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  • Mangaloreans Celebrate Record-Breaking Monthi Festh 2026 in New Jersey

    Verghese V Joseph – The Mangalorean Catholic Association of the East Coast (MCA-EC) has etched a new milestone in its

  • Odisha: ‘Let Your Light Shine’ Initiative Honours HSC Achievers

    By Purushottam Nayak – RAIKIA, Kandhamal, Odisha: Two students of St. Catherine’s Girls’ High School, Raikia, have been recognised for

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    “Should we really be calling this twenty-five years?” The question came quietly, almost apologetically, at a community meeting. It was

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    By Sandra Valentina – Some churches are built with stone. Some are built with history. But some are built with the

  • A Girl Child at the Heart of Faith

    Every September 8, the Church marks a feast that rarely makes headlines: the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In

  • 27 Years After His Death, Odisha Catholics Remember Martyred Priest Father Arul Doss

    By Purushottam Nayak – MAYURBHANJ, Odisha, India — Sept. 7, 2026: Nearly three decades after he was killed while serving

  • Kolkata Premiere: International Documentary ‘Mother Teresa – Prophet of Compassion’ Debuts on Feast Day

    Verghese V Joseph – Kolkata, September 5, 2026 — On the liturgical feast day of St Teresa of Calcutta, the

  • Teachers: The Hands That Shape the Future

    Br Malvino Alfonso OCD – India celebrates Teachers’ Day on 5 September, the birth anniversary of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, former

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    # chhotebhai –  August has been a rather depressing and distressing month for me, despite my telling others that we

  • When Swords Become Ploughshares: The Ecology of Peace

    The 2026 message of Pope Leo XIV for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation arrives at

  • Delegation: A Forgotten Ecclesial Art

    Fr. Sebastian James, SJ Why Church-run institutions must recover a practice rooted in Scripture and their own traditions At a

  • St. Monica: The Strength of Mother’s Prayers

    By Leon Bent – Saint Monica, also known as Monica of Hippo was born in 331 A.D. in Tagaste, which

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Easter Homily: Call For Us to Change Radically

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By Fr Eugene Lobo, SJ – Easter Sunday April 12, 2020 Acts 10:34 a, 36-43; Colossians 3:1-4 or 1 Corinthians 5:6 b-8; John 20:1-9 The

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Homily for Youth: Being Easter People Today

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By Antony Christy, SDB – Easter Sunday: April 12, 2020 He is risen and he goes before you to Galilee, announces the angel today! Yes,

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Watch Easter Services in Different Languages Across Dioceses in India

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Indian Catholic Matters has put together some diocese and parishes that shared their online Easter masses and messages in different languages. Hope this benefits our

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Rising With Christ to a New Life

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By Sr. Teresa Joseph, FMA – Holy Saturday and the Easter Vigil Our hope is nurtured with the solemn silence of Holy Saturday, in the

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Fasting, Penance, Online Prayers Mark Good Friday Service Across India

April 10, 2020 Team ICM News

By Louis Rodrigues  – Belegavi: Solemnity, fasting, penance and prayers marked Good Friday, the day of Jesus Christ’s death on the Cross, all across India.

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What’s so ‘Good’ About ‘Good Friday’?

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By Fr. Adolf Washington Oliver Cromwell, the 17th century, English military leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England,ordered a young soldier to

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Sister Act: During Covid-19, Mother Teresa Sisters Join Ranchi Diocese in Feeding Poor

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Ranchi: Mother Teresa Sisters once again have come forward selflessly to serve the poorest of the poor. This time in collaboration with the Ranchi District

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The Gentle Lamb

April 9, 2020 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By John Mark – “He was wounded for our transgressions; he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and

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Maundy Thursday: Institution of Holy Eucharist and Priesthood

April 8, 2020 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr. Eugene Lobo, SJ – Holy Thursday April 09, 2020 Holy Thursday is the most prayerful and profound of all religious observances, saving only

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By Sr. Teresa Joseph, FMA – Once again the Holy Week presents before us an apt opportunity to get immersed into the central events of

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Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae: A Biography by Bernard McGinn

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Worried About Family During Covid-19? Talk to Holy Cross Family Counselors

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By John Mark – “And it came to pass in those days, that HE went out into a mountain to pray and continued all night

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By Verghese V Joseph – Bengaluru: In a laudable effort, City-based St. John’s Medical College Hospital has decided to set up a dedicated 200-bed facility

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