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We Have a Pope: American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost OSA Becomes Pope Leo XIV

May 8, 2025 Team ICM News

Verghese V Joseph – In a historic and jubilant moment on Thursday evening, May 8, 2025, the faithful gathered in overwhelming numbers filled St. Peter’s

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Goa’s Holy Family Sisters Begin Devotion for Founder Fr. Faustino’s Recognition

May 5, 2025 Team ICM News

Sr. Molly Fernandes sfn – Sancoale, Goa: On April 24, 2025, the Holy Family Sisters officially inaugurated public devotion to their founder, Fr. Faustino de

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Confluence of Festivals Celebrated at Pilar, Goa

May 4, 2025 Team ICM News

By Fr Elvis Fernandes, SFX – Pillar (Goa): Followers of seven Faith traditions converged on the Pilar hillock to celebrate their respective festivals on 3

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Celebrating Bandel Basilica’s May Feast: A Living Testament of Over 400 Years of Faith and Heritage

May 4, 2025 Team ICM News

Soroj Mullick SDB – Bandel, May 4, 2025: The annual May Feast, a significant event for Bandel Basilica Parish and the Archdiocese of Calcutta, was

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Mary’s Light Guides Our Journey To God

May 2, 2025 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

Our faith is woven through Scripture, Mary stands as a luminous thread, her life a testament to unwavering trust in divine promise. When the angel

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A Simple End

May 2, 2025 Team ICM Reflections

Tom Thomas – Walking through a cemetery can be quite educative.  Reading the various inscriptions on the headstones, one can get an idea of the

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The Dignity of Work Transcends Our Economic Systems

May 1, 2025 Team ICM Family

In an era where labor is increasingly reduced to productivity metrics and profit margins, Saint Joseph the Worker stands as a powerful counterexample that reminds

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Legacy of Saint Joseph

May 1, 2025 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

Jacqueline Kelly – Saint Joseph is considered to be “the most hidden of the saints”. Nazareth, Jerusalem and Bethlehem were the three scenes in which

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Ordained to Serve: Archdiocese of Goa and Daman Welcomes 8 New Priests

April 30, 2025 Team ICM News

By Br. Malvino Alfonso OCD & Photos by Anthony Dias – The Archdiocese of Goa and Daman on Wednesday joyously welcomed eight new priests into

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United in Spirit: Mumbai Gathers to Pay Tributes to Pope Francis

April 25, 2025 Team ICM News

Mumbai, India – The Archdiocese of Bombay held a significant interfaith prayer service on April 25, 2025, at 11:30 a.m. at the Archbishop House Conference

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Francis, The Endearing Ecumenical Pope

April 25, 2025 Team ICM Features

Fr. Tom Mangattuthazhe – As the world mourns, not just for the passing of a pope, but for the departure of a shepherd who truly

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The Influence of St Ignatius and St Francis on Franciscus

April 24, 2025 Team ICM Features

Tom Thomas – Easter Monday my world turns upside down in the afternoon.  I receive the news from the ICM Editor, almost at the instant

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Saint Joseph Vaz canonization procession. Picture by: Filomena Saraswatif Giese

Pope Francis Died on the Birthday of St. Joseph Vaz

April 24, 2025 Team ICM Features

By Filomena Saraswatif Giese, Joseph Naik Vaz Institute – The commentaries on the life and death of Pope Francis have been about his life and

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Prophets Don’t Die, They Multiply: Pope Francis, the Struggle for Power, and the Church’s Missed Revolution

April 23, 2025 Team ICM Features

James Pochury – The Morning After: Grief, Memory, and a Piercing Realization The news of Pope Francis’s passing came quietly, amid the clamour of a

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After Francis, Who?

April 23, 2025 Team ICM Features

(Extracts from the book “The Jerusalem Code” published in January 2021) # chhotebhai – Focus now shifted to the Camerlengo (the papal custodian till the

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