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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 VIII: Jesus CHRIST

September 21, 2017 Team ICM I Believe

By Rev. Fr. B Joseph Francis –  The meaning of the name of Jesus  It sometimes happens that many do not realize that ‘Jesus’ is

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Youth’s Cry: Walk With Me, Please!

September 21, 2017 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Fr. Glenford Lowe, SDB –  Do we fear the young, or find fault with them, or walk with them as friends? A look at

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Beginning Today, Give Peace a Chance

September 21, 2017 Team ICM Offbeat

By Fr. Cedric Prakash, SJ – In a powerful speech to world leaders on September 19th, Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of the United Nations,

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St. Matthew: A Publican Freed for God’s Kingdom

September 20, 2017 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Fr. Joy Prakash, OFM – Matthew the publican received “the bread of life and understanding” as food (Sir 15,3) and, out of this same

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The Saas-Bahu Saga (Part 1)

September 20, 2017 Team ICM Best of ICM, Offbeat

By Fr. Joshan Rodrigues “Father, my daughter-in-law is my gold! Bhangarachi Sunn! She takes such good care of me, bringing me my medicines from time

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Hannah’s Prayer And The Eli Encounter

September 19, 2017 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Linda Joseph Kavalackal – 1 Samuel 1:10, 11 – In her deep anguish Hannah prayed to the Lord, weeping bitterly. And she made a

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When Repentance Becomes A Blessing

September 19, 2017 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Fr. Sam Koonamplackil, VC –  These are days to relinquish sin and evil pleasures in the spirit of repentance, and to become a new

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Kiara: Bringing You the Joy of Music!

September 18, 2017 Team ICM Offbeat

In an Interview, Dr Wendy M Dickson, founder and director of the Kiara Music Academy tells Ashwini Jaisim how her upcoming musical titled Tales as

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Why Be Married In The Church?

September 18, 2017 Team ICM Family

By Fr. Herve Morissette, C.S.C. –  In October 2015, a married couple – Louis and Zélie Martin – were canonized by Pope Francis during the

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Centurion: Keeping The Faith

September 17, 2017 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Fr. Errol Fernandes SJ – 1 Tim 2:1-8; Lk 7:1-10 In the story of today’s Gospel, we will read of a centurion’s response of faith

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Facing Monday Morning Blues

September 17, 2017 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, Vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil At which he toils under

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CBCI Unveils Norms For Women’s Safety at Workplace

September 16, 2017 Team ICM Offbeat

New Delhi: The Catholic Bishop’s Conference of India (CBCI)  on Thursday released the ‘CBCI Guidelines to deal with Sexual Harassment at Workplace’ at CBCI Centre

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Karnataka Christian Think Tank Set Up To Tackle Challenges

September 16, 2017 Team ICM Offbeat

By Verghese V Joseph – Bengaluru: In a landmark development, a Christian Think Tank Meeting was organized under the aegis of the Karnataka Region Catholic

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Charity Inspires Charity

September 16, 2017 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Fr. Sebastian Vadakumpadan – In the month of September, 2016 there was an offer of cooked food from a hotel to Jeevodaya Ashram in

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Forgiveness: Need of The Hour

September 16, 2017 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

Fr Eugene Lobo, S.J. –  Twenty Fourth Sunday of the Year September 17, 2017 Ecclesiastics 27:30-28:7   Romans 14:7-9   Matthew 18:21-35 Forgiveness is a Christian virtue

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