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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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Discerning Critical Matters at Interreligious Dialogue

April 30, 2018 Team ICM News

By Sr. Dr. Teresa Joseph, FMA  – Mumbai: Atma Darshan, Andheri, witnessed a very significant meeting during 19-21 April 2018. Altogether 21 regional and diocesan directors

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It’s All About Discerning the Right Career or Vocation

April 29, 2018 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Sunil Mahajan – The biggest challenge for today’s youth is finding their purpose in life and when they are at the cross roads of

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Homily for Youth: Let Us Remain in the Lord and Bear Much Fruit!

April 28, 2018 Team ICM Youth

By Fr. Antony Christy, SDB – The annual general body meeting of the Ocean World was in progress. The customary speech of the President came

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Sunday With a Saint: ‘The Finding of the Body of Saint Mark’ by Tintoretto

April 28, 2018 Team ICM Art / Book / Film

By Joynel Fernandes – It was a cold moonless night. Below the gloomy sky two figures hurried through the town, making their way to the

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Sunday Homily: Abiding in Him Forever

April 27, 2018 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr Eugene Lobo, S.J – During the Easter season the liturgy brings us closer to the resurrected Jesus and makes us realize that we

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Of Broken Phones and Unknown Futures

April 26, 2018 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Susanna D – A couple of days ago I broke my phone. Again. It just slipped out of my hand… Okay, let’s be honest,

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Chapter XXX: (I believe in the) Resurrection of the Body (1)

April 25, 2018 Team ICM I Believe

By Fr. Joseph B Francis – The hope of our bodily resurrection at the end of time The Niceno-Constantinople Creed (381 AD) is slightly longer

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Remembering Anand: A True Missionary Disciple

April 25, 2018 Team ICM Features

Sr. Dr. Teresa Joseph, FMA remembers the contributions to the church by late Anand Castelino, and pays a rich tributes to him. “A life well

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300 Youth Join Hands to fight Drug Menace in Arunachal Pradesh

April 24, 2018 Team ICM Offbeat

By Felix Anthony – Longding: A group of 300 youth from the 51 villages of Longding district came together at De Paul School, Tissa from

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Bible Youth Icon: The Boy With the Bread

April 24, 2018 Team ICM Youth

By Fr Antony Christy SDB – Here is yet another anonymous little character, but mind, we are already crossing over into the New Testament. Right

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Rome Seminar: A Masterclass for Church Communicators

April 23, 2018 Team ICM News, Tech / Media

By Fr Joshan Rodrigues – A deeply engaging seminar for Church Communication professionals has just concluded in Rome at the Pontifical University of the Holy

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Film on Blessed Rani Maria in the Works

April 23, 2018 Team ICM Art / Book / Film, Best of ICM

By Verghese V Joseph – An internationally acclaimed documentary film maker, cameraman and photographer – Shaison P. Ouseph – plans to produce a film on

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The Sacrament of Sacrifice: ‘The Door of the Fold’ By Sybil Parker (1895)

April 22, 2018 Team ICM Art / Book / Film

By Joynel Fernandes – Christ as the Good Shepherd is one of the most endearing and abiding images in Catholic faith and tradition. This theme

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Homily for Youth: The Shepherd Sunday

April 21, 2018 Team ICM Homilies, Youth

By Fr. Antony Christy, SDB – Imagine it in real: can sheep become the shepherd? Sheep are sheep, and the Shepherd is a human being

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Goa: Archbishop Ordains 7 Diocesan Priests at the Se Cathedral

April 20, 2018 Team ICM News

Panaji: Archbishop-Patriarch of Goa and Daman Most Rev. Filipe Neri Ferrão on Friday exhorted the seven newly ordained diocesan priests to focus on prayer, the Word of God and service in

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