Syro-Malabar Church responds to comments by Crux editor

Editor’s Note: During a recent episode of “Last Week in the Church,” Crux editor John Allen’s weekly video and podcast, Allen made some comments regarding ongoing tensions in India’s Syro-Malabar Church, an eastern church in communion with Rome. Those comments brought a detailed response from Archbishop Joseph Pamplany, who chairs the church’s Commission for Media….

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Did India let down the maharajahs?

On the eve of Indian independence in 1947, India’s 562 princes occupied nearly half its landmass and ruled over a third of its population. As Britain’s most loyal allies, they were virtually untouchable – only those who committed the most heinous of crimes were censured, or, in the rarest of cases, removed. In the endgame…

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