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This is what happens when Latin practises forced on Eastern Churches for centuries replace authentic and venerable traditions.

JPII exhorted all of the Eastern Churches in communion with Rome to return to the customs and traditions of their original mother Churches. He did this in the Apostolic Letter "Orientale Lumen" (21) of 1995. This largely ignored letter, as far as the West is concerned, could and should be the guide for the Syro Malabar Church.

But if the dissident separatists are going to ignore the directives of a living pope why should they pay attention to the letter of a dead pope?

In attending the Liturgies of the Syro Malabar, the Maronite and the Coptic Churches, latinizations abound...

These become hybrid "Churches," mish mashes of some elements from their authentic traditions and poorly adapted Latin practices.

For the most part it is the clergy of these Churches that resist restoration of authenticity.

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