Cardinal George Alencherry after being given his distinctive red hat by Pope Benedict XVI. Getty Images.
ROME – Though it’s always presumptuous to assert what Pope Francis must be thinking, I’m still willing to bet good money that when he sat about the “synodalization” of Catholicism, the current tempest raging in India’s Syro-Malabar Church is not exactly what he had in mind.
The irony is that the Syro-Malabar Church is already governed by a synod, but one which its critics accuse of behaving in anything but a synodal fashion.
