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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- USCCB publishes update on Temporary Protected Status for Ukraine (USCCB)The Office of Policy and Advocacy of the US bishops’ Secretariat of Migration has published a three-page “Update on Temporary Protected Status for Ukraine.” The update addresses three questions: “What is TPS and why is it important for Ukrainians in the United States?”, “What is the difference between TPS and humanitarian parole?”, and “How has […]
- Vatican spokesman: TLM procession application not specific enough (Pillar)The director of the Holy See Press Office commented on the Secretariat of State’s decision not to permit an annual pilgrimage of Catholics devoted to the extraordinary form of the Mass to process into St. Peter’s Basilica. The Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage’s request referred “exclusively to the procession, because that’s ordinarily not allowed, not even for […]
- Vatican diplomat calls for total elimination of nuclear weapons (Holy See Mission)A leading Vatican diplomat said that the “only lasting response to the dangers posed by nuclear weapons is their total elimination.” “While measures to reduce nuclear risks are necessary, they cannot substitute for disarmament,” Archbishop Christophe-Zakhia El-Kassis, apostolic nuncio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, said at a recent UN […]