Representatives of the Syro-Malabar Church’s Synod of Bishops met yesterday with clergy opposed to the introduction of liturgical reforms. The meeting in Kochi, southern India, brought together members of a committee appointed by the synod — the Church’s governing body — and senior priests of the Ernakulam-Angamaly archdiocese, who reject the new “uniform mode” of the Syro-Malabar Church’s Eucharistic liturgy. We shall see what, if any, tangible progress the new round of talks can make in what has become one of the most bitter and implacable disputes in the Church.