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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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Remembering The Mahatma: Paying The Price

January 30, 2018 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr. Cedric Prakash, SJ – Exactly seventy years ago on 30 January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated. On his death, in an impromptu and

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Why #MeToo is Not Enough

January 29, 2018 Team ICM Offbeat

By Fr Joshan Rodrigues – Ever since the Harvey Weinstein abuse scandal broke out last year, I have wanted to write about it. But I haven’t. Partially

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Homily for Youth: God’s Direction is Enough

January 27, 2018 Team ICM Youth

By Fr Antony Christy, SDB – 4th Sunday in the Ordinary Time 28th January, 2018 Dt 18: 15-20; 1Cor 7: 32-35; Mk 1: 21-28 It

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Jesus – The Real Source of Liberation for Us

January 27, 2018 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr Eugene Lobo, SJ – Fourth Sunday of the Year Deuteronomy 18:15-20; 1 Corinthians 7:32-35; Mark 1:21-28 God’s word comes to us in various

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Msgr Fernández González is The New First Counsellor to Apostolic Nunciature in India

January 26, 2018 Team ICM News

In a significant development, the Holy Father Pope Francis has designated Monsignor Javier Domingo Fernández González, at present serving the Apostolic Nunciature in Nigeria, as

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We Are the Church… Aren’t We?

January 25, 2018 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Susanna D – One of the homilies Catholics hear a lot is the ‘We are the Church’ homily. It goes something like this— ‘Look

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ICM Honours the Heroic Spirit of Major Sylvester Ratnam

January 25, 2018 Team ICM Catholic Culture

 By Team ICM I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. — 2 Timothy 4:7 On this

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Fostering a Culture of Life

January 25, 2018 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Dr. Jeanette Pinto – The phrase “Culture of Life” is a term used in discussion of moral theology, especially that of the Catholic Church.

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Pope Francis Tells Us How to Fight ‘Fake News’

January 25, 2018 Team ICM Tech / Media

By Fr. Joshan Rodrigues – It’s no surprise that Pope Francis has jumped onto the bandwagon of combating ‘fake news’, considering that he himself has been

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Bible Youth Icon: Jacob – Faithful in Love

January 24, 2018 Team ICM Youth

By Fr Antony Christy, SDB – Jacob enters salvation history as the son of Isaac and Rebecca.  Having a twin brother in the person of

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To Jesus Through Mary

January 24, 2018 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Fr. Joseph Royan, C.Ss.R – As Catholics, we have grown familiar with the expression “To Jesus through Mary”.  I often get asked both by

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Chapter XXIII: I believe in the Holy Spirit

January 24, 2018 Team ICM I Believe

By Fr. Joseph Francis — Who is the Holy Spirit?             In the Niceno-Constantinople Creed (381 AD) this is long and elaborate: “I believe in the

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Interview with Rev. Fr. Abbot Philip Anderson: We Must All Build Bridges

January 23, 2018 Team ICM Best of ICM, Faith / Spirituality

By Subhasis Chattopadhyay – In a first-ever dialogue between a Solesmes Abbot and an Indian Hindu, the very Reverend Philip Anderson, Abbot of Our Lady

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Making The Sign of The Cross

January 23, 2018 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Jubel D’Cruz – The sign of the cross is a beautiful gesture which reminds the faithful of the cross of salvation while invoking the Holy

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Random Reflections on Making Sound Choices

January 22, 2018 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr. Hedwig Lewis, SJ – We live by choices Animals live and move by instincts. When hungry they hunt for food; when threatened they

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