Individualized Education Plan, there will be a two-hour goal-writing workshop from 6 to 8 p.m. today and Feb. 6 in the PEP Office on the first floor of the ITC Building to help you. The workshop will: explain the importance of collecting useful data; show samples of useful Present Levels of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance; and explain SMART IEPs and provide examples of SMART goals and objectives. Please bring your child's IEP to the workshop. Space is limited to six participants per workshop, so RSVP right away. For more information, call Leone Rohr at 929-4157 or Carol Darlow at 727-2535 or email pepguam@gmail.com.

THE BROKEN HEART OF POPE JOHN PAUL II

"I am sure that in fulfilling this mandate the Pontifical Council for the Laity will be able to count on the cooperation and the spirit of filial docility of the Neocatechumenal Way."

- Letter of Pope John Paul II, April 5, 2001 to Cardinal James Francis Stafford, President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, upon tasking the Council with the preparation of the Statutes of the Neocatechumenal Way.

"...there are no documents to show you at this point. All our instruction have been oral, but we are satisfied with that. We have no choice. All we were told is to take no action until the Holy See resolves these matters."

- Letter from a local Neocatechumenal priest, April 26, 2008, to Tim Rohr, explaining why the Neocatechumenal Way had not complied with the instruction from Pope Benedict to conform its liturgy to the liturgical books of the church (and obeyed Kiko instead).

Note: The "Holy See DID "resolve these matters" in June 2008 with the final approval of the Statutes of the Neocatechumenal Way. The Way has continued to this day to reject the norms set out for it in its own Statutes in a spirit of non-cooperation and anti-filial hostility, a supreme rejection of the Pope they so often point to as evidence of papal approval. Perhaps it was a good thing he died when he did lest he have died of a broken heart upon seeing the disobedience and division wrought by his generosity toward the Way.

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

WHERE THE MONEY GOES

AAA: Archdiocesan Annual Appeal

Seminary Support: Redemptoris Mater Seminary (defined in its Articles of Incorporation as a house of formation to prepare men for the priesthood...following the life and practice of the Neocatechumenal Way. [Art. IV] There is nothing in the Articles about forming priests for the Archdiocese of Agana.)

Chaplains: Chaplains to the Guam Memorial Hospital, Department of Corrections, and Department of Youth Affairs

Other Clergy Support: Defined as the "emergency needs of our priests"

PACIFIC NEWS CENTER STORY

VIDEO: Frustrated Catholics Want Answers on 200% Increase in "Annual Appeal" Collections the Chancery Is Now "Demanding"

By the way, seriously, you people on the Hill, your webpage requesting money for the 2013 Annual appeal is still showing the collection up to April 2013. That's going on a full year. Either take down you website or keep it current. It shows gross negligence, carelessness, and an attitude of "the people be damned." But then at this point, so does everything else. Geez.

MEETING ADJOURNED

Guam's clergy was called to the chancery this morning under the impression that their input was wanted on how to address the dismal results of the 2013 Annual Appeal. Instead they were given a lecture and a document indicating the sums their parishes would be assessed in 2014.

Apparently, still believing that at some point their input would be asked for, the clergy listened for awhile until finally one brave priest asked if their input was actually wanted or if this was a done deal.

The clergy was confused because never before had their parishes been actually "assessed" a defined dollar amount for what is officially called an appeal! An appeal is just that, an appeal, a request. By definition it is not a demand or an assessment.

To add to the confusion, whoever put the document together called the assessment an "allocation", which is the very opposite of an assessment. In fact, if the document titled "2014 Estimated Annual Appeal Allocations" is taken at face value, it would indicate that it would be the Chancery which would be paying the parishes the "allocated" amounts!

Talk about a comedy of errors!

When the Archbishop was asked point blank if the amounts indicated on the 2014 Estimated Annual Appeal Allocations was his decision, he confirmed that it was. Recognizing that there was no interest in their input, another brave member of the clergy, realizing that they had been hoodwinked into another waste of time, called for the meeting to be adjourned and it was.

ARCHDIOCESAN ANNUAL APPEAL UPDATE

Here's a view of the 2014 Annual Appeal that may interest you:

HOW MUCH OF YOUR MONEY IS SENT TO THE CHANCERY?

CORRECTION: The original post was worded wrong. But the correction is even worse. Rather than the percentage of the Sunday collection siphoned off by the chancery, the chart below shows only the amount they took last year for their "Annual Appeal" and how much they intend to take this year, IN ADDITION to what they already take each week. The money for the Annual Appeal is supposed to be used to:

...assist our seminarians in their formation to the priesthood, our chaplains to the Guam Memorial Hospital, Department of Corrections, Department of Youth Affairs, and the emergency needs of our priest (sic).

We have no problem with assisting chaplains or priests with emergency needs. We do have a problem with sending money to Redemptoris Mater Seminary so that those priests can be sent elsewhere at Kiko's direction.

It's damn well time the Chancery shows us where our money is going or they aren't going to get any of it! The pastors are having a meeting this morning at 10am. Call them, text them, let them know!

Most of these are MASSIVE increases. Only Umatac goes down a little. Maina has a tiny increase. Hmmm, this must have been composed before last week's aviso. The Korean parish has a MASSIVE DECREASE. Wonder why that is?

WHO OWNS REDEMPTORIS MATER? PART 4: "THE BIGWIGS"

In our last post on this story, we spoke of the Neocat "bigwigs" visiting an ill Archbishop Apuron effectively ordering him to turn over the seminary property before he kicks the bucket, so they, as sole owners, can do an "in your face" to the people of Guam and any new bishop that came along who didn't like them.

