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 , ...

The leaders of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church want to introduce a uniform liturgy — but the process is not going smoothly. It’s difficult for Catholics who are unfamiliar with the Syro-Malabar ...

On Sunday Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the bishop of the Syro-Malabar Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Chicago, and appointed his auxiliary, Bishop Joy Alappatt, as his successor.

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, ...

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: Major archbishop of the Syro Malabar Church, Mar Raphael Thattil, along with synod secretary archbishop Mar Joseph ...

The ongoing conflict within the Syro-Malabar Church over the celebration of Mass, coupled with its regrettable political spillover, demands the sincere attention of the entire Indian Church. This is a ...

A new ultimatum to the rebels by Major Archbishop Thattil and the apostolic administrator of the Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese. The date chosen is that of the feast of the Apostle Thomas, to whose ...

MUMBAI – A papal delegate to the Syro-Malabar Church has made clear that his role is not to mediate a liturgical dispute that has left the church’s largest archdiocese effectively paralyzed for months ...

Kochi/Thrissur: Syro-Malabar Church, in its post synod circular on Friday, made some relaxations in its earlier circular that warned priests that they would be ipso facto out of the Catholic communion ...

Six years ago, when Marianne Alapat was a high school student in Yonkers, N.Y., she stood in her church's Bronx community hall and tried to convince the assembled Indian immigrants that they should ...