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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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Homily: “You Give Them Something to Eat”

August 1, 2020 Team ICM Homilies

Eighteenth Sunday of the Year – Cycle A – August 2, 2020 Readings: Isa 55:1-3; Rom 8:35, 37-39; Mt 14:13-21 Jesus said to them, “They

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Homily for Youth: The Fullness That Satisfies

August 1, 2020 Team ICM Youth

By Fr Antony Christy, SDB – August 2, 2020: 18th Sunday in Ordinary time Isaiah 55:1-3; Romans 8: 35, 37-39; Matthew 14:13-21 You open your

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Mission and Evangelisation – Core Principles of Pastoral Life

July 31, 2020 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Fr Joshan Rodrigues – Intro: A summary of the first part of the Instruction on Parish Renewal (chapters 1-6) which offers a broad reflection

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Bishops Laud Choice of Indian Tribal Youth as Advisor to UN Climate Body

July 30, 2020 Team ICM News, Youth

Bangalore: The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), which is the national body of the 192 Latin Bishops in India, has congratulated Archana Soreng

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Dogmatic & Pragmatic (Incarnational) Spirituality

July 30, 2020 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Mathew Thankachen O. Praem. – The very word ‘Dogmatic’ refers to “theoretical”” ideological” in contrast to “Pragmatic” or experiential.  While the Western spirituality emphasizes

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Do I Give People Around Me Enough Freedom?

July 30, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Shiju Joseph csc – Readings: Jer 26:1-9; Mt 13: 54-58 Both Jeremiah and Jesus today experience rejection from their own people. Everyone loves a

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Prof. Francis Gonsalves New President of Prestigious Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth

July 30, 2020 Team ICM News

Pune: Prof. Dr. Francis Gonsalves, SJ has been appointed as the new President of prestigious Pontifical institute Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth (JDV), Pune, by Fr. Arturo Sosa,

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Opportunities in ICM: A Media Start-Up for God!

July 29, 2020 Team ICM Tech / Media

By Verghese V Joseph – It was in July 2017 that Indian Catholic Matters (ICM) began its baby steps and since then it has been

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The Battle of Prayer During Pandemic

July 29, 2020 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Tom Thomas – These days of pandemic and lockdowns with the family stuck at home, one would think that there is enough time and

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Make Your Penitential Rite Meaningful

July 29, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Raison D’Souza – Readings: Jer 18:1-6; Mt 13: 47-53 Misunderstanding begins either with differences of opinions or prejudices. God has given enormous freedom to

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Let Us Empty Purgatory: St. Padre Pio Commanded it and We Can Do it Easily!

July 28, 2020 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

“When St. Gertrude the Great, burning with love for souls, especially the Holy Souls in Purgatory, desired to know from Our Lord Jesus Christ about

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The Soliloquy of Queen Corona

July 28, 2020 Team ICM COVID-19

At last I can sigh a heave of relief. You know, I am supposed to be born in a royal palace. Like the fate of

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The Promise of Eternal Salvation

July 28, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Vicky Lamin Gayang csc – Readings: Jer 15:10, 16-21; Jn 11:19-27 Today the Gospel reading presents to us the arrival of Jesus in Bethany,

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ICM Anniversary Special: Matrimony the School of Parenting Extraordinaire

July 28, 2020 Team ICM Family

By Lorraine and Leon Bent – The couple has been a part of Worldwide Marriage Encounter (India), Mumbai, for 39 years. They have held several

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Sr. Anjela Moshahary Passes Away in Assam

July 28, 2020 Team ICM News

Sr. Anjela Moshahary  born on 3rd September,1974 in Gobdapara, Ballanguri Parish in the diocese of Bongaogaon in Assam was called to the Lord due to

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