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  • 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.

  • Your Home Can Bear This Kind of Love

    There is a mother somewhere right now who has made breakfast, resolved an argument between two children before eight in

  • The Sin We Scroll Past: Calumny in the Age of Outrage

    By Lavoisier Fernandes – A rumor used to travel slowly. Someone would mention something after Mass, at work, or over

  • The Sacred Heart: Love This Honest Has to Hurt

    There is a priest somewhere right now who has said Mass three times this week for people he barely knows,

  • Pope Leo’s ‘Magnifica Humanitas’: “Be Human! Stay Human!”

     *Fr Cedric Prakash SJ –  On 25 May 2026, Pope Leo XIV released his first Encyclical ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ (Magnificient Humanity):  On

  • Recovering the Human Heart of Education

    The reopening of schools after the summer vacation is always a moment of hope. Classrooms come alive again with children’s

  • Why Parents Matter More Than We Realize

    Dr Marianne Furtado de Nazareth – I love gardening and as a child grew up in a home with parents

  • Ten Takeaways from Magnifica Humanitas

    By Lavoisier Fernandes – It is often said that when the Pope speaks, the world listens. Throughout its history —

  • Magnifica Humanitas – A Moral Vision for the Digital Age

    The danger is not that AI thinks for us, but that we stop thinking for ourselves. The time has come

  • Queering the Pitch

    chhotebhai – This saying literally means upsetting well laid plans. Whose plans? God’s plans. Who has queered the pitch –

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Today, Running Women Are Everywhere

September 23, 2018 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Marianne Furtado de Nazareth –   A couple of Sundays ago a local Bangalore club organised a 5-kilometre jog only for women. It was amazing

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Homily: Call to New Vision and New Mission

September 22, 2018 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr Eugene Lobo, SJ – Twenty Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time Readings: Wisdom 2:12, 17-20; James 3:16-4:3; Mark 9:30-37 God speaks to us in

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Homily for Youth: You Really Wanna Be Good?

September 22, 2018 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr Antony Christy – 23rd September 2018: 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Wis 2: 12,17-20; Jas 3:16 – 4:3; Mk 9: 30-37 I remember

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Bangalore Archbishop and Team Visit Flood-Ravaged Kodagu

September 21, 2018 Team ICM News

Kodagu, Karnataka: Though the flood waters that ravaged Kodagu in Karnataka have receded, the ravages it caused was all-too visible, with massive landslides, caved-in roads,

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In Pieces: The Right to Peace

September 21, 2018 Team ICM Features

By Fr. Cedric Prakash, SJ- On Thursday 20 September, four people were killed in Maryland, US in a workplace mass shooting spree; it was the

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Mary – A Masterpiece: ‘The Education of the Virgin’

September 20, 2018 Team ICM Art / Book / Film, Education

By Joynel Fernandes – Today’s painting in consideration is no ordinary artwork. It hit the radar and grabbed the headlines in 2010, heightening public interest

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Dr Peter Paul Saldanha Ordained Bishop of Mangalore Diocese

September 19, 2018 Team ICM News

By Canute Pinto, Kelarai & Fr Anil F’Des Pics : Stanly Bantwal Courtesy: http://www.dioceseofmangalore.com The Episcopal Ordination and Solemn Installation of the 14th Bishop of

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Mary – A Masterpiece: ‘The Meeting at the Golden Gate’ by Filippino Lippi

September 18, 2018 Team ICM Art / Book / Film

By Joynel Fernandes- One of the leading exponents of High Renaissance Art was undoubtedly Filippino Lippi, son of the renowned yet controversial painter Fra Filippo

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A Tribute to Fr Clement Campos: He was so ready! Am I? Are you?

September 18, 2018 Team ICM Features

By Ingrid Albuquerque-Solomon – It could have only been the Hand of God. Else, why was I going to pay my last respects to someone

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Mary – A Masterpiece: ‘The Annunciation to St. Anne’ by Bernhard Strigel

September 17, 2018 Team ICM Art / Book / Film

By Joynel Fernandes – The story of the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary begins not in an atmosphere of good fortune celebrated with pomp

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Rosary Kristhasabha Celebrates Sixth Annual Konkani Event

September 17, 2018 Team ICM News

Photo Caption: Louis Rodrigues, Insp Anjelin Lobo, Fr Joe Monteiro, Amol Bardeskar, Dr Motes Lobo, Dr David Alvares and others on the occasion of felicitation

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The Curious Case of Bishop Franco Mulakkal: A Legal Perspective

September 17, 2018 Team ICM Features

By Joseph Mandumpal – The decision of the Jalandhar Bishop Franco Mulakkal, an accused in the Kerala nun rape case, on Saturday to temporarily hand

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CCBI Youth Catechesis Commission Action Plan Proposed

September 16, 2018 Team ICM News

By Team ICM – The training for Regional and Diocesan Secretaries of Commission for Catechetics on Youth Catechesis in Church in India was organized under

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Homily: The Meaning of True Discipleship

September 15, 2018 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr. Eugene Lobo, SJ- Twenty Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time Isaiah 50:5-9; James 2:14-18; Mark 8:27-35 All human relationships are based on communication, understanding

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Book Review: Footprints… A Piece of Heaven

September 14, 2018 Team ICM Art / Book / Film

Name of the Book: Footprints Lessons from Lives Author: Fr. M.A. Joe Antony, SJ Publisher: New Leader Books Year: 2018 Pages: 175 Price: 100 ISBN:

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