Paul Chully News Today

As Catholics in southern India resist the Syro-Malabar Synod's decision requiring the priest to face the altar during parts of Mass, sisters pray for a peaceful ending to the decades long dispute.

As a dispute over how to celebrate the liturgy embroils India's Syro-Malabar Church — one of the Catholic Church's Eastern Catholic churches  — sisters continue parish ministries and holding catechism classes.