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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- Vatican concludes visitation of Heiligenkreuz Abbey in Austria (Catholic Herald)The Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life concluded its apostolic visitation of Heiligenkreuz Abbey, an Austrian Cistercian abbey known for its Latin liturgy and Gregorian chant. The visitors, Benedictine Abbot Primate Jeremias Schröder and Sister Christine Rod, were given the task of assess Abbot Maximilian Heim’s leadership and the handling […]
- Nuncio's Pentagon meeting was 'frank exchange of ideas,' officials say (Pillar)Officials from the Vatican and the Pentagon dismissed a report that Elbridge Colby, the U.S. Under Secretary of War for Policy, issued a threat to Cardinal Christophe Pierre, then the apostolic nuncio to the United States, during a January meeting. A Vatican official said the meeting was “tense” and at times “aggressive,” but there was […]
- Czech court finds parts of Vatican-Czech treaty unconstitutional (Catholic World Report)The Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic declared parts of a 2024 treaty between the Czech Republic and the Holy See to be unconstitutional. The court faulted provisions related to Church archives and to the seal of Confession; the latter, said the court, is “a clear violation of the neutrality of the state and the […]