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  • Odisha: Cooking Girl Finds Her Vocation for Sisterhood

    By Purushottam Nayak – Kandhamal:  A young girl who loved spending time in the kitchen never imagined that her passion

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    Verghese V Joseph – Derry, the second-largest city in Northern Ireland, became the spiritual centre of a global Catholic witness

  • Founder Fr. Faustino De Souza with the Early Sisters of the Congregation

    The Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, Goa: Abiding in Christ, Serving the World

    Br Malvino Alfonso OCD – As the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, Sancoale Goa celebrates

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    A Wellspring of Graces: Rediscovered off the Beaten Path in Poland

    In this month dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, celebrated on June 12, Bishop Piotr Sawczuk of the Diocese

  • Did God Create Cockroaches?

    # chhotebhai – Yes, cockroaches are the flavour of the season (yuck), thanks to the intemperate remarks of the CJI,

  • Have A Heart!

    It seems to be a never-ending circle of hate, violence and war; destruction, division and discrimination. Today, corruption, exclusion and

  • What the Rosary Actually Does and Why I Wish Someone Had Told Me Sooner

    By Christina Hanna Paul – I was born and raised Catholic. Sunday Mass, the Rosary, Catechesis, I had it all

  • The Last Pilgrimage: Ensuring That No Elder Walks Alone

    Recently, during a Catholic spiritual retreat, I met an elderly woman of about 75 years old. She shared one of

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    Magnifica Humanitas: Pope Leo XIV’s Moral Test for the Age of AI

    Janina Gomes – Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, arrives at a moment when the world is dazzled by

  • Beyond Sports: Pope Leo XIV’s June Intention

    “Let us pray that sport is a tool for peace, encounter, and dialogue between different cultures and peoples, that it

  • World’s Faithful Unite for First-Ever Worldwide Marian Procession

     Verghese V Joseph – In an extraordinary act of global Catholic unity, the first-ever Worldwide Marian Procession will bring together

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    Holiness Off the Beaten Path: Servant of God, Lay Missionary, Helena Kmieć

    Helena Kmieć comes from Libiąż, a town west of Kraków. Poles have only a vague sense of where it is.

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I Need to be Patient with God

December 29, 2019 Team ICM Reflections

By Raison D’Souza, CSC – Readings: 1Jn 2:12-17; Lk 2:36-40 The highlight of today’s gospel is the prophetess Anna. We can see her joy after

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Feast of the Holy Family 

December 28, 2019 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr Eugene Lobo SJ – Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14;   Colossians 3:12-21;   Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23 Today we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus,

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Feast of the Holy Family

December 28, 2019 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Leon Bent The Feast of the Holy Family is a liturgical celebration in the Catholic Church in honour of Jesus, his mother, the Blessed

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Let Love, Compassion Dwell in Our Homes

December 28, 2019 Team ICM Reflections

By Vicky Lamin Gayang, CSC – Readings: Sir 3: 2-6; Col 3: 12-21; Mt 2: 13-15, 19-23 Today the Church commemorates the feast of Holy

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Feast of the Holy Innocents

December 27, 2019 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Leon Bent – Feast of the Holy Innocents, also called Childermas or Innocents’ Day, Christian feast in remembrance of the massacre of young children

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CCBI Opens New Secretariat Extension in Goa

December 27, 2019 Team ICM News

Bangalore: The Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI) will inaugurate Shanti Sadan its new Secretariat Extension in Benaulim, Goa, on Monday 6 January, 2020.

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Renew People’s Confidence

December 27, 2019 Team ICM Reflections

By A Joseph Inbaraj, CSC – Readings: 1Jn 1: 5-2: 2; Mt: 2: 13-18 Today, the church celebrates the feast of Holy Innocents. The readings

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Saint John the Apostle

December 26, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Leon Bent – St. John the Apostle, also called Saint John the Evangelist or Saint John the Divine, (flourished 1st century CE; Western feast

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Make Jesus Your Priority

December 26, 2019 Team ICM Reflections

By William Selvaraj, CSC – Readings: 1Jn1: 1-4; Jn 20: 2-8 Today our mother church celebrates the feast of St. John the apostle and evangelist.

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Be Prepared for Sacrifices

December 25, 2019 Team ICM Reflections

By Thomas T, IVD – Readings: Act 6: 8-10, 7:54-59; Mt 10: 17-22 Today, the church celebrates the feast of St. Stephen who died at

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Of Boxing Day and Charities

December 25, 2019 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Jacqueline Kelly – Boxing Day takes place on December 26, the first day, or normally, the first weekday after Christmas. It is celebrated in

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Fr Francis’ Homily: When God Came Down to be Counted

December 24, 2019 Team ICM News

By Fr Francis Gonsalves, SJ – Christmas is here. A time of cheer. ‘Merry Christmas!’ greetings fill the air. Malls glitter with star-lights. Santa Claus

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Fr. Eugene Lobo’s Homily: Its Christmas, Establishing His Divine Sonship!

December 24, 2019 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr. Eugene Lobo, SJ – Readings: Isaiah 52:7-10 Hebrews 1:1-6 John 1:1-18 Dear friends, as we gather together on this Christmas Day to celebrate

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Open our Hearts and Minds to Others

December 24, 2019 Team ICM Reflections

By Sharon Piuse, CSC – Readings: Is 52:7-10; Heb 1:1-6; Jn 1:1-18 The first reading speaks about the importance of praying together. “Family that prays

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Have You Given Anyone a Gift This Christmas?

December 24, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Jacqueline Kelly – A Gift can change everything and that is what God did at Christmas. Come Christmas and giving gifts seems like the

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