ICHA Board Members 2019
Block, George
Our Lady of Angels Retirement Home
Boland, Msgr. Michael
Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Chicago
Brennan, Megan
Franciscan Ministries
Cacchione, Patrick
Executive Director, ICHA
Frey, Mark
Amita Health
Jenky, Bishop Daniel
Diocese of Peoria
Keusenkothen, Br. Thomas – Finance Chair
Sponsor, Ascension Health Ministries
Maltby, Sr. Teresa
Corporate Member, Presence Health Ministries
Mayer, Dawn
Franciscan Ministries
Merdian, Msgr. Mark
Diocese of Peoria
Paprocki, Bishop Thomas John
Diocese of Springfield in Illinois
Roach, Steve
Catholic Charities, Diocese of Springfield
Rutherford, Theresa – Chair
St. Anthony’s Memorial Hospital
Sehring, Robert
OSF Healthcare
Trstensky, Sr. Jomary
Sponsor – Hospital Sisters Health System
Walsh, Sr. Sharon Ann
Little Company of Mary Hospital
Chaplain Education Program
6 NACC CEUs
Catholic News
- UN investigates Ortega regime for torture, murder of opponents in Nicaragua (Fides)“The police, the army and the institutions of justice must respect the law, limiting the activities of the military forces to security,” said Archbishop Ivan Jurkovic, who represents the Holy See at UN offices in Geneva. “There must be no mistreatment in prisons.”
- Pakistani prelate condemns human trafficking in brides (Fides)“Christian girls were married to Chinese men, who paid the family, marriage, the priest very well,” said Bishop Samson Shukardin. “After the marriage these girls are brought to China, where they are often mistreated or sold as sex slaves.”
- Kenya's bishops decry deaths among young people (Catholic Information Service for Africa)“We are also confronted with a worrying trend where a number of our people, especially the youth, are taking their own lives, while others have been murdered in bizarre circumstances never heard of,” the East African nation’s bishops said in a recent statement.
- Chaldean cardinal slams anti-Christian discrimination in Iraq, calls for respect for rule of law (AsiaNews)Born in 1948, Cardinal Louis Raphaël I Sako has led the Chaldean Catholic Church since 2013. The church is among the Eastern Catholic churches in full communion with the Holy See.