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
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- Over 300,000 Germans left the Church in 2025 (Catholic Herald)307,117 Germans formally left the Catholic Church in 2025, down slightly from the previous year’s figure of 321,659 and down significantly from the 2022 figure of 522,821. The Mass attendance rate increased slightly, from 6.6% in 2024 to 6.8% in 2025. The number of baptisms and weddings declined; the number of confirmations and First Communions […]
- Refrain from disrespectful speech, leading Kenyan bishop urges politicians (AMECEA)The chairman of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops called upon political leaders to refrain from disrespectful speech. “The children listening to you are shocked,” Archbishop Maurice Muhatia Makumba said on March 19. “The young people listening to you are traumatized because, in you, they see the collapse of their aspirations for leadership. The adults […]
- Pope encourages virtuous ecological practices, sustainable development research (Vatican News)Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Secretary of State of His Holiness, sent a message in Pope Leo’s name to the 17th International Forum for Information on the Safeguard of Nature. In the message, Cardinal Parolin wrote that Pope Leo encourages “sustainable development research projects.” “Ecological responsibility is not fulfilled by technical data alone,” the Pope cautioned. […]