[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?

[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).

[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.