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By David Asta Alares New Delhi, Aug 25 (EFE).- Which direction should the priest face while offering mass: the altar or the devotees? this question has sharply divided around half a million Catholics belonging to India’s Syro-Malabar Church. Amid threats of excommunication and fierce protests – including objects being thrown towards the Slovakian archbishop sent …
The Syro-Malabar Catholic Major Archeparchy of Ernakulam–Angamaly has begun to discipline priests who have defied the Syro-Malabar hierarchy’s decision to return to the tradition of celebrating the sacred liturgy facing the east, rather than facing the people.
The clergy of the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly contest Pope Francis' envoy who does not want to reopen the discussion on the unified liturgy. He was only allowed to enter the cathedral escorted by the police. Vasil:
“One among the bishops … agitated about what he called ‘presbyterocracy’ wanted by all means to establish ‘episcopocracy’,” Father Kuriakose Mundadan wrote. “Such people are power crazy, it was simply seen as a threat to power, nothing else.”