Special Correspondent KOCHI
Over 50,000 faithful and priests from 320 parishes of the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese of the Syro-Malabar Church turned up at the Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium here on Sunday to attend a convention that sought transparency and accountability in the functioning of the archdiocese.
The faithful registered protest at Archbishop Antony Kariyil being “forced” to resign and the synod “imposing” the order of worship in churches under the archdiocese. The other demands included steps to recoup through restitution the huge sums of money that the archdiocese allegedly lost through a controversial land deal, and giving due prominence to the opinions of Church members and organisations.
Resolution
In a resolution passed at the convention, the faithful termed the archdiocese their ‘mother’. Any attempt to impose alien concepts and repressive measures would be fought tooth and nail. They reiterated their demand for transparency and their commitment to opposing at any cost attempts [by the synod] to derail the order of worship wherein the priest faced the congregation, that had been followed for the past many decades.
Pursue cases
Another demand is that the apostolic administrator continue pursuing the cases filed by the archdiocese before the supreme tribunal of the Vatican during the time of Archbishop Kariyil, and the inclusion of priests who have sound knowledge of canon laws to pursue the case.
The resolution warned that the faithful would not cooperate with the archdiocese if they were kept away from daily administrative matters.
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