When asked, however, how they would respond if a known offender expressed a desire to serve in a ministry at church, almost half of the survey’s 2,500 respondents said they would be opposed.

“One-fourth (26 percent) of respondents think a known ex-offender should be allowed to serve in a leadership position in church. One and a half times more respondents (38 percent) think they should not be allowed to lead,” added Cynia Solver of Solver Solutions, who crafted the report on the “Sex Offenders in the Church” survey.

For the survey, invitations to participate were sent to subscribers of 11 CTI e-newsletters, including the newsletters for Leadership Journal, CT Connection, and Church Office Today Update.

After the surveys were conducted between Apr. 9 and May 3, the results were compiled and published Thursday in a 28-page report.

The report revealed, among other things, the opinion of churchgoers about the issue of sex offenders in the church, the realities in the church with regard to sex offenders, and the response of churches when it comes to offenders in the church.

The survey found, for example, that only 29 percent of respondents think church leaders should talk with the police when becoming aware that someone in their church is a former sex offender.

Most said church leaders should pray about it (82 percent), talk to elders (76 percent), and/or talk to staff (76 percent). Churchgoers where divided on whether or not the offender’s probation officer should be contacted or a conditional attendance agreement should be drafted – for both responses, 57 percent of respondents agreed.

The survey also found that nearly 4 in 10 respondents (37 percent) think sex offenders can be completely rehabilitated to the point where they no longer pose a threat to others. A nearly equal number (38 percent) are not sure whether an offender can be rehabilitated or they are not sure about it. One-fourth, meanwhile, said they do not believe offenders can be completely rehabilitated.

Another notable finding of the survey was that more than half of respondents said they are aware that their church actively attempts to determine if there are sex offenders in the church. However, 39 percent said they are aware of these attempts occurring only when an individual is being considered for a position of leadership, teaching or working with children or other vulnerable individuals.

The survey also found that 18 percent of respondents are aware of someone who attends their church that is a spouse or family member of a known sex offender.

A Denver judge is letting a clergy sex abuse case involving a Catholic priest move forward, even though church officials tried to get it tossed out.

On Wednesday, District Court Judge Michael Martinez denied a motion by a Denver-based religious order to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a 49-year old man who reports having been sexually abused by Fr. Mark Matson in the mid 1970s at St. Andrews Seminary, a Catholic boarding school in Denver for boys. At the time, the boy was 15-16 and Matson headed the school.

While staying in the dorms as a prospective student, the victim, identified only as John Doe, was fondled by Matson. After he enrolled, Matson continued to fondle him throughout the school year, and Matson eventually raped the boy while he was unconscious.

Matson has previously been accused of molesting boys in Colorado, Texas, and California. He is currently serving a 20 year sentence for molesting a 13 year old boy in Hawaii in 2000.

Matson belongs to the Denver-based Theatine Fathers, a Catholic religious order. The Theatines were named as the defendant in the lawsuit, which was filed in April of this year by Miami attorney, Adam Horowitz. Horowitz’ firm has represented hundreds of child sex abuse victims, by clergy and others.

The suit charges negligence by the Theatines because they allegedly “knew that Fr. Matson was a pedophile before Fr. Matson sexually abused the boy.” Additionally, it alleges that the Theatines “engaged in a plot to conceal, withhold, and misrepresent their prior knowledge about Fr. Matson’s sexual propensities with minors.”

The judge ruled that the plaintiff only recently learned of the Theatines misconduct, so the case falls within the statute of limitations.

A support group for clergy sex abuse victims called SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) praised the judge for his interpretation of the law.

“All across the country, more and more judges are realizing that a young girl being raped by her step dad can’t promptly call the police about the crimes and that a boy being sodomized by a coach can’t run downtown, walk in the prosecutor’s office, and start taking legal action,” said David Clohessy, SNAP’s director. “It takes decades for child sex victims to face the horror, realize they’ve been severely harmed, understand that the harm is on-going, and find the courage to check out their legal options and act.”

In June, the Theatines moved to have Doe’s case rejected based on the statute of limitations. That defense, however, draws a sharp rebuke from SNAP.

“It’s morally wrong for an allegedly spiritual institution to fight in court like cold-hearted CEOs, trying to exploit an arbitrary legal technicality to evade telling the truth and being held responsible for a serial child predator,” said SNAP’s Clohessy. “Can you imagine Jesus shunning a needy person because he or she supposedly didn’t come forward by some archaic, random deadline?”

The religious order has 15 days to answer the allegations.

Case Number: 10cv3203

The Rev. Frederick Price, pastor and founder of Crenshaw Christian Center, accuses the news group of playing a clip from a more than ten-year-old sermon he preached out of context.

In the clip, which “20/20” aired in March 2007 as part of a segment on wealthy televangelists, Price talked about living in a 25-room mansion, owning a $6 million yacht, having a private jet and helicopter, and having seven luxury automobiles.

But the “Prosperity” preacher says his sermon was not referring to himself but illustrating the wrong way to become successful.

“[This is] one of the most outrageous instances of ‘out of context’ editing in the history of television,” he alleged in part of the suit.

A judge, however, dismissed the case in 2007, ruling the clip was “substantially true” because Price has boasted elsewhere about his wealth.

Though he may not have all the items he listed in the clip, Price did at the time of the program’s airing own a Palos Verdes mansion and have two Bentley cars, though he says one was a gift from two of his congregants.

Still, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the video portrayed Price falsely and sent the case back to the judge to determine if the preacher was defamed.

ABC, shortly after the airing of the clip, had run retractions for the program on two of their television shows – “Good Morning America” and “20/20” – as well as their website to correct the problem.

“We did make a full retraction and apology on the air,” ABC spokesman Jeffrey Schneider told the Los Angeles Times around the time of the incident, “and certainly regretted the error and made that very clear to Rev. Price.”

The preacher and his lawyer, however, said the retractions were not enough.

“He was wrongly and falsely portrayed,” explained Anthony Glassman, Price’s lawyer.

Named in the defamation suit are the Walt Disney, Co., which owns ABC, and “20/20” co-anchor John Stossel.

According to the latest Emnid-poll, only 10 percent of those interviewed in Germany believe that the church is doing enough in dealing with this scandal; on the contrary, 86 percent charge the church’s leadership with insufficient willingness to come to grips with the problem. The bishops’ denial that there is any connection between the celibacy rule and the abuse problem can only confirm their criticism.

1st Question: Why does the pope continue to assert that what he calls “holy” celibacy is a “precious gift”, thus ignoring the biblical teaching that explicitly permits and even encourages marriage for all office holders in the Church? Celibacy is not “holy”; it is not even “fortunate”; it is “unfortunate”, for it excludes many perfectly good candidates from the priesthood and forces numerous priests out of their office, simply because they want to marry. The rule of celibacy is not a truth of faith, but a church law going back to the 11th Century; it should have been abolished already in the 16th Century, when it was trenchantly criticized by the Reformers.

Honesty demands that the pope, at the very least, promise to rethink this rule — something the vast majority of the clergy and laity have wanted for a long time now. Both Alois Glück, the president of the Central Committee of the German Catholics and Hans-Jochen Jaschke, auxiliary bishop of Hamburg, have called for a less uptight attitude towards sexuality and for the coexistence of celibate and married priests in the church

2nd Question: Is it true, as Archbishop Zollitsch insists, that “all the experts” agree that abuse of minors by clergymen and the celibacy rule have nothing to do with each other? How can he claim to know the opinions of “all the experts”? In fact, there are numerous psychotherapists and psychoanalysts who see a connection here. The celibacy law obliges the priest to abstain from all forms of sexual activity, though their sexual impulses remain virulent, and thus the danger exists that these impulses might be shifted into a taboo zone and compensated for in abnormal ways.

Honesty demands that we take the correlation between abuse and celibacy seriously. The American psychotherapist Richard Sipe has clearly demonstrated, on the basis of a 25 year study published in 2004 under the title Knowledge of sexual activity and abuse within the clerical system of the Roman Catholic church, that the celibate way of life can indeed reinforce pedophile tendencies, especially when the socialization leading to it, i.e. adolescence and young adulthood spent in minor and major seminary cut off from the normal experiences of their peer groups, is taken into account. In his study, Sipe found retarded psycho-sexual development occurring more frequently in celibate clerics than in the average population. And often, such deficits in psychological development and sexual tendencies only become evident after ordination.

3rd Question: Instead of merely asking pardon of the victims of abuse, should not the bishops at last admit their own share of blame? For decades, they have not only tabooed the celibacy issue but also systematically covered up cases of abuse with the mantle of strictest secrecy, doing little more than re-assigning the perpetrators to new ministries. In a statement of March 16, Bishop Ackermann of Trier, special delegate of the German Bischops’ Conference for sexual abuse cases, publically acknowledged the existence of such a cover-up, but characteristically he put the blame not on the church as institution, but rather on the individual perpetrators and the false considerations of their superiors. Protection of their priests and the reputation of the church was evidently more important to the bishops than protection of minors. Thus, there is an important difference between the individual cases of abuse surfacing in schools outside the Catholic church and the systematic and correspondingly more frequent cases of abuse within the Catholic church, where, now as before, an uptight, rigoristic sexual morality prevails, that finds its culmination in the law of celibacy.

Honesty demands that the chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference should have clearly and definitively announced, that, in the future, the hierarchy will cease to deal with cases of criminal acts committed by those in the service of the church by circumventing the state system of justice. Can it be that the hierarchy here in Germany will only wake up when it is confronted with demands for reparation payments in terms of millions of dollars? In the United States, the Catholic church had to pay some $1.3 billion alone in 2006; in Ireland, the government helped the religious orders set up a compensation fund with a ruinous sum of $2.8 billion. Such sums say much more about the dimensions of the problem than the pooh-poohing statistics about the small percentage of celibate clergy among the general population of abusers.

4th Question: Is it not time for Pope Benedict XVI himself to acknowledge his share of responsibility, instead of whining about a campaign against his person? No other person in the Church has had to deal with so many cases of abuse crossing his desk. Here some reminders:

• In his eight years as a professor of theology in Regensburg, in close contact with his brother Georg, the capellmeister of the Regensburger Domspatzen, Ratzinger can hardly have been ignorant about what went on in the choir and its boarding–school. This was much more than an occasional slap in the face, there are charges of serious physical violence and even sexual abuse.
• In his five years as Archbishop of Munich, repeated cases of sexual abuse at least by one priest transferred to his Archdiocese have come to light. His loyal Vicar General, my classmate Gerhard Gruber, has taken full responsibility for the handling of this case, but that is hardly an excuse for the Archbishop, who is ultimately responsible for the administration of his diocese.
• In his 24 years as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, from around the world, all cases of grave sexual offences by clerics had to be reported, under strictest secrecy (”secretum pontificum”), to his curial office, which was exclusively responsible for dealing with them. Ratzinger himself, in a letter on “grave sexual crimes” addressed to all the bishops under the date of 18 May, 2001, warned the bishops, under threat of ecclesiastical punishment, to observe “papal secrecy” in such cases.
• In his five years as Pope, Benedict XVI has done nothing to change this practice with all its fateful consequences.

Honesty demands that Joseph Ratzinger himself, the man who for decades has been principally responsible for the worldwide cover-up, at last pronounce his own “mea culpa”. As Bishop Tebartz van Elst of Limburg, in a radio address on March 14, put it: “Scandalous wrongs cannot be glossed over or tolerated, we need a change of attitude that makes room for the truth. Conversion and repentance begin when guilt is openly admitted, when contrition1 is expressed in deeds and manifested as such, when responsibility is taken, and the chance for a new beginning is seized upon.”

[Fr. Hans Küng is a theologian and author of many books, including Does God Exist: An Answer for Today and Infallible?: An Inquiry.]

100 Octane owner Tony Campana said Monday there
were no fights or other obvious altercations in the
bar late Saturday night or Sunday morning, but
security asked about 30 people to leave, fairly
typical for a weekend night.

Bar patrons are routinely asked to leave if they begin
arguing or show any other sign of over-
intoxication, he said.

“If somebody starts to argue, they got to go,” he
said.


