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  • Did God Create Cockroaches?

    # chhotebhai – Yes, cockroaches are the flavour of the season (yuck), thanks to the intemperate remarks of the CJI,

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    It seems to be a never-ending circle of hate, violence and war; destruction, division and discrimination. Today, corruption, exclusion and

  • What the Rosary Actually Does and Why I Wish Someone Had Told Me Sooner

    By Christina Hanna Paul – I was born and raised Catholic. Sunday Mass, the Rosary, Catechesis, I had it all

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    Recently, during a Catholic spiritual retreat, I met an elderly woman of about 75 years old. She shared one of

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    Magnifica Humanitas: Pope Leo XIV’s Moral Test for the Age of AI

    Janina Gomes – Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, arrives at a moment when the world is dazzled by

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    “Let us pray that sport is a tool for peace, encounter, and dialogue between different cultures and peoples, that it

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     Verghese V Joseph – In an extraordinary act of global Catholic unity, the first-ever Worldwide Marian Procession will bring together

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    Holiness Off the Beaten Path: Servant of God, Lay Missionary, Helena Kmieć

    Helena Kmieć comes from Libiąż, a town west of Kraków. Poles have only a vague sense of where it is.

  • Your Home Can Bear This Kind of Love

    There is a mother somewhere right now who has made breakfast, resolved an argument between two children before eight in

  • The Sin We Scroll Past: Calumny in the Age of Outrage

    By Lavoisier Fernandes – A rumor used to travel slowly. Someone would mention something after Mass, at work, or over

  • The Sacred Heart: Love This Honest Has to Hurt

    There is a priest somewhere right now who has said Mass three times this week for people he barely knows,

  • Pope Leo’s ‘Magnifica Humanitas’: “Be Human! Stay Human!”

     *Fr Cedric Prakash SJ –  On 25 May 2026, Pope Leo XIV released his first Encyclical ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ (Magnificient Humanity):  On

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Advent: Simplicity – the Rule of the Reign

December 10, 2025 Team ICM Advent

Second Thursday in Advent – December 11, 2025 Isaiah 41: 13-20; Matthew 11: 11-15 Daring to behold the Reign is, almost always, interpreted in terms

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Advent: Growing into the Flock of the Reign

December 9, 2025 Team ICM Advent

Second Tuesday in Advent – December 09, 2025 Isaiah 40: 1-11; Matthew 18: 12-14 One of the signs or consequences of daring to behold the

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Advent: Strengthened to Strive for the Reign

December 9, 2025 Team ICM Advent

Second Wednesday in Advent – December 10, 2025 Isaiah 40: 25-31; Matthew 11: 28-30 Daring to behold the Reign is the task entrusted to us

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Advent: The Immaculate Conception

December 8, 2025 Team ICM Advent

December 8, 2025: Genesis 3: 9-15, 20; Ephesians 1: 3-6, 11-12; Lk 1: 26-38 The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Our Blessed Mother –

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Advent: Dare to Behold the Reign

December 7, 2025 Team ICM Advent

December 7, 2025 – Second Sunday of Advent Isaiah 11:1-10; Romans 15: 4-9; Matthew 3: 1-12 Repent, for the Reign of God is close at

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Odisha: Annual Retreat ‘Reignite’ Spiritually Strengthens Priests

December 6, 2025 Team ICM News

By Purushottam Nayak – Visakhapatnam: The 50th Annual Retreat of priests from the Archdiocese of Cuttack-Bhubaneswar from the eastern Indian state of Odisha concluded recently

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Advent: Called to Work with the Reign

December 5, 2025 Team ICM Advent

First Saturday in Advent – December 6, 2025 Isaiah 30: 19-21, 23-26; Matthew 9:35 – 10:1,5,6-8 Freely you have received, freely you shall give –

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Odisha: St. Vincent de Paul Society Distributes Blankets to Needy in Kandhamal

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By Purushottam Nayak – Raikia, Kandhamal: As winter approaches each year, harsh temperatures pose severe challenges for people living on the margins of society those

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Advent: Beginning to see the Reign

December 4, 2025 Team ICM Advent

First Friday in Advent – December 05, 2025 Isaiah 27: 17-24; Matthew 9: 27, 31 The blind shall see, the deaf shall hear, the lowly

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Advent: Belong to the Reign

December 3, 2025 Team ICM Advent

First Thursday in Advent – December 04, 2025 Isaiah 26: 1-6; Matthew 7: 21, 24-27 The Rock is the imagery that connects the first reading

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St. John Henry Newman: A Pilgrim’s Teacher and a Voice for an Age of Dialogue

December 2, 2025 Team ICM Features

I. Introduction: Newman, the 38th Doctor of the Church On 1 November 2025, Pope Leo XIV solemnly declared St. John Henry Newman the 38th Doctor

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Advent: On behalf of the Reign

December 2, 2025 Team ICM Advent

December 3, 2025 – Celebrating St. Francis Xavier Ezekiel 3: 17-21; 1 Corinthians 9: 16-19, 22-23; Mark 16: 15-20. We celebrate St. Francis Xavier the

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Neurobiology, Treatment, and Management of Major Depressive Disorder in the Indian Context

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Subhasis Chattopadhyay Ph.D. The Silent Epidemic In the contemporary landscape of Indian healthcare, few conditions are as misunderstood, stigmatized, and pervasive as Major Depressive Disorder

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Advent of Healing: Christian Rehab Hub Testify Wellness Center Launches in Kolkata

December 2, 2025 Team ICM Healthcare, News

Isaac Harold Gomes – Kolkata: A new chapter in the city’s battle against addiction began on Sunday with the formal launch of Testify Wellness Center,

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Advent: Understand the Reign

December 1, 2025 Team ICM Advent

First Tuesday in Advent – December 2, 2025 Isaiah 11: 1-10; Luke 10: 21-24 Continuing from the same theme as yesterday, the Word today invites

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