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
- Bishop named for troubled Nigerian diocese (Vatican Press Office)Pope Francis has named Bishop Simeon Nwobi, CMF—since October the auxiliary of the apostolic administrator of Ahiara—as the new bishop of the troubled Nigerian diocese. Founded in 1987 and located in the Mbaise region of Imo State in southern Nigeria, the diocese was governed by Bishop Victor Chikwe from its inception until his death in […]
- Papal tribute to classic Fellini film (Vatican News)Pope Francis has sent a brief video message to participants in a conference marking the 70th anniversary of La Strada, a movie by Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini. “As a boy, I watched many of Fellini’s films, but La Strada has stayed in my heart,” said the Pope, who was 17 when the movie was released. […]
- Ecumenical Patriarch issues Easter encyclical (Orthodox Times)Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who holds a primacy of honor among the Orthodox churches, has released an encyclical for Easter, celebrated this year on May 5 according to the Julian calendar. “Orthodox spirituality does not recognize the utopianism of a Resurrection without Crucifixion, nor the pessimism of the Cross without the Resurrection,” he writes. […]
- Vatican announces 37 jubilee events (USCCB)The Vatican has announced 37 events for the 2025 jubilee year. Since the 15th century, it has been customary for the Church to celebrate a jubilee every 25 years. The theme of the 2025 jubilee is “Pilgrims of Hope.” The first of the 37 listed events is for the world of communications (January 24-26); the […]