Though there were no obvious problems at the bar
early Sunday morning, Campana said police
suggested to him that people who were asked to
leave 100 Octane without drawing attention to
themselves could have begun to fight some time
well after being kicked out of the bar.

Once the altercation turned physical, the mob began
to coalesce, later forcing police to use pepper balls
and tear gas to control the rioters.

“It’s difficult to ascertain what causes intoxicated
people to think irrationally,” Davis said. “It’s sad we
had such a large number of people in the downtown
area.”

Up to six people were arrested during Sunday’s riot,
but police have not released the names of those
arrested, Davis said.

While he was staying after school to clean the blackboard and help “Sister,” she was taking advantage of her 9-year-old student, Theisen says.

“First she taught me how the Eskimos kiss, rubbing noses. Then she taught me how the Americans kiss. And then she taught me how the French kissed, by sticking her tongue in my mouth,” Theisen told the national conference of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, known as SNAP, held July 30-Aug. 1 in Chicago.

Survivors sharing their stories at the conference were not always what the public has come to see as the “typical” victim of clergy sexual abuse. Among those speaking up were not only victims of abuse by nuns, but also female victims, including vulnerable adults, and those abused since the sex abuse crisis became public in the 1980s.

Theisen is one of a growing number of victims speaking out about their sexual abuse at the hands of a surprising group — nuns and women religious.

“A lot of people don’t believe females are capable of sexual abuse,” said Theisen, director of the Iowa chapter of SNAP. “But who had more access to children back then?”

According to the Bishop Accountability Web site (www.bishopaccountability.org), about 75 nuns have been accused of sexually abusing minors. A 2007 study by Kaiser Permanente in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 40 percent of cases of sexual abuse with a male victim involve female abusers.

Like their fellow victims of priest predators, those abused by nuns often feel re-victimized when trying to get justice from the church.

In 2004, Theisen took his case to the Dubuque archdiocesan review board, which ruled his case “not sustained” due to insufficient evidence, even though an archdiocesan investigator found Theisen’s allegations credible. His alleged abuser, who is elderly and in retirement, has denied the allegations.

That same year, Theisen and other victims of abuse by nuns approached the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which represents about 95 percent of women religious in the United States, with a list of requests, including the opportunity for survivors to speak to the group’s national conference. That request has been denied.

“We don’t believe it’s the proper venue for that,” said Sr. Annmarie Sanders, the Leadership Conference’s communications director and a board member of NCR. “But that doesn’t mean LCWR hasn’t done a lot to address the issue.”

The Leadership Conference has provided an inventory to evaluate policies and procedures, as well as educational materials about sexual abuse to its member congregations, Sanders said. The conference does not have the authority to discipline congregations, though it does “stress that its members and their congregations make every effort possible to prevent all sexual exploitation of children and young people,” says a Leadership Conference statement.

But survivors say that telling their stories publicly, at the LCWR national gathering or elsewhere, is critical, not only to educate others but for their own healing. “Very simply, child-molesting clerics cannot be identified, suspended, charged, sued and locked up unless people like us speak up,” said David Clohessy, SNAP’s executive director. “And we don’t even begin to get better until we speak up.”

Joelle Casteix was sexually abused and became pregnant by her choir director at a Catholic high school in Southern California, but for years didn’t believe she was a victim “because I was a girl.”

“Everyone told me it was my fault, so it must have been my fault,” said Casteix, SNAP’s Western regional director. She was invited to serve on the lay review board for the Orange, Calif., dicoese, but quit when she realized the board was “a puppet show for the bishop,” she said.

Female victims of sexual abuse are less likely to come forward, according to Patrick Wall, a canon lawyer and former Benedictine monk who has become a survivors’ advocate. “The vast majority [of abusing priests] were heterosexual with developmental issues [that made them] like 16-year-olds psychologically,” he said. “So that’s the girls they went for.”

Other priests prey on adults who are vulnerable because they have been abused before or because they have come to priests for counsel at a time of crisis.

That was the case with Pat Bond, who confided in a priest that she had been sexually abused by her father and that her marriage was falling apart. “I sought help from a Catholic priest because they’re the good guys, and I told him my deepest, darkest secrets,” Bond said. “But I traded one father for another.”

When Bond became pregnant, the priest suggested an abortion and offered no emotional or financial support, she said. His Franciscan order only paid child support begrudgingly and required her to sign a gag order, which she broke when she and her son were fighting cancer last year. Nathan, 22, died in December.

“We are the ‘consenting adults,’ therefore you don’t hear from us,” she said through tears at the SNAP conference.

As many as 30 percent of Catholic priests have been involved in sexual relationships with women, according to a 1990 study by A.W. Richard Sipe, a mental health counselor and former Benedictine priest. Good Tidings, a support group for women sexually involved with priests, reports that more than 2,000 women have contacted their offices.

Although some of the nearly 300 survivors and their supporters at this year’s SNAP conference have been involved since the organization was founded in 1988, others were just suffering their abuse around that time.

Shawn Plocher says he was in the eighth grade in a small town near Minneapolis in 1986 when an interim parish priest fondled and attempted to rape him in a church basement. He had come to the priest for solace after his grandmother had died. To repress the memories and numb the pain, Plocher began drinking and spent most of his teenage and young adult years in and out of rehab and jail.

It wasn’t until he heard other victims telling their stories that he was able to admit what had happened to him. His memories were confirmed by grade-school friends, a therapist who had treated one of the priest’s other victims, and even the archdiocesan victims’ advocate. Unable to file criminal charges because of the age of the case and lack of physical evidence, Plocher reached a settlement with the Minneapolis archdiocese that has helped pay for his therapy.

“I still struggle with everyday life, but it has gotten better,” said Plocher, who was attending his first SNAP conference with his parents. “There are now more good days than bad days at this point in my life.”

Barbara Blaine, SNAP founder and president, says the organization is hearing from newer victims from abuse that happened in the 1980s and ’90s. “The average age a victim speaks up is 42,” she said.

Plocher lost his career, his home and his fiancée as a result of the destructive behavior that followed the abuse. He also lost his belief in the God of his childhood. “The God I knew growing up was represented by the man who abused me,” he said. “I now have a new belief in a higher power that I know as God.”

A majority of sex offenders — not just priests — use religion to justify their abuse, said Victor Vieth, a former prosecutor who now trains law enforcement officials about the spiritual damage done by child sexual abuse.

But spirituality can also help victims heal, he said. “The faith community needs to give more than platitudes to [victims] who are struggling with these spiritual questions.”

[Heidi Schlumpf is a regular NCR contributor.]

Victims’ group goes global

The globe on the banner behind the speaker’s podium wasn’t the only evidence at the national conference of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests that the clerical sex abuse victims’ movement has gone global. There were speakers from Belgium and England, reports from SNAP representatives’ trips to Europe, and plenty of talk about how “all roads lead to Rome,” as the title of one session put it.

“This is not a U.S. or European crisis,” said SNAP’s founder, Barbara Blaine. “We’re hearing from victims across the globe.”

Survivors in Germany, Brazil, and even Pakistan have contacted SNAP’s offices wanting to follow its lead, organizers said. “For 22 years, we have focused on 4 percent of the world,” SNAP executive director David Clohessy said, referring to the U.S. share of the world’s population. “Now we’re focusing on abuse and cover-up literally worldwide.”

International speakers expressed the desire to network with other survivor groups.

In reviewing the year, speakers named as victories the new statute of limitations law in Florida, various convictions and settlements, the release of new information in Los Angeles and Wisconsin, and the increasing vulnerability of bishops and even the Vatican.

Victims’ attorney Jeffery Anderson, who has filed a lawsuit against the Vatican, said he believes the movement is at a tipping point. The crisis “is now worldwide, and at the top is the current pope and his predecessors,” he said. “Together we are prepared to prove it, both in the court of public opinion and in the crucible of the courtroom, if and when we get the chance.”

– Heidi Schlumpf

Same - sex is a choice people have made that does not include God.

Christians need to do what the Apostle Paul said - leave these people alone and concentrate on living the Word of God.

What is the point in trying to force people to marry only male and female if they do not believe God?

Christian leaders need to get a grip and get into God’s Word with Christians not the world who does not believe.

Are Christians and Christian Leaders afraid that your wives and girlfriends will leave you if you leave this mess alone about same-sex marriage.

Get into the Word of God and start living it yourselves.

Look at these so called leaders sleeping with everyone except their wives and sleeping with their musicians and leaving their families to fend for themselves! What is that all about. How can you heal somebody and you are sick with lust and perversion.?

Jesus said “He that is without sin cast the first stone!” Who in the Christian world is without sin?

OPEN - LETTER & STRONG CALLING FOR THE

RESIGNATION OCA HIERARCHS & ROEA ARCHBISHOP

Due to their INFIDELITY / BREACH / VIOLATION / FAILURE to observe

Biblical, Canonical, OCA Statute, ROEA Constitution and By - Laws

Provisions & Procedures & Policies, Standards, Procedures of the OCA

on Sexual Misconduct 2003, and the Order of Electing and Consecrating

of a Bishop provisions, complicit in cover up of the OCA / ROEA homosexuals =

sodomites = clergymen, more misconduct and malfeasances.

“If anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself” (Galatians 6: 3).

I I N T R O D U C T I O N:

Dear in Christ the Lord,

I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan, one of the former Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America priest who has been abused by

the OCA Synod of Bishops / ROEA Archbishop, is going “TO ONCE AGAIN” break the silence after more than

6 years Orthodox Church in America Synod of Bishops’ INACTIONS, LAWLESNESS, dysfunctional / uncanonical

OCA Synod operation, COVER UPS and protectionism of OCA homosexuals = sodomites

clergymen, double standard, lies, less honesty, etc.

Currently, I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan am a Romanian Orthodox clergyman without Church employment for the last

6 years, UN - canonically excommunicated (without due canonical procedure and due process of the law), “not

released”, “but expelled, sacked, fired” from ROEA as “A PERSONA NON GRATA”, (UN - canonically) placed

under the omophorion of His Beatitude Metropolitan +Herman until his removal from office (oca.org, Sept. 4. 08,

What’s new ), and, at the present time under the omophorion of His Beatitude, Metropolitan +Jonah, also

figuratively attached to the Altar of St Sergius Chapel, Oyster Bay Cove, NY.

I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan was expelled, fired, sacked from the ROEA contrary to the Canonical, the OCA Statute, the

ROEA Constitution and By – Laws provisions, procedures; I have been fired without “due canonical procedures

and due process of the law,” from St Mary’s Romanian Orthodox Church, Chicago, IL; My employment

agreement with that parish has been abruptly terminated, I was sacked on March 1, 2004 by the abuse of power

of the ROEA Archbishop; I have been considered by the OCA / ROEA hierarchy as “A PERSONA NON GRATA,

ENROLLED ON THE OCA’s DEATH ROW WITHOUT PAROLE” since March 1, 2004; the OCA / ROEA

hierarchy is refusing to release the reasons of the action of EXPULSION; the OCA / ROEA hierarchy is refusing

“MY” right for a hearing within the Church Judicial System (OCA Synod 5 – 6 bishops can hear a dispute

between a priest and his bishop, only) contrary to Biblical, Canonical, OCA Statute and ROEA Constitution and

By – Laws provisions, procedures.

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I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan am the husband of my presbytera, the father of four children, college graduates, and I am a

clergyman canonically ordained for more 33 years, who spent 9 years in Romanian Theological Institutions (5

years in Seminary and 4 years in Institute of Theology, Licentiate in Theology and Canon Law), having a

working priesthood in good standing and I am not under any canonical sanction, waiting for the OCA / ROEA

answers of “MY” Memoranda, Appeals, Complaints, Letters, etc, since February / March 2003, the time the

ROEA Archbishop began harassing & running a vendetta against “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan.

To survive and not to be a burden on someone, I am working for 5 years for J P M Chase Bank in Chicago, IL, 3rd

shift, night time (11:45 p.m. – 7:15 a. m.), spending almost 12 hours from the time I go to work to the time I come

back from work to my home. My working week is starting Wednesday night and its ending on Monday morning. On

every Sunday, Feast Days , and Orthodox Christian Holidays, I am going from my working place to serving at the

OCA Church of Holy Trinity Cathedral, located at 1121 N Leavitt St. Chicago IL 60622, together with Archpriests

John Adamcio Dean, Sergei Garklavs, Oleg Mironowicz, Deacon Thomas Keith, God’s willing. Any of the priests

named above can read these, and can testify truthfully about Rev Fr Vasile Susan Church’s services.

