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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- Pope Leo's first encyclical, on AI and the human person, to be released on May 25 (Vatican News)Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, devoted to preserving the human person in the age of artificial intelligence, will be released on May 25. The Pope signed the encyclical, entitled Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity), on May 15, the 135th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s landmark social encyclical Rerum Novarum. In a departure from precedent, the Pontiff […]
- Pope thanks Catholic Extension Society for supporting poor Catholic communities (CWN)Pope Leo XIV today received board members of the Catholic Extension Society and their families and thanked them for their support of poor Catholic communities in the continental United States, Puerto Rico, and Cuba.
- Asian Christian conference marks Asia Sunday (Christian Conference of Asia)The Christian Conference of Asia, an ecumenical body of Orthodox churches and Protestant ecclesial communities, marked Asia Sunday yesterday. The day’s theme was “Hope for Redemption of Groaning Creation Amidst Bondage to Decay,” a reference to Romans 8:22. “As political and economic instability, ongoing conflicts and violence, militarization, environmental degradation, rising unemployment, cultural fragmentation, weak […]