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Confluence of Festivals Celebrated at Pilar, Goa

May 4, 2025 Team ICM News

By Fr Elvis Fernandes, SFX – Pillar (Goa): Followers of seven Faith traditions converged on the Pilar hillock to celebrate their respective festivals on 3

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A Simple End

May 2, 2025 Team ICM Reflections

Tom Thomas – Walking through a cemetery can be quite educative.  Reading the various inscriptions on the headstones, one can get an idea of the

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The Dignity of Work Transcends Our Economic Systems

May 1, 2025 Team ICM Family

In an era where labor is increasingly reduced to productivity metrics and profit margins, Saint Joseph the Worker stands as a powerful counterexample that reminds

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United in Spirit: Mumbai Gathers to Pay Tributes to Pope Francis

April 25, 2025 Team ICM News

Mumbai, India – The Archdiocese of Bombay held a significant interfaith prayer service on April 25, 2025, at 11:30 a.m. at the Archbishop House Conference

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Francis, The Endearing Ecumenical Pope

April 25, 2025 Team ICM Features

Fr. Tom Mangattuthazhe – As the world mourns, not just for the passing of a pope, but for the departure of a shepherd who truly

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The Influence of St Ignatius and St Francis on Franciscus

April 24, 2025 Team ICM Features

Tom Thomas – Easter Monday my world turns upside down in the afternoon.  I receive the news from the ICM Editor, almost at the instant

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Saint Joseph Vaz canonization procession. Picture by: Filomena Saraswatif Giese

Pope Francis Died on the Birthday of St. Joseph Vaz

April 24, 2025 Team ICM Features

By Filomena Saraswatif Giese, Joseph Naik Vaz Institute – The commentaries on the life and death of Pope Francis have been about his life and

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Prophets Don’t Die, They Multiply: Pope Francis, the Struggle for Power, and the Church’s Missed Revolution

April 23, 2025 Team ICM Features

James Pochury – The Morning After: Grief, Memory, and a Piercing Realization The news of Pope Francis’s passing came quietly, amid the clamour of a

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After Francis, Who?

April 23, 2025 Team ICM Features

(Extracts from the book “The Jerusalem Code” published in January 2021) # chhotebhai – Focus now shifted to the Camerlengo (the papal custodian till the

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Francis Challenged Us When We Needed It Most

April 22, 2025 Team ICM Features

Dr. Fr. John Singarayar SVD – At 9:45 AM on Easter Monday, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Camerlengo of the Apostolic Chamber, announced the death of Pope

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Papa Francesco: The Pope of Surprises

April 21, 2025 Team ICM Features

By Lavoisier Fernandes – Pope Francis’ 12-year papacy brings to mind the words of St. Thomas Aquinas, who described Providence as “prudentia Dei”—the prudence of

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Indian Leaders, Church and Catholic Community Mourn Pope’s Passing Away

April 21, 2025 Team ICM News

Verghese V Joseph – The passing of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, has evoked a profound outpouring of grief and homage. The

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End of an Era: Pope Francis Passes Away

April 21, 2025 Team ICM News

Verghese V Joseph – At 9:45 AM on Monday, April 21, 2025, Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Camerlengo of the Apostolic Chamber, solemnly announced the death of

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Across Borders: Upholding Human Dignity in Immigration

March 31, 2025 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Lavoisier Fernandes – It’s been a good number of years since I legally migrated to the United Kingdom. Recently, while visiting my home state

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Traveling Light, Walking in Hope: The Lenten Call to Conversion

March 12, 2025 Team ICM Catholic Culture

Tom Thomas – It is 2 am in the morning and I can’t sleep.  My body affected by what is known as jet lag, travelling

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To participants in the Jubilee of the Oriental Churches (14 May 2025)
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Audience of the Holy Father Leo XIV to representatives of the media (12 May 2025)
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Holy Mass in the Crypt of Saint Peter's Basilica (11 May 2025)
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Address of the Holy Father to the College of Cardinals (10 May 2025)
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The rite for the Inauguration of the Petrine Ministry of Leo XIV
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Global hunger surges amid wars, climate crisis and funding gaps
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Ex-classmate remembers Pope Leo XIV as 'man of integrity'
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Over 100 people killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza as death toll crosses 53,000
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Cardinal Tagle reflects on Pope Leo XIV as a missionary shepherd
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CEAST welcomes new Pope and looks forward to Ad Limina Visit
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Chinese Catholics celebrate the opening of two new churches
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