Thank You
Your registration has been accepted for the Illinois Catholic Health Association’s short online course for chaplains on the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services. Within 5 days you will receive an email from The National Catholic Bioethics Center with the information you will need to access their website to download and complete the 6 learning modules.
Thank you for your participation in this program, and thank you for the service you render to those in our Catholic healthcare facilities in the Province of Illinois.
Patrick Cacchione
Executive Director
Catholic News
- SSPX announces names of priests who will be ordained bishops (Society of St. Pius X)The Society of St. Pius X announced today the names of the four priests who are scheduled to be consecrated bishops on July 1. They are Father Pascal Schreiber, 53; Father Michael Goldade, 45; Father Michel Poinsinet de Sivry, 42; and Father Marc Hanappier, 36. Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, the prefect of the Dicastery for […]
- Iranian convert to Catholicism sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison (World )An Iranian woman who converted to Catholicism has been sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison, the evangelical Protestant publication World reported. Ghazal Marzban, 41, was charged with propaganda against Islam. She had previously received 74 lashes for taking part in an anti-government protest, according to the report.
- Man vandalizes, sets fire at Missouri Catholic school (KYTV)A man broke into a Catholic elementary school in Missouri, damaged images of Christ and the Virgin Mary, and set a fire in the building. The incident at Immaculate Conception Elementary School in Springfield is one of over 400 acts of vandalism, arson, and other destruction at parishes and other Catholic sites in the United […]
- VP Vance calls Pope Leo's AI warnings 'profound' (NBC News)Vice President JD Vance praised Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical (CWN coverage). “What I read of it sounds very profound, and the sort of thing that you would expect and hope from a leader of the Church,” he said in an interview with NBC News. “The thing about morality is that the principles never change, […]