I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan was expelled, terminated, sacked, fired, from the ROEA because of speaking out about

the OCA / ROEA homosexuals = sodomites, as “A WHISTLEBLOWER”. Following “MY” ROEA Spiritual

Consistory activity (See EXHIBITS 1, 2, 3, attached to the OPEN – LETTER, dated April 22, 2010, posted on

www.pokrov.org on 4/25/2010), “MY” expulsion from the ROEA was on the table of the ROEA Archbishop.

More details can be read on “ALL” the postings on www.pokrov.org, regarding “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan.

II BACKGROUND PRESENTATION OF REASONS AND FACTS

Your Beatitude, Beloved Hierarchs of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in America,

I always was respectful towards the authority of any Church Synod including the OCA, based on the Ecumenical and

Local Council provisions as shown by the Orthodox Church Canons provisions and their interpretation, and also due

to the Calling of the Office of Confession and Answering of a Bishop, as per the OCA’s ORDER OF ELECTING

AND CONSECRATING A BISHOP, and Bishops Fiduciary Duties Canonically mandated even for the OCA

Synod of Bishops.

But, how can my family and I have respect and not diminish such respect towards hierarchs of a local Orthodox

Church who are not respecting ALL Biblical and Canonical provisions, especially referred to the presence of the

Holy Spirit during the local Church Synod meetings, their deliberations, matters discussed, and communication of

the results on any matters involving hierarchs, priests and their moral / immoral conduct?

For more than six years I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan was speaking and writing to the OCA Synod of Bishops, and NO

CONCRETE RESULTS, or any FORMAL ANSWER was EVER SENT OUT from the OCA Metropolitans or

Chancery to Rev Fr Vasile Susan’s attention, as a sign that this OCA is an “Orthodox Church” whose status

requires care for each and every member. This sentence is not philosophically formulated, but it is in accordance

with ALL Biblical, Canonical, OCA Statute and ROEA Constitution and By – Laws principles, provisions,

procedures, and it is CANONICALLY MANDATED, which means EVERY ORTHODOX CHURCH BISHOP, as

well as the SYNOD OF BISHOPS, MUST care for their priests, and issues, the priests and bishop are facing

while being in the relation of subordinates (priests, deacons, laity) and superiors, (supervisors, overseers =

Bishops, Archbishops, Metropolitans, Patriarchs).

A question is striking my mind at this time:

HOW the OCA Synod and every OCA hierarch individually “CAN PRETEND” to be “Canonically in good

standing regarding the status of the OCA itself”, (whose “Canonical status in very much in limbo” as stated by the

current OCA Metropolitan, His Beatitude +Jonah, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, etc), and TOTALLY

IGNORING the Canonical provisions (while acting as Orthodox Church Bishops (?),) and finally expecting from

their subordinates (priests, deacons, sub-deacons, readers, lay members) to have respect for them as Orthodox

Church hierarchs, and be canonically submissive, obedient? Something like this sounds like a NONSENSE, and

it is an indication of the poor theological schooling and observance of the Calling of the Office of Confession and

Answering of a Bishop, as per the OCA’s ORDER OF ELECTING AND CONSECRATING A BISHOP, and

Bishops Fiduciary Duties Canonically mandated, … even for the OCA Synod of Bishops.

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The Orthodox Church Bishops’ “AUTHORITY” emanates = comes out, from the Orthodox Church Canons

provisions, and it is vested within the Bishops due to the working of the Holy Spirit, while the prayers of

Consecration of Bishops are uttered, following the “CONFESSIONS OF FAITH” uttered and vowed in Church

the previous evening service of Calling of the Office of Confession and Answering of a Bishop, as per the OCA’s

ORDER OF ELECTING AND CONSECRATING A BISHOP. As long as the Orthodox Church Bishops “DO

NOT UPHOLD” their “CONFESSION OF FAITH” they “CANNOT PRETEND” as being exercising their

canonical authority and expect canonical submission and obedience from their subordinates, and their claim

of “AUTHORITY IS UN – CANONICALLY GROUNDED.”

They cannot pretend to be vessels / temples of the Holy Spirit on the one hand, and betray, reject, and walk

away from the Fiduciary Duties Canonically mandated. No Orthodox Church ordained Bishop can SUPERCEED

the vested “CANONICAL AUTHORITY & FIDUCIARY DUTY,” with ANY NON – Orthodox Church Doctrine,

theory, principles. This is just a STUPID NONSENSE. But in America, everything is possible, even without God.

Sorry, that’s TRUE. I KNOW IT. Can any OCA canonist or hierarch REFUTE my statement? I welcome it.

Just take in consideration the previous and yet unfinished OCA Financial and Moral Crisis, and the breach of

Canonical provisions, procedures, by the OCA Metropolitans and OCA Synod, only in regards to carry on the “2008

SIC REPORT Recommendation” … discussed by the OCA Synod, and NEVER coming to the expected

CANONICALLY ENDING TERMS.

Can ANYONE say that the OCA Synod of Bishops is “A” Canonically Church Body working diligently and

carrying out responsibly, their Canonical Duties, being guided by the Holy Spirit? The answer is NO.

Can the OCA “canonical status”, (as it is claimed by the OCA Synod, clergy, members), be “RECOGNIZED” as it

is claimed? The answer is NO.

As long as the OCA Synod of Bishops is not proving its FIDELITY / LOYALTY to the Biblical, Canonical, OCA

Statute, ROEA Constitution and By - Laws provisions & procedures & Policies, Standards, Procedures of the OCA

on Sexual Misconduct 2003, and the Order of Electing and Consecrating of a Bishop provisions, procedures, as they

committed themselves, NOBODY can trust them of being FIDEL, LOYAL to God Himself. It is immature and it

is nonsense to think that such “a body” is an Orthodox Christian Church body = Synod, which has credibility, and

deserves respect, loyalty, attention, from its members and the World Wide Orthodoxy.

As an argument for all the above statements, I am asking you to REFLECT on “REAL FACTS” and pay attention to

the way the former OCA Metropolitans Theodosius, and Herman, (as monks, bishops, metropolitans) really carried

on their monastic vows, the OCA Statute Provisions, Procedures, Orthodox Church Canonical provisions,

procedures, recommendations of the OCA Synod of Bishops, regarding their less Christian, less Orthodox status,

and made mockery of all the last 2 – 3 years OCA Synod of Bishops decisions.

The current OCA Synod of Bishops, “IS STILL LEADERLESS, is LESS MEANINGFUL, is MADE UP OF

SOME CORRUPT BISHOPS, is DYSFUNCTIONAL AND IRRESPONSIBLE REGARDING THE

CANONICAL PROVISIONS”, practicing cover ups, turning around a blind eye, and are irresponsibly and

UN – canonically fit, doing the same “business as usual”.

You, readers of this OPEN – LETTER are entitled to know that “ALL the terminology and expressions”

regarding the OCA Synod “NEGATIVE CARACTERIZATION”, were not fabricated by “ME”, Rev Fr

Vasile Susan. It was made by “ALL POSTERS” of the oca.org. ocanews.org, and pokrov.org Internet sites. I,

Rev Fr Vasile Susan JUST paid attention and used those terminologies of OCA hierarchs, priests, and laity, even

from the statements and speeches, postings, interviews of the OCA hierarchs, while composing those materials

posted by me over the Internet. The OCA Bishops portrayed themselves in the best possible colors, and the landscape

will be part of the OCA history pages. For example just See +Tikhon about the OCA homosexuals …

a) “I am concerned with the probity of actions taken with reference to the Holy Canons; the Statute of The

Orthodox Church in America; the Policies, Standards, and Procedures of the Orthodox Church in America on

Sexual Misconduct; and the measures approved at the Special Session of the Holy Synod. I feel that all these

may have been grossly violated and are still being violated, and I respectfully request a written reply from

Your Beatitude as the First among Equals to this inquiry about my concerns.” From ocanews.org 04 / 04 / 06:

+ Tikhon to + Herman: Retire, Resign or be Deposed.

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b) “I have never in all my life observed outside the movies the degree of obfuscation, shilly-shallying,

covering up, lack of accountability and lack of transparency and outright AMATEURISH Recklessness that

I’ve observed in our OCA.” From ocanews.org 7 / 17 / 06: Text of Promissory Note released by + Tikhon.

WHAT a nice presentation ALL OCA Bishops MUST reflect upon, before FACING our Lord Jesus Christ as

Supreme Judge! OCA Hierarchs please, STOP thinking “SHOOTING THE MESSENGER”, reflect on the

message, and RE – DIRECT your conduct as per the Calling of the Office of Confession and Answering of a

Bishop, as per the OCA’s ORDER OF ELECTING AND CONSECRATING A BISHOP.

I am your brother in Christ, as well as ONE who is very much concerned of your Fiduciary Duties

Canonically mandated and deliberately IGNORED by all of you. I am signaling your MISCONDUCT for

more than 6 years. Listen! It is almost 11 : 55 P.M. …

Between May 26 – 29, 2010, ”the OCA 800 lb Gorilla”, was taking part in the first Assembly of Canonical

Orthodox Bishops in North and Central America and it was very much ignored and upset in that room, (as the

OCA Metropolitan +Jonah, explained to Mr T. Kalmoukos in his interview granted to The National Herald).

For the same token, “I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan 600 lb Gorilla” was ignored by the OCA Metropolitans and Synod

since February / March 2003, the time of “MY” presence within the OCA / Syosset offices. Is that TRUE?

With a heavy heart, I have to say once again, that the Holy Bible has some harsh and straight forth language

regarding this “OCA SYNOD of BISHOPS status” …

“And He said to them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of

thieves.” Matthew, 21, 13.

“Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves” (2 Corinthians 13:5).

“Therefore, putting away lying, let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one

another” (Ephesians 4:25).

“Put on the new man who was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness” (Ephesians 4:24).

“You will know them by their fruits” (Matthew 7:16).

“And even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut

down and thrown into the fire”. (Luke 3, 9).

“These things I write to you, though I hope to come to you shortly. But if I am delayed, I write so that you may

know how you ought to conduct yourself in the House of God, which is the Church, the pillar and ground of the

truth”. 1 Timothy 3, 14 - 15.

Therefore do not fear them. For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be

known. Matthew 10, 26.

Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you shall be

forgiven. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you. Luke 6, 37 - 38.

“Does our Law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?” John 7, 51.

I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan would like to plainly say that, as long as the OCA Synod is intentionally, irresponsibly and

UN – Canonically is overlooking the Biblical, Canonical, OCA Statute, ROEA Constitution and By - Laws

provisions & procedures & Policies, Standards, Procedures of the OCA on Sexual Misconduct 2003, and Calling of

the Office of Confession and Answering of a Bishop, as per the OCA’s ORDER OF ELECTING AND

CONSECRATING A BISHOP, and not working under the guidance of the Holy Spirit of God, they (the OCA

Bishops) cannot consider themselves as temples of the Holy Spirit of God (Don’t you know that you yourselves are

God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? 1 Corinthians 3, 16).

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The OCA Synod cannot expect too much from the people entrusted to their care, because the Biblical truth is

speaking this way, “You will know them by their fruits” (Matthew 7:16).

I hope this argument is properly used by the readers of this material including the OCA Synod of Bishops, without

any misinterpretation and rancor.

According to the title of this OPEN - LETTER mentioned herewith, OPEN - LETTER & STRONG CALLING

FOR THE RESIGNATION OCA HIERARCHS & ROEA ARCHBISHOP, Due to their INFIDELITY /

BREACH / VIOLATION / FAILURE to observe Biblical, Canonical, OCA Statute, ROEA Constitution and

By - Laws provisions & procedures & Policies, Standards, Procedures of the OCA on Sexual Misconduct 2003,

and the Order of Electing and Consecrating of a Bishop provisions, complicit in cover up of the OCA / ROEA

homosexuals = sodomites = clergymen, more misconduct and malfeasances, I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan, WILL

MAKE “ANOTHER STRONG and WELL GROUNDED CALL” as mentioned / underlined above.

