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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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Grow in Faith and Accept His Plan

October 6, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By David Peter csc – Readings: Acts 1: 12- 14; Lk 1: 26-38 (Feast Day) Today, the Catholic Church celebrates and contemplates on the feast

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Our Lady of Rosary

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By Leon Bent October 7 is the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. It provides an opportunity to review the origins and purpose of

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Rosary, a Treasure of All Graces

October 6, 2020 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Larissa D’souza – The concept of the rosary was given to Saint Dominic in an apparition of the Virgin Mary during the year 1214

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They Will be Remembered by What They Have Done

October 6, 2020 Team ICM Features

By Dr. George Jacob. ‘Fading away like the stars in the morning, Losing their light in the glorious sun. Thus, would we pass from this

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Kolbian Spirituality: ‘Loving Jesus With the Heart of Mary, and Loving Mary With the Heart of Jesus!’

October 5, 2020 Team ICM Features

By Dr Tiju Thomas – The Polish Saint and martyr St. Maximilian Kolbe was an exemplar of Marian devotion. So great was his steadfast faith

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Welcoming Others is an Act of Hospitality

October 5, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Tarsish Marak csc – Readings: Gal 1:13-24; Lk 10:38-42 The readings of the day invite me to develop hospitality. Hospitality is one of the

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Arunachal: Covid Warriors Felicitated in Miao

October 5, 2020 Team ICM News

Miao: Bishop George Pallipparambil of Miao Diocese in Arunachal Pradesh organized a thanksgiving programme to honour and to pray for the Covid  warriors of Miao

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Web Meet: Onus on Society to Protect Girl Child

October 5, 2020 Team ICM News

Guwahati: Today the girl child is one of the most helpless members of the society. There is a need to protect, provide and care for

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Archbishop Filipe Neri Urges Promotion of New Directory for Catechesis

October 4, 2020 Team ICM News

Benaulim: Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrão, the President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) and the Metropolitan Archbishop of Goa and Daman, urged

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Do I Show Love or Am I Self-Centered?

October 4, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Eldho Augustine csc – Readings: Gal 1: 6-12; Lk 10: 25-37 In today’s gospel, we find that the teacher of law is anxious about

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Build Your House on Rock: An insight into the Life of St. Francis of Assisi

October 4, 2020 Team ICM Features

By Fr. Trevor D’Souza, OFM – “Every one then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who

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Feast of Saint Faustina: Divine Mercy Promoter

October 4, 2020 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments issued a decree — issued on behalf of Pope Francis — in Rome on

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Bosco Youth Celebrates Gandhi Jayanti By Planting Trees

October 3, 2020 Team ICM News

By C V Joseph – Bengaluru: Bosco Youth of Bangalore Archdiocese celebrated Gandhi Jayanti by pledging a greener nature on the occasion of the birth

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Homily: Vineyard is the Kingdom of God

October 3, 2020 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr. Eugene Lobo, SJ – Twenty Seventh Sunday of the Year October 04, 2020 Isaiah 5:1-7; Philippians 4:6-9; Matthew 21:33-43 Christianity is a reality

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Homily: Unfruitful Vineyards and Fruitful vines

October 3, 2020 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr Francis Gonsalves, SJ – Twenty-seventh Sunday of the Year – Cycle A – October 4, 2020 Readings: Isa 5:1-7; Phil 4:6-9; Mt 21:33-43

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