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
- Leading Mexican bishop pleads with government to protect people from organized crime (EWTN News)At a walk for peace that included Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament, the president of the Mexican Bishops’ Conference pleaded with government officials to provide the security needed to protect people from organized crime. Bishop Ramón Castro of Cuernavaca said on May 16 that “governing means not refusing to take up the responsibility of […]
- Church in Malaysia is vibrant and attracting adult converts, cardinal says (Vatican News)In a brief interview with Vatican News, Cardinal Sebastian Francis of Penang, Malaysia, emphasized that the Church there is vibrant. “The politics are quite stable and the Church is quite vibrant, quite alive, and we have many people inquiring about the Catholic faith as adults,” said Cardinal Francis, who was in Rome for an ad […]
- In India, Catholics who confronted Hindu mob are charged with attempted murder (EWTN News)Two weeks after a Hindu mob disrupted a Mass in a remote Indian village—and police arrested Catholics who confronted the mob—the Catholics remain behind bars, with bail twice denied. “When the hooligans disrupted the Mass on May 1 shouting ‘conversion,’ our people forced them out,” said Bishop Devprasad John Ganawa of Udaipur. “Instead of registering […]
- Canadian university establishes Pope Francis Institute (Vatican News)A Catholic university in Ontario, Canada, announced the establishment of the Pope Francis Institute. “One year after Pope Francis’s death, St. Jerome’s University is announcing the launch of the world’s first initiative of its kind dedicated to advancing his substantial pastoral legacy,” the university said in establishing the institute, which “will be guided by the […]