Despite fierce opposition from most of his own archdiocesan priests, including his metropolitan vicar, the head of India’s Syro-Malabar Church celebrated Palm Sunday Mass facing the altar for part of ...

KOCHI: Syro-Malabar Church Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil and newly appointed Vicar of Major Archbishop Joseph Pamplany have called for reconciliatory talks with the dissident priests of ...

After several eparchies failed to abide by the mandate, the Pope issued an ultimatum in a Dec. 7 video message calling on the Church to adopt the ad orientem liturgy approved by the synod by Dec. 25.

MUMBAI – A recent change of leadership in India’s Syro-Malabar Church apparently doesn’t mean a change in policy on a long-running liturgical dispute, as the Church’s governing synod under its new top ...

India’s Eastern-rite Syro-Malabar Catholic Church continues to face division and conflict over the mode of celebrating Mass more than 20 years after the Synod of Bishops agreed unanimously to ...

A protest in front of St. Mary’s Cathedral Basilica in Ernakulam, India. (Credit: Screen capture.) Listen MUMBAI – In a clear sign that a vicious fight over liturgy in Catholicism’s second largest ...

Tensions are rising within the Syro-Malabar Church in the Indian state of Kerala as the Vatican’s Dec. 25 deadline for priests to implement a “universal” liturgy or face possible excommunication fast ...