I didn't believe it so I checked. Here is is from the OCA's own website. I didn't believe the letter could be so bad. It is. I put it below.
Contact us at externalaffairs@oca.org
His Grace, Bishop Seraphim
Chairperson
PO Box 179
Spencerville, ON
Canada K0E 1X0
Office: 613-925-5226
Fax: 613-925-1521
His Grace, Bishop Nikolai
Vice-Chairperson
PO Box 210569
Anchorage, AK 99521-0569
Office: 907-279-0025
Fax: 907-279-9748
V. Rev. Leonid Kishkovsky
Assistant to the Chancellor for External Affairs and Interchurch Relations
Office: 516-922-0550
Home: 516-671-6616
Fax: 516-922-0954
Email:
leonid@oca.org
V. Rev. Joseph Fester
Secretary
PO Box 675
Syosset, NY 11791
Office: 516-922-0550, ext. 129
Fax: 516-922-0954
Email:
jfester@oca.org Protopresbyter Robert Kondratick
John Erickson
Members
V. Rev. Dennis Pihach
V. Rev. Arthur Liolin
V. Rev. Michael Westerberg
V. Rev. John Zdinak
Rev. Remus Grama
Rev. John Behr
Rev. Alexander Rentel
Dr. Peter Bouteneff
Dr. Nikolas Gvosdev
Dr. Constantine Kallaur
Dr. Paul Meyendorff
Consultants
Links:
Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas [SCOBA]
Web: www.scoba.us
World Council of Churches
Web: www.wcc-coe.org
National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA
Web: www.ncccusa.org
Yet we acknowledge as well that we are citizens of a nation that has done much in these years to endanger the human family and to abuse the creation. Following the terrorist attacks you sent “living letters” inviting us into a deeper solidarity with those who suffer daily from violence around the world. But our country responded by seeking to reclaim a privileged and secure place in the world, raining down terror on the truly vulnerable among our global neighbors. Our leaders turned a deaf ear to the voices of church leaders throughout our nation and the world, entering into imperial projects that seek to dominate and control for the sake of our own national interests. Nations have been demonized and God has been enlisted in national agendas that are nothing short of idolatrous. We lament with special anguish the war in Iraq, launched in deception and violating global norms of justice and human rights. We mourn all who have died or been injured in this war; we acknowledge with shame abuses carried out in our name; we confess that we have failed to raise a prophetic voice loud enough and persistent enough to deter our leaders from this path of preemptive war. Lord, have mercy.
The rivers, oceans, lakes, rainforests, and wetlands that sustain us, even the air we breathe continue to be violated, and global warming goes unchecked while we allow God’s creation to veer toward destruction. Yet our own country refuses to acknowledge its complicity and rejects multilateral agreements aimed at reversing disastrous trends. We consume without replenishing; we grasp finite resources as if they are private possessions; our uncontrolled appetites devour more and more of the earth’s gifts. We confess that we have failed to raise a prophetic voice loud enough and persistent enough to call our nation to global responsibility for the creation, that we ourselves are complicit in a culture of consumption that diminishes the earth. Christ, have mercy.
The vast majority of the peoples of the earth live in crushing poverty. The starvation, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the treatable diseases that go untreated indict us, revealing the grim features of global economic injustice we have too often failed to acknowledge or confront. Our nation enjoys enormous wealth, yet we cling to our possessions rather than share. We have failed to embody the covenant of life to which our God calls us; hurricane Katrina revealed to the world those left behind in our own nation by the rupture of our social contract. As a nation we have refused to confront the racism that exists in our own communities and the racism that infects our policies around the world. We confess that we have failed to raise a prophetic voice loud enough and persistent enough to call our nation to seek just economic structures so that sharing by all will mean scarcity for none. In the face of the earth’s poverty, our wealth condemns us. Lord, have mercy.
Gee, I thought the OCA was formed TO GET AWAY FROM COMMUNISTS CONTROLLING THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH HERE. I wonder if I could slip this into the church bulletin: "OCA Condemns U.S. Before World."
We need to get out of the WCC. NOW. We need full accounting of OCA finances since 1990. NOW. I have a feeling we won't get either. There is one, pitiful, struggling OCA church in southern Illinois left, and three abandoned ruins. Granted the mines and immigrant labor have changed the economic and demographic landscape, but SOMEONE besides the Antiochians should be interested in making the jump from our treasured, aging but disappearing ethnics to real-live churches making a place for themselves in the hearts and minds of the people where Orthodoxy has been implanted.
Yes, this is an interesting beginning of Lent.
Oh, I guess we better cut out all those prayers for the armed forces and the president of our country and install an icon of St. Michael Moore.
Excuse me while my children execute the protocal for daddy foaming at the mouth.