A Catholic youth has petitioned the top court in Kerala state in southern India, seeking contempt of court proceedings against an archbishop and a parish priest for refusing to solemnise his marriage in the Church. Justin John, a member of Kottayam Knanaya Archdiocese in the Eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church, filed a contempt of court petition Read more
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Papal delegate leaves while liturgy row worsens in India
Thursday, August 24th, 2023
A liturgy row is threatening to split India’s Syro-Malabar Church. The Eastern-rite Church in the southern Indian Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese is refusing to say the synod-approved Mass. The refusal is in open defiance of a pontifical delegate’s directives. The liturgy row The archdiocese’s priests and the laity want celebrants to face the congregation throughout the Mass. Read more
Vatican appointee’s liturgy letter burnt
Thursday, June 29th, 2023
A Vatican appointee’s liturgy circular is drawing ire from lay Indian Catholics in Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese. They burnt it in a public protest. Archbishop Andrews Thazhath’s circular insisted on a controversial form of Mass. That form has been the centre of a dispute for 50 years. St Mary’s Basilica, which is the seat of the Major Read more
Schism possible – bitter liturgical dispute gets nastier
Thursday, November 24th, 2022
A schism with the Vatican is possible in the Syro-Malabar Catholic archdiocese in the southern Indian state of Kerala. The priests and laity are demanding a liturgy variant status to their traditional Eastern rite Syro-Malaba Mass. Regardless of the outcome, they’ll do what they think is right, even if it means splitting with the body Read more
Church land sale sees cardinal in court
Thursday, November 17th, 2022
A top court in the southern Indian state of Kerala has demanded a cardinal appear to face questions over his alleged involvement in the sale of Church lands. The Kerela High Court dismissed an appeal by Cardinal George Alencherry seeking exemption from appearing in a district court. The decision means the head of Eastern rite Read more
Catholic protestors set fire to bishop’s letter
Thursday, October 6th, 2022
A group of Catholic protestors in southern India set fire to a copy of an archbishop’s letter instructing parishes to implement a new mode of celebrating the liturgy. Members of the Archdiocesan Movement for Transparency (AMT) set alight to the circular letter from Archbishop Andrews Thazhath outside Bishop’s House in Ernakulum, Kerela. Andrews Thazhath, the Read more