The Syro-Malabar Church is today one of four major archiepiscopal churches recognized by Rome. A St. Thomas Christian cross at the installation of Mar Joseph Srampickal at Preston North End stadium, ...

Most parishes in the Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly celebrated a Mass in the “uniform rite” in a compromise between clergy and bishops on the liturgy. The diocese is the primatial see of the ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Wednesday 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 ...

Pope Francis has appointed Slovak Archbishop-Bishop Cyril Vasil’ to resolve a decades-long liturgical dispute in the Syro-Malabar Church in India. Francis has directly intervened several times in the ...

The divisions within the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church in India are the work of the devil, who has convinced some people, including priests, that their way is the only way to celebrate the Eucharist, ...

During the meeting between Church leaders and dissident clergy in Ernakulam-Angamaly, there were protests outside by supporters of each faction who threatened to clash. The Syro-Malabar Church hopes ...

St. Mary’s Forane, Kanjoor, Kerala before the Feast of St. Sebastian. (Credit: Screen capture.) Listen MUMBAI – In the latest escalation of an intense liturgical standoff in India’s Syro-Malabar ...

Bishop Thattil’s election comes amid an ongoing bitter dispute over a decision by Church leaders to institute a uniform liturgy. The Vatican on Jan. 10 announced the confirmation of the election of , ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has confirmed a new leader for India’s Syro-Malabar Church in a step toward healing a decades-long liturgical dispute. Francis confirmed the election of His Beatitude Mar ...

Pope Francis has confirmed a new head of the Syro-Malabar Church, the largest Eastern Catholic church in India. Bishop Raphael Thattil was elected major archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly by more than ...