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Internet’s Step Sister – ‘The Dark Web’

January 16, 2022 Team ICM Offbeat

By Jane Borges – Until a few weeks ago, the Internet didn’t seem like such a bad space to be in. Stalking friends on Facebook,

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Meet the Charcoal Artist from Arunachal Pradesh

June 2, 2021 Team ICM Offbeat

By Felix Anthony – Kharsang: A young boy from the last village of Arunachal Pradesh is spreading positivity with portraits made of charcoal during this

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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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USA: The Change Takes Place!

December 15, 2020 Team ICM Offbeat

By Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ – The change takes place: On Monday 14 December the Electoral College of the United States formally and officially declared

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The Legend of India’s Only Catholic Queen!

December 1, 2020 Team ICM Best of ICM, Features, Offbeat

By Verghese V Joseph – For many a Catholic, it might come as a pleasant surprise that there was once a Catholic queen who ruled

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Part II: Decision Making in Uncertain Times

October 20, 2020 Team ICM Offbeat

By Chris D’Souza – As we make use of the knowledge of spiritual principles and sense God’s workings in our own hearts, to be able

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Part I: Decision Making in Uncertain Times

October 19, 2020 Team ICM Offbeat

By Chris D’Souza – Have you ever found yourself in a dilemma when it came to making a difficult decision? To add to it, did

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Prison Ministry’s IL Risveglio – The Reawakening

October 1, 2020 Team ICM News, Offbeat

By Sr Lini Sheeja MSC – Awake and Arise, Christ will Shine on You (Eph 5:14) Prison Ministry India national team conducted an online retreat

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Record Floods, Wildfires, Hurricanes, Droughts – We Need the ‘Season of Creation’

September 18, 2020 Team ICM Offbeat

By Tony Magliano Climate change is real; its death and destruction is presently upon us, and it is projected to get much worse if far

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Church is Not the Enemy of Democracy and Secularism

September 16, 2020 Team ICM Offbeat

By Fr Mathew Thankachen O. Praem. – The various administrative bodies of the Church are aimed at making use the varied gift revealed in and

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Ideology of Democracy and Secularism from a Biblical Perspective

September 15, 2020 Team ICM Offbeat

By Fr Mathew Thankachen O. Praem. – Ideologies change the world. Probably, the Communist and BJP know this better than the Catholic Church. History proves

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A Personal Encounter With Mother Teresa

September 4, 2020 Team ICM Offbeat

Rev. Fr. John Solomon spoke to ICM Editor-in-Chief Verghese V Joseph on his experience of meeting Mother Teresa in Calcutta While serving as a Parish

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Dhoni and Christ Testify to Ingratitude and Brevity of Human Memory

August 21, 2020 Team ICM Offbeat

By Dr. George Jacob – M.S. Dhoni, former Indian cricketer and captain of Indian cricket team announced his retirement from international cricket recently. He was

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Making a Difference: 75 Years of Nuclear Weapons Madness

August 6, 2020 Team ICM Offbeat

By Tony Magliano – Wars have always caused needless suffering, destruction and death. But 75 years ago, the hell of war reached a new all

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ICM Anniversary Special: Sacramental Wine A Chalice of Salvation

July 25, 2020 Team ICM Offbeat

By Jacqueline Kelly – Alcohol has been around ever since man discovered how to grow crops for food. The earliest recorded alcoholic beverages date back

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Friday reflection on readings 1, Isaiah 29:17-24 & the Gospel of Matthew 9:27-31. Please click link and scroll down a bit to listen to the audio.




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