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  • Bengaluru: Peace Rally Calls on Karnataka to Deliver on Minority-Rights Promises

    Verghese V Joseph – Bengaluru: Archbishop Dr. Peter Machado, joined by Muslim religious leaders and representatives of Dalit, farmers’, human-rights

  • From Poland to India: Can a Catholic AI Model Serve the Church Wisely?

    Verghese V Joseph – Synderesis, an independent Polish AI platform, has built a model trained to reason in line with

  • Huts, Not Churches; Persecution of the Church in Arunachal Pradesh

    In the 1970s, Christians in Arunachal Pradesh watched their churches burn while officials insisted nothing had happened. As a 1978

  • Medically Unexplained: A Cardiologist’s Case for Miracles Still Happening

    By Verghese V Joseph – In an age of stents, ventilators, artificial valves and intensive-care algorithms, the word “miracle” is

  • More of Amalor

    # chhotebhai – Oliver Twist, a character in Charles Dickens’ novel of 1838, by the same name, made an impassioned

  • Death: The Art of Recreating Life

    Every year, on 2 November, the Catholic Church remembers the faithful departed through the celebration of All Souls’ Day. Although

  • Holy Mass for the Dead: The Church’s Tradition of Prayer and the New Canonical Norms

    Introduction: Remembering Our Departed Loved Ones November is traditionally a month dedicated to remembering our departed loved ones. During this

  • Today When The Saints Go Marching In…!

    By Fr. Antony Christy, SDB – Solemnity of All Saints: November 1, 2026 Revelation 7: 2-4,9-14; 1 John 3:1-3; Matthew

  • Holiness Is Becoming Fully Human, Fully Alive

    The Statue Problem  Most of us picture saints as plaster figures: eyes lifted, hands folded, faces calm in a way

  • Empower Parish Councils, Transparency, Women’s Ordination, Says Forum

    (A corollary to “Synodality is not an Optional Extra”) # chhotebhai – The Indian Catholic Forum (ICF) previously gave a

  • Pope Leo XIV Meets Jesus Youth in Historic First Audience, Urges Young People to Discover Christ’s Love

     Verghese V Joseph – Vatican City, October 25, 2026 — Pope Leo XIV held a historic first audience with the

  • Behind Bars, a Call to Hope: Prison Ministry India Gathers in Varanasi

    Verghese V Joseph – Prison Ministry India (PMI) will bring together Church leaders, prison chaplains, volunteers, rehabilitation workers and correctional

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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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