Pope Francis recently named Archbishop Cyril Vasil’, SJ, of Kosice (Slovakia) as pontifical delegate to resolve the bitter liturgical dispute that has divided the Major Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly in India’s Syro-Malabar Catholic Church.
Lay protestors from the cathedral of the Syro-Malabar Ernakulam-Angamaly archeparchy have burned copies of a letter from Archbishop Andrews Thazath, the archdiocese’s apostolic administrator, ordering the cathedral vicar to adopt an ad orientem posture in celebrating the Eucharistic liturgy.