I will ground my presentation on, Biblical Provisions, Canonical Provisions, OCA Statute, ROEA Constitution

and By - Laws provisions & procedures & Policies, Standards, Procedures of the OCA on Sexual Misconduct

2003, and the Order of Electing and Consecrating of a Bishop provisions, and most recent cases of

RESIGNATIONS of the Roman Catholic Church Bishops, Archbishops, Cardinals, whose RESIGNATIONS for

the “COVER UP of the HOMOSEXUALS and SEX OFFENDERS within the Roman Catholic Church, were

“ACCEPTED by the Rome Pontiff, and were “VERY WELCOMED” by the victimized people and the local

churches they belonged to AS WELL, and some other materials as presented within the attached EXHIBITS.

The OCA Synod of Bishops MUST reflect upon ALL Memoranda, Complaints, Appeals, Letters, etc, SENT to their

attention by “ME” Rev Fr Vasile Susan starting Feb. / March, 2003, RE – THINK of REACHING to the ROOTS of

the problems and FIX them, according to the Biblical Provisions, Canonical Provisions, OCA Statute, ROEA

Constitution and By - Laws provisions & procedures & Policies, Standards, Procedures of the OCA on Sexual

Misconduct 2003, and “GET RID” of the OLD GUARD, OLD RULES, and CORRUPT BISHOPS ASAP.

Also, due to the fact that “the ISSUES are OUT”, already made known to the public via Internet postings, the

OCA Synod of Bishops MUST uproot the WRONG IDEA from their mind regarding “SHOOTING THE

MESSENGER”. The messenger’s “MESSAGES” are to be CANONICALLY OBSERVED, the perpetrators

and cover uppers, brought to justice as per canonical provisions, procedures, the OCA White House (the

Synod) MUST be clean by the OCA Metropolitan / Synod of all “RESIDUES” (See the OCA Metropolitan’s

+Jonah terminology as of March 3, 2010 during the OCA Council Meeting).

The Roman Catholic Church lost / spent over $ 2 Billion in lawsuit to cover the cost of the Roman Catholic

homosexuals, sex offenders. New approach will be done the Vatican in these regards, as most recently was

announced.

It is time for the OCA / ROEA to put “AN END”, to those cover ups of the homosexuals clergymen, and sex

offenders within the Orthodox Church in America, to hold liable “ALL THE PERPETRATORS and THEIR

PROTEGEES, for the cover ups, and to live according to the Biblical and Canonical principles.

It is not necessary to thank to the “COVER UPPERS” for their contribution to the OCA and ROEA “faded and less

Christian image”, but, it is time to simple say as the Bible says, “You will know them by their fruits” (Matthew

7:16), and “Therefore, putting away lying, let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members

of one another” (Ephesians 4:25) … and finally saying … let them GO, GO, GO, without looking back.

I will supplement these presentations with some “UNSEEN UNTIL NOW MATERIALS / DOCUMENTS”,

(especially concerning the less honest, less Christian, and immature conduct, cover ups, of the OCA hierarchy /

ROEA Archbishop, just to prove that I am “STAYING THE COURSE” and there are “LEGITIME REASONS” I

do not give up the meaningful ideas of the title, “OPEN - LETTER & STRONG CALLING FOR THE

RESIGNATION OCA HIERARCHS & ROEA ARCHBISHOP, Due to their INFIDELITY / BREACH /

VIOLATION / FAILURE to observe Biblical, Canonical, OCA Statute, ROEA Constitution and By - Laws

provisions & procedures & Policies, Standards, Procedures of the OCA on Sexual Misconduct 2003, and the

Order of Electing and Consecrating of a Bishop provisions, complicit in cover up of the OCA / ROEA

homosexuals = sodomites = clergymen, more misconduct and malfeasances.”

III THE ENGINE OF THE OPEN – LETTER Page 6

*I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan openly and transparently, would like to point out that he following ”MUST BE

CONSIDERED AS OBJECTIVE REASONS” to send out this OPEN - LETTER concerning the OCA

Hierarchy INFIDELITY / BREACH / VIOLATION FAILURE to observe Biblical, Canonical, OCA Statute,

ROEA Constitution and By - Laws provisions & procedures & Policies, Standards, Procedures of the OCA on

Sexual Misconduct 2003, and the Order of Electing and Consecrating of a Bishop provisions, and a canonically

grounded call for resignation of the OCA hierarchs and R.O.E.A. Archbishop complicit in cover up of the OCA –

ROEA homosexuals = sodomites = clergymen, more misconduct and malfeasances:

@ Refusal of the OCA Synod of Bishops to take charge / be responsive / be transparent / be honest regarding

ALL Memoranda, Complaints, Appeals, Letters sent to their attention since February / March 2003 by “ME”,

Rev Fr Vasile Susan, and to be in line with / to observe ALL Biblical, Canonical, OCA Statute, ROEA Constitution

and By - Laws provisions & procedures & Policies, Standards, Procedures of the OCA on Sexual Misconduct 2003,

and the Order of Electing and Consecrating of a Bishop provisions, including but not limited to the last APPEAL

dated March 12, 2010, the previous OPEN – LETTER dated April 22, 2010, and the last OCA Synod Meeting /

Retreat and discussions on “pending matters” in Colorado Springs, CO, April 27-29, 2010.

@ Refusal of the OCA Synod of Bishops to openly, honestly and transparently assume the Canonical

Fiduciary duties Canonically mandated, concerning the issues the OCA is facing within the last two decades,

including but not limited to the past OCA CRISIS, which brought few changes in the OCA Synod / Central

Administration, and left unaccountable and irresponsible the “LAST OCA CRISIS PERPETRATORS”.

@ Refusal of the OCA Synod of Bishops to properly, honestly, openly and transparently inform the OCA

members as clergy and laity, to take charge and resolve in a Biblical, Canonical, OCA Statute and ROEA

Constitution and By – Laws fashion “ALL the issues”, classified by the current OCA Metropolitan His Beatitude

+Jonah, as “RESIDUES”, including but not limited to the cover up of the OCA homosexuals = sodomites

clergymen, and “abused priests” as well as the double standard applied by the current OCA Primate / Synod, to

some OCA hierarchs and former OCA Central Administration key figures, following the STIR (St. Tikhon

Investigative report).

@ Refusal of the OCA Synod of Bishops to hold accountable the “OCA Evil Perpetrators”, including but not

limited to those WHO covered up the OCA homosexuals = sodomites clergymen, and “abused priests”,

according to the SIC report, and ALL Memoranda, Complaints, Appeals, Letters sent to their attention since

February / March 2003, by “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan, as well as “special protection and safe heaven”

offered to the ROEA Archbishop, as one of the most notorious perpetrator and abusive hierarch of the

OCA Synod and of the ROEA priests and laity.

@ Refusal of the OCA Synod of Bishops to follow “the Roman Catholic Church PATH, PATERN” in asking

for the retirement, resignation of the OCA Bishops complicit in cover up of the OCA homosexuals = sodomites

clergymen, malfeasances, and to clean up the “HOUSE of God”, and be in line with all Biblical and Canonical

norms as the Church Fiduciary duties requires these as required by the Calling of the Office of Confession and

Answering of a Bishop, as per the OCA’s ORDER OF ELECTING AND CONSECRATING A BISHOP.

@ Refusal of the OCA Newly Elected Metropolitan, His Beatitude +Jonah and the OCA Synod of Bishops to

live according to / to observe ALL Biblical, Canonical, OCA Statute, ROEA Constitution and By - Laws

provisions & procedures & Policies, Standards, Procedures of the OCA on Sexual Misconduct 2003, and the

Order of Electing and Consecrating of a Bishop provisions, and to be “role models” within the Orthodox

World, and be in line with St Paul’s the Apostle recommendations from: 1 Timothy 2, 3 – 5, and

Ephesians 4, 11 – 13, and to be transparent as per the Statements of the OCA Primate dated Wednesday

March 3, 2010.

@ Circumvent by the OCA Synod of Bishops of ALL Biblical, Canonical, OCA Statute, ROEA Constitution

and By - Laws provisions & procedures & Policies, Standards, Procedures of the OCA on Sexual Misconduct

2003, and the Order of Electing and Consecrating of a Bishop provisions, giving the opportunity to the “lord of

darkness” to operate the “OCA business as usual” within the OCA field, and irresponsible ignorance of the most

healthy principles as part of the “Orthodox Church Skeleton”, contrary to the practice of the former OCA hierarchs,

ultimately consecrated as the OCA Saints by the OCA Synod.

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@ The OCA Metropolitan’s and the OCA’s Chancellor Archpriest Alexander Garklavs, “RELUCTANCE”

and improper management in regards to the OCA Office of Review of Sexual Misconduct new committee

which was blessed to begin its task of conducting investigations as needs dictate. Irresponsibly and continuously

postponement and cover up of the “NEEDED and DICTATED” investigation of the cases reported to the OCA

Synod of Bishops, but not limited to one done by the Rev Fr Vasile Susan in June, 23, 2005, as well as admitted at

14th AAC by the former OCA Chancellor, July 14 – 22, 2005 …

(We are thankful that we have had only a few instances requiring action …), and a gross dereliction of duty

regarding the undeserved and less honorable issues the OCA is facing at the present time, as it is well observed

by so many Orthodox Church World Wide, which consider the current status of the OCA as less canonical, in

limbo, under question mark.

@ The OCA Synod “practice of cover up and indefinitely postponement” of a proper and according to the due

canonical procedures and due process of the laws frame work within the OCA judicial system, which is still

“business as usual”, good for printing on a paper sheet, but less transparent and healthy to the OCA as an Orthodox

Christian Church whose head is Our Lord Jesus Christ, and a visible lack of interest of the OCA Primate /

Metropolitan, to exercise his Canonical Fiduciary Duties he eloquently presented in the beginning of 2009,

according to the oca.org postings.

@ The ROEA Archbishop conduct, in still keeping (Un-Canonically) secret “the REASONS of Rev Fr Vasile

Susan’s EXPULSION from the ROEA”. The ROEA Archbishop was less honest even on March 12, 2008, and it is

a document dated October 27, 2005, which reveals the poor INNER INTEGRITY, of the ROEA Archbishop. See

the OPEN LETTER and EXHIBITS dated April 22, 2010, and posted on www.pokrov.org. 4/25/2010.

@ The OCA Metropolitans / Chancery practice of “extortion and black mail” and indefinitely postponement

“of a proper and according to the due canonical procedures and due process of the laws frame work within the

OCA Judicial system” in giving Rev Fr Vasile Susan the Canonical the RIGHT to “A HEARING” within the

OCA Synod of Bishops after 6 years of INFIDELITY / BREACH of the Fiduciary Duty Canonically mandated.

@ The OCA Synod of Bishops failure to follow the Church Canons’ discipline, and both the OCA / ROEA

hierarchs (as INFIDELS to the Orthodox Church Rule of Law) have shown “CONTEMPT” to basic

Theological, Dogmatic and Canonical provisions.

@ The OCA / ROEA hierarchy failure in its mission to investigate and to provide remedy to injustice and sins

committed within its ranks to a “fellow clergyman and brother in Christ” UN – Canonically mocked,

punished, sacked, expelled, fired, humiliated, dishonored, extorted, black mailed, spiritually terrorized.

@ The OCA / ROEA hierarchy opposition to resist openness and transparency in regards to the Fiduciary

Duty Canonically mandated, and implementation of the healthy “due canonical procedures and due process of

the laws,” within the OCA / ROEA Judicial System, high-jacked by the OCA / ROEA corrupt bishops,

manipulated and less orthodox maneuvered.

@ The OCA / ROEA hierarchs refusal to uphold “the 3rd Confession of Faith” they pronounced, and

promised to keep it and signed it during the ritual “for the Order of Electing and Consecrating a

Bishop”, and “the ZERO TOLERANCE for clergy sexual misconduct Canonical POLICY”, forcing “ME”,

Rev Fr Vasile Susan to have no reason to openly, transparently and accompanied by his legal advisor sit down

and have a mutual meeting, resolving the issues at stake.

