The COVID-19 pandemic that killed millions worldwide is also blamed for a liturgical dispute that has shaken the largest of India's two Eastern churches. The dispute in the Syro-Malabar Church, the ...

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, ...

Over the last few weeks, the Catholic liturgical community has experienced significant papal intervention. The pope's letter includes a specific exhortation to the Syro-Malabar Church, echoing ...

Calling for at least one synodal Mass to be celebrated in each of the parishes on Sundays and other obligatory days, the plan allows the continuation of the existing liturgy facing the people. A ...

A Catholic priest from the Eastern Rite Syro-Malabar Church has announced his decision to resign from parish ministries, refusing to celebrate a liturgy, which requires him to face the altar in part.

Seminarians are pictured in a file photo praying at St. Joseph Pontifical Seminary of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church in India’s Kerala state. (Credit: CNS photo/Msgr. John E. Kozar, courtesy of ...

MUMBAI, India – A hunger strike by several priests of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Rite has been condemned by the Eastern Church’s synod. Father Joyce Kaithakottil of the Archdiocese Ernakulam-Angamaly ...