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Tag: Priest

Formation Needs Transformation

August 2, 2025 Team ICM Features

ML Satyan – In the wake of frequent ‘suicide by priests’ there have been quite many articles written answering to questions like why does it

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Of Priestly Call and Their Parents

December 14, 2024 Team ICM Features

By Tom Thomas – Recently I was disturbed by an interaction on a WhatsApp group that I was part of. Someone had posted a WhatsApp

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Single Life: The Sacred Vocation Often Overlooked

May 19, 2024 Team ICM Features

By Lavoisier Fernandes If you are Catholic, one might recognise that the three Church designated vocation callings are – religious life, marriage and being single.

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Of Occult Practices, Possession and the Priest

September 20, 2023 Team ICM Features

By Fr Soroj Mullick, SDB – With widespread forms of occult practices, the spirit-world is gaining attention today. Practice of exorcism/deliverance – rituals, prayers, incantations,

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The Fisherman and the Priest

November 30, 2022 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Marianne Furtado de Nazareth – Often priests are compared to fishermen. The comparison is apt and so important in todays world reeling with hate

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Pope Francis Warns Priests, Nuns on the Dangers of Digital Pornography

October 28, 2022 Team ICM News

Verghese V Joseph – Early this week, the Holy Father Francis met the seminarians and priests studying in Rome in the Vatican and cautioned them

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Fr Joe Pereira: The Yogic Priest

June 22, 2022 Team ICM Best of ICM, Offbeat

By Fr. Joshan Rodrigues – On Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the Yoga Day celebrations in Mysuru on the premises of the ‘Amba Vilas Palace’.

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Heeding to the Call

May 6, 2022 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Tom Thomas – A voice broke through the silence on an early morning pre-dawn muggy summer day. I was walking into the Church for

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Priesthood

The Meaning of Sacrifice

March 27, 2022 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Tom Thomas – A few days ago, I arrived a little early for the morning Mass, and was in a pew at the back

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Tribal Activist Priest Fr Stan Swamy Passes Away

July 5, 2021 Team ICM News

The 84-year-old tribal activist and Jesuit priest, Fr Stan Swamy, arrested Under anti-terror law, passed away on Monday. This was announced by his lawyer in

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Pandemic and Prayer: A COVID-Survivor Priest’s Reflection

June 6, 2021 Team ICM COVID-19

​The following article by Fr. Sunil Macwan, S.J. speaks about the author’s experience of ​receiving healing and spiritual transformation through the intercessory prayers of friends and

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Priesthood

Why We Should Pray for Our Priests?

May 10, 2020 Team ICM Features

By Fr Trevor D’Souza – (Acts 6:1-7) Some of us live under the impression that the early church was full of holy men and women,

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4 Ways to Promote Priestly Vocations in Your Parish

November 14, 2019 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Br Brenton Cordeiro – Being a seminarian, I’m surrounded by other seminarians and I’ve heard a variety of vocation stories. What always amazes me

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Kerala: Priest in Judicial Custody Over Abuse of Boys

July 8, 2019 Team ICM News

Kochi: A Christian priest was sent to judicial custody on Sunday for 14 days for allegedly sexually abusing young boys — inmates in a boy’s

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Religion and Politics: Should Priests Comment on Politics?

June 27, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Ajay Raj – Aristotle called politics as master science. We may be prejudiced, but we think he was right. The study of politics is

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