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

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.

Pope Francis is seen in this screen grab giving a message from the Vatican to Syro-Malabar Catholics in India's Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly, asking them to end their dispute over the way the ...

Pope Francis has asked Syro-Malabar Catholics in India's Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly to end their dispute over the liturgical celebration, telling them that he does not want to see anyone ...

MUMBAI – Two days after priests and laity in the Syro-Malabar Church defied the deadline imposed by a papal delegate to adopt a new mode of celebrating Mass or face canonical punishment, including ...

This is the second time that Pope Francis has intervened directly in the liturgical debate. Priests of the Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly will reportedly discuss the Pope’s letter at a meeting on ...

The new archbishop of the divided Syro-Malabar Church (SMC) in India has been well received by the faithful, but there is no sign that the differences over the liturgy that have split his Church are ...

Pope Francis on Jan. 10 confirmed a new leader for India's Syro-Malabar Church in a step toward healing a decades-long liturgical dispute that became so dire that Francis recently threatened to ...

KOCHI: The Syro-Malabar Catholic Church’s special tribunal for the Ernakulam-Angamaly archeparchy, constituted to hear allegations of financial malpractices and defiance by Fr Varghese Manavalan, has ...

The decades-old liturgical dispute in India’s eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church reached the Vatican when a group of Catholics raised placards during the general audience of Pope Francis. The close to ...

Mangaluru: Fr James Patteril will be ordained as the new Bishop of Belthangady Diocese on Wednesday. The episcopal ...

Pope Francis has urged Syro-Malabar Catholics opposed to the introduction of a uniform liturgy to take the “difficult and painful step” of accepting the change. In a three-page letter addressed to ...