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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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Homily: The Good Shepherd Sunday

April 20, 2018 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr. Eugene Lobo, SJ – Today is the Good Shepherd Sunday and the Vocation Sunday and the word of God presents us with two

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Theology of the Body Pioneers Anna and Vally Honoured

April 19, 2018 Team ICM News

By Sr. Teresa Joseph – The esteemed Sr. M. Annunciata RGS Golden Jubilee Award was bestowed on Anna and Valentino from Goa for their outstanding

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Msgr. Paul Antony Mullassery Appointed Bishop of Quilon

April 18, 2018 Team ICM News

New Delhi: In the light of the Communication received from the Apostolic Nunciature, Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas, SFX, Secretary General, Catholic Bishop’s Conference of India (CBCI)

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Chapter XXIX: I Believe in the Forgiveness of Sins

April 18, 2018 Team ICM I Believe

By Fr. Joseph B Francis – God is ever ready to forgive the repentant sinner The Niceno-Constantinople Creed (381 AD) has a variation here: “I

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Meet Archbishop-Designate of Bangalore Peter Machado

April 17, 2018 Team ICM News

Photo caption: Archbishop-elect of Bangalore Peter Machado being felicitated by Archbishop Derek Fernandes of Karwar diocese in the presence of Father Lucio, Father Kutty and

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Bible Youth Icon: Naman’s Maid Girl

April 17, 2018 Team ICM Youth

By Antony Christy SDB- This is a character so insignificant that we do not even know her name – insignificant for the world, as she

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Prayer is Above All an Act of Faith and Hope

April 16, 2018 Team ICM Features

By Most Rev. Dr. Yvon Ambroise, Bishop of Tuticorin – From my earlier article, we understand that the intimate link of prayer with mission work

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Stephen Hawking: When the Universe Embraced Him

April 16, 2018 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

In his concluding part, scientist priest Prof. Dr. Mathew Chandrankunnel CMI  brings out further insights about Stephen Hawking. By Fr. Dr. Mathew Chandrankunnel, CMI – With

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Pope Francis greets Stephen Hawking during an audience with participants attending a plenary session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican Nov. 28, 2016. Hawking, the British-born theoretical physicist, cosmologist and popular author died March 14 at the age of 76. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano, handout)

A Brief History of Stephen Hawking: A Touching Tribute by Scientist Priest

April 15, 2018 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr. (Dr.) Mathew Chandrankunnel  – Stephen Hawking, the legendary scientist has now become memory. Because of his shining brilliance, of his debilitating physical disability,

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Easter at Emmaus: ‘The Supper at Emmaus’ by Vittore Carpaccio

April 15, 2018 Team ICM Art / Book / Film

By Joynel Fernandes – Easter indeed is a time of hope and new beginnings! Yet 2000 years ago on the Sunday of Easter the disciples

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Church in India Expresses Deep Anguish Over Kathua, Unnao Incidents

April 15, 2018 Team ICM News

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) expresses its deep pain and anguish at the incidents against women in Kathua, Unnao and other places in

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Karnataka: New Milagris Church at Khanapur to be Inaugurated on April 16

April 14, 2018 Team ICM News

By Louis Rodrigues – Belagavi: The new building of the centuries-old Milagris Church at Khanapur, one of the oldest churches in north Karnataka which once

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Arunachal Pradesh: Miao Diocese Bishop George Honoured with Bharat Gaurav Award

April 14, 2018 Team ICM News

By Felix Anthony – It was a moment great pride for the people of Arunachal Pradesh on 13 April 2018 when Bishop George Pallipparambil of

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Homily for Youth: Fulfillment of His Plan

April 14, 2018 Team ICM Homilies, Youth

By Fr. Antony Christy, SDB – What am I upto? What is happening in my life? Why am I going through all that I am

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Prison Tales: Keeping Up the Faith

April 13, 2018 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr. Sebastian Vadakumpadan – St. John’s Gospel 20: 1-9 gives a beautiful description of an early morning visit of Mary Magdalene to the tomb

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