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  • Odisha: ‘Let Your Light Shine’ Initiative Honours HSC Achievers

    By Purushottam Nayak – RAIKIA, Kandhamal, Odisha: Two students of St. Catherine’s Girls’ High School, Raikia, have been recognised for

  • A Question About 1963 Finds Its Answer

    “Should we really be calling this twenty-five years?” The question came quietly, almost apologetically, at a community meeting. It was

  • Asia’s First Octagonal Catholic Church Celebrates the Nativity of Mother Mary

    By Sandra Valentina – Some churches are built with stone. Some are built with history. But some are built with the

  • A Girl Child at the Heart of Faith

    Every September 8, the Church marks a feast that rarely makes headlines: the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In

  • 27 Years After His Death, Odisha Catholics Remember Martyred Priest Father Arul Doss

    By Purushottam Nayak – MAYURBHANJ, Odisha, India — Sept. 7, 2026: Nearly three decades after he was killed while serving

  • Kolkata Premiere: International Documentary ‘Mother Teresa – Prophet of Compassion’ Debuts on Feast Day

    Verghese V Joseph – Kolkata, September 5, 2026 — On the liturgical feast day of St Teresa of Calcutta, the

  • Teachers: The Hands That Shape the Future

    Br Malvino Alfonso OCD – India celebrates Teachers’ Day on 5 September, the birth anniversary of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, former

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    # chhotebhai –  August has been a rather depressing and distressing month for me, despite my telling others that we

  • When Swords Become Ploughshares: The Ecology of Peace

    The 2026 message of Pope Leo XIV for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation arrives at

  • Delegation: A Forgotten Ecclesial Art

    Fr. Sebastian James, SJ Why Church-run institutions must recover a practice rooted in Scripture and their own traditions At a

  • St. Monica: The Strength of Mother’s Prayers

    By Leon Bent – Saint Monica, also known as Monica of Hippo was born in 331 A.D. in Tagaste, which

  • Beyond Left and Right: Fidelity to the Magisterium

    By Lavoisier Fernandes – We live in an age increasingly suspicious of objective truth and universal moral authority. In a

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In Him We Have Redemption

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Be Filled With Strength and Courage

October 11, 2022 Team ICM Reflections

Ishongkun Kurbah csc – Readings: Gal 5:18-25; Lk 11:42-46 The oppression of the poor and powerless, the denial of justice, the deprivation of rights and

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Be Righteous Before God

October 10, 2022 Team ICM Reflections

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Odisha’s New Marian Shrine Brings Faith in God and Devotion to Mother Mary

October 10, 2022 Team ICM News

Purushottam Nayak – Raikia, Kandhamal, Odisha Eastern India: About 3000 thousand faithful, six priests, and 10 nuns gathered together to thank the Lord for the

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Cardinal Ferrão Elevates Goa’s Zorivaddo Chapel to Church

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See the Signs of God in Nature, Family & Friends

October 9, 2022 Team ICM Reflections

Eldho Augustine csc – Readings: Gal 4: 22-24, 26-27, 31, 5: 1; Lk 11: 29-32 In today’s gospel, we see people coming to Jesus looking

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Pope Appoints Cardinals Neri and Poola as Members of Dicasteries of Roman Curia

October 8, 2022 Team ICM News

Bengaluru: Pope Francis on Friday appointed Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, the President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) as one of the

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Homily: It’s Good to be Grateful

October 8, 2022 Team ICM Homilies

Fr. Eugene Lobo, SJ – Twenty-Eighth Sunday October 09. 2022 2 Kings 5:14-17; 2 Timothy 2:8-13; Luke 17:11-19 God has a prominent place in the

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Have A Thankful Heart to Rejoice

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Be a Radical Witness of Christ

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Francis Gayang csc – Readings: Gal 3:22-29; Lk 11: 27-28 Have you ever felt motivated and energized by the positive words that come from the

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Fr. Arul Raj Appointed as CCBI Family Commission Secretary

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