The head of the India-based Syro-Malabar Church, Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil, says the resolutions reached last week ...

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 Archbishop Raphael Thattil and his vicar Mar Joseph Pamplani on Thursday proposed a solution to the ongoing liturgical ...

London, England, Dec 8, 2021 / 03:10 am. The leaders of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church want to introduce a uniform liturgy — but the process is not going smoothly.

KOCHI, India — Major Archbishop Cardinal George Alencherry launched the “uniform liturgy” of the Syro-Malabar Church (SMC) he heads, at St. Mary’s Basilica of Ernakulam in Kochi on April ...

A recent emergency meeting of the synod of the Syro-Malabar Church, made up of Cardinal George Alencherry and leading bishops, backed the uniform method for celebrating the Mass and called for its ...

The Syro-Malabar Church hopes to resolve disputes over the liturgy in its primatial diocese by early next month.

Major Archbishop Thattil and Vicar Pamplany have decided that, in the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly, it will be ...

A lingering liturgical dispute in an Eastern Rite Church in India has been resolved, ending decades of controversies that ...

The dispute is not about how the priest celebrates Mass. The synod of the Eastern Rite Syro-Malabar Church, the church's governing body, in August 2021 decided to implement a uniform mode for Mass ...

A lay delegation from the Syro-Malabar Church met Pope Francis in Rome earlier this month, to present the case of opponents of the “uniform rite” of the Church’s liturgy sanctioned by the ...

The new liturgy being introduced within India's Syro-Malabar Church will require the celebrant to face the congregation and the tabernacle at different times of the Mass. Thursday, June 05, 2025 A ...