Kochi, Jan 5, 2020: The question whether the celebrant should face the congregation (westward) or eastward during Mass, a bone of contention in the Syro-Malabar Church for several decades, is back in focus again. On the agenda of the Church synod meeting at St. Thomas Mount in Kochi, headquarters ofContinue Reading
KOCHI, Dec 13 2019: The Kerala high court on Dec 13 stayed further proceedings before Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Kakkanad against cardinal George Alencherry in the case related to Syro Malabar Church land-sale row. Justice Ashok Menon issued a stay for one month after considering during admission hearing aContinue Reading
KOCHI, Nov 19 2019: In an ambitious attempt to move with the times and make its services, religious and otherwise, available at the ‘fingertips’ of believers, the Syro-Malabar church is launching an app for each of its roughly 3,500 parishes – the church has already come out with custom madeContinue Reading
By Varghese Vayalamannil Devasia Jolly Joseph is a member of the Kerala-based Syro-Malabar Church who was recently arrested for killing her husband and five other members of his family over a period of 14 years. The disclosure of the killings through cyanide poisoning has shocked the Kerala society with manyContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, Sept. 30, 2019: A group of Syro Malabar Catholics in a Delhi locality has found a place to pray five years after a mysterious fire gutted a Latin church they shared. “Thank God we have a place for our own now. We were movingContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi, August 30, 2019: The Vatican Congregation for Oriental Churches has expressed grave concern over the “sad events” in the management of the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly in Kerala, India. The “attitudes of some priests and laity have provoked and continue to cause a lot ofContinue Reading
By Valson Thampu Thiruvananthapuram, July 16, 2019: Two media headlines on July 15 made significant reading. The first pertained to the struggle of a sizable segment of the priests and laity of the Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese against what they deem to be the dubious and indefensible involvement of Cardinal George AlencherryContinue Reading
Kochi, July 4: The permanent synod of the Syro-Malabar Church will meet here on Friday, July 5 to discuss the repercussions of the open revolt by around 250 priests against the reinstatement of Cardinal George Alencherry as the head of the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese. Jacob Manathodath, who was appointed as ApostolicContinue Reading
By Jeemon Jacob Thiruvananthapuram, June 23, 2019: The 2,000-year-old Syro-Malabar Church, part of the Catholic fold in India, has never had it so bad. There seems to be a new controversy every day, including cases of corruption against the head of the church, Cardinal George Alencherry. It all started afterContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kochi, April 24, 2019: A faulty electronic voting machine on April 23 prevented Syro Malabar Major Archbishop Cardinal George Alencherry from voting. The cardinal arrived at 6:45 am at his booth to cast his vote. Polling was scheduled to begin at 7 am. “He was theContinue Reading
