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The Deeper Meaning of Advent

December 15, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Leon Bent – Don’t overlook deeper meaning of Advent! Don’t Rush – First Things First: It is important not to skip this first step.

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Mary: God’s Champion Pro-Lifer

December 11, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Dr Jeanette Pinto – God is the author of the gift of life, and the Universal Church has consistently held this pro-life stance. Life

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Incarnation: The Mystery of Jesus

December 9, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Most Rev. Dr. A. Stephen, Bishop of Tuticorin – Christmas has become world renowned festival because of its centrality on one man known as

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International Day of Persons With Disabilities

December 3, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Leon Bent – International days are occasions to educate the public on issues of concern, to mobilize political will and resources to address global

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St. Francis Xavier: Fearless Missionary for Christ

December 2, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Leon Bent – St. Francis Xavier, Spanish San Francisco Javier or Xavier, Navarre [Spain] feast day December 3, the greatest Roman Catholic missionary of

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Let the Little Children Know God

December 2, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Subhasis Chattopadhyay – December has come, and the world gets ready to greet another Christmas. But there are no Christmases and no Santa Clauses

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The People’s King

November 23, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Fr Joshan Rodrigues – Monarchy and Kingship are outdated concepts in today’s times though vestiges of it continue to exist in the largely ceremonial

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Christ, The King!

November 23, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Leon Bent – On the last Sunday of each liturgical year, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the

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St. Pope Clement I: Champion of Orthodoxy

November 22, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Leon Bent – The memory of St. Clement has been surrounded with a peculiar glory from the very beginning of the Roman Church. After

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Prison Ministry India Jubilee: ‘I Was in Prison, You Visited Me’

November 21, 2019 Team ICM Best of ICM, Features

By Verghese V Joseph – Bengaluru: Prison Ministry India (PMI), a national voluntary organisation, working for the welfare of prisoners all over India under the

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The Presentation of Mary

November 21, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Leon Bent – Mary’s presentation was celebrated in Jerusalem in the sixth century. A church was built there in honour of this mystery. Although

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Third World Day of the Poor: Need to Examine Our Conscience

November 17, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Leon Bent – Pope Francis thinks aloud, “At the end of the Jubilee of Mercy, I want to offer the Church, a “World Day

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World Day of the Poor: Are We Responding to the Cries of the Poor?

November 17, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Fr. Cedric Prakash, SJ – In 2017, Pope Francis dedicated a special day, to be observed by the Universal Church, every year, as the

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St Leo The Great

November 10, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Leon Bent – November 10 is the Roman Catholic Church’s liturgical memorial of the fifth-century Pope Saint Leo I, known as “St. Leo the

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Missionaries and Their Mission

November 6, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Rev Prakash Mallavarapu Archbishop of Visakhapatnam – Within the limits of the unique persons that each of us are we have to keep striving

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Greeting of the Holy Father to the S.S.C. Napoli football team (27 May 2025)
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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)
25.05.2025
Eucharistic Celebration and formal Installation of Pope Leo XIV on the Episcopal See (25 May 2025)
25.05.2025
Greeting of the Holy Father at the end of the Eucharistic Celebration on the occasion of his installation on the Chair of Bishop of Rome (25 May 2025)
25.05.2025
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