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 Philippine prelate urges Catholic families to move beyond 'closed circles,' embrace mission role (CBCP News)The president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines said that “the Church today needs families that are not only inward-looking, but outward-going.” “This is the identity of a people blessed by God—not stagnant, but growing; not closed in, but bearing fruit for others,” Archbishop Gilbert Garcera of Lipa preached on June 13, at […]
- Power shortages force Cuban priests to ration Communion (AFP)Worsening power shortages in Cuba have led to lower production of unconsecrated hosts. As a result, some priests are rationing Holy Communion. Referring to nuns who make the hosts, Father George Payano, O.P., said that “they told the priests and bishops, you have to ration them a bit so that there are enough for all.”
- Detroit archbishop lauds opening of new mosque (The Arab American News)Archbishop Edward Weisenburger of Detroit lauded the opening of a $20-million mosque in Dearborn Heights, Michigan. “There is no place where I feel more respect, fraternity, and kindness,” Archbishop Weisenburger said at the mosque’s opening ceremony on June 12, according to The Arab American News. “From the moment I entered this beautiful site, I felt […]
- South Korean president thanks Holy See for supporting peace process (Fides)South Korean President Lee Jae-Myung thanked the Holy See for its “unconditional support and constant attention” to the peace process on the Korean Peninsula. President Lee made his remarks at the Papal Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome on June 14, at the conclusion of a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Lazzaro You […]