Actually when I first heard about this, I felt sorry for the Archbishop. These people have used him from the beginning, and here he is on what might have been his death bed, and like impetuous, spoiled, self-absorbed children, they show up and demand they be given the house or the car or whatever they can get their greedy hands on before their other brothers and sisters get to their dying father.

Most people think that it's Fr. Pius who calls the shots and the Archbishop is his puppet. But that's a myth. Both Pius and the Archbishop take their orders from a higher power, the "bigwigs", a married couple who lives in New Jersey. They are the "responsibles" for the Neocatechumenal Way for the whole United States, and they answer directly to Kiko.

They are also two of the four "Guarantors" of the Redemptoris Mater Seminary. And in the articles of incorporation of RMS, they have assigned themselves veto and approval power over all decisions relative to the administration, direction, and fate of RMS.

RMS may be incorporated as a "corporation sole" under Archbishop Apuron, but by contrast, the rest of the archdiocese has no guarantors who have veto and approval power over the archbishop's decisions. The only body that even approaches such power in normal archdiocesan affairs is the finance council, and that is only in regards to financial decisions as prescribed and limited by Canon law.

There are four guarantors: the Archbishop, this couple, and an NCW priest who is not from Guam nor does he reside here. Thus we have the archdiocese's largest financial asset, a property estimated by the archbishop's own legal counsel to be worth at least $75,000,000, 75% controlled or close to being controlled, by foreigners, strangers! And what's more, they are the hardest of the hard core neocats AND Kiko's immediate lieutenants.

I am told that the legal counsel, a man who has spent most of his professional life assisting this archdiocese and specifically this archbishop, and who was the chief engineer in acquiring the seminary property in the first place, objected to the inclusion of a Board of Guarantors, especially one composed of 75% strangers.

Normally, a personal guarantor is only required in the formation of a corporation if the corporation has no assets, in order to ensure payment of debts. However, not only is the seminary property the biggest archdiocesan asset of all, it is owned free and clear by the good graces of a gift, and the many hours of pro bono work by the legal counsel. (We already noted previously how the gift was never intended to fund the creation of a Neocatechumenal seminary.)

In other words, there was ZERO need for a personal guarantor let alone a whole Board of Guarantors, which is why the legal counsel objected. And even then, why populate the board with people who don't live here? What's wrong with the many good, strong financial people of Guam who the archdiocese already has a long standing relationship with?

Of course, NOW we know. They were there to be in a position to do exactly what they did: get that property into their control so they can stiff any bishop who tries to get rid of the Neo and screw the rest of us Judases who won't submit to their cult. And as far as we know, they may have already succeeded.

I have a helluva lot more to say about this! Meanwhile, the well-known and much respected Catholic Answers apologist, Jimmy Akin, had a very famous tiff in 2006 with the male half of this shadow couple. Read it here. It's scary to think that this is the man who controls the Catholic Church on Guam.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

WHERE TO ROUTE YOUR DONATIONS

Given the continuing revelations that the Redemptoris Mater Seminary is not what we were told it was, many people have been asking how to otherwise support our church and future priests. As an FYI, St. Fidelis Friary currently has eight men, all from Guam, currently in formation.

Address: 135, Chalan Kapuchino, Agana Heights, Guam
Phone: +1 671-472-3339
Hours: Tuesday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Daily Mass: 12:pm

Other links:
The Capuchins in Guampedia
Visit their blog Pacificaps
Visit their page on Facebook, and by the way, tell them to update it.

And:

The people were once again "allowed" to attend Mass at the Friary, but only after public outrage and glaring media attention. Apparently, the current situation is going to require the same, but obviously much more....much, much more.

WHO OWNS REDEMPTORIS MATER? PART 3

In early 2011, when Archbishop Apuron was in the states for a heart-related medical issue, the Neocat bigwigs paid him a visit. Apparently the Archbishop's heart condition had brought them to the realization that their primary benefactor would not always be around, and in fact, given the Archbishop's current health situation, might not be around for long.

Knowing that a new archbishop may not be as supportive as Archbishop Apuron and could even oust the Neocatechumenal Way from Guam, the bigwigs convinced the Archbishop to convey the ownership of the property occupied by the Redemptoris Mater Seminary to their corporation, a corporate entity separate from the Archdiocese of Agana.

WHO OWNS REDEMPTORIS MATER? Part 2

(WHO OWNS REDEMPTORIS MATER PART 1 HERE)

On January 11, 2012, Archbishop Apuron terminated the following four of the five members of the Archdiocesan Finance Council:

Sister Mary Stephen Torres, RSM (treasurer for many years of the Sisters of Mercy of Guam)
Mr. Joseph Rivera (retired director of the Bureau of Budget and Management)
Monsignor James Benavente (Rector, Dulce Nombre de Cathedral-Basilica and the person who has spearheaded the massive reconstruction and renovation of the Basilica, the Catholic Cemeteries, and other important projects within the Archdiocese)
Richard J. Untalan (President, UMC Holdings)

KEEP IT COMING

Well, I didn't even have to go to sleep and wake up to get new material. It pretty much started coming right after this morning's posts. But since Sunday is a day of rest, I took one, even though our neocats were quite busy.

Actually, by the english-as-a-second-language structure of these comments, it appears that most or all the comments were from the same person (from the seminary?). Here's a few:

A TWO-FER

As I was saying yesterday, most of the time, all I have to do is go to sleep and in the morning another Neo has left a comment which affords me "another opportunity to allow the Neocats to impugn themselves with their own words."