Russian chapel razed after gay 'marriage'

The Washington Times ^ | Oct 9, 2003 | LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH

[FormerLib]

MOSCOW

[FormerLib]

I'm glad the Russian Church has made sure there will be no question about how they view the abomination known as "same-sex marriage."

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[bobjam]

While they're at it, perhaops they could tear down the "Cathedral of St John the Divine" for allowing masses in which the names of pagan gods were invoked. The building was already hit by lightning.

[NYer]

The Chapel of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God was torn down apparently after local churchmen decided it had been defiled. The priest, the Rev. Vladimir Enert, was defrocked after the men said they paid him a $450 bribe to ignore a ban of same-sex "marriages."

Priceless!

[drstevej]

Shoulda tarred and feathered him too. That way he'd be both defrocked AND flocked.

[B Knotts]

Why can't our Church act swiftly and decisively like this?

Although, I wonder why they couldn't have reconsecrated the chapel. But I don't know how that works in the Eastern Churches.

BTW, anyone know whatever happened with that Texas church that had been used for pagan ceremonies?

[RobbyS]

Now that's the way to do it!

[FormerLib]

I hadn't heard anything about the Cathedral of St John the Divine incident. Could you pass along a link? Thanks.

[The_Reader_David]

I suspect this is one of the cases where the laity and ordinary clergy simply did what was right without bothering to run the question up the the Patriarch (or even local bishop).

In Orthodoxy, since the Faith is known to be unchanging, there the potential for swift action when something obviously goes against the Faith, even though what is usually observed by the world is perpetual inaction (precisely because the faith once delivered to the saints doesn't change).

[Unam Sanctam]

This seems a bit extreme. I believe there are rites of purification and reconsecration of a profaned church.

[FormerLib]

As was mentioned in the article, the fact that the chapel was due to be razed in the future probably had an impact. Had this not been the case, then some sort of reconsecration would have taken place.

But I'm very glad that they didn't just shrug it off as meaningless.

[RobbyS]

It is called "sending a message."

[torqemada]

"I wonder why they couldn't have reconsecrated the chapel?"

They couldn't lift the 50 gal. drums of holy oil that it would require.