This church was "discovered" by Portuguese missionaries in the 16th century. After attempts to "latinize" the rite, many broke away to form their own rite under the control of the Syrian Patriarch.

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(Credit: Ben Curtis/AP.) Listen ROME – In a recent column in an Austrian newspaper, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, widely hailed as one of the Church’s most gifted intellectuals, has condemned ...

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