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The Antiochian "Western Rite Vicariate" Fraud
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A Series of Theses,
written with the express intention of restoring and establishing canonical order among Orthodox Catholics in the West who are attempting to restore their rightful patrimony, whose explanation shall be the focus of this website.

1. In the Western lands before the great schisms of the  eleventh and twelfth centuries there existed Orthodox Catholic Churches in full communion of faith and the mysteries with those of the East.

2. After the schism, the ecclesial communities that formed in the West would be unrecognizable in faith to Orthodox Catholics of the East, and their own Orthodox Catholic predecessors.

3. For those centuries, after the fall of the Western Orthodox Catholic Amalfi monastery on Mount Athos, there would exist no Orthodox Catholic Church in the West.

4. All attempts to restore canonical order and Orthodox Catholic faith in the West would fail until the 19th century.

5. Orthodox forms of worship were preserved in the West, but by Divine Providence not generally utilized, and preserved only accidentally.

6. The Fathers of Western Orthodox Catholic lands used their own ancestral rituals, given them by the Holy Apostles, which contain their own unique and Orthodox expressions of faith.

7. The rituals used in the so-called "Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate" are an intentional distortion of the historical uses of the Western Orthodox Catholic Faith; and furthermore, that the so-called "Vicariate" has no intention of using the historical and Orthodox Catholic ritual of the West.

8. Many of the historical usages of the Orthodox Catholic Church of the West are now easily accessible to Orthodox Catholic Westerners.

9. The so-called "Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate" actively attempts to suppress the ancient and Orthodox Catholic ritual and usage, and in so doing so calls down upon themselves the judgment of God.

10. An Englishman, or a Spaniard, who converts to the Orthodox Catholic Faith, whether in a genuine Eastern or Western Orthodox ritual, is as much a Western Orthodox Christian as St Bede, or St Isidore.

11. Dr Joseph Julius Overbeck, of blessed memory, established a method by which the Western Rite of the Orthodox Catholic Church may be restored.

12. The so-called "Vicariate" has profaned his memory through their actions.

13. St Tikhon of Moscow and the Holy Russian Synod established a hundred years ago, an alternate method by which the Western Rite of the Orthodox Catholic Church may be restored.

14. The so-called "Vicariate" has deceptively subverted their orders while claiming to be obedient to them.

15. The actions of the so-called "Vicariate" are motivated by the desire to make the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches appear to be "sister-churches".

16. The Western Orthodox Catholic ritual is being preserved by Christians zealous for the "traditions handed down" to them, as advised by St Peter, and that the so-called "Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate" attempts to actively suppress them and damage their livelihood wherever they go.

17. The ritual usages of the so-called "Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate", far removed from the Western Orthodox Catholic usages of traditional Western Orthodox Catholic Christians today and a millenium ago, violate and flagrantly disregard the canons of the Orthodox Catholic Church of the West and of the East.

18. Orthodox Catholic Christians of the East would gladly recognize the Orthodoxy of Western-Rite Orthodoxy if the members of the so-called "Vicariate" would act in the manner of Orthodox Catholic Christians, whose faith transcends space and time.

19. Orthodox Catholic Christians of the West are not bound to a specific ritual, but have a duty to recognize and venerate their rightful Orthodox Catholic Patrimony, and this is best served through living the "traditions handed down" to them.

20. Roman Catholicism, also known as the Papacy, and Anglicanism, headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, have had nothing to do in faith with the Orthodox Catholic Church for almost a thousand years.

21. The so-called "Vicariate's" use of Roman Catholic and Anglican liturgies, as opposed to legitimate Western Orthodox forms of Worship, readily available to them, is damnable deception of those in the West who seek Orthodoxy, for which the so-called "Vicariate" will have to answer to God.

22. The so-called "Vicariate", in a pusillanimous fashion, refuses to publicly defend herself from charges brought against them; mainly, that they have entered into communion with the official Orthodox Church, whereas they have not converted from their previous schism and heresy.

23. The so-called "Vicariate" is using two liturgies far removed from Orthodoxy,  having removed the most obvious heretical references, that of the Tridentine Mass, and that of the Anglican Missal.

24. Certain influential members of the so-called "Vicariate" use bizzare devotions created well after the Western schism, such as the "sacred heart of Jesus", completely alien to the Orthodox Fathers of the West, further demonstrating that they have never converted from their heresies.

25. The so-called "Vicariate" is secretly iconoclastic, based upon the actions of certain parishes and the words of Father Paul Schneirla, the head of the so-called "Vicariate".

26. The so-called "Vicariate" has as its implicit goal, based on the actions of its defenders, in the recognition of heretical and schismatic devotions as Orthodox Catholic, which they clearly are not.

27. The actions of the so-called "Vicariate" have, rather than enriched the deep spiritual Patrimony of the Orthodox Catholics of the West, have diluted and defamed it.

28. The actions of the leaders of the so-called "Vicariate", through their intentional suppression of the Western Orthodox Catholic Faith, and their attempts to give people the patrimony of usurpers, giving the people "a stone for bread", are guilty of fraud.

29. Until the so-called "Vicariate" repents of its perverse course, Orthodox Catholics in the West who seek the genuine Western Orthodox Catholic Faith should either go to Churches where the authentic Western Orthodox Catholic Faith is taught; or should go to an Eastern Orthodox parish, while preserving their Western Orthodox traditions taught to them at home, and should flee from the fraud perpetrated on them.