@ The OCA / ROEA hierarchy refusal to observe the SCOBA Statement on Sexual misconduct dated August

02, 2005 … and the SCOBA Communiqué dated Oct 6, 2006.

@ The OCA / ROEA hierarchy refusal to shown FIDELITY / LOYALTY / OBSERVANCE to The State of

New York … Religious Corporation Law, … Article 5 - C, Section 107.

@ The OCA / ROEA hierarchy refusal to be in line with the … ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY on sexual

misconduct, and misinformation given out by the OCA Metropolitan +Jonah in these regards.

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@ The ROEA hierarchs refusal to observe the INS and USCIS Laws and Regulations regarding the Religious

workers R1 and R2 visa.

@ The ROEA hierarchs refusal to observe the Canonical Provisions and the double standard applied to an

OCA / ROEA priest multiple times jailed as per court Records, DUI case covered up by the ROEA

Archbishop for so many years as per criminal court records.

@ The ROEA hierarchs refusal to observe the Federal and local State Laws and Regulations, practice of

Money laundering as per the physical evidences of illegally / fraudulently transfer of money of a ROEA

member by the ROEA Archbishop / Diocese / Treasurer /using and abusing the ROEA accounts, as per

SOLIA and ROEA Congress reports.

@ The OCA / ROEA hierarchs refusal to release the reasons of the action of EXPULSION from ROEA, and

the OCA / ROEA hierarchy refusal of Rev Fr Vasile Susan the right for a HEARING within the Church Judicial

System (OCA Synod 5 – 6 bishops can hear a dispute between a priest and his bishop, only) contrary to Biblical,

Canonical, OCA Statute and ROEA Constitution and By – Laws provisions, procedures.

@ The OCA / ROEA hierarchs refusal to honestly, openly and transparently respond to Rev Fr Vasile Susan

about the OCA Synod deliberations on the Memoranda, Appeals, Complaints, Letters, etc, since February /

March 2003, including but not limited to the cover up of the OCA / ROEA homosexual = sodomite priest.

IV - TECHNICAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY THE EXHIBITS ATTACHED

TO THE OPEN - LETTER

In the light of title of the current OPEN - LETTER and ALL the Exhibits attached herewith, I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan

would like to bring to your attention CLARIFICATIONS / EXPLANATIONS / SPECIAL NOTES,

QUOTATIONS concerning, condemning the homosexuals / sodomites clergymen, more misconduct and

malfeasances of OCA / ROEA Hierarchy, as shown within the following LIST of the attached EXHIBITS:

1. Biblical Provisions … See EXHIBIT 1

2. What the Saints say about the SIN of HOMOSEXUALITY … See EXHIBIT 2 A

St John Chrysostom HOMILY on Romans about HOMOSEXUALITY … See EXHIBIT 2 Bi

See EXHIBIT 2 Bii,

See EXHIBIT 2 Biii,

Homosexuality and Roman Catholic Church Teaching … See EXHIBIT 2 C

3. Canonical Provisions … See EXHIBIT 3

4. OCA Statute provisions … See EXHIBIT 4

5. ROEA Constitution and By - Laws provisions … See EXHIBIT 5

6. Policies, Standards, Procedures of the OCA on Sexual Misconduct April 2, 2003 … See EXHIBIT 6 A

SCOBA Statement on Sexual misconduct dated August 02, 2005 … See EXHIBIT 6 B i

SCOBA Communiqué dated October 6, 2006 … See EXHIBIT 6 B ii

7. Order of Electing and Consecrating of a Bishop’s provisions … See EXHIBIT 7 A

Declaration of Rev Fr Vasile Susan on the Ordination into priesthood, May 29, 1977 … See EXHIBIT 7 B

Statements of the ROEA Archbishop October 29 - 31, 2009, Ligonier, … See EXHIBIT 7 C i

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22nd Annual OCL Conference in Ligonier Works on Path to Orthodox Unity - The National Herald

November 20, 2009 … See EXHIBIT 7 C ii

Considerations and Comments related to the Process of Orthodox Unity in North America November 22,

2009 …orthodoxnews.org … Archbishop Nathaniel … See EXHIBIT 7 C iii

Letter and Complaint of Rev Fr Vasile Susan sent to the ROEA Council in regards to / related to the ROEA

Decree of Loyalty as sent to the ROEA Council for observance and actions as per the ROEA Constitution

and By – Laws provisions, procedures … See EXHIBIT 7 D i, 7 D ii,

ROEA Decree of Loyalty of Rev Fr Vasile Susan and ALL ROEA priest and deacons, which is “A false,

Un - Constitutional and Un – Canonical innovation of the ROEA Archbishop, NOT – PRESCRIBED by the

ROEA Constitution and By – Laws,” and forced to be signed and accepted by the ROEA priests and

deacons, as a sign of submission and slavery … See EXHIBIT 7 E

8. RESIGNATIONS of the Roman Catholic Church Bishops, Archbishops, Cardinals who covered up the

Roman Catholic Church Homosexual and Sex offenders as reported by the International and local Press

Agencies, News papers, Magazines, etc … See EXHIBIT 8

9. OCA Metropolitan’s +Jonah “May 14, 2010” Ancient Faith Radio Conversations Transcript, as

provided by the Conciliar Media Ministries… See EXHIBIT 9

10. OCA Metropolitan +Jonah’s about sexual misconduct and the “save heaven” protection given to a

homosexual priest before being elected Bishop / Metropolitan … See EXHIBIT 10

11. Metropolitan +Jonah to the OCA Metropolitan Council at their 2009 Spring Meeting, February 18, 2009 …

about “Bishops Fiduciary Duties Canonically mandated and Bishops accountability to the Synod,

clergy, people” … T. C. O. Part I, posted on oca.org on 02/20/2009 … See EXHIBIT 11

12. The Conciliar Structures of the OCA … Metropolitan +Jonah about “Bishop’s dereliction of duty, Bishop’s

abuse of his authority as presented by the current OCA Metropolitan,”… T. C. O. Part II, posted on

oca.org on 04/09/2009… See EXHIBIT 12

13. OCA Metropolitan +Jonah … ZERO TOLERANCE … 02, 20, 2009 … See EXHIBIT 13 i

OCA Metropolitan +Jonah … ZERO TOLERANCE … 05, 28, 2010 … See EXHIBIT 13 ii

AAOAA Metropolitan Phillip … ZERO TOLERANCE … 05, 21, 2010 … See EXHIBIT 13 iii

14. Three of the OCA hierarchs Unwilling To Implement the Canonically Mandated “Due Canonical

Procedures and Due Process of the Laws” … See EXHIBIT 14

15. Rev Fr Vasile Susan’s DETENTION PLACE = OCA’s GULAG = over 6 years CHURCH PRISON’s

LIKE, UN - CANONICAL RESIDENCE, … since March 1, 2004 … See EXHIBIT 15

16. The OCA / ROEA hierarchy shown INFIDELITY / BREACH / VIOLATION to the OCA Hierarchy

Fiduciary Duty Canonically mandated … See EXHIBIT 16 A,

The OCA / ROEA hierarchy shown INFIDELITY / BREACH / VIOLATION to The State of New York …

Religious Corporation Law, … Article 5 - C, Section 107, … See EXHIBIT 16 B

17. USCIS … false / fabricated application … intentionally and purposely coordinated by the ROEA high ranked

people (ROEA Archbishop and legal counsels) to get the R 1 and R 2 visas for some of the ROEA members

as clergy, cantors, etc, and VIOLATIONS of the INS & USCIS Laws, Regulations, … See EXHIBIT 17

18. The OCA / ROEA priest multiple times jailed as per Criminal Court Records, DUI case covered up by the

ROEA Archbishop for so many years … See EXHIBIT 18

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19. Money laundering physical evidences of illegally / fraudulently transfers of money of a ROEA member by

the ROEA Archbishop / Diocese / Treasurer / using and abusing the ROEA accounts, as per SOLIA and

ROEA Congress reports … See EXHIBIT 19

20. The Avignon Papacy and Rev Fr Vasile Susan’s thoughts … See EXHIBIT 20

21. Yevgeny Rodionov vis a vis Rev Fr Vasile Susan … See EXHIBIT 21

22. File of the OCA / ROEA homosexual = sodomite priest covered up for 20 years … See EXHIBIT 22

V S U M M A R Y O F C O N C L U S I O N S

concerning the INFIDELITY / BREACH / VIOLATION / FAILURE of the OCA / ROEA hierarchy

in connection with this OPEN – LETTER and EXHIBITS enclosed / attached herewith,

and related to the plus 6 years saga of Rev Fr Vasile Susan:

1. The OCA Synod hierarchy (Metropolitans, Archbishops, Bishops):

(a) Failure to exercise its moral and Canonical fiduciary responsibilities according to the Orthodox Church

Canons, the OCA Statute, and the ROEA Constitution and By – Laws, provisions, procedures, Policies,

Standards / Procedures of the OCA on Sexual Misconduct 2003 provisions, the Office of Confession and

Answering of a Bishop, as prescribed by the Orthodox Church, in regards to the Memoranda, Complaints,

Appeals, Letters, filed against the ROEA Archbishop within the OCA Synod by “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan and

family.

(b) Failure to demand of the OCA Metropolitans and the ROEA Archbishop timely, full and accurate

reports in regards to the Memoranda, Complaints, Appeals, Letters, filed against the ROEA Archbishop within the

OCA Chancery / Synod by “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan and family, according to the Orthodox Church Canons, the

OCA Statute, and the ROEA Constitution and By – Laws provisions, procedures.

(c) Failure in their Canonical fiduciary responsibilities to demand an investigation into the Memoranda,

Complaints, Appeals, Letters, filed against the ROEA Archbishop within the OCA Chancery / Synod by “ME”,

Rev Fr Vasile Susan and family, according to the Orthodox Church Canons, the OCA Statute, and the ROEA

Constitution and By – Laws provisions, procedures, and ignored ALL the Canonical improprieties and failures of

the OCA Metropolitans, Synod, ROEA hierarchy.

(d) Abdication of management / Canonical fiduciary responsibilities, thus allowing the OCA former

Chancellor R. S. K. to assume control over the Memoranda, Complaints, Appeals, Letters, filed against the ROEA

Archbishop within the OCA Synod by “ME” Rev Fr Vasile Susan and family, contrary to the Orthodox Church

Canons, the OCA Statute, and the ROEA Constitution and By – Laws provisions, procedures, and ignorance

of ALL the Canonical fiduciary responsibilities as Church hierarchy, falsely defending the ROEA Archbishop.

(e) Failure to answer to the Memoranda, Complaints, Appeals, Letters, filed against the ROEA Archbishop

within the OCA Synod by “ME” Rev Fr Vasile Susan and family, according to the Orthodox Church Canons, the

OCA Statute, and the ROEA Constitution and By – Laws provisions, procedures, and refusal of Canonical and

ROEA Constitution and By – Laws right to the Appeal to the OCA Synod of Rev Fr Vasile Susan, extortion and

blackmail of Rev Fr Vasile Susan, contrary to their Canonical fiduciary responsibilities, as prescribed by the

Orthodox Church Canons, the OCA Statute, and the ROEA Constitution and By – Laws provisions, procedures.

(f) Failure to investigate the issues reported by the Memoranda, Complaints, Appeals, Letters, filed against

the ROEA Archbishop within the OCA Synod by “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan and family, according to the Orthodox

Church Canons, the OCA Statute, the ROEA Constitution and By – Laws provisions, procedures, Policies,

Standards / Procedures of the OCA on Sexual Misconduct 2003 provisions, by covering up an OCA / ROEA

homosexual = sodomite priest, as reported since June 23, 2005.

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(g) Failure to exercise its moral and Canonical fiduciary responsibilities according to the Orthodox Church

Canons, the OCA Statute, and the ROEA Constitution and By – Laws provisions, procedures, the Policies,

Standards / Procedures of the OCA on Sexual Misconduct 2003 provisions, by refusing to finalize the

investigation and defrocking the OCA / ROEA homosexual = sodomite priest, as reported by the Memoranda,

Complaints, Appeals, Letters, filed against the ROEA Archbishop and ROEA homosexual = sodomite priest, within

the OCA Chancery / Synod by “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan and family.

