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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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Radiate Love of Christ

May 28, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Vicky Lamin Gayang csc Readings: Acts 25:13b-21; Jn 14:26 Jesus’ love is unconditional. His love is everlasting and without limits. We see in the

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Making a Difference: Lessons for Humanity from an Inspiring Pope on his 100th Birthday

May 28, 2020 Team ICM Features

Celebrating the Eucharist at St. Pope John Paul II’s tomb in St. Peter’s Basilica on the 100th anniversary of the saint’s birth (May 18), Pope

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Putting a Mask on the Corona Virus!

May 27, 2020 Team ICM COVID-19, News

By Verghese V Joseph – When the first phase of COVID-19 lockdown hit Guwahati, neighbours from surrounding places came to Women Development Centre (WDC) and

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Be Instruments of God’s Children

May 27, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Joseph Inbaraj csc Readings: Acts: 20:30, 23:6-11; Jn: 17:20-26 Readings of the day helped me to reflect upon the theme UNITY. A question which

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Corona Virus is Contagious, But So is Salesian Compassion

May 26, 2020 Team ICM COVID-19, News

By Shaji Fernandez – We are living in unprecedented times. Never before in recorded history, have human beings faced a pandemic of such epic proportions.

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Ask the Lord to help Fight Against Injustice

May 26, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By William Selvaraj csc Readings: Acts 20: 28-38; Jn 17: 11 – 19 In the first reading of the day, St. Paul addresses the leaders

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What is Our Commitment to Jesus?

May 25, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Thomas IVD Readings: Acts 20: 17 – 27; Jn 17:1 – 11 In the beginning of Jesus’ ministry he manifested the glory of God

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Encouragement in Waiting: Counting the Omer from Passover to Pentecost

May 25, 2020 Team ICM Features, Israel Calling!

But those whose hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary,

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Gospel Invites Us to Live Happily

May 24, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Sharon Piuse A csc Readings: Acts 19:1-8; Jn 16:29-33 The first reading speaks about the importance of the Holy Spirit. In the reading, we

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Are We NOT Betraying ‘Laudato Si’?

May 24, 2020 Team ICM Features

May 24, 2020 completes full five years of Pope Francis’ path-breaking and incisive Encyclical Letter ‘Laudato Si’ – On Care for Our Common Home.  It

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Laudati Si’ Week in the Midst of Covid-19 Pandemic

May 24, 2020 Team ICM COVID-19, Features

Providentially, the Laudato Si’ week has taken place in the midst of Covid-19 Pandemic. The Catholic News Service on March 3, 2020 communicated that Pope

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Homily for Youth: Gone… To Be With Us!

May 23, 2020 Team ICM Youth

May 24, 2020: Solemnity of the Ascension of the LordActs 1: 1-11; Ephesians 1:17-23; Matthew 28: 16-20 It was just after the vigil mass of

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Homily: The feast of Ascension

May 23, 2020 Team ICM Homilies

The Ascension of Our Lord, May 24, 2020Acts 1:1-11; Ephesians 1:17-23; Matthew 28:16-20 Today we celebrate the feast of the Ascension of Our Lord. After

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Make Our Community a Heaven

May 23, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Ginto K. Paulose csc Readings: Acts 1:1-11; Eph 1:17-23; Mt 28:16-20 Today the Church celebrates the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ. Today’s readings

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Homily: Lift Me Up, O Lord, to Gaze Heavenward, Descend Inward, Go Outward!

May 23, 2020 Team ICM Homilies

The Ascension of the Lord – Cycle A – May 24, 2020Acts 1:1-11; Eph 1:17-23; Mt 28:16-20. “Go therefore, make disciples of all nations ….

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