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How 40 Days of Lent Can Make Me a Better Leader

February 15, 2024 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Tom Thomas – Each year Lent rolls around, we get an opportunity to retreat a bit from the world, enter the state of solitude

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Lenten Journey for Youth: The Word in Lent – Ash Wednesday

February 14, 2024 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Fr. Antony Christy, SDB – February 14: Through the desert, to Freedom… God leads us. Joel 2: 12-18; 2 Corinthians 5:20 – 6:2; Matthew

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Ash Wednesday: Thou Art Dust

February 14, 2024 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Jacqueline Kelly – Easter is the greatest of all feasts. We have two periods of preparation for it, called Pre-Lent and Lent. Pre-Lent begins

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St. Chavara: Saint and Poet

February 9, 2024 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Br. Rojan Babu – Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara (10 February 1805 – 3 January 1871) was the founder of two indigenous religious congregations in

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Pope Francis and his Obsession for the Blessed Virgin Mary

January 21, 2024 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Lavoisier Fernandes. Since his election in 2013 and till date, Pope Francis has made 44 apostolic trips abroad and has spent 191 days travelling

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The Spiritual Struggles of a Christian

January 8, 2024 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Tom Thomas. There are a lot of struggles in the life of a Christian.  It certainly is not an easy life, akin to almost

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Decluttering ‘Fiducia Supplicans’ and the Controversy Around Gay Blessings

December 20, 2023 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Lavoisier Fernandes. The Holy Father has been in the headlines again after the Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith (DDF) published a declaration  “Fiducia

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‘Amen’ and Its Impact on Personality Trait

November 8, 2023 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Fr Mathew Thankachen O.Praem. A person’s personality and social network are influenced not only by their familial and social background at a particular era

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Are We Religious or Spiritual?

November 6, 2023 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By M L Satyan. A few months ago, I read a news report about four nuns of a religious congregation taking their final vows in

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Tales from Prison: The Magic of ‘Our Father’ Prayer

October 25, 2023 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Fr. Sebastian Vadakumpadan – There was a sharing by a nun at the Delhi convention of Prison Ministry – India. She was a regular

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Cardiologist of the Eucharist!

October 10, 2023 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Dr. Gerard Abreo, MD – On August 28th, 2023, my daughter Rachel was being confirmed in Houston, TX, alongside more than forty youths. As

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Divine Garland of Roses: Why Recite the Rosary?

October 6, 2023 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Leon Bent – I have been saying the Liberation Rosary for more than 20 years, every single day, together with the Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious

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Communion in the Hand Versus Communion on the Tongue?

October 1, 2023 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Lavoisier Fernandes – In the Catholic community discourse the typical hot-button issues are abortion, inter-religious dialogue, celibacy, euthanasia, and gay marriage. Nevertheless, there is

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Angels: Ambassadors to Our Rescue

September 29, 2023 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

Sr. Molly Fernandes sfn – The Catholic Church celebrates the feasts of the Archangels on 29th September while the feast of Guardian Angel is celebrated

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The Angels: Princes of Paradise

September 28, 2023 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Jacqueline Kelly – God has created powerful beings who are wholly spirit, the angels. God created the angels in His love, to look upon

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Message of the Holy Father for the 9th World Day of the Poor [16 November 2025] (13 June 2025)
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To the Clergy of the Diocese of Rome (12 June 2025)
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To Participants in the Jubilee and the Meeting of Pontifical Representatives (10 June 2025)
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14.06.2025
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