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It’s Time to Bell the Cat – Revisiting Human Traditions

November 28, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr. Warner D’Souza – My dear friend, the late Fr Larry Pereira always said that religion is like a river; at its source it

Parables for Today: Why Not Me?

November 27, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture, Offbeat

By Fr. Joe Mannath, SDB — Last May, I met someone who impressed me a great deal. This is how we met. A parishioner I

Sharing Supper With Our Lord

November 23, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Jacqueline Colaco – I was perusing through ancestral photographs to post milestone family occasions on Facebook. Many of these centred round cake cutting ceremonies

A Catholic Perspective on Arranged Marriages

November 23, 2017 Team ICM Best of ICM, Catholic Culture

By Susanna D – The concept of arranged marriages is as fascinating and repulsive to the Western world, as it is natural and normal to

Want to Overcome Anxiety and Fear?

November 21, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr Warner D’Souza – A few years ago I learnt how to overcome fear and anxiety, and that too in a hospital. I happened

Brother Cal: The Saintly Man

November 20, 2017 Team ICM Best of ICM, Catholic Culture

By Subhasis Chattopadhyay – Orphans stink of poverty and misfortune. The ambitious who intern at orphanages move on to greener pastures. Those who run orphanages

In Solidarity with the Poor: Wakeup Call for Catholics!

November 18, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr. Cedric Prakash, SJ – Pope Francis has invited the Catholic Church and the entire world, to observe 19 November as the ‘World Day of

World Day of the Poor: Reach Out, Urges Pope Francis

November 17, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Holy Father Pope Francis – At the conclusion of the Jubilee of Mercy, I wanted to offer the Church a World Day of the

Instead of a Cell Phone, How About a Cross By Your Bedside?

November 17, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr. Sebastian Vadakumpadan – One day we visited a convent to meet the Superior. I rang the bell and waited. Immediately a kitchen girl

Parables for Today: Marriage as Heaven

November 12, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr. Joe Mannath, SDB Tony, a close friend of mine since our university studies, is married, and has two college-going children. This is how

Avarice: The Colourful Deceit of Money

November 6, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr Jacob Arimpur, VC – St Thomas Aquinas defines avarice as the unreasonable or immoderate desire for riches. It is a cardinal sin and

A Wedding (Feast) to Remember!

October 31, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr Warner D’Souza – Last Sunday, parishioners at a Mumbai church participated wholeheartedly in an unusual celebration of sorts — parish feast coupled with