(h) Failure to exercise its moral and Canonical fiduciary responsibilities according to the Orthodox Church

Canons, the OCA Statute, and the ROEA Constitution and By – Laws provisions, procedures, the Policies,

Standards / Procedures of the OCA on Sexual Misconduct 2003 provisions, by refusing to investigate,

impeach, retire or defrock the ROEA Archbishop who covered up the OCA / ROEA homosexual = sodomite

priest, as reported by the Memoranda, Complaints, Appeals, Letters, filed against the ROEA Archbishop and ROEA

homosexual = sodomite priest, within the OCA Chancery / Synod by “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan and family, and

providing the save heaven to one of the OCA hierarch whose morals and conducts are beyond human decency.

(i) Failure / or refusal to require reports from the ROEA Archbishop regarding the cover up of the ROEA

homosexual = sodomite priest, and to present the accurate information to the ROEA members regarding the

status of that OCA / ROEA homosexual = sodomite priest as reported by the Memoranda, Complaints,

Appeals, Letters, filed against the ROEA Archbishop and ROEA homosexual = sodomite priest, within the OCA

Chancery / Synod by “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan and family.

(j) Failure to exercise its moral and Canonical fiduciary responsibilities according to the Orthodox Church

Canons, the OCA Statute, and the ROEA Constitution and By – Laws provisions, procedures, and to give

“ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan “the RIGHT” to a hearing / trial, to present ALL accusations > canonical or in

any nature, to give the opportunity to defend those charges, allegations, accusations <, as prescribed by the

Scriptural, Canonical OCA Statute and the ROEA Constitution and By – Laws provisions, procedures, and reported /

requested by the Memoranda, Complaints, Appeals, Letters, filed against the ROEA Archbishop within the OCA

Chancery / Synod by “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan and family.

(k) Failure to exercise its moral and Canonical fiduciary responsibilities according to the Orthodox Church

Canons, and to uphold the Office of Confession and Answering of a Bishop, as per the OCA’s ORDER OF

ELECTING AND CONSECRATING A BISHOP, even though VOWS were been made in these regards.

(l) Failure to hold the ROEA Archbishop accountable according to the Canonical fiduciary

responsibilities on issues pertaining the Memoranda, Complaints, Appeals, Letters, filed against the ROEA

Archbishop and the OCA / ROEA homosexual = sodomite priest, within the OCA Chancery / Synod by “ME”, Rev

Fr Vasile Susan and family, based on the OCA and ROEA monthly and annually publications.

(m) Failure to respond to subpoena and refused to produce physical documentation involving “ME”, Rev

Fr Vasile Susan, ROEA, ROEA Archbishop et al’… litigation.

(n) Failure to uphold ALL Biblical, Canonical, OCA / ROEA Charters provisions, procedures and

Policies, Standards / Procedures of the OCA on Sexual Misconduct 2003 provisions, procedures, the Office of

Confession and Answering of a Bishop, and freely classifying as INFIDELS / BETRAYERS who FAILED to

Christianly prove themselves as role models hierarchs to the Orthodox Church faithful.

(o) Attempt, with initial success to suppress any investigation into the Memoranda, Complaints, Appeals,

Letters, filed against the ROEA Archbishop and the ROEA homosexual = sodomite priest, within the OCA Chancery

/ Synod by “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan and family, and to circumvent ALL Biblical, Canonical, OCA / ROEA

Charters & Policies, Standards / Procedures of the OCA on Sexual Misconduct 2003 provisions, procedures,

the Office of Confession and Answering of a Bishop,

(p) Attempted activity of silencing priests seeking to learn the truth of those reasons / allegations

pertaining “MY” expulsion, of Rev Fr Vasile Susan from the ROEA Church / Parish, as of March 1st, 2004, by

blocking the release of any report as advised by the ROEA Archbishop, or of anyone interested to know the truth

and to have a clearer picture of the entire case, situation.

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(r) Failure to exercise openness and transparency in regards to the Fiduciary Duty Canonically mandated, &

implementation of the healthy “due canonical procedures and due process of the laws,” within the OCA / ROEA

Judicial System, high-jacked by the OCA / ROEA corrupt bishops, manipulated and less orthodox maneuvered.

(s) Failure to uphold “the ZERO TOLERANCE for clergy sexual misconduct Canonical POLICY”, and to

honestly and canonically resolve the issues of COVER UPS of the OCA / ROEA homosexual clergymen, and

misinformation given out by the OCA Metropolitan +Jonah in these regards.

(t) Failure of the OCA / ROEA hierarchy to observe the SCOBA Statement on Sexual misconduct dated

August 02, 2005 … and the SCOBA Communiqué dated Oct 6, 2006.

(u) Refusal and failure of the OCA / ROEA hierarchy to shown FIDELITY / LOYALTY /

OBSERVANCE to The State of New York … Religious Corporation Law, … Article 5 - C, Section 107.

2. The ROEA Archbishop:

(a) Failure to exercise his moral and Canonical fiduciary responsibilities according to the Orthodox Church

Canons, the ROEA Constitution and By – Laws provisions, procedures in regards to the Memoranda, Complaints,

Appeals, Letters, filed against the ROEA Archbishop in the ROEA Chancery, Diocesan Council, by “ME”, Rev Fr

Vasile Susan.

(b) Failure to demand of the OCA Metropolitans timely, full and accurate reports in regards to the

Memoranda, Complaints, Appeals, and Letters, filed against the ROEA Archbishop within the ROEA Chancery, by

“ME” Rev Fr Vasile Susan on March 13, 2003, according to the Orthodox Church Canons, the OCA Statute, and the

ROEA Constitution and By – Laws provisions.

(c) Failure in his Canonical fiduciary responsibilities to demand an investigation into the Memoranda,

Complaints, Appeals, Letters, filed against the ROEA Archbishop within the ROEA Chancery, by “ME”, Rev Fr

Vasile Susan, according to the Orthodox Church Canons, and the ROEA Constitution and By – Laws provisions,

procedures, and ignorance of ALL the Canonical improprieties and failures as the ROEA Archbishop.

(d) Failure to exercise his moral and Canonical fiduciary responsibilities according to the Orthodox Church

Canons, the ROEA Constitution and By – Laws provisions, procedures in regards the termination of employment

of “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan with St Mary’s Romanian Orthodox Church in Chicago, IL, & “MY” expulsion from

the ROEA, abusively ignoring the “due canonical procedure and due process of the laws,” and his dictatorial / less

Christian style, actions in refusing to release the reasons of his abusive and less canonical actions.

(e) Abdication of management / Canonical fiduciary responsibilities, thus allowing the OCA to assume

control over the Memoranda, Complaints, Appeals, Letters, filed against the ROEA Archbishop within the ROEA

Chancery, by “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan, contrary to the Orthodox Church Canons, and the ROEA Constitution

and By – Laws provisions, procedures and ignorance regarding ALL the Canonical fiduciary responsibilities as

an Orthodox Church hierarch.

(f) Failure to answer to the Memoranda, Complaints, Appeals, Letters, filed against the ROEA Archbishop

within the ROEA Chancery, by “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan, according to the Orthodox Church Canons, and the

ROEA Constitution and By – Laws provisions, procedures, blackmail of Rev Fr Vasile Susan and family, contrary

to the Canonical fiduciary duty, as prescribed by the Orthodox Church Canons, the ROEA Constitution and By –

Laws provisions, procedures.

(g) Failure to investigate the issues reported by the Memoranda, Complaints, Appeals, Letters, filed against

the ROEA Archbishop within the OCA Chancery / Synod, by “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan and family, according to

the Orthodox Church Canons, the OCA Statute, the ROEA Constitution and By – Laws provisions, procedures,

Policies, Standards / Procedures of the OCA on Sexual Misconduct 2003 provisions, procedures, by covering up

an OCA / ROEA homosexual = sodomite priest, as reported since June 23, 2005.

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(h) Failure to exercise his moral and Canonical fiduciary responsibilities according to the Orthodox Church

Canons, the OCA Statute, the ROEA Constitution and By – Laws provisions, procedures, the Policies, Standards /

Procedures of the OCA on Sexual Misconduct 2003 provisions, by refusing to openly and transparently inform

the Parish membership of the homosexual = sodomite priest about the reasons of his release from his parish, and

finalize the investigation and defrocking the OCA / ROEA homosexual = sodomite priest, as reported by the

Memoranda, Complaints, Appeals, Letters, filed against the ROEA Archbishop and ROEA homosexual = sodomite

priest, within the OCA Chancery / Synod, by “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan and family.

(h) Failure to exercise his moral and Canonical fiduciary responsibilities according to the Orthodox Church

Canons, the OCA Statute, and the ROEA Constitution and By – Laws provisions, procedures, the Policies,

Standards / Procedures of the OCA on Sexual Misconduct 2003 provisions, procedures, by refusing to openly

and transparently inform the ROEA membership at large about the reasons of his release from his parish, and

finalize the investigation and defrocking the OCA / ROEA homosexual = sodomite priest, as reported by the

Complaints, Memorandums, Appeals, Letters, filed against the ROEA Archbishop and ROEA homosexual =

sodomite priest, within the OCA Chancery / Synod, by “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan and family.

(j) Failure and refusal to require reports from the ROEA Spiritual Consistory regarding the cover up of

the ROEA homosexual = sodomite priest, and to present the accurate information to the ROEA Congress

members regarding the status of that ROEA homosexual = sodomite priest as reported by the Memoranda,

Complaints, Appeals, Letters, filed against the ROEA Archbishop and ROEA homosexual = sodomite priest, within

the OCA Chancery / Synod, by “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan and family.

(k) Failure to exercise his moral and Canonical fiduciary responsibilities according to the Orthodox Church

Canons, the OCA Statute, and the ROEA Constitution and By – Laws provisions, procedures, and to give “ME”,

Rev Fr Vasile Susan the RIGHT to a hearing, to present ALL accusations as required by the Orthodox

Church Canons provisions > canonical or in any nature, to give the opportunity to defend those charges,

allegations, accusations <, as prescribed by the Scriptural, Canonical OCA Statute and the ROEA Constitution and

By – Laws provisions, procedures, as reported / requested by the Memoranda, Complaints, Appeals, Letters, filed

against the ROEA Archbishop within the OCA Chancery / Synod, by “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan and family.

(l) Failure to exercise his moral and Canonical fiduciary responsibilities according to the Orthodox Church

Canons, and ROEA Constitution and By – Laws provisions, procedures, and to uphold the Office of Confession

and Answering of a Bishop, as prescribed by the Orthodox Church in America’s ORDER OF ELECTING AND

CONSECRATING A BISHOP, even though VOWS he has made in these regards.

(m) Failure to hold the ROEA priests (Rev Fr Vasile Susan and the ROEA homosexual = sodomite priest, etc)

accountable according to the Canonical fiduciary responsibilities on issues pertaining the Memoranda, Complaints,

Appeals, Letters, filed against the ROEA Archbishop and the ROEA homosexual = sodomite priest, within the OCA

Chancery / Synod, by “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan and family, based on the OCA and ROEA monthly and annually

publications.

(n) Failure to respond to the Memoranda, Complaints, Appeals, Letters, filed against the ROEA Archbishop

and the ROEA homosexual = sodomite priest, within the OCA Chancery / Synod, by “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan and

family, supposedly at the advice of ROEA legal counsel or an OCA bishop.

(o) Failure to uphold ALL Biblical, Canonical, OCA / ROEA Charters provisions, procedures and Policies,

Standards / Procedures of the OCA on Sexual Misconduct 2003 provisions, procedures, the Office of

Confession and Answering of a Bishop as prescribed by the OCA’s ORDER OF ELECTING AND

CONSECRATING A BISHOP, even though VOWS he has made in these regards, and freely classified himself as

INFIDEL / BETRAYER who FAILED to Christianly provide himself as role model to the ROEA faithful.

