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
- Irish bishop blasts distorted narrative against Catholic schools (Irish Times)An Irish bishop charged that “various groups, supported by funding from ideological philanthropical entities, many from outside the State, continue to lobby politicians and media with a rather narrow, nuanced and distorted narrative” against Catholic schools. Bishop Tom Deenihan of Meath, chairman of the Irish bishops’ Council on Education, decried “negative, ideologically driven and adversarial […]
- Cardinal Marx instructs priests to facilitate blessings of same-sex couples (Catholic World Report)Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising, Germany, has implemented a document providing for the blessing of same-sex couples, as well as couples that have remarried outside the Church. “Priests who do not want to carry out such blessing celebrations for homosexual marriages or remarried divorced people must refer the couples to the dean or […]
- Holy See renews call for international action against human trafficking (Vatican News (Italian))At a conference organized by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, a delegation from the Holy See called for coordinated international action against human trafficking. “The principle of non-punishment should be upheld to ensure that victims are not unjustly punished or prosecuted for acts they may have committed as a direct consequence of […]
- Mob attacks Christian village in Bangladesh (EWTN News)A mob attacked a Christian village in Birganj, Bangladesh, on April 19. At least six people were injured in the attack, and a Hindu temple in the area was also destroyed. “Nearly 200 Muslims were reportedly involved in the attack and used local homemade weapons such as axes, iron rods, and bamboo sticks in an […]