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  • Did God Create Cockroaches?

    # chhotebhai – Yes, cockroaches are the flavour of the season (yuck), thanks to the intemperate remarks of the CJI,

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    It seems to be a never-ending circle of hate, violence and war; destruction, division and discrimination. Today, corruption, exclusion and

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    By Christina Hanna Paul – I was born and raised Catholic. Sunday Mass, the Rosary, Catechesis, I had it all

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    Recently, during a Catholic spiritual retreat, I met an elderly woman of about 75 years old. She shared one of

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    Magnifica Humanitas: Pope Leo XIV’s Moral Test for the Age of AI

    Janina Gomes – Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, arrives at a moment when the world is dazzled by

  • Beyond Sports: Pope Leo XIV’s June Intention

    “Let us pray that sport is a tool for peace, encounter, and dialogue between different cultures and peoples, that it

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     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

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Facing Those Brook Besor Moments…

August 13, 2017 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Linda Joseph –  I believe all Christians face something Max Lucado referred to as a Brook Besor moment. When even your dearest abandon you

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Amoris Laetitia: The Joy of Love In The Family

August 12, 2017 Team ICM Family

By Most Reverend Prakash Mallavarapu, Archbishop of Visakhapatnam –  This year, on March 19th, the feast of St. Joseph, our beloved Holy Father, Pope Francis,

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Why Do You look For The Living Among The Dead? #fakenews

August 12, 2017 Team ICM Best of ICM, Tech / Media

By Rev. Fr. Joshan Rodrigues – Just a few days ago, I received a Whatsapp text from one of my relatives stating that Sr Nirmala, the

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Jesus Is The Source Of Peace

August 11, 2017 Team ICM Homilies

Nineteenth Sunday of the Year August 13, 2017 1 Kings 19:9.11-13,  Romans 9:1-5, Matthew 14:22-33 God’s presence is felt more often in tiny, small ways,

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St.Claire

11 August: Feast of St Clare of Assisi

August 11, 2017 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

Fr Trevor D’Souza OFM – Clare of Assisi cannot be understood without understanding Francis of Assisi and Francis is incomplete without Clare. While Francis represents

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Chapter II: I Believe in God

August 9, 2017 Team ICM I Believe

Faith is primarily acceptance of the Person of God Sometimes people tend to think of faith and belief as acceptance of some impersonal truths or

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Bored at Mass? Try These 7 Steps!

August 7, 2017 Team ICM Best of ICM, Catholic Culture

Fr Joshan Rodrigues – One of the most common refrains I hear from young people is ‘Mass is boring. Homilies are boring. I don’t know why

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Fr McGrath

XLRI had Maggie long before anyone else

August 7, 2017 Team ICM Offbeat

By Abhijit Bhaduri –  That was the summer of ’82. It seems such a long time ago. Memories are not time dependent. We may forget

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Time To Rethink The Purpose Of Business

August 7, 2017 Team ICM Features

By Lawrence Chong – In an age where businesses are downsizing, rightsizing or just doling out the pink slips that has fast becoming the norm, it’s

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God’s Love For His Children Is Eternal

August 6, 2017 Team ICM Family

In today’s session on ‘Good and Effective Parenting’ organised by Resurrection Church Parents’ Collective, Mr. Sunil Mahajan of Pathfinder exhorted parents to try and fill

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Priesthood

The Journey of Priestly Formation Begins With a Call

August 6, 2017 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Fr. Chris Vimalraj Hiruthya – A simple definition of the word ‘vocation’ is its literal meaning a ‘call’. For example, the call to married

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Lift Up Our Priests In Prayer

August 3, 2017 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Br. Raghu –  On August 4th, the Holy Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Marie John Vianney – The patron saint of parish priests. Soon

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Pope Francis’s Hard Talk On The Economy That Davos Didn’t

August 3, 2017 Team ICM Features

By Lawrence Chong – At a time of failing governments, unraveling of the global order, rising populism and a technological wave that might replace half of

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Major Sylvester Ratnam: Heroic Spirit

August 2, 2017 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. — 2 Timothy 4:7 `Silly’ to his friends, `Rajesh’

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The Apostles Creed

An Insightful Understanding of The Creed ‘I Believe’

August 2, 2017 Team ICM I Believe

Beginning this week, every Thursday we will bring you a series of exemplary articles by Rev. Fr. B. Joseph Francis from his book titled ‘Creed

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