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
- Piarist fathers demand Cuban regime return their cloister and school (EWTN News)Cuban Piarist fathers demanded that the nation’s Communist regime return a cloister and school confiscated in 1961. “Nationalized in 1961, state ownership brought only neglect and now, destruction,” the Piarists said in a statement on the buildings’ current condition.
- Vatican dicastery announces Catholic Response for Emergencies (Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development)The Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development announced today the formation of the Catholic Response for Emergencies (CR4E), an alliance “to address in a coordinated way the humanitarian crises that mark our time.” The alliance is organized by Caritas Internationalis, the Church’s confederation of relief and development agencies, and the International Catholic Migration Commission. Representatives […]
- Vatican bank posts best returns in a decade (Pillar)The Institute for Works of Religion, colloquially known as the Vatican bank, posted its strongest financial results in a decade. “For the financial year 2025, the bank posted net income of 51 million euros [$59.9 million]—a 55 percent increase from the previous year’s 32 million euro [$37.6 million] profit, and the strongest result since 2015,” […]
- Courage apostolate's leader expands criticism of Synod report (National Catholic Register)The leader of an apostolate that ministers to persons with same-sex attractions in a manner consistent with the teaching of the Church expanded upon his earlier criticism of the Synod report on doctrinal issues. Father Brian Gannon, Courage International’s executive director, told the National Catholic Register that the Synod report’s “misrepresentation of Courage actually wounds […]