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  • 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 –

  • Fr Bolmax Pereira: The “St Oscar Romero of Goa” and Guardian of Goa’s Ecology

    By Lavoisier Fernandes – Fr Bolmax Pereira, a prominent Catholic priest, environmental activist, and educator from Goa, passed away at

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A Call to Become the Good News: Jesus and the Gospels

February 27, 2018 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Sr. Rekha M Chennattu, RA – Continuing the series on the theme — A Call to Become the Good News — Biblical scholars speak

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Superheroes and Dads!

February 27, 2018 Team ICM Family

By Chris D’Souza – Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating…too often fathers neglect it because they get so caught up

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Visakhapatnam Archbishop Emeritus Mariadas Passes Away

February 26, 2018 Team ICM News

Bangalore (Feb 26): Most Rev. Kagithapu Mariadas (81), Archbishop Emeritus of Visakhapatnam, passed away on Monday 26 February, 2018 at 2.30pm at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Visakhapatnam.

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A Call to Become the Good News

February 26, 2018 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

Indian Catholic Matters is proud to present an insightful paper titled, A Call to Be/Become the Good News, which was presented by Sr. Rekha M

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How a 9-Year-Old Bought a Well for an Indian Village

February 26, 2018 Team ICM Aleteia

By Sophia Swinford – Like most 9-year-olds, Josiah Shaffer wanted an Xbox; unlike most 9-year-olds, he bought a well for a village in India instead,

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Interview: Catholic Church Taking Steps to Protect Minors

February 25, 2018 Team ICM Best of ICM, Interviews

By Verghese V Joseph – “The Church is called to be a place of piety and compassion, especially for those who have suffered. For all

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Pope to Young People: “Don’t Retouch Your Photos; Don’t Use Masks for False Identities”

February 23, 2018 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Ary Waldir Ramos Diaz – In reference to the upcoming 2018 World Youth Day, celebrated at a local level in dioceses across the globe,

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The Glory of Jesus’ Transfiguration

February 23, 2018 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr Eugene Lobo, SJ – Second Sunday of Lent February 25, 2018 Genesis 22:1-2, 9-13, 15-18; Romans 8:31b-35, 37; Mark 9:2-10 God’s call is

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The Lent Project: Running With The Saints

February 22, 2018 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Susanna D – How do lazy, unmotivated, undisciplined people like myself do Lent? How do I ‘live a life worthy of the calling to

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Lent: A Joyful Time of Turning Over

February 21, 2018 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Fr. Joseph Francis – It is normally said that Lent is a time of penance. For some it is almost a mourning time if

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Picturing The Passion: Taking of Christ

February 21, 2018 Team ICM Art / Book / Film

By Joynel Fernandes – This is a story of betrayal, crime, murder and mystery. The protagonists vary; their passion prolongs! We begin with the artist

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Mothers’ Tongues

February 20, 2018 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr. Francis Gonsalves, SJ – “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk

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Lenten Reading: To Be the Little Drummer Boy

February 19, 2018 Team ICM Art / Book / Film

By Subhasis Chattopadhyay – To read is to be replenished. To read is to be privileged to fight against unbelief and atheism. For when bad

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The Lent Project: Looking for God this Lent? Read a Book

February 19, 2018 Team ICM Art / Book / Film, Best of ICM

By Susanna D – Have you ever felt bored with God? Just sort of indifferent, wondering what all the fuss is about? Maybe you once

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Exam Stress Factor: Ways to Cope With It

February 18, 2018 Team ICM Healthcare, Youth

Fr. Freddie Pereira, SDB – Stress during examination is normal but when it overlaps with excessive anxiety, it could interfere with a person’s health and

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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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