A 60-year-old woman is facing charges alleging that she forged multiple cheques to steal funds from a Catholic church in Guam. A Guam Superior Court grand jury handed down an indictment listing 23 charges against Veranice Rose Troves. The indictment accuses her of tampering with church records, altering amounts on cheques and forging cheques. Toves Read more
Guam’s Catholic governor let a bill defining marriage as between two people, regardless of gender, lapse into law, rather than sign it himself. Governor Eddie Calvo’s religious beliefs prevented him signing Bill 119-33, also called the “Guam Marriage Equality Act”. The bill was introduced into the legislature in June, hours after the District Court of Read more
Earlier in the year, in Guam, a same gender couple launched legal action after being refused a marriage licence. Loretta M. Pangelinan and Kathleen M. Aguero, both 28, sued after the registrar refused them a license because Guam law defines marriage as a union between two people of the opposite sex. The Attorney-General said a Read more
A Guam priest who was stripped of his public duties last year, after a decades-old clergy sex abuse allegation resurfaced, has been cleared. Fr John Wadeson “has been reinstated fully to public ministry”, the Archdiocese of Agana stated. Fr Wadeson left the Redemptoris Mater Seminary on Guam in July last year, after serving in Agana Read more
Over the past few months, many of the Guam’s Catholics have been divided by a line in which one side supports the Neocatechumenal Way (NCW) movement and those who want to keep the old traditions of the local Catholic church. On Wednesday a prayer vigil took place in Hagåtña. Gregory D. Perez, president of the Read more
A financial review of Catholic entities in Agana Archdiocese in Guam ordered by the Vatican has shown some significant accounting deficiencies. Archbishop Anthony Apuron of Agana released statements last week, after the review by Deloitte and Touche was made public, to “begin a process of reorganisation and reordering”. The review shows that one archdiocesan entity, Read more
An American Catholic priest removed from ministry in Guam over historic sex abuse allegations in California has left the Pacific territory. Fr John Howard Wadeson left Guam last week saying he had been falsely accused. The priest said he decided to leave because he didn’t want false accusations against him to tarnish Archbishop Anthony Apuron. Read more
A controversy has arisen regarding an alleged attempt to transfer ownership of property owed by Archdiocese Hagåtña to an organisation connected to the Neocatechumenal Way. Last week, while on a visit to to Guam, the apostolic delegate archbishop Martin Krebs said he had come help build bridges and help those who want to build bridges. Krebs Read more
The Association of Diocesan Clergy of the Archdiocese of Agaña, (Guam), recently held a Mass of Thanksgiving for Consecrated Life at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Toto. Archbishop Anthony Sablan Apuron, was the presider and homilist for the Mass. Concelebrants included Monsigñor Brigido Arroyo and Palé Mike Crisostomo, officers of the clergy association. Read more
Archbishop Anthony Sablan Apuron. has. announced that second seminary is to be established on Guam. The new seminary will be called the “Saint John Paul II Archdiocesan Seminary” and will be initially hosted on the grounds of the Carmel on the Hill Retreat Center in Malojloj. There are plans on the drawing board to construct Read more