His exit from the highest office in the Kerala Church came in the wake of protests over introducing a uniform way of offering Mass and a dubious land deal.
Escono di scena il card. George Alencherry e l'amministratore apostolico di Ernakulam-Angamaly, mons. Andrews Thazhath. A gennaio il Sinodo eleggerà la nuova guida. Ma il pontefice rivolge anche un duro monito a chi continua a rifiutare il rito unificato della celebrazione eucaristica: \
Card George Alencherry and the Apostolic Administrator of Ernakulam-Angamaly, Archbishop Andrews Thazhath, have resigned. In January, the Synod will pick a new leader. The pontiff issued a tough warning to those who continue to reject the uniform rite of the Eucharistic celebration. “Do not force the competent ecclesiastical authority to acknowledge that you have left the Church,” Francis said.
One concrete fruit of the church’s ecological push came Nov. 22, when St. Joseph’s Parish in Ponkandam, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, was officially declared a “net zero” parish, having been certified as achieving zero net emissions.