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Category: Catholic Culture
Mangaloreans Celebrate Record-Breaking Monthi Festh 2026 in New Jersey
Verghese V Joseph – The Mangalorean Catholic Association of the East Coast (MCA-EC) has etched a new milestone in its 17-year journey with a historic,
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A Question About 1963 Finds Its Answer
“Should we really be calling this twenty-five years?” The question came quietly, almost apologetically, at a community meeting. It was honest. The missionary story of
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Delegation: A Forgotten Ecclesial Art
Fr. Sebastian James, SJ Why Church-run institutions must recover a practice rooted in Scripture and their own traditions At a closed-door meeting of major superiors,
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Mary’s Crown Reveals What Every Person Is Worth
Every August 22, Catholics mark a strange feast: a peasant girl from a town nobody respected gets crowned above every angel and saint in existence.
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Justice Sunday: ‘Justice Begins with Us!’
It is heart-warming that the Catholic Church in India will observe 23 August as ‘Justice Sunday’. The theme is ‘Justice Begins with Us’ (Is 1:17).
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The Church Under Persecution: Father Józef Grasewicz, the Survival of Faith in Soviet Belarus, and the Story of the Divine Mercy Image
On 23 August 1939, Nazi Germany and the USSR concluded a non-aggression pact that, in reality, constituted a political and military alliance aimed at bringing
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Celebrating the Oak Jubilee of Br. Maurice Baptist Finn cfc
Subhasis Chattopadhyay Ph.D. Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice was a man for the poor and this was stressed in the liturgy of the Holy Mass celebrated
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Sister Agnes Also Celebrated Independence Day
My friend’s grandmother went to a convent school in a small town in Kerala that no longer exists — the building was converted into something
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N-E India: The Role of Christianity in Preserving Tani Identity and Culture
Luke Rimmo Mingkeng Lego – When people speak of Tani’s identity and culture, it would often not be complete without mentioning the churches, particularly the
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Beyond Sports: Pope Leo XIV’s June Intention
“Let us pray that sport is a tool for peace, encounter, and dialogue between different cultures and peoples, that it instils values such as respect,
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Holiness Off the Beaten Path: Servant of God, Lay Missionary, Helena Kmieć
Helena Kmieć comes from Libiąż, a town west of Kraków. Poles have only a vague sense of where it is. Let us be honest: most
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Commending Our Spirit: Sleep as Rehearsal for Eternity
We often treat sleep as a mechanical necessity—a simple recharging of the batteries. For the Christian, however, the passage from waking to sleeping is a
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The Fire We Have Domesticated
There is something almost embarrassing about the way Pentecost gets observed. Candles were lit, hymns were sung, and a brief homily about unity was given;
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Amazing (F)acts
# chhotebhai – During Eastertide, till the Ascension, the daily Mass readings are invariably taken from the Acts of the Apostles. Some of these acts
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