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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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Do Catholics Worship Idols?

September 14, 2017 Team ICM Q&A @ ICM

By Fr. Adrian Mascarenhas –  Why do we have statues of Jesus in our church, when we do not allow idol worship?  A person who

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CBCI Secy Gen Writes An Open Appeal to PM Over Jharkhand Incidents

September 13, 2017 Team ICM Offbeat

Honourable Prime Minister, I am making this appeal to you with much sorrow and anguish but also with hope. You must be aware of the

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Chapter VII : Our LORD

September 13, 2017 Team ICM I Believe

By Rev. Fr. B Joseph Francis –  Titles of Jesus used by the primitive Church express their faith in Jesus alive and risen The Resurrection

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Of Blue Whales and White Rabbits!

September 13, 2017 Team ICM Best of ICM, Family

By Fr. Joshan Rodrigues – Speaking of whales, the first thing that comes to mind is the Prophet Jonah in the Old Testament who was

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Fr. Tom’s Release: Bangalore Archdiocese, CRI & Salesians To Offer Thanksgiving Mass on Thursday

September 13, 2017 Team ICM Offbeat

Bangalore: The Archdiocese of Bangalore, along with the Salesians of Don Bosco of the Bangalore Province and the Archdiocesan CRI, will celebrate a Thanksgiving Holy

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CBCI Policy to Address Workplace Sexual Harassment

September 13, 2017 Team ICM Offbeat

New Delhi: Women of today have emerged out of the shelters of their homes and are making their presence felt in all fields; political, legal,

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Indian Catholic Community Joyful, Offer Prayers

September 12, 2017 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

The Catholic community in India heaved a huge sigh of relief and erupted with joy when the news about kidnapped Catholic priest Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil’s

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CBCI Expresses Gratitude Over Release of Fr. Tom

September 12, 2017 Team ICM Offbeat

New Delhi: The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) expresses its immense joy on getting the news of the release of Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil SDB

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My Faithbook: To Pray Always and All Ways

September 12, 2017 Team ICM Art / Book / Film

Author: Fr. Gilbert Choondal, SDB –  The book has nothing to do with Facebook though the title, cover design and colour may find striking similarities.

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Kidnapped Indian Priest Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil Released

September 12, 2017 Team ICM Best of ICM, News

By Verghese V Joseph – Muscat/New Delhi/Bengaluru: Kidnapped Indian Catholic priest Fr. Tom Uzhunnalil has been released and is now flown to Muscat, the Oman

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Franciscan Values: Heeding To The Call of God

September 11, 2017 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Fr. Joy Prakash, OFM –  The question by Masseo “why after you,” Three times he asked the question: why does the whole world run

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When War is OK: Church Teaching on Just War and the Use of Force

September 11, 2017 Team ICM Best of ICM, Offbeat

By Fr. Joshan Rodrigues –  On a recent trip to DC, I had the privilege of visiting Arlington National Cemetery where, I’ve been told, more

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Indian Catholic Matters Gets Listed on Inter Mirifica

September 10, 2017 Team ICM Offbeat

Rome/Bengaluru: Indian Catholic Matters (ICM) is proud to state that it has been listed on InterMirifica, a project coordinated by the Holy Father Pope Francis’ Secretariat

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Joseph’s Tears – Being Faithful To The Point of Breaking

September 9, 2017 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Linda Joseph Kavalackal –  Trusting God means trusting Him when darkness threatens to defeat what God revealed to you in the light. Trusting God

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Just like Mary

September 8, 2017 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Linda Joseph – Catholics mark the birthday of Mother Mary in September. A person who was called ‘favoured’ and ‘blessed among women’. Mary’s ‘blessing’

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ICM Moves Up in World’s Top 100 Catholic Media Sites

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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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