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Filling the Void: The Church’s Response to Mental Health

October 18, 2024 Team ICM Healthcare

By Lavoisier Fernandes – In the Catholic Community discourse, despite its significant impact on parish and community settings and individual families, mental health does not

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Courageous Souls: Battling Illness with Grace

July 22, 2024 Team ICM Family, Healthcare

Tom Thomas – “Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though

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Keeping the Sabbath: Balancing Physical Exercise and Spiritual Renewal on a Sunday

July 17, 2024 Team ICM Healthcare

By Tom Thomas – “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God,

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Gluttony: The Most Dangerous Vice

January 17, 2024 Team ICM Healthcare

By Tom Thomas. As far as I can remember, I have struggled with my weight for most of my life.  Always on the heavier side,

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St. John’s Medical College Jubilee Celebrations: Slew of Services Soon, India Post Releases Special Cover

August 12, 2023 Team ICM Education, Healthcare, News

Verghese V Joseph – Bengaluru: One can take a Johnite out of St John’s but you can’t take John out of a Johnite! That pretty

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What ‘Birth Control Pills’ Are Doing to Your Body

March 10, 2023 Team ICM Catholic Culture, Healthcare

By Fr Joshan Rodrigues – Most people have heard about ‘Birth control pills’ or the ‘Morning-after pill’ or ‘oral contraceptives’, but not many know how

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Part III: Healing and Forgiveness

February 28, 2023 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality, Healthcare

By Prof. Joy Philip Kakkanattu, CMI – In the Bible, healing and forgiveness are interrelated. This does not imply that all maladies are the result

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Part II: New Testament Understanding on Healing

February 27, 2023 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality, Healthcare

By Prof. Joy Philip Kakkanattu, CMI – The book of Job dwells more on the suffering caused by sickness and the resultant social alienation. It

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Part I: A Biblical-Historical Perspective of Healing Ministry of the Church

February 26, 2023 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality, Healthcare

By Prof. Joy Philip Kakkanattu, CMI – The Bible can be understood as the written document of the memory of the people of God about

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Our Lady of Lourdes and World Day of the Sick

February 10, 2023 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality, Healthcare

By Leon Bent – Our Lady of Lourdes is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary, venerated in honour of the Marian apparitions

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Why St. Joseph (Naik) Vaz “Matters” to Indian Catholics

January 15, 2023 Team ICM Catholic Culture, COVID-19, Healthcare

By Filomena Saraswati Giese – We are at the crossroads of where the Church is heading as great changes take place in independent countries free

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The Food, Mind and Faith Connection

November 23, 2022 Team ICM Healthcare

Dr. Jobby George – We are all aware that food has multiple nutrients to nourish each and every cell in the body. Details of which

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Assam Medical College – Sisters of Charity & Nursing Care: A Saga of Love and Service

November 10, 2022 Team ICM Features, Healthcare

By Allen Brookes – The 75th Dimond Jubilee of Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh a pioneer health care institution of the North East and Assam in

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12 Kids Diagnosed With Leprosy in 15 Days, St Francis Leprosy Guild CEO Fears the Worst

November 4, 2022 Team ICM Healthcare, News

Verghese V Joseph – While the Indian city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) is showing resilience in overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic, recent news from Mumbai, home

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Saints for Today: Martin de Porres and Rupert Mayer

November 3, 2022 Team ICM Healthcare

By Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ – Come 3 November, the Church celebrates the memory of two outstanding men, both worthy of emulation: Martin de Porres

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