ICHA Executive Director’s Report – June, 2020
RECENT ACTIVITIES The second quarter of 2020 has been dramatically affected and altered by the COVID-19 pandemic. All of ICHA’s Executive Director’s travel was suspended and, as a result, face-to-face meetings were cancelled. With these restrictions, ICHA...
ICHA Executive Director’s Report – March, 2020
For the first quarter of 2020, ICHA’s Executive Director continued to meet individually with leadership and is responding to various challenges facing Catholic healthcare in Illinois. Most specifically is the COVID-19 virus
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- US bishops reprimand President Trump as often as they praise him (RNS)“In 22 press releases on immigrants and another 13 on refugees, the bishops attacked the administration’s policies as ‘misguided and untenable,’ ‘unacceptable,’ ‘appalling,’ ‘devastating,’ ‘very concerning,’ ‘heartbreaking,’ ‘unlawful and inhumane,’ ‘terrible,’ ‘callous,’ ‘disturbing’ and ‘contrary to American and Christian values,’” according to the analysis of bishops’ statements in 2019 and 2020. “These are not words […]
- Pope sends message of solidarity to Cardinal Brenes after attack on Managua cathedral (Vatican News)“Dear brother, I accompany you in sorrow for this act of vandalism and I am close to you and your people,” Pope Francis said following the firebomb attack. “I am praying for all of you.”
- Learn from St. John Vianney, Cardinal Parolin preaches at Ars (Vatican News)The Vatican Secretary of State recalled the French saint’s “simplicity, disinterestedness, purity of intention and action, asceticism, [and] fidelity to God and the sacraments.”
- SSPX orders staff, priests not to talk to Kansas Bureau of Investigation without attorney (Kansas City Star)The Society is under investigation for priestly sexual abuse.