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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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Book Launch: ‘Attempt the Impossible’, a Monumental Work

September 4, 2021 Team ICM Art / Book / Film

Guwahati: The North East India Regional Bishop’s Council (NERBC) on Friday released a book titled, ‘Attempt the Impossible’ by Archbishop Emeritus Thomas Menamparambil SDB at

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Seek God’s Grace Through Words and Deeds

September 3, 2021 Team ICM Reflections

By David Peter csc – Readings: Col 1: 21-23; Lk 6: 1-5 Today’s gospel is one of the passages where Jesus is being charged with

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Jesus Brings Newness into Our Lives

September 2, 2021 Team ICM Reflections

By Martin Madalai Muthu csc – Readings: Col 1: 15-20; Lk 5: 33- 39 In my faith journey, I have come across a few elderly

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St. Gregory the Great: Reformer of the Liturgy

September 2, 2021 Team ICM Features

By Leon Bent – Pope Gregory I, commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was Pope from September 3, 590 to 12 March 604 AD.

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Asian Church: Covid-19 Presents Communication Challenges and Opportunities

September 2, 2021 Team ICM Features

The pandemic has taught the Church how to make use of communication technology in so many new ways. By George Plathottam While introducing the decree

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God is Greater Than Our Failures

September 1, 2021 Team ICM Reflections

By Vimal Kumar A. csc – Readings: Col 1:9-14; Lk 5:1-11 Today’s gospel demonstrates our day-to-day expectations, failures, and disappointments which the apostles also faced

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The Mystical ‘Womb’ That is September!

August 31, 2021 Team ICM Features

By Leon Bent – Come September! It’s yesterday once more, for me! I simply bask in its aura, its divine melieu. On the twenty-sixth day

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Let us Unite to Celebrate the ‘Season of Creation’

August 31, 2021 Team ICM Features

By Prema Chowallur SCC The ‘Season of Creation’ from September 1st to October 4th 2021, is around the corner for worldwide Christian communities. Thousands of

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The Healing Ministry of Jesus

August 31, 2021 Team ICM Reflections

By Pravin S. csc Readings: Col 1: 1-8; Lk 4:38-44 The liturgy of today reminds us that Jesus is a powerful healer. One of his

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Ranchi: Bishop Theodore Completes 7 Years; Celebrates by Distributing Food Rations to Poor

August 30, 2021 Team ICM News

Ranchi: August 30 is a red-letter day in the life of the Archdiocese as it was on that day seven years ago Bishop Telesphore Bilung

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The Word Favours That We Live in Harmony

August 30, 2021 Team ICM Reflections

By Peter Paul csc – Readings: 1Thes 5:1-6, 9-11; Lk 4:31-37 On seeing Jesus, the demon affirms its inability and is frightened that it would

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Novena at St Martha’s Hospital: Selfless Service for Generations

August 30, 2021 Team ICM News

By Verghese V Joseph – A solemn flag hoisting ceremony was observed on Sunday (August 29) at one of Bengaluru’s leading healthcare facilities — St.

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Pope Francis Appoints New Administrator for Gurgaon Syro-Malankarese Eparchy

August 29, 2021 Team ICM News

By Verghese V Joseph – Rome: The Holy Father has announced the appointment of the Reverend Fr Varghese Vinayanand, O.I.C., as apostolic administrator of the

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Covid-19: Ranchi Archdiocese Continues to Serve the Poor

August 29, 2021 Team ICM News

By Fr. Ashit Toppo – Ranchi: The Archdiocese of Ranchi continues to reach out to the poor and needy at Fr. Agnel School campus in

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Jesus Shows Us How to Experience Rejection

August 29, 2021 Team ICM Reflections

By Kulandai Albert csc – Readings: 1 Thes 4: 13-18; Lk 4: 16-30 Today, the liturgy of the word invites us to be receptive. In

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