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
- Attack on Sacramento parish thwarted (CBS News)An off-duty detective detained a would-be gunman who was attempting to enter St. Mary’s Church in East Sacramento, California, during an Ash Wednesday Mass for schoolchildren. Additional ammunition was found in the 20-year-old would-be gunman’s car, the New York Post reported.
- Ukrainian bishop says local Catholic population has fallen by over 95% (L'Osservatore Romano (Italian))A Latin-rite bishop in Ukraine said that over 95% of Catholics have fled his diocesan territory since Russia’s 2014 invasion. “Before 2014, when the war began, our diocese had 72,000 faithful; today, about 2,500 remain,” said Bishop Pavlo Honcharuk of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia. The prelate spoke of the risk to priests of “not finding time for God,” […]
- Central tower of Barcelona's Sagrada Família completed (Vatican News)The central exterior tower of Barcelona’s Sagrada Família Basilica was completed on February 20. Pope Benedict XVI dedicated the famed church in 2010; interior work is scheduled to continue through 2028.
- Nun murdered in Brazil (Pillar)An 82-year-old Ukrainian Catholic religious sister was beaten to death in Ivaí, Brazil, on February 21. The perpetrator, who was reportedly under the influence of crack cocaine, broke into the convent before killing her.