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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.

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    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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It’s Time to Bell the Cat – Revisiting Human Traditions

November 28, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr. Warner D’Souza – My dear friend, the late Fr Larry Pereira always said that religion is like a river; at its source it

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Fr. Horace Rozario SJ: Guided by the Holy Spirit

November 28, 2017 Team ICM Best of ICM, Faith / Spirituality

By Subhasis Chattopadhyay – The Desert Fathers pointed out that only a fool has himself for a spiritual director. In other words, the primacy of

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Guidelines for Family Prayer: Prepare the Prayer

November 28, 2017 Team ICM Family

By Fr Hervé Morissette, CSC – Introduce variety into your family prayer, especially when you gather for prayer every day. You may pray together on

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The Lourdes of India: Our Lady of Vailankanni

November 27, 2017 Team ICM News

Aleteia‘s international English edition editor Daniel Esparza writes about the Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health at Vailankanni, popularly known as “the Eastern Lourdes.”

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Parables for Today: Why Not Me?

November 27, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture, Offbeat

By Fr. Joe Mannath, SDB — Last May, I met someone who impressed me a great deal. This is how we met. A parishioner I

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Much Before Christmas: Don’t Miss the ‘Voice of God’

November 26, 2017 Team ICM Reflections

By Fr. Adolf Washington – Much before Christmas, a school was conducting many rehearsals with little children for a drama on the birth of Jesus.

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Story of a Christmas Story

November 26, 2017 Team ICM News

By Fr. Hedwig Lewis SJ – “Merry Christmas” is the greeting you spontaneously exchange with others during Christmastide. The origin of this expression can be

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Michelangelo’s Last Judgement: Masterpieces Within a Masterpiece!

November 25, 2017 Team ICM Art / Book / Film

By Joynel Fernandes – Michelangelo is indeed hailed as one of the greatest, if not ‘the greatest’ artist of all times. A fantastic sculptor, painter,

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Our Lord Jesus Christ: King of The Universe

November 25, 2017 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Most Rev. Bishop Felix Toppo, SJ – In the past kings ruled over all the countries. He used to be the supreme authority in

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Feast of Christ the King: His Loving Kindness Endures Forever

November 25, 2017 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr. Eugene Lobo, SJ – Ez 34, 11-12, 15-17, 1Cor 15, 20-26 Mt. 25:31-46 On the last Sunday of the liturgical year the church

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Sharing Supper With Our Lord

November 23, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Jacqueline Colaco – I was perusing through ancestral photographs to post milestone family occasions on Facebook. Many of these centred round cake cutting ceremonies

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A Catholic Perspective on Arranged Marriages

November 23, 2017 Team ICM Best of ICM, Catholic Culture

By Susanna D – The concept of arranged marriages is as fascinating and repulsive to the Western world, as it is natural and normal to

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Chapter XVII: He Ascended

November 22, 2017 Team ICM I Believe

By Fr Joseph Francis – How to understand “descending” from heaven and “ascending” into heaven? Descended from heaven or ascended into heaven: these expressions need

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Adolescence: Those Wonder Years, Really?

November 22, 2017 Team ICM Family

By Fr Divya Paul – Adults commonly tell young people that the teenage years are the “best years of your life.” The rosy remembrance highlights

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Praying With Teenagers: Motivate Them

November 21, 2017 Team ICM Family

By Fr Hervé Morissette, CSC – Your younger children will find it normal to pray with the family, but it may not work as well

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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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