(p) Failure to uphold ALL Biblical, Canonical, OCA Statute, ROEA Constitution and By – Laws, Federal Laws,

Immigration Laws provisions and Financial responsibilities as a Church hierarch, placing by his unilateral and

dangerous dictatorial abusive leadership style, the entire ROEA in jeopardy, abusing people, financial resources,

institutions, laws and provisions, money laundering practice, offered help in submitting to the INS / USCIS false

affidavits for Visa R 1 and 2, and stealing the trust of the ROEA members, by promoting his cronies in key position

within the ROEA administration to control all the financial transactions, and abusing the Federal and local State laws.

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(q) Attempt, with a relatively success to suppress any investigation into the Memoranda, Complaints,

Appeals, Letters, filed against the ROEA Archbishop and the ROEA homosexual = sodomite priest, within the OCA

Chancery / Synod, by “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan and family, and to circumvent ALL Biblical, Canonical, OCA /

ROEA Charters provisions, procedures and Policies, Standards / Procedures of the OCA on Sexual Misconduct

2003 provisions, procedures, the Office of Confession and Answering of a Bishop as prescribed by the Orthodox

Church in America’s ORDER OF ELECTING AND CONSECRATING A BISHOP, and actively in writing

silenced priests and condemned laity seeking to learn the truth of those reasons / allegations pertaining the

expulsion of Rev Fr Vasile Susan from the ROEA, as of March 1st, 2004, according to the February 9, 2004 Phone

Conference, and March 7th, 2004 Pastoral Letter sent to the members of St Mary’s Romanian Orthodox Church in

Chicago, IL, by blocking the release of any report.

(r) Failure to uphold ALL ROEA Constitution and By – Laws provisions, procedures, and to observe the

ROEA Judicial System procedures. The ROEA Archbishop does not have the ROEA Constitutional right to

EXPELL “any priest” out of the ROEA Jurisdiction. The ROEA Archbishop violated the ROEA Constitution

and By – Laws provisions, procedures by the act of EXPUSION of Rev Fr Vasile Susan from the ROEA.

The ROEA Archbishop has exceeded the powers conferred upon the ROEA Constitution and By – Laws, and

ROEA Congress and OCA Statute. His action of EXPULSION of Rev Fr Vasile Susan from the ROEA is

WRONG, UN – CANONICAL, CONTRARY to the OCA Statute provisions and INVALID.

(s) Failure to observe the Canonical, the OCA Statute, the ROEA Constitution and By – Laws provisions,

procedures, regarding the transfer, release, of a priest, from the position / office of a parish priest, and expulsion

of “ME, Rev Fr Vasile Susan from the ROEA contrary to the Canonical, the OCA Statute, the ROEA Constitution

and By – Laws provisions, procedures, without “due canonical procedures and due process of the law,”

considering “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan as “A PERSONA NON GRATA, ENROLLED ON THE OCA’s

DEATH ROW WITHOUT PAROLE,” and refusing to release “the REASONS” of his action of EXPULSION,

contrary to Biblical, and canonical provisions, procedures.

(t) Failure to bring to justice according to the Canonical provisions, procedures, some of the ROEA

clergymen (homosexual, heavy drunkard driver convicted and jailed as DUI, immoral and misconduct ROEA

clergymen), and persecuted some ROEA priests (“ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan and Rev Fr Remus Bleahu), who are

having a working priesthood, and were not under any canonical sanctions.

(u) Failure to exercise openness and transparency in regards to the Fiduciary Duty Canonically

mandated, and implementation of the healthy “due canonical procedures and due process of the laws,” within the

OCA / ROEA Judicial System, high-jacked by the OCA / ROEA corrupt bishops, & less orthodox maneuvered.

(v) Failure to uphold “the ZERO TOLERANCE for clergy sexual misconduct Canonical POLICY”, and to

honestly and canonically resolve the issues of COVER UPS of the OCA / ROEA homosexual clergymen.

(t) Failure or refusal to observe the SCOBA Statement on Sexual misconduct dated August 02, 2005 …

and the SCOBA Communiqué dated Oct 6, 2006.

(u) Refusal and failure to shown FIDELITY / LOYALTY / OBSERVANCE to The State of New York …

Religious Corporation Law, as part of the OCA which is incorporated in the State of New York … Article 5 - C,

Section 107.

(w) Refusal to observe the INS and USCIS Laws and Regulations regarding the Religious workers R1 and

R2 visa related to the ROEA petitioners.

(x) Refusal to observe the Canonical Provisions and the double standard applied to an OCA / ROEA

priest multiple times jailed as per court Records, DUI case covered up by the ROEA Archbishop for so many

years as per criminal court records.

(y) Refusal to observe the Federal and Local State Laws and Regulations, practice of Money laundering

as per the physical evidences of illegally / fraudulently transfer of money of a ROEA member by the ROEA

Archbishop / Diocese / Treasurer /using and abusing the ROEA accounts, as per SOLIA and ROEA Congress

reports.

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(z) Refusal to honestly, openly and transparently respond to “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan about the OCA Synod

deliberations on the Memoranda, Appeals, Complaints, Letters, etc, since February / March 2003.

Dear OCA Synod of Bishops, Orthodox Church World Wide hierarchs, Readers and faithful people,

I, am respectfully and brotherly asking for forgiveness in case voluntarily or involuntarily someone personal’s feeling was

touched by the content of this presentation, and I wonder “How soon the OCA hierarchy will put an end to their

‘SPIRITUAL CRIMES, FAILURES, MALFEASANCES, WRONG DOINGS, COVER UPS, committed against priests

belonging to the Romanian National Group?” I like the TRUTH. God Bless!

ALL THE READERS of this OPEN – LETTER along with the attached EXHIBITS, and EXPLANATIONS,

should know that I, FIRMLY STAND BEHIND THIS ENTIRE PRESENTATION; I DEEPLY REGRET WITH

A HEAVY HEART the OCA Hierarchy INFIDELITY / BREACH / VIOLATION / FAILURE to observe Biblical,

Canonical, OCA Statute, ROEA Constitution and By - Laws provisions & procedures & Policies, Standards,

Procedures of the OCA on Sexual Misconduct 2003, and the Order of Electing and Consecrating of a Bishop

provisions; and I STRONGLY MAKE MY CALL for A CANONICALLY GROUNDED RESIGNATION of the

OCA hierarchs and ROEA Archbishop COMPLICIT IN COVER UP of the OCA – ROEA homosexuals =

sodomites = clergymen and ALL malfeasances UN – Canonically covered up.

The OCA Synod of Bishops MUST continue to appreciate the openness and transparency, as well as the courage

with which I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan have dealt with these most difficult of subjects of the special agenda of the

Orthodox Bishops in America “WHO” is wishing to promote and protect a homosexual agenda by which they (the

OCA hierarchs) can favor those who engage these practices against the Gospel and to offer cover for those who continue

as well in sexual abuse and exploitation using their clerical powers. This is the PLAIN TRUTH, the OCA Hierarchy

MUST NOT IGNORE.

I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan am a spiritual victim / and a whistle blower of the cover up of the sexual misconduct abusers

within the OCA. The OCA MUST be in line with and strictly observe the SCOBA STATEMENT, without any doubt.

V I I M M E D I A T E A C T I O N S / R E M E D I E S

Dear OCA Synod of Bishops and brothers in Christ the Lord,

Orthodox Church World Wide hierarchs,

Readers and faithful people,

**I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan was very much disappointed by criticism from OCA Chancellor / Metropolitan as of April 28,

2010, over the release, leak, posting on www.pokrov.org starting March 7, 2010, of Memoranda, Appeals, Complaints,

Letters, Documents, etc, related to the OCA / ROEA hierarchy COVER UPS, MALFEASANCES, VIOLATIONS OF

THE CHURCH CHARTES, CANONICAL PROVISIONS, OCA POLICIES, PROCEDURES AND STANDARDS ON

SEXUAL MISCONDUCT 2003, IREGULARITIES, INACTIONS, ETC.

These postings are not “SIMPLE LEAKS TO THE PUBLIC”, but they are “REAL FACTS TROUBLING THE OCA /

ROEA HIERARCHS” as part of the “OCA MOUNTAIN OF RESIDUES MASTERLY COVERED UP” by the current

and previous Metropolitans, the OCA Synod of Bishops and OCA Central Administration personnel.

I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan, would like to say that those postings and the upcoming ones, will have significant impact on

the upcoming OCA actions, revealing the OCA hierarchy’s ability to live and follow the Orthodox Church RULE of

Laws, as they are Canonically mandated and strongly recommended by Fiduciary Duties for the NOT – FOR – PROFIT

Organizations, and The State of New York … Religious Corporation Law, … Article 5 - C, Section 107.

I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan reject the assessment of the OCA Chancellor / Metropolitan E-MAILED on April 28, 2010, and

I am saying that the OCA Synod of Bishops and the OCA Central Administration masterly overseen, overlooked,

controlled, manipulated, and deceitfully treated its members as clergy and laity totally UN - Canonically.

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I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan, would like to say that I feel sorry for the OCA Chancellor / Metropolitan assessment on

April 28, 2010, and “A NEW, COMPLETE and UPDATED RESPONSE” will be posted over the

www.pokrov.org in due time.

I, also would like to say that the hands of the previous and current OCA Metropolitans, OCA Synod of Bishops

and OCA Central Administration personnel “are not clean”, they have in their hands “the GUILT” of their

COVER UPS, MALFEASANCES, VIOLATIONS OF THE CHURCH CHARTES, CANONICAL PROVISIONS,

OCA POLICIES, PROCEDURES AND STANDARDS ON SEXUAL MISCONDUCT 2003, the ”Calling of the

Office of Confession and Answering of a Bishop, as per the OCA’s ORDER OF ELECTING AND

CONSECRATING A BISHOP”, of MANY IREGULARITIES, MISSAPROPRIATIONS, INACTIONS, ETC. for

the last two decades related to the “OCA MOUNTAIN OF RESIDUES MASTERLY COVERED UP” by the

current and previous Metropolitans, OCA Synod of Bishops and OCA Central Administration personnel.

I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan would like to formally “ASK AGAIN” the OCA Synod to launch on investigation and find

out “ARE THE ALLEGATIONS (as they have been posted on the Internet and also sent since February / March

2003 to the OCA Synod of Bishops) TRUE, OR ARE THEY FALSE?”

I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan have been asking the OCA Synod, as well as the ROEA hierarchs for the last (7) seven

years to find out if, “THE ALLEGATIONS ARE TRUE OR FALSE?”, and to follow the Church RULE of

Laws, and not the jungle’s laws, but the OCA Synod of Bishops was IRRESPONSIVE and IRRESPONSIBLE.

I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan would like to say that I am not a simple whistle – blower, but I am an Orthodox Church

Romanian Born Priest, who for the last (7) seven years has been abused, manipulated, extorted, sacked, fired,

terminated, expelled, humiliated by the OCA Synod and OCA Central Administrations personnel, as the Memoranda,

Appeals, Complaints, Letters, Open – Letters, and Exhibits attached to all the above (thousands of pages written and

sent out to the OCA Synod and OCA Central Administrations personnel) reveal ALL these plainly and truthfully to

everybody.

I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan would like to formally say that the OCA Synod and the OCA Central Administration:

???? Could use their time to announce a broad inquiry into “ALL THE ALLEGATIONS” of Rev Fr Vasile Susan.

???? Could bring to justice as per the OCA Statute, ROEA Constitution and By Laws, and Orthodox Church

Canonical provisions and procedures “ALL” people related and connected to the Memoranda, Appeals, Complaints,

Letters, Open – Letters, and Exhibits sent by “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan to the attention of the OCA Synod and the

OCA Central Administration personnel, including but not limited to “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan.

???? Could announce a panel (OCA Synod, Church Consistory, Church Tribunal) to hear the heartfelt wish, case,

cause of Rev Fr Vasile Susan, who knows “EVERYTHING from the GROUND.”

???? Could apologize to “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan, “MY” family and relatives who suffered a lot for the last (7)

seven years.

But, the OCA Synod of Bishops and the OCA Central Administration personnel did “NONE” of these things.

Instead of doing the right things, both the OCA Synod of Bishops and the OCA Central Administration personnel

decided to treat the issues and the people affected by them with “CONTEMPT”.

