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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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Christmas: Pieces or Peace?

December 6, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Leon Bent — Christmas is round the corner. I asked the Lord, give me a dream, a theme! And, lo and behold, peace versus

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Chapter XIX: Seated at the Right Hand of the Father Almighty

December 6, 2017 Team ICM I Believe

By Fr. Joseph Francis — Symbolic or metaphoric language   Obviously here we are using metaphorical or symbolic language whose meaning should be clearly perceived. Do

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Word of God; Our Eternal Food! Spiritual Quest of a Clinician

December 6, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture, Healthcare

By Dr Job Cyriac — “But he answered and said, it is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that

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The Difficulties of Family Prayer

December 5, 2017 Team ICM Family

By Fr Hervé Morissette, CSC – There is no ready-made solution to calm a child who misbehaves. However, it is important for the parents to

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Striving to be the Rule: Ethics for Wedding Guests

December 5, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr Warner D’Souza — The Bible is filled with analogies and parables relating to weddings. Yahweh was the bridegroom to His people Israel, in

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CBCI Expresses Solidarity; to Offer Prayers for Cyclone Victims

December 5, 2017 Team ICM News

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) on Tuesday expressed its solidarity with the people of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Lakshadweep and assured its prayers

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Sr. Nirmala: The Guiding Light

December 4, 2017 Team ICM News

By Subhasis Chattopadhyay – Sannyasa means effecting an ontological break with one’s past; sannyasis let the dead bury their dead. They are themselves dead to

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Time to Say Thank You Lord

December 3, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Most Rev. Lumen Monteiro, CSC, D.D, Bishop of Agartala — What  does  one  do  18  times  a  minute, 1800 times an hour and 25,920

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Of Things Past, Passing and Yet to Come

December 3, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

Fr. J. Pulinthanath, SDB — There is something puzzling about the speed with which December always comes, bringing with it tad regret and surprise. Surprise

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When Able Meet Not So Able!

December 2, 2017 Team ICM Offbeat

By Jacqueline Colaco Rheumatoid arthritis has slowly decreased my ability to move normally so I limp around. My fingers too are bent out of shape.

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It’s Advent: Yearning For His Arrival!

December 2, 2017 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr. Eugene Lobo, SJ – First Sunday of Advent: Yearning For God Isaiah 63:16-17; 64:1.3-8; 1 Corinthians 1:3-9; Mark 13:33-37 Today we begin the

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Unite the League

December 1, 2017 Team ICM Offbeat

By Fr Joshan Rodrigues – If you are a fan of superhero movies, choosing between the DC Universe and the Marvel Universe is a tough

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Avoiding Eye Contact and Other Ways to Kill Your Soul

November 30, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Susanna D – Are you a good person? Yeah, me too. I’m basically a good person. Aren’t we all? Most people think of themselves

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Keeping Our Self-Esteem for Good!

November 30, 2017 Team ICM Offbeat

By Jennifer Pinto – Hi Everyone! So last time I talked about how we beat ourselves up over everything we do wrong and how there

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Chapter XVIII: A Descriptive Definition of Heaven

November 29, 2017 Team ICM I Believe

By Fr. Joseph Francis — What is this heaven into which Jesus ascended? Heaven that awaits each one of us and for all could be

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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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