Cardinal George Alencherry, Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church. / Rahul Payyappilly via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Kochi, India, Mar 18, 2022 / 08:33 am (CNA).A Catholic archdiocese in India condemned the burning of effigies of two cardinals on Thursday by laypeople opposed to the introduction of a uniform liturgy in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church.Lay activists set fire to effigies of Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, the prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Eastern Churches, and Cardinal George Alencherry, the Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church, on March 17 in Kochi, southwestern India.Photos and videos shared on social media showed flames rising from two figures dressed in white cassocks with red fascias, or sashes, the customary dress for bishops in the Syro-Malabar Church.The incident took place in front of a renewal center in the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese.The archdiocese s spokesman Father Mathew Kilukkan said on March 17: "The attempt to burn the eff.