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
- Pope Leo names EWTN News president as prefect of Dicastery for Communication (Vatican Press Office)Pope Leo XIV today named Maria Montserrat (Montse) Alvarado, the president and chief operating officer of EWTN News, as prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication. From 2009 to 2023, Alvarado worked for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, where she served as vice president and executive director. She is a graduate of Florida International […]
- Christians attacked in India during prayer service (Catholic Connect)Christians in a remote village in the predominantly Hindu Indian state of Chhattisgarh (map) were assaulted on May 31 during a prayer service. Catholic Connect, a website of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India, reported that “between 25 and 30 people were physically assaulted. At least five individuals suffered serious injuries.”
- Buffalo diocese prods parishes to file for bankruptcy (WIVB-TV)The Diocese of Buffalo, New York, is encouraging all of the individual parishes in the diocese to file jointly for bankruptcy. Diocesan officials hope that what is described as “rapid prepackage bankruptcy” will allow the diocese itself to emerge more quickly from six years of bankruptcy proceedings. The diocese said in a statement: In furtherance […]
- USCCB highlights immigration, slavery in prayer service for America's 250th anniversary (USCCB)The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration and Subcommittee for the Promotion of Racial Justice and Reconciliation published “A Path Toward Justice: A National Prayer Service Honoring the Many Journeys that Shaped America.” The presiding minister is encouraged to offer the following words of welcome: As the United States commemorates the 250th anniversary of the signing […]