Protesters burn archbishop’s letter calling for end to liturgy dispute

The majority of clergy in the Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese reject the ‘uniform mode’ of the Syro-Malabar Eucharistic liturgy.

Indian Catholics burned Saturday an archbishop’s letter instructing parishes to implement a new mode of celebrating the liturgy.

Laymen were pictured Oct. 1 setting light to the circular letter from Archbishop Andrews Thazhath outside Bishop’s House in Ernakulum, southern India.

Archbishop Thazhath, the apostolic administrator of the Archeparchy of Ernaku…