The Church's other ‘liturgy war’

A Pillar special report

It is sometimes said that Pope Francis’ 2021 apostolic letter Traditionis custodes reignited the “liturgy wars” in the Catholic Church. 

A Syro-Malabar episcopal ordination in Preston, England, on Oct. 9, 2016. © Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk.

But for decades a liturgical dispute has raged within one of the most dynamic parts of the Catholic world. Its partis…