The appointment of a Vatican re-presentative, who arrived to help find a solution to the lingering liturgical dispute in India’s eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church, has turned contro-versial after a section of Catholics maintained that his papal delegation itself is suspect.
Jesuit Archbishop Cyril Vasil of Slovakia arrived at the Church’s base in southern Kerala state on Aug. 4. But a group of Catholics in the Chur-ch’s Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdio-cese say his letter of appointment from the Vatican is not made available to the archdiocese, nor published anywhere.