Archeparchy’s fate uncertain as liturgy deadline passes

Pope Francis warned priests of possible excommunication if they failed to celebrate new liturgy

A Christmas Day deadline set by Pope Francis for the adoption of a new Eucharistic liturgy passed relatively quietly in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church’s Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly.

St. Mary’s Cathedral Basilica in Ernakulam, Kerala, India. Ricky19 via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The pope had urged priests of the archeparchy in the southern Indian s…