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The Year of St Joseph: A Catholic Dad’s Perspective

December 13, 2020 Team ICM Family

By Tom Thomas – I was astounded to know a couple of days ago that the Holy Father Pope Francis has dedicated the whole year

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Marriage Lived on Earth, But Child Gifted By God!

October 28, 2020 Team ICM Family

By Tricia & Grenville Noronha – My wife Tricia and I were married on January 15, 2010 after going around for nearly three years. I’ve

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Vatican Reiterates its Stand Against Euthanasia

September 22, 2020 Team ICM Family, News

By Verghese V Joseph – At the Tuesday Press Conference, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith presented the publication of a letter approved

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Son Dear!  How Can You Do That to Mom and Dad?

September 9, 2020 Team ICM Family, Youth

By Teresa Joseph fma September 10 has been remembered as World Suicide Prevention Day in partnership with the International Association for Suicide Prevention and the

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Clinical Psychologist Salesian Priest’s Teachers’ Day Gift

September 5, 2020 Team ICM Education, Family

By Verghese V Joseph – Mumbai: A Salesian priest has come up with an unique online episodic video-series titled ‘Understanding and Helping Children with Learning

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ICM Anniversary Special: Matrimony the School of Parenting Extraordinaire

July 28, 2020 Team ICM Family

By Lorraine and Leon Bent – The couple has been a part of Worldwide Marriage Encounter (India), Mumbai, for 39 years. They have held several

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What is Average to Man is Amazing to God!

May 1, 2020 Team ICM Family

By Christina V – You are precious to Me and I love you. – Isaiah 43:4 Rejection lead to depression I longed to be loved,

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IWD: Hand-in-Hand, Equal, Enlightened, Empowered

March 7, 2020 Team ICM Family

By Francis Gonsalves, SJ – A swollen-headed man asked his wife: “How come you’re so stupid and so beautiful at one and the same time?”

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Fatherhood – The Necessity of a Strong Spousal Relationship

February 19, 2020 Team ICM Family

By Adrian Stevens  – “The most important thing a father could do for his children is to love their mother. ” – Rev Fr.Theodore Hesburg

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Suicide and The Teen

February 18, 2020 Team ICM Family, Healthcare

By Marianne Furtado de Nazareth – The shock was palpable across the class. One of the students had taken his life – to put it

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The Love-Life of God Inside a Couple

February 16, 2020 Team ICM Family

By Lorraine & Leon Bent – Catholic Marriage is a fountainhead of showers of blessings over a lifetime. It has four aspects: Sacrament, Covenant, Ministry

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Parents Should Accompany Children and Youth as They Grow

August 7, 2019 Team ICM Family

By Most Reverend Prakash Mallavarapu Archbishop of Visakhapatnam – Children are the gift of God to the parents and to the entire family! Giving birth

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Parenting: Sure Path to Holiness

July 29, 2019 Team ICM Family

By Lorraine & Leon Bent The call to love is “the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being” (Familiaris Consortio) In the vocation of

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Pro-life Heroes: To Love is to Live

July 26, 2019 Team ICM Family

By Dr Jeanette Pinto – I taught Anoop Chakravarthy a spastic student, the subject of History at the undergraduate level at St. Xavier’s College Mumbai

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The Roles of a Dad: The Many Hats I Wear!

June 17, 2019 Team ICM Family

By Chris D’Souza – Dad, in preparation for this Father’s Day, would you like to do a small exercise?  Pick up a piece of paper

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Message of the Holy Father Leo XIV to the Bishops' Conference of France on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the canonization of Saint John Eudes, Saint John Mary Vianney, and Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus (28 May 2025)
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Greeting of the Holy Father to the S.S.C. Napoli football team (27 May 2025)
26.05.2025
Greeting of the Holy Father at the end of the Mass presided over by Card. Arinze, on the occasion of the Jubilee Pilgrimage for Peace in Africa (26 May 2025)
25.05.2025
Visit to the Basilica of St. Mary Major and veneration of the Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary 'Salus Populi Romani' (25 May 2025)
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25.05.2025
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