Instead of explaining how they would address these issues, they decided to announce how they would

“SUPPRESS them”.

I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan would like to formally, openly, transparently and loudly say that:

This behavior is unacceptable.

I and my family will not be suppressed.

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I and my family will continue “to EXPOSE the ABUSES” by this OCA Synod of Bishops and the OCA Central

Administration personnel, until the “DUE CANONICAL PROCEDURES AND DUE PROCESS OF THE

LAWS” will be “AT WORK”, the RULE of Laws will be observed, the justice served, liable people be held

liable for “ANY DAMAGES, REMEDIES, COMPENSATIONS,” and I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan will be

“RESTORED” to the place “I” belonged to, and “I” was unjustly and unjustifiably “KICKED OUT FROM,”

by the abusive UN – Canonical ACTIONS of the OCA / ROEA hierarchs.

As I mentioned within the previous Memoranda, Complaints, Appeals, Letters, “I personally and my family, do

not want to have any legal dispute with the OCA, at least up to the time of this posting on www.pokrov.org.

The Romanian Communists did not persecute, mock, humiliate, sack, fire, expel, lie, use and abuse “ME” as

the ROEA and the OCA are doing for the last (7) seven years.

“Where are the Holy Principles the O. C. A. and R.O.E.A. … is preaching about and to whom they apply?”

The OCA Holy Synod should be aware that those actions in not acting in good faith as per the Orthodox Church

Canons, OCA Statute and ROEA Constitution and By - Laws’ provisions, procedures, are contrary to the Canonical

provisions, Dogmas, Teachings and Traditions of the Orthodox Christian Church. Permit me to say that, ALL the

Canonical and By – Laws provisions, procedures, are not only for priests and laity, but also for bishops.

AGAIN, in the light of all the above and of my last seven experience with the O C A, I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan am

suggesting to the O C A hierarchy to observe the entire materials enclosed herewith and all previously sent to their

attention and realize that lack of “due canonical procedure and due process of the law (s)”, prolonged the crisis

up to this time. In case the O C A cannot or does not want to look at the ROOTS of the cause of the problem

and fix it, things can become more complicated even for the O C A. Do not protect anymore the ROEA

Archbishop, and realized that the ROEA Archbishop should be held liable along with “some OCA people” for

everything that has happened to the Rev Fr Vasile Susan’s family.

The ROEA Archbishop MUST RESIGNS NOW, before “MORE” of his

deeds = misconducts, will be posted and read on the Internet.

Also, this is something every member of the OCA Holy Synod of Bishops should read and keep in mind: No

person in this country, no matter how high or powerful, is

above the law, and no person in this country is beneath the

law.

It says that the spirit of malice and deceit that has held the OCA captive for all these years has not been totally

driven out. A victory has been won, but the war remains undecided.

Dear Vladyka JONAH and esteemed OCA hierarchs,

I do not want to be a constant source of irritation to you. I ask the whole OCA Synod for Your forgiveness if I have

offended You by means of this communication, but I perceive a great deal of fear in our Church, due to the past

misinterpretation, practice and lack of knowledge of the biblical, canonical, Church Charters provisions, etc.

In his first epistle, Saint John the Theologian tells us: “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because

fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.” (I John 4:18)

The OCA Synod MUST NOT FORGET and ALWAYS remember of St Paul words,

“And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers;

For the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry for the edifying of the Body of Christ;

Till, we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to be a perfect man, to the measure

of the stature of the fullness of Christ”. EPHESIANS 4, 11 – 13.

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CHRISTIANLY, HUMBLY, OPENLY, TRANSPARENTLY and RESPECTFULLY,

I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan, would like to remind the OCA hierarchy the words of St John Chrysostom, I like to

join my saga with: “The feelings with which Chrysostom went into his first and second exile, he well describes in

a letter to Bishop Cyriacus: “when I was driven from the city, I felt no anxiety, but said to myself: If the empress

wishes to banish me, let her do so; `the earth is the Lord’s.’ If she wants to have me sawn asunder, I have Isaiah for an

example. If she wants me to be drowned in the ocean, I think of Jonah. If I am to be thrown into the fire, the three

men in the furnace suffered the same. If cast before wild beasts, I remember Daniel in the lion’s den. If she wants me

to be stoned, I have before me Stephen, the first martyr. If she demands my head, let her do so; John the Baptist

shines before me. Naked I came from my mother’s womb, naked shall I leave this world. Paul reminds me, `If I still

pleased men, I would not be the servant of Christ.”

Remembering the past days of Feb 15, 2004, and May 24, 2004, the time in between and the entire O.C.A,

BABYLONIAN - LIKE CAPTIVITY, and PRIESTHOOD MOCKERY against “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan, by the

OCA HIERARCHY and ROEA Archbishop,

I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan, would like to say the following to “MY” OCA / ROEA Hierarchy:

“When I was driven from the St Mary’s Romanian Orthodox Church, in Chicago, IL, by the OCA Hierarchy and

the ROEA Archbishop, I felt no anxiety, but said I to myself:

If the OCA Hierarchy and the ROEA Archbishop wish to banish me, let them do so;

If the OCA Hierarchy and the ROEA Archbishop want to have me sawn asunder, I have Isaiah for an example;

If the OCA Hierarchy and the ROEA Archbishop want me to be drowned in the ocean, I think of Jonah;

If I am to be thrown into the fire by the OCA Hierarchy and the ROEA Archbishop, the three men in the furnace

suffered the same;

If cast before wild beasts due to the OCA Hierarchy and the ROEA Archbishop misconduct, I remember Daniel in

the lion’s den;

If the OCA Hierarchy and the ROEA Archbishop want me to be stoned, I have before me Stephen, the first

martyr;

If the OCA Hierarchy and the ROEA Archbishop demand my head, let them do so; John the Baptist shines before

me; Naked I came from my mother’s womb, naked shall I leave this world. (Job, 1, 21).

St. Paul reminds me, ”If I still pleased men, I would not be the servant of Christ.” (Galatians 1, 10).

St. James words addressed to the OCA Hierarchy, by “ME”, Rev Fr Vasile Susan as “A MEMENTO”:

5 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! God chose the poor people of this world to be rich in faith and to possess

the kingdom which he promised to those who love him.

6 But you dishonor the poor! Who are the ones who oppress you and drag you before the judges? The rich!

7 They are the ones who speak evil of that good name which has been given to you.

8 You will be doing the right thing if you obey the law of the Kingdom, which is found in the scripture, “Love your

neighbor as you love yourself.

9 But if you treat people according to their outward appearance, you are guilty of sin, and the Law condemns you

as a lawbreaker.

10 Whoever breaks one commandment is guilty of breaking them all.

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11 For the same one who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Even if you do not

commit adultery, you have become a lawbreaker if you commit murder.

12 Speak and act as people who will be judged by the law that sets us free.

13 For God will not show mercy when he judges the person who has not been merciful; but mercy triumphs over

judgment.” James, 2, 5 – 13.

Dear OCA Synod of Bishops and brothers in Christ the Lord,

Orthodox Church World Wide hierarchs,

Readers and faithful people,

I, Rev Fr Vasile Susan, hope this above message, this current OPEN – LETTER and the EXHIBITS attached

herewith, and I will make the OCA Hierarchy and the ROEA Archbishop RE – THINK about the UN - just, UN –

Christian, UN – Canonical, IN – humane O.C.A. BABYLONIAN - LIKE CAPTIVITY, MOCKERY imposed on

“ME”, a Romanian Born Orthodox Church Priest, feel SHAME of themselves, and reverse the gear towards

God’s willing. “I will fight for justice as a persecuted follower of Christ the Lord, until my LAST BREATH

OF MY EARTHLY LIFE.”

I would like to say that this current Rev Fr Vasile Susan’s OPEN – LETTERS and EXHIBITS, is nothing else

but:

“A DYNAMIC RESPONSE” to the OCA Hierarchy, that

“IS WELL” Biblically, Canonically, OCA Statute, ROEA

Constitution and By – Laws, Policies, Standards, Procedures

of the OCA on Sexual Misconduct 2003, and the Order of

Electing and Consecrating of a Bishop provisions, procedures,

“DOCUMENTED and INTENSELY PATRISTIC”, in

regards to the OCA / ROEA Hierarchy “INFIDELITY /

VIOLATION / BREACH / FAILURE” to observe Biblical,

Canonical, OCA Statute, ROEA Constitution and By - Laws

provisions & procedures & Policies, Standards, Procedures of

the OCA on Sexual Misconduct 2003, and the Order of

Electing and Consecrating of a Bishop provisions, and the

complicit in cover up of the OCA / ROEA homosexuals =

sodomites = clergymen, more misconduct and malfeasances.

These indicate that I, the Rev Fr Vasile Susan will not sacrifice the Truth of the Orthodox Faith / Church, “MY”

priesthood, ministry, for the sake of the “diplomacy of love”, thus remaining faithful to the legacies of our Saints

and our God-bearing Fathers, as well as to the Biblical, Canonical, OCA Statute, ROEA Constitution and By – Laws,

provisions & procedures Policies, Standards, Procedures of the OCA on Sexual Misconduct 2003, provisions,

procedures.

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“The OCA Svnod of Bishops thinks it’s above the Church.

Federal and Local State LAWS. Thev are DEAD WRONG!”

In case the OCA Synod is still choosing NOT TO OBSERVE and to be INFIDEL to the Fiduciar]’ Dutics

Canonicallym andateda. nd CONTINUE to follow the “rule of the jungle … I know what to do.” I n’ill placen rore

CARDSo n the tablet he OCA / ROEA is not worry about.a ndI will defeat hernU SING TFIEIRA MMLINI’l'lON.

More SHAME will be on OCA / ROEA.

“Within the framework of respect and iustice for God and

His beloved Orthodox Church. “Io’. Rev Fr Vasile Susan and

65MY” familv 55ARE NOT and WILL NOT BE READY” to

negotiate with 66ANY” - 66ONE” on anv dirtv” less clean.

transparent. or gvpsv deal. concerning the case” saga. etc. of

66MEtt and 66MYtt family.

I, and nry fanrily ore not K. K. or R. .S. 1(. us the OCA records und postittgs orr lhe oco.org or ocuttctvs.org sltow

these upside down turning of events.

*** The OCA nctions / INACTIONS since Mtrch 2003, irt “MY” case CAN EASILY BE CLASSIFIED us … “

crimes ngilnst Orthodox Church Sucraments, crimes ogdnst Orthotlox Church Cnnons, crinrcs aguittsl Orthotlo-r

Church Priesthood, crimes oguinst A Romanion Orthodox Church Priest ss nort of the nnnkind = Humu,ritt’, for

which “CRIMES” the entire OCA hierarchv will he occountahle in front of God snd in the civil courts.”

Sincet he tirneo f inceptiono f the civil courta ction( lawsuit)t he entireO CA / ROEA hierarch)’”1)lDN O-l’lllNG

SERIC)USLY” to “ME”. Rev Fr Y asile Susan and famil:t. bvt distortiorr of trutlt, conceilment, extortiotr, irdidelit.t’ /

hreuch of the Bihlicol, Canonical, OCA Stntute, ROEA Cottstitution ond Bv - Luws nrovisitttrs, proc’ctlures.

izclrrrlrze6 zr rrar/ rn irerlro,” the DUE CANONICAL PROCEDURES AND DUE PROCESSO F THE LAWS”.

us well us infidelitv / brenches / violations of their Fiduciarv duties Cononicallv mnnduted.

Anyone rvho is going to resort to the languageo f distortion of truth, concealment,i nfidelity, brc:tchesu’ nrvise/

devilish force antl less orthodox maneuvers / aggression methods, “MY” response is clear, … “I AND MY

FAMILY DON’T PLAY GAMES. and WE DON’T GIVE UP IN OUR ENDEAVOR”. PCTiOd.

May God be rvith us, alrvays!

Truly in Christ the Lord!

Yours Beatitudea ndt he OCA Holy Synodo f Bishops,

In Orthodoxy humbly servant,

Rev Fr Vasile Susan

I agree with you, cousin, noting the supreme three words in the bible that we must follow: .”God is Love”.