The day the Syro-Malabar 'liturgy war' didn’t end

July 3 marked the deadline for the acceptance of the Eastern Church’s new uniform liturgy.

July 3, 2024, was supposed to be the day that the decades-long liturgy dispute in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church finally ended.

A sparse congregation attends the new uniform Eucharistic liturgy at St. Joseph’s Church, Madakkal, in the Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly. Courtesy photo.

Not with a compromise, but with a declaration that hundreds of priest…