A reply to Mud Slinging in the Church of Jesus the Christ

17 January 2005

Dear Eminence:

       You are worthy of praise for posting this information to the website. As is often said, "The Truth shall set you free".

      For some time now, I have been receiving e-mails from unknown sources containing links to various sites showing newspaper clippings about you and this case. I have remained silent because I did not really have all the facts, nor do I intend to drag things up from the past. Reading the letter by Metropolitan Archbishop +Michael (Damian Benedict), OSB, helped to clear up a few questions in my mind and I was very happy to see it posted. But, I am still rather confused as to the Anthonite Benedictine and who they are, since I was unable to find any information about them on the internet, except for the brief info which I forwarded to you, which, I must admit, did not seem to make much sense to me. Now , I hope and pray that all of this mud slinging on the part of those who wish ill upon the Church and yourself, will be put to rest because this is doing no good what-so-ever to either side and it is making it very difficult to get on with the work for which we have been called. Not to mention that this un-Christian bickering makes us all look like fools, and I don't mean "fools for Christ". I hope that those in Ohio and else where will come to the realization that when they point their finger at others, they have three more fingers pointing back at them. As far as I am concerned, what is in the past remains in the past, since you have given me no cause to doubt you or to be concerned about your moral standing, (if you had given me such cause, I would have left your jurisdiction a long time ago), so you can continue to count on my support and loyalty. My prayers remain with you and Bishop Michael, along with the Synod of Bishops.

Very Rev. Fr. Gregori

Go To: Letter by Metropolitan Archbishop +Michael (Damian Benedict), OSB, helped to clear up a few questions

18 January 2005

Dear Eminence;

      I am sending you this e-mail to strongly urge you to go to the website listed at the bottom of this e-mail and read the entire article. You will find it to be truly shocking, but I can assure you that every word in the article is the absolute truth.

     Back in 1998, I read the book "The Franklin Cover Up", written by John DeCamp, the former Nebraska State Senator, who is the one being interviewed by Alex Jones in the web site article. After reading the book, I was numbed with shock and disbelief, but using some contacts that I have, I did some investigating of the things in the book, and I even spent three and a half hours talking to former FBI agent Ted Gunderson, who I met through a friend of mine who is a pastor and radio station owner and program host, and found that every thing in the book is ABSOLUTELY TRUE.

    I want you to read the article because it paints a true picture of just some of the demon inspired horrors that we and the rest of the world will face in the New World Order (One World Government), and how many of our very own elected federal government officials, along with other non-elected officials are involved in up to their eyeballs. All of this makes the sex scandals of the priests of the Roman Catholic Church, look like childs play.

   We can only pray that Jesus comes soon to put an end to all of this. God protect our children from this evil.

   The web site address is: 

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2004/210704johndecamp.htm (Note: If this link does not work, copy and past this link into your browser "address" area and hit enter.)

God Bless: Rev. Fr. Gregori - Abbot

It has been pointed out that Archbishop +Michael holds a doctorate in Canon Law, who reiterates the following from the ancient Canons of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church which we, who are faithful, are bound to observe:

6There are many who are bent on confusing and overturning the good order of the church and so fabricate, out of hatred and a wish to slander, certain accusations against orthodox bishops in charge of churches. Their intention is none other than to blacken priests' reputations and to stir up trouble among peace-loving laity. For this reason the sacred synod of bishops assembled at Constantinople has decided not to admit accusers without prior examination, and not to allow everyone to bring accusations against church administrators -- but with-out excluding everyone. So if someone brings a private (that is a personal) complaint against the bishop on the grounds that he has been defrauded or in some other way unjustly dealt with by him, in the case of this kind of accusation neither the character nor the religion of the accuser will be subject to examination. It is wholly essential both that the bishop should have a clear conscience and that the one who alleges that he has been wronged, whatever his religion may be, should get justice.

But if the charge brought against the bishop is of an ecclesiastical kind, then the characters of those making it should be examined, in the first place to stop heretics bringing charges against orthodox bishops in matters of an ecclesiastical kind. (We define "heretics" as those who have been previously banned from the church and also those later anathematised by ourselves: and in addition those who claim to confess a faith that is sound, but who have seceded and hold assemblies in rivalry with the bishops who are in communion with us.) In the second place, persons previously condemned and expelled from the church for whatever reason, or those excommunicated either from the clerical or lay rank, are not to be permitted to accuse a bishop until they have first purged their own crime. Similarly, those who are already accused are not permitted to accuse a bishop or other clerics until they have proved their own innocence of the crimes with which they are charged. But if persons who are neither heretics nor excommunicates, nor such as have been previously condemned or accused of some transgression or other, claim that they have some ecclesiastical charge to make against the bishop, the sacred synod commands that such persons should first lay the accusations before all the bishops of the province and prove before them the crimes committed by the bishop in the case. If it emerges that the bishops of the province are not able to correct the crimes laid at the bishop's door, then a higher synod of the bishops of that diocese, convoked to hear this case, must be approached, and the accusers are not to lay their accusations before it until they have given a written promise to submit to equal penalties should they be found guilty of making false accusations against the accused bishop, when the matter is investigated.

9 If any cleric has a case to bring against a cleric, let him not leave his own bishop and take himself off to the secular courts, but let him air the problem before his own bishop, or at least, with the permission of the bishop himself, before those whom both parties are willing to see act as arbiters of their lawsuit. If anyone acts in a contrary fashion, let him be subject to canonical penalties. If a cleric has a case to bring either against his own or against another bishop, let him bring the case to the synod of the province. If a bishop or a cleric is in dispute with the metropolitan of the same province, let him engage either the exarch of the diocese or the see of imperial Constantinople, and let him bring his case before him.

There are many, many other replies to the incidents of recent time that has angered the true faithful who believe that what has happened is truly an injustice against the One, Holy, Orthodox, Catholic and Apostolic Church, Metropolitan Archbishop +Joseph Thaddeus, SSJt., the Life and Teachings of Jesus Christ, the Holy Apostles, Martyrs and Saints...  and who rely upon the letter of Metropolitan Archbishop +Michael Damian-Benedict, OSB.

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