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Syro-Malabar Catholic Church

Indian archbishop given police escort as Vatican rules out new ‘liturgical variant’

A bishop was given a police escort Thursday, as liturgical disagreements in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church continue.

Luke Coppen
Sep 30, 2022
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Indian archbishop given police escort as Vatican rules out new ‘liturgical variant’

An Indian archbishop was given a police escort when he left a meeting with clergy Thursday, after the Vatican instructed him to introduce a new mode of celebrating the liturgy “without further delays.”

Archbishop Andrews Thazath was accompanied by police as he left a presbyteral council meeting in the Syro-Malabar Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly on Sep…

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