Articles Of Incorporation Of RMS

Due to the fact that I was on a four day Beginning of the Year Convivience, I was unable to get on the Internet; therefore, I was behind in publishing comments.  I apologize to those whose comments I had just published.  At any rate, one commenter asked who owns the Redemptoris Mater Seminary in Yona.  According to the Anonymous commenter: 

AnonymousOctober 16, 2015 at 1:46 PM

Who is the official owner of the Hotel property?

As I pointed out earlier in my last entry post, there is a reason why dictionaries exist.  It is so that everyone is on the same page and follow the same standard rather than the whims of one man's definition and rule of law.  It is hypocritical for the jungle to offer a challenge and yet not even cite the public law stating that an agency, business, organization, corporation, etc. has to label itself as "corporate sole", "corporate aggregate" etc.  When applying for a business license on Guam, the only Firm classification listed on the form are "partnership", "corporation", and "limited liability company" (See the information here.)  Corporation sole is not even on the list. 

In order for RMS to become a corporation sole, the Archbishop must file an "Articles of Incorporation". And that has already been done and accomplished.  According to the weblink below (bold is mine): 

From and after the filing with the Director of Revenue & Taxation of the said articles of incorporation, verified by affidavit or affirmation as aforesaid and accompanied by the copy of the commission, certificate of election, of letters of appointment of the bishop, chief priest, or presiding elder, duly certified as prescribed in § 10104, such bishop, chief priest, or presiding elder, as the case may be, shall become a corporation sole, and all temporalities, estates and properties of the religious denomination, society, or church theretofore administered or managed by him as such bishop, chief priest, or presiding elder shall be held in trust by him as a corporation sole for the use, purpose, behoof, and sole benefit of his religious denomination, society, or church, including hospitals, schools, colleges, orphan asylums, parsonages, and cemeteries thereof. For the filing of such articles of incor- poration the Director of Revenue & Taxation shall collect Twelve Dollars and Fifty cents ($12.50). 

http://www.guamcourts.org/CompilerofLaws/GCA/18gca/18gc010.PDF

To simplify the above for you, it is saying that from and after filing the Articles of Incorporation, the Bishop shall become a corporation sole, and all estates and properties administered or managed by him shall be held in trust by him as a corporation sole. 

Now, to repeat....... the definition of corporation sole is defined as (the bold is mine):   

The corporation sole, or corporate sole, is legally defined:

Corporations sole are those which by law consist of but one member at any one time, as a bishop in England... It is said in England to include the Crown, all bishops, rectors, vicars and the like.²                 

A corporation sole is one consisting of one person only, and his successors in some particular station, who are incorporated by law in order to give them some legal capacities and advantages, particularly that of perpetuity, which in their natural persons they could not have had. In this sense, the sovereign in England is a sole corporation, so is a bishop, so are some deans distinct from their several chapters, and so is every parson and vicar.³   

In short, a corporation sole are those (church, archdiocese, non-profit corporation, etc.) consisting of ONLY ONE PERSON or ONE MEMBER.  THAT is the legal definition......so let us all be in the same page and hopefully everyone is clear on that.  Article 5 of the Articles of Incorporation of the RMS on Guam clearly stated that there is only ONE MEMBER of the RM Seminary.  According to Article 5: 

                                            ARTICLE V
                                          NO MEMBERS

The sole member shall be the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Agana, (the "Member'). 

One can find the Articles of Incorporation in the jungle, that was published by Tm Rohr in his blog: 

http://www.junglewatch.info/2014/08/the-board-of-directors-and-who-appoints.html

Interestingly enough, the Articles of Incorporation of the RMS on Guam is very similar to the Articles of Incorporation of the RMS in Miami, Florida, which is found in the following weblink:

http://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/ConvertTiffToPDF?storagePath=COR%5C2012%5C0117%5C00007116.Tif&documentNumber=N12000000385

What does this mean?  Apparently, it seems that all the Redemptoris Mater Seminaries worldwide (including the one in Rome and here in Guam) has the same bylaws with minor modification.  Therefore, the bylaws of the RM Seminary on Guam is not unique at all.  It also has the same bylaws and governance as other RM seminaries around the world. 

Furthermore, I have already shown that the RM Seminary is not the only seminary with this kind of structure as a corporate sole.  St. John's Seminary, which has no association to the Neocatechumenal Way, also operates in the same way.  The fact that the RM Seminary on Guam fits the definition of a corporation sole in that it only has one member (a corporate sole) is legally sufficient.  The fact that its official name also list the Archdiocese of Agana also shows that it is the property of the Archdiocese of Agana.    

The Ownership report that was put out by the Archdiocese of Agana on April, 2015 is also consistent with the bylaws found in the Articles of Incorporation.  The ownership report is found in the following weblink:  

http://neocatechemunal.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-truth-about-rms-property.html