ICHA 2021 Annual Meeting
SAVE THE DATE! Illinois Catholic Health Association ANNUAL MEETING Thursday, September 9, 2021 (In the event we cannot meet in person, this meeting will take place by Zoom) Hilton Rosemont/Chicago O’Hare Hotel* 5550 North River Road Rosemont, Illinois *This is the...
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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- Pope, in general audience, reflects on prayer and the Most Holy Trinity (Vatican Press Office)In May 2020, Pope Francis began a series Wednesday general audiences on prayer; that series has continued in 2021. “In our journey of catechesis on prayer, today and next week we will see how, thanks to Jesus Christ, prayer opens us up to the Trinity—to the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit—to the immense […]
- US bishops' doctrine, pro-life chairmen address use of Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine (USCCB)“Pfizer and Moderna’s vaccines raised concerns because an abortion-derived cell line was used for testing them, but not in their production,” the prelates said. “The Johnson & Johnson vaccine, however, was developed, tested and is produced with abortion-derived cell lines raising additional moral concerns. . . . If one has the ability to choose a […]
- French Catholic clergy may have abused at least 10,000 people since 1950, say investigators (CNN)In 2018, the French bishops established the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church.
- Acne mask or blackface? $20M lawsuit alleges Catholic school wrongfully forced out students over viral photo (The Mercury News (San Jