The Syro-Malabar Catholic Church is in fresh turmoil this week, after its leader faced protests over fraud allegations against him.
Cardinal George Alencherry (pictured with Pope Francis) met several priests after they went on a hunger strike in protest at his alleged mishandling of a land deal.
Cardinal Alencherry says he is innocent, and the Indian bishops have defended him. But he has avoided a direct public response to the allegations: according to recent reports, he says that a public response would only have added to the unseemly squabble which threatens to engulf the Syro-Malabar community.
