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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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Homily for Youth: The Call and the Contradictions

July 7, 2018 Team ICM Youth

July 8, 2018: 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time By Fr. Antony Christy, SDB – Here are some contradictions that you could ponder on, this Sunday…

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Weekend Homily: We Need Our Faith to Grow

July 6, 2018 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr Eugene Lobo, SJ – (Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time July 08, 2018) One of the most common failures of our human condition is

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Spiritual Marriage: A Call to Union with God at the Service of Humanity

July 5, 2018 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Sr. Larissa, OCD – Queen Beauty of Carmel, Mary our Mother bursts into exultant praise of God ‘My soul glorifies the Lord…’, in response

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Church: Living in Communion for a Mission

July 4, 2018 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By His Grace Most Rev Prakash Mallavarapu, Archbishop of Visakhapatnam – The Church is a communion of communities in the sense, that starting with individual

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Fr. Peter Paul Saldanha Appointed New Bishop of Mangalore

July 3, 2018 Team ICM News

By Team ICM – In a significant development, His Holiness Pope Francis on Tuesday appointed Rev. Fr. Peter Paul Saldanha from the clergy of Mangalore,

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Youth Icon: Joan of Arc

July 3, 2018 Team ICM Youth

By Fr. Antony Christy, SDB –   Joan of Arc is a legendary figure in both history of the world and of the Church. But

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Caste and Christianity: Old, New, Old Insights

July 1, 2018 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

February 2, 2015 This article appeared in February 2, 2015.  However, we find it is still relevant in today’s context and happy to reproduce Fr.

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Arunachal Pradesh May Repeal Anti-Conversion Law

July 1, 2018 Team ICM Uncategorized

By Team ICM – Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Pema Khandu on Thursday said the four-decade-old law against conversions may be repealed adding that it could

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Homily for Youth: Life God & Me

July 1, 2018 Team ICM Youth

By Fr Antony Christy, SDB – 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time Life is a precious Gift from God. The first link that we have with

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Pope Elevates New Pak Cardinal of Goan Origin

June 29, 2018 Team ICM News

The Goan Network – PANAJI: Archbishop of Karachi Joseph Coutts, a prelate of Goan-origin who was elevated to the College of Cardinals during the Ordinary

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Weekend Homily: Motivated by Faith

June 29, 2018 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr Eugene Lobo, SJ – The virtue of faith and the necessity of faith is the dominating theme of today’s readings.  Faith is our

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Examining 2 Prominent Post-Conciliar Models: Communion & Servant

June 26, 2018 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Fr K J Thomas – The Second Vatican Council has remained as the launching pad for all theological reflections for the last fifty years.

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How Births & Deaths Are Changing Religious Populations

June 25, 2018 Team ICM Best of ICM, Offbeat

By Verghese V Joseph – As the world’s largest religious group, Christians had the most births and deaths of any group between 2010 and 2015.

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Akasei Seema: Yearning for the Skies!

June 24, 2018 Team ICM Youth

By Sr. Dr. Teresa Joseph, FMA – June 9 saw a very unique official release of ‘Akasei Seema’, Assamese Translation of the English Best Seller

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Feast: Birthday of John the Baptist

June 23, 2018 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr Eugene Lobo, SJ – Today the Sunday liturgy of ordinary time gives way to a feast, a great feast: that of the Birth

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Friday reflection on readings 1, Isaiah 29:17-24 & the Gospel of Matthew 9:27-31. Please click link and scroll down a bit to listen to the audio.




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