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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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Living the Joy of the Gospel in India Today

June 12, 2018 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr. Cedric Prakash, SJ – The Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) held their 30th General Body Meeting in February 2012 at Bangalore on

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The Gospel of the 10 Lepers Seen Through Catholic (and Hindu) Eyes

June 10, 2018 Team ICM Features

By Fr. Francis X. Clooney, S.J.- Cambridge, Mass.—As many readers will know, I have been studying Hinduism for over 40 years, since I first visited

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Homily for Youth: The Home Secure

June 9, 2018 Team ICM Youth

By Fr. Antony Christy – The Word warns us against the viles of the evil one today! The Evil is at play in the world

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Bengal & Arunachal Get New Bishops

June 8, 2018 Team ICM News

By Team ICM – Rome / New Delhi: His Holiness Pope Francis has appointed new bishops for India. Fr. Fulgence Aloysius Tigga, has been appointed

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Weekend Homily: Let Us Sacrifice Ourselves for the Good of Others

June 8, 2018 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr Eugene Lobo, SJ – In any society, family relationships are extremely important. The family has its meals together, stays together and supports one

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Burning With Love For Us!

June 7, 2018 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr. Antony Christy, SDB – One of the striking elements of the image of the Sacred Heart is the flame that accompanies it. That

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Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

June 7, 2018 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Fr Eugene Lobo, SJ – Today we celebrate the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a devotion which is essentially worship and a

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Sacred Heart of Jesus: A Pro-Life Heart!

June 7, 2018 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Dr Jeanette Pinto – June is the month devoted to the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  It reminds us of the mystery

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Sacred Heart of Jesus: How Did the Feast Originate?

June 6, 2018 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Leon Bent – Devotion to the Sacred Heart, as we know it, began about the year 1672. On repeated occasions, Jesus appeared to Saint

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Chapter XXXII: (I Believe in the) Life Everlasting

June 6, 2018 Team ICM I Believe

By Fr. Joseph B Francis – Continuing the series on ‘I Believe’, the Niceno-Constantinople Creed (381 AD) has a variant: “…and the life of the

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Do We Care for Our Environment?

June 5, 2018 Team ICM Features

By Fr. Cedric Prakash, SJ – One of the most common sights in urban India is a herd of cows around a garbage bin, apparently

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World Environment Day: Arunachal Students Pledge to go Plastic-Free

June 5, 2018 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr. Felix Anthony – Miao: The students of a village school in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh pledged to go plastic-free to mark the

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The Professional as Mercenary

June 4, 2018 Team ICM Features

By Dr Brandon Vaidyanathan – While studying global corporate workplaces in India and the Middle East, I came across a peculiar set of ideals, norms,

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Me and My Faith

June 4, 2018 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Joanna Samantha Alexander  – Understanding of Faith: Faith is the trust and confidence you have, in God and His promises. In knowing that you may

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The Body of Christ, Amen?: ‘The Disputation of the Holy Sacrament’ by Raphael (1509 – 1510) Part 2

June 3, 2018 Team ICM Art / Book / Film

By Joynel Fernandes – Breathing the spirit of the Renaissance, faith, theology, science and grace, Raphael’s Disputation of the Holy Sacrament is a pledge towards

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