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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

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     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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Apostolic Nuncio Vests Bangalore Archbishop With Pallium

September 13, 2018 Team ICM News

Bengaluru: Newly-appointed Archbishop of Bangalore Archbishop Peter Machado, was conferred with the ‘Pallium’, a woollen cloak, a stole, by The Pope’s delegate in India, Apostolic

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Protect, Nurture and Support the Girl Child

September 13, 2018 Team ICM Family

By His Grace Most Rev. Francis Kalist, Bishop of Meerut, Chairman CCBI Commission for Women Sports is the most watched event in the world. What

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Pope Francis: Civilization Requires Energy, But Energy Must Not Destroy Civilization

September 12, 2018 Team ICM Features

By Verghese V Joseph Ever since its launch by students as a moral call to climate action in 2011, the fossil fuel divestment campaign has

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Why Nine Eleven Matters!

September 12, 2018 Team ICM Features

By Fr. Cedric Prakash, SJ – Nine eleven matters because on this date in 1906, Mahatma Gandhi launched his non-violent resistance campaign at a historic

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North East India Regional Pastoral Conference Inaugurated

September 11, 2018 Team ICM News

By Fr Felix Anthony – Guwahati: The North East India annual Regional Pastoral Conference got underway at North East Diocesan Social Forum, Guwahati on 10

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Understanding Alternative Life Style Choices

September 11, 2018 Team ICM Family, Healthcare

By Dr Jeanette Pinto – Today India is experiencing a vast urban cultural change in family structures. We are in the midst of a serious

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ICM, Caritas and Other Global Catholic Institutions Unite to Fight Climate Change

September 10, 2018 Team ICM Offbeat

By Verghese V Joseph – Rome: Catholic institutions from around the world are making new commitments to divest from fossil fuels. A group of 19

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Father’s Presence Boosts Self-Esteem Among Adolescents: Study

September 9, 2018 Team ICM Family

Photo caption: (Standing L to R) Assistant Professor Meena Miranda, Dr (Fr) Clifford Castelino, Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao, Carlos Castelino and Saligao Seminary Rector Fr

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Divine Retreat Needs Your Support To Rise Again

September 8, 2018 Team ICM Features

Indian Catholic Matters requested Maria Sangeetha, a Catholic lay minister serving at the Divine Retreat Centre (DRC) since 2002, to share the experience when DRC

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Homily: Mystery of Faith and Love

September 8, 2018 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr Eugene Lobo, SJ – 23rd Sunday of the year Readings: Isaiah 35:4-7; James 2:1-5; Mark 7:31-37 One of God’s attributes is to liberate

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Should Catholics Be Rejoicing at the Striking Down of Article 377? Yes and No

September 6, 2018 Team ICM Best of ICM, Catholic Culture

By Fr Joshan Rodrigues – The LGBTQ community in India is rightly celebrating in India, with the Supreme Court slashing down Article 377, which branded

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Remembering and Praying for Kandhamal

September 6, 2018 Team ICM News

By His Grace Archbishop John Barwa, SVD Cuttack-Bhubaneswar Archdiocese, Secretary General, CBCI Ten years ago, what happened in Kandhamal, Odisha should have never happened and

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Bernardine Baccinelli: Redeeming a Resplendent Indian Legacy

September 3, 2018 Team ICM News

By George Jacoby – Kerala Catholic Church marks the 150th death anniversary of the Italian Carmelite missionary, Bernardine Baccinelli of St. Teresa OCD, Vicar Apostolic

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High-Emitting Nations Can Help Realise Pope’s Climate Goals

September 2, 2018 Team ICM Features

By Verghese Joseph – A new report finds that action by cities, states, regions and business can go a long way towards meeting the goals

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Homily: Experience the Salvific Power of Christ

September 1, 2018 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr Eugene Lobo, SJ – Twenty Second Sunday of Ordinary Time Deuteronomy 4:1-2,6-8; James 1:17-18,21-22,27; Mark 7:1-8,14-15,21-23 The chief issues of our age are

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