The True Timeline

 In his blog, Rohr stated:

In his post, MacRae republishes a piece he wrote about Apuron in 2017. The post is full of errors, but then again, he had DIANA as his source. One of those errors is the following statement:

Cardinal Raymond Burke was sent by the Vatican to investigate the case, but reportedly some of the accusers had declined to answer any questions while waiting for the Church’s ATM to open.

The reference to "the Church's ATM" is MacRae's sarcastic characterization of the law (P.L. 33-187) lifting the civil statute of limitations on sex crimes against minors, which opened the door for the many lawsuits that ensued. MacRae implies that some of the accusers refused to talk to Burke because they were only interested in money. 

However, the Burke investigation commenced in February 2017. The aforesaid law was enacted in September 2016. So, the so-called ATM was already open. In fact, it was the uproar around this legislation that forced Rome to pay attention and finally send Burke to Guam.

MacRae is also wrong about the accusers declining to answer questions. 

It was on May 10, 2016 that a campaign to lift the statutes of limitation was organized (See the weblink here).

It was on July 1, 2016 when the alleged victims filed a libel and defamation lawsuit against the Archbishop in the total sum of 2 million dollars. (See the weblink here.)

The bill, lifting the statutes of limitation was signed into law by Governor Calvo on September, 2016.  A few weeks later on November 1, 2016, Roland Sondia, Roy Quintanilla, and Walter Denton filed a lawsuit against the Archdiocese for 5 million dollars. (See the weblink here.)  

On February, 2017, Cardinal Burke came to Guam to investigate the sex abuse allegations.  However, Roland Sondia and Roy Quintanilla refused to testify before Cardinal Burke.

It was in early March, 2017 when the Archdiocese and Tim Rohr published about a settlement fund (See the weblink here).  This settlement fund started with 1 million dollars coming from the Archdiocese. Then on April, 2017, the Archdiocese introduced the Hope and Healing Program to settle out of court with the start up cost of one million dollars, which was mentioned in early March. 

In that SAME time frame, Walter Denton was the first Apuron accuser to provide testimony to Cardinal Burke (See the weblink here). Walter Denton gave his testimony to Cardinal Burke on March 17, 2017 (about eight days AFTER the settlement fund was announced in the news and in Rohr's blog). After that, the other Apuron accusers who initially refused to testify then came forward to testify.

In his article, Father Gordon MacRae stated: 

Cardinal Raymond Burke was sent by the Vatican to investigate the case, but reportedly some of the accusers have declined to answer any questions while waiting for the Church’s ATM to open.  

Apparently, Father Gordon got the timing correctly.