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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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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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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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