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  • Bengaluru: Peace Rally Calls on Karnataka to Deliver on Minority-Rights Promises

    Verghese V Joseph – Bengaluru: Archbishop Dr. Peter Machado, joined by Muslim religious leaders and representatives of Dalit, farmers’, human-rights

  • From Poland to India: Can a Catholic AI Model Serve the Church Wisely?

    Verghese V Joseph – Synderesis, an independent Polish AI platform, has built a model trained to reason in line with

  • Huts, Not Churches; Persecution of the Church in Arunachal Pradesh

    In the 1970s, Christians in Arunachal Pradesh watched their churches burn while officials insisted nothing had happened. As a 1978

  • Medically Unexplained: A Cardiologist’s Case for Miracles Still Happening

    By Verghese V Joseph – In an age of stents, ventilators, artificial valves and intensive-care algorithms, the word “miracle” is

  • More of Amalor

    # chhotebhai – Oliver Twist, a character in Charles Dickens’ novel of 1838, by the same name, made an impassioned

  • Death: The Art of Recreating Life

    Every year, on 2 November, the Catholic Church remembers the faithful departed through the celebration of All Souls’ Day. Although

  • Holy Mass for the Dead: The Church’s Tradition of Prayer and the New Canonical Norms

    Introduction: Remembering Our Departed Loved Ones November is traditionally a month dedicated to remembering our departed loved ones. During this

  • Today When The Saints Go Marching In…!

    By Fr. Antony Christy, SDB – Solemnity of All Saints: November 1, 2026 Revelation 7: 2-4,9-14; 1 John 3:1-3; Matthew

  • Holiness Is Becoming Fully Human, Fully Alive

    The Statue Problem  Most of us picture saints as plaster figures: eyes lifted, hands folded, faces calm in a way

  • Empower Parish Councils, Transparency, Women’s Ordination, Says Forum

    (A corollary to “Synodality is not an Optional Extra”) # chhotebhai – The Indian Catholic Forum (ICF) previously gave a

  • Pope Leo XIV Meets Jesus Youth in Historic First Audience, Urges Young People to Discover Christ’s Love

     Verghese V Joseph – Vatican City, October 25, 2026 — Pope Leo XIV held a historic first audience with the

  • Behind Bars, a Call to Hope: Prison Ministry India Gathers in Varanasi

    Verghese V Joseph – Prison Ministry India (PMI) will bring together Church leaders, prison chaplains, volunteers, rehabilitation workers and correctional

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Goa and Daaman Archbishop Emeritus Raul Nicolau Passes Away

July 1, 2022 Team ICM News

Bengaluru: Most Rev. Raul Nicolau Gonsalves (95) Archbishop Emeritus of Goa e Damão (Daman) passed away on Friday, 1 July 2022 at 8.45am. Funeral details

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A Blip in Dad & Son’s Treasured Moments

July 1, 2022 Team ICM Family

By Tom Thomas – Almost two years and three months to the day that I made the drive of hundreds of kilometers as an emergency

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Arunachal: Man on a Mission Gives Shape to His Tribal Dialect

June 30, 2022 Team ICM News

By Felix Antony – Neotan: Wanglung Mossang, a Catholic farmer from a small village in Changlang District of Arunachal Pradesh, is conducting evening classes to

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Cultivate Openness and Humility

June 29, 2022 Team ICM Reflections

Kulandai Albert csc – Readings: Amos 7:10-17; Mt 9:1-8 Today, the liturgy of the word invites us to evaluate our paralytic attitude towards other people

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Goan Seminar Highlights Teaching as a Vocation, Profession and a Mission

June 28, 2022 Team ICM News

Sr. Molly Fernandes SFN – Just as the plant is taken care as it takes root, such has been the efforts of those in leadership

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Twin Feasts of Apostles Peter and Paul

June 28, 2022 Team ICM Reflections

By Fr. Eugene Lobo, SJ Acts 12:1-11; 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18; Matthew 16:13-19 The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, is a feast commemorating the

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Discover Who Jesus is for Us

June 28, 2022 Team ICM Reflections

Kulandai Albert csc – Readings: Acts 12:1-11; 2 Tim 4:6-8, 17-18; Mt 16:13-19 Today, the universal Church celebrates the feast of St. Peter and St.

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Faith is the Central Point of All Success

June 27, 2022 Team ICM Reflections

Thomas Lima csc – Readings: Amos 3:1-8,4:11-12; Mt 8:23:27 The first reading from the book of Prophet Amos tells us that the Lord has spoken

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Prayer: An Act of Total Surrender to God

June 27, 2022 Team ICM Features

Sr Lini Sheeja MSC – “Any proposal for your son?” last month I asked a mother who was waiting for a proposal for her son

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Patience and Fatherhood

June 26, 2022 Team ICM Family

Tom Thomas –  “I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments when they aren’t trying to teach

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Sacrifice and Commitment Go Hand in Hand

June 26, 2022 Team ICM Reflections

Nirmal Kumar – Readings: Amos 2: 6-10, 13-16; Mt 8: 18-22 The gospel describes the beauty of the discipleship. To be Jesus’ disciple and follow

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Homily: Of True Discipleship and Faithful Following of Jesus

June 25, 2022 Team ICM Homilies

Fr. Eugene Lobo, SJ – Thirteenth Sunday of the Year June 26, 2022 1 Kings 19:16b, 19-21; Gal. 5:1, 13-18; Luke. 9:51-62 Every human person

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Priceless Pearls - Humility, Wisdom and Discernment

Become Radical Disciples of Christ

June 25, 2022 Team ICM Reflections

Naresh Namindla csc – Readings: 1Kgs 19: 16, 19-21; Gal 5: 1, 13-18; Lk 9: 51-62 Today’s readings are inviting us to be radical disciples

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Cardinal Gracias Urges All to Become Holy Like St Devasahayam

June 25, 2022 Team ICM News

Eucharistic Benediction by Most Rev. Leopoldo Girelli, Apostolic Nuncio to India Kottar: Cardinal Oswald Gracias, the Archbishop of Bombay and one of the topmost consultors

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Are We Serious About Lay Collaboration?

June 24, 2022 Team ICM Catholic Culture

Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ – It is ‘Laity Sunday’ once again on 26 June! A time for the Church once again to introspect and to

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