Those who have been reading my blog for a long time are aware of the circumstances surrounding Mother Dawn, the Redemptoris Mater Seminary in Guam, and Archbishop Anthony Apuron. On November 15, 2016, Mother Dawn came out publicly and revealed the donor of the Redemptoris Mater Seminary and accused then Archbishop Apuron of not respecting the donor's wish to remain anonymous. According to KUAM news (the bold is mine):
In a rare press conference, Mother Dawn talked to local media to share her side of the story relating to the RMS property in Yona. You see, after years of speculation about who was the mystery $2 million benefactor that allowed for the archdiocese's acquisition of the RMS property.
he finally came out, saying all it took was a phone call to her Carmelite sisters in the US mainland. "There was no he, it was a she - and it was me," she said. "So the truth of where the money came from is as easy as that."
According to the mother superior, her wish to remain anonymous was not respected.
The JungleWatch blog also had its own timeline regarding Mother Dawn, which you can find here. However, that timeline is incomplete. According to Rohr's post:
JAN 02, 2003: The Carmelite community in St. Louis, MO, agrees to lend Archdiocese of Agana the money to pay off the approximate 2 Million dollar mortgage note, interest free. (The offer of a loan eventually became a free and clear gift).
DEC 17, 2014: Mother Dawn Marie, on business for her Carmelite order, is in the office of the St. Louis Carmelite community when an email from Archbishop Apuron arrives addressed to the Prioress of the St. Louis community. In the email Apuron asks the St. Louis Prioress to sign a pre-written letter stating that the original intent of the 2003 donation was for the "purchase of the Accion Hotel for the Archdiocese of Agana for the purpose of housing the Redemptoris Mater Seminary and the Theological Institute for the formation of priests."
These are the facts:
January 2, 2003: The Carmelite community in St. Louis, MO agrees to give the Archdiocese of Agana 2 million dollars to acquire the Redemptoris Mater Seminary.
August 6, 2014: Mother Dawn contacted Tim Rohr and told him who the donor was. Tim published it in his blog, which you can see here. According to Tim Rohr dated August 6, 2014 (the bold is mine):
The 2 million dollar gift to purchase the Yona property did not fall from heaven. Mother Dawn, because she is devoted to our Catholic Church, spearheaded the effort to find a donor through her order and specifically through her fellow Carmelites in St. Louis, Missouri.
August 7, 2014: Patty Arroyo spoke with Mother Dawn. Mother Dawn also revealed who the donor was to Patty Arroyo. So, the news media already knew. Patty Arroyo made a comment in the jungle about her interview with Mother Dawn. According to her comment:
December 17, 2014 (taken from Tim's own blog): Mother Dawn Marie, on business for her Carmelite order, is in the office of the St. Louis Carmelite community when an email from Archbishop Apuron arrives addressed to the Prioress of the St. Louis community. In the email Apuron asks the St. Louis Prioress to sign a pre-written letter stating that the original intent of the 2003 donation was for the "purchase of the Accion Hotel for the Archdiocese of Agana for the purpose of housing the Redemptoris Mater Seminary and the Theological Institute for the formation of priests."
November 15, 2016: Mother Dawn comes out publicly to blame Archbishop Apuron that the donor's wish to remain anonymous was not respected (See KUAM news.)
So, you see, it was never Bishop Apuron who revealed the donor's identity. It was Mother Dawn herself. She first revealed it to Tim Rohr who published it in his blog in August 6, 2014, two years before she came out public. The donor's identity was already published in a blog for the entire world to see before Bishop Apuron even sent his email.
Why did I bring this up? Canon lawyers suspected that the guilty verdict of Bishop Apuron had nothing to do with child sexual abuse. In fact, many canon lawyers concluded that the guilty verdict must be something else. However, the Vatican never said what Apuron was guilty of nor did they mention what charges were brought against him. See the news report here.
What I do know is that Bishop Apuron appealed the verdict against him after he was found guilty. Right after that, I received an email from Father Pius, asking me to email him the evidence that Mother Dawn revealed the donor's identity to Tim Rohr and that Rohr published it in his blog. Unfortunately, the verdict was upheld by the Vatican without even reviewing the evidence. So, the evidence was never presented.
It is also possible that Rohr knew the identity of the donor since 2013 because of what he published in his blog. According to Rohr's post dated November 26, 2013 (the bold and underline is mine):
However, even the extremely low price was still a lot of money for the archdiocese. Arrangements were made to purchase the property on terms, but the completion of the purchase was accelerated when the archdiocese received a large gift to assist in the purchase of the property through a religious order based in the states.
The gift had the condition that the source remain absolutely anonymous. The condition of anonymity was critical because the donor did not want to hurt the religious order through which it came, and of which, there is a branch on Guam.
So, the bottom line is that Bishop Apuron never revealed the identity of the donor as shown in my timeline. The donor was already revealed when it was published through the JungleWatch blog for the entire world to see.