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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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See the Needs of the People

February 3, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Martin MM, CSC – Readings: 1 Cor 9: 19-27; Jn 12: 20-32 Today I feel proud to celebrate the feast of St. John de

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Belagavi: Eminent Educationist Mother Grace Mathew Passes Away, Funeral on Mon

February 2, 2020 Team ICM News

Belagavi: Eminent educationist and former superior of Divine Providence Convent, Tilakwadi, Belagavi belonging to the Canossa Congregation of Nuns, Mother Grace Matthew (87) passed away

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Karwar: Navy Rejects Plea by Catholic Group to Celebrate Anjediva Island Feast on Feb 2

February 2, 2020 Team ICM News

Courtesy: The Goan – Canacona: Renewed efforts by the Catholic community to celebrate the feast at the Church of Our Lady of Springs (Nossa Senhora

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Time for Spiritual Cleansing

February 2, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By P.A. Devadoss, CSC – Readings: 2 Sam 15: 13-14,30; 16: 5-13; Mk 5: 1-20 Decapolis seems to be a notorious place for pigs and

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Homily: Presenting Ourselves as Purified Offerings

February 1, 2020 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr Francis Gonsalves, SJ – The Presentation of The Lord — Sunday, February 2, 2020 Readings: Mal 3:1-4; Heb 2:14-18; Lk 2:22-40 “He will

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Homily: Presentation of Our Lord

February 1, 2020 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr. Eugene Lobo, SJ – Mal. 3:1-4, Heb. 2:10-11, 13b-18; Luke. 2:22-40 Today we are celebrating the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord

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Homily for Youth: Comes, Becomes & Challenges to Become

February 1, 2020 Team ICM Youth

By Fr Antony Christy, SDB – February 2, 2020: The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord Malachi 3:1-4; Hebrews 2: 14-18; Luke 2: 22-40

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Take the Example of Jesus

February 1, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Roshan Minin D’Souza, CSC – Readings: Mal 3:1-4; Heb 2: 14-18; Lk 2:22-40 “Now O Lord, you can dismiss your servant in peace, for

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Authority Comes from Above

January 31, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Peter Paul, CSC – Readings: 2 Sam 12 : 1 – 7a, 10 – 17; Mk 4 : 35 – 41 Authority comes only

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It Takes a Lot to Trust in God. Are You Ready?

January 30, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Shiju Joseph, CSC – Readings: 2Sam 11:1-4a, 5-10a, 13-17; Mk 4:26-34 It is not uncommon in our ministries to wonder how anything that we

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In Giving, We Become More Like Him

January 29, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Raison D’Souza, CSC – Readings: 2 Sam 7:18-19, 24-29; Mk 4:21-25 I remembered St. Francis of Assisi when I read in the Gospel Jesus

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Speak Up Now Rather Than Later, Says Shashi Tharoor

January 28, 2020 Team ICM News

By Verghese V Joseph – Cochin: Signis India National Assembly 2020 got off to a solemn start with an Inaugural Mass at 9.30 am at

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Parental Love is the Only Love That is Truly Selfless, Unconditional and Forgiving…

January 28, 2020 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Larissa D’souza – My parents have always found a way to make sure I have anything I ever needed and for that I am

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Listen With Compassionate Heart

January 28, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Vicky Lamin Gayang, CSC – Readings: 2Sam 7:4-17; Mk 4:1-20 Today the readings portray to us the importance of Listening. Listening is the heart

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Holy Land Commissariat Office Now in India

January 27, 2020 Team ICM News

Br. John Sekar, OFM – Bengaluru: The Commissariat of the Holy Land was inaugurated in St. Anthony’s Friary, Bengaluru on Monday. Most. Rev. Dr. Peter

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