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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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Bible Gems for Daily Life

March 21, 2018 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

Fr Fio Mascarenhas, SJ – The Bible, very especially the New Testament, is a great treasure-chest that God has gifted to the Church, filled to

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B’luru Archbishop to Flag-off India’s First Christian Run

March 20, 2018 Team ICM Catholic Culture

Bengaluru: The second edition of Salvation Run, a faith-based run initiative, conceptualized to unite Christian believers from across all denominations will be flagged off at

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Bible Youth Icon: Samuel – Heeding to the Call

March 20, 2018 Team ICM Youth

By Fr. Antony Christy, SDB – Samuel is a prominent figure in the Old Testament story as many a new thing began with him. Can

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Fighting Fair: Resolving Marriage Problems Big and Small

March 20, 2018 Team ICM Best of ICM, Catholic Culture

By Fr Joshan Rodrigues – I receive tons of marriage jokes on Whatsapp, many of them from women themselves. As you can imagine, most of

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CBCI Conducts Social Media Workshop to Counter Fake News

March 20, 2018 Team ICM Tech / Media

By Felix Anthony – Guwahati: Responding to the challenges of fake news and baked news in an era of social media, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference

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Pre-Wedding Shoots, Anybody?

March 19, 2018 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr Joshan Rodrigues Let’s start at the very beginning. A friend of mine got a pre-wedding shoot done just recently. The wedding is just

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The ‘Joseph’ in Francis

March 19, 2018 Team ICM Offbeat

Fr. Cedric Prakash, SJ – Exactly five years ago, on 19 March 2013, Pope Francis began his Pontificate. It was the Feast of St. Joseph,

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St. Joseph: Model of a Pious Believer

March 18, 2018 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Most. Rev. Dr. Prasad Gallela, Bishop of Cuddapah – As we keep the solemnity of St. Joseph in the month of March, let us

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Francis’ Five: Five Years of Pope Francis

March 18, 2018 Team ICM News

By Fr Antony Christy, SDB – March 13, 2013 – the day Pope Francis took on the divine mandate of leading the People of God. It

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Picturing the Passion: ‘Christ Carrying the Cross’ by Hieronymus Bosch

March 17, 2018 Team ICM Art / Book / Film

By Joynel Fernandes – The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls’ – Edgar Allan Poe Hieronymus Bosch (1515 – 1516), a

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Homily for Youth: Jesus, Yes You Surely Can!

March 17, 2018 Team ICM Homilies, Youth

By Fr. Antony Christy, SDB- 5th Sunday in Lent: 18th March, 2018 The Word today has an open invitation: Do you really wish to see Jesus? 

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Catholic Church in India Welcomes Msgr Javier Domingo

March 17, 2018 Team ICM News

The Indian Catholic church on Saturday formally welcomed Monsignor Javier Domingo Fernández Gonsalez as the First Counsellor to the Apostolic Nunciature in India. In a

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Picturing the Passion: ‘Christ Carrying the Cross’ by El Greco

March 16, 2018 Team ICM Art / Book / Film

By Joynel Fernandes – The best understood symbol of Christianity is undoubtedly the Cross; a dead tree on which was hung the Saviour who brought

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Homily: In Need of Total Transformation of Our Lives

March 16, 2018 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr.Eugene Lobo, SJ – Fifth Sunday of Lent Jeremiah 31:31-34; Hebrews 5:7-9; John 12:20-33 We are just one week away from the Holy Week

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Church Should Foster Mercy and Compassion: Cardinal Oswald Gracias

March 16, 2018 Team ICM News

The Catholic Church in India should foster mercy and compassion, urged His Eminence Oswald Cardinal Gracias, the President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of

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