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Fallen Leaves: Live Each Day as Your Last

August 16, 2024 Team ICM Features

Tom Thomas – The incessant overnight rain brings a change to my regular early morning routine. Mass attendance is delayed to a later one, and

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Jesus: My Valentine!

February 13, 2024 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Jacqueline Kelly – Valentine’s Day is celebrated all over the world on February 14 by enthusiastic lovers. Down the ages, lovers have been celebrating

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Divine Garland of Roses: Why Recite the Rosary?

October 6, 2023 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Leon Bent – I have been saying the Liberation Rosary for more than 20 years, every single day, together with the Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious

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Making a Difference: No Matter What, Life is Always Worth Living!

September 24, 2023 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Tony Magliano – Life is God’s most precious gift. Please never consider ending it. No matter what problems you have, no matter how serious

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Making a Difference: ‘Defend Life’

August 15, 2023 Team ICM Features

By Tony Magliano – During the recent World Youth Day in Portugal, one of the 10 young people who had the unique opportunity to enjoy

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Making a Difference: Abortion’s Brutal Hidden Truth

May 31, 2023 Team ICM Family

By Tony Magliano – During one of the many nonviolent, prayerful pro-life/anti-abortion demonstrations I participated in, a woman stopped her car, got out, pointed to

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Holy Innocents Day: Life Is Precious

December 28, 2022 Team ICM Family

Jacqueline Kelly – The first step in God’s holy design was to create the world. With this great act of God, the history of the

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Death, The Beginning of the New Life in and With Christ

November 3, 2022 Team ICM Features

Fr. Vivek Lionel Basu – After the feast of all saints on 1st November, immediately on November 2, the Universal Church dedicates to the commemoration

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A Blip in Dad & Son’s Treasured Moments

July 1, 2022 Team ICM Family

By Tom Thomas – Almost two years and three months to the day that I made the drive of hundreds of kilometers as an emergency

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Death Penalty MUST be Abolished!

February 25, 2022 Team ICM Healthcare

By Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ On 18 February 2022, a Special Court, designated for speedy trial of the accused in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts,

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Present Life… is a Trip to Eternity

November 4, 2021 Team ICM Features

By Jacqueline Kelly – At the hour of death, the tree of your soul will fall to one side and remain there for all eternity.

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Where Human Life Begins, the Abortion Debate Ends

September 17, 2021 Team ICM Family

By Tony Magliano – At a recent White House press conference, President Joe Biden said, “I respect those who believe life begins at the moment

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A Good Friday Reflection on Jesus’ Suffering with the World

April 1, 2021 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Tony Magliano Pope Francis has often urged us to prayerfully meditate before the crucifix. Because by prayerfully meditating before the crucifix, one can see

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Wish I’d Had a Life!

January 8, 2021 Team ICM Offbeat

By Jacqueline Colaco – How often we hear a person reflecting on moments or decades lost because of lack of courage to justify their inner

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Covid-19 Invites Us to See, Reflect, Pray and Act!

May 11, 2020 Team ICM COVID-19

By His Grace Most Rev Prakash Mallavarapu, Archbishop of Vizag Entire humanity across the nations and all its routine activities was brought to its knees

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