Laypeople in an archdiocese of India's Syro-Malabar Catholic Church have begun a round-the-clock vigil to stop the Vatican-appointed administrator from gaining entry into the archbishop's house. Lay ...

India’s Syro-Malabar Church has decided to implement a “uniform” celebration of the liturgy, in which the celebrant will stand both facing toward and away from the congregation at different times, ...

MUMBAI – In yet another front in the long-running tensions within India’s Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, a priest known as a reformer has been served with a decree by his bishop ordering him to move ...

The fierce dispute over whether to face the altar during part of the Mass has been exacerbated by recent curial appointments made by the archdiocese’s apostolic administrator. (L-R) Bishops’ circular ...

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The Eastern-rite Syro-Malabar Church appears on the brink of a split with dissident Catholics in a southern Indian archdiocese refusing to say the synod-approved Mass on Sunday in open defiance of a ...

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 ...

Cardinal George Alencherry of India, major archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, in a 2012 photo. (Credit: Gregory A. Shemitz/Long Island Catholic via CNS.) Listen MUMBAI – In what amounts ...

A Sunday Mass celebration inside a Hindu temple complex has intensified the rivalry between two Catholic rites in a New Delhi parish. On Sept. 24, the day after the Syro-Malabar Mass in a banquet hall ...

The announcement said the “uniform” or unified system of celebrating the Mass will come into effect starting on Nov. 28, the Feast of the Annunciation. A liturgy at St. Mary’s Syro-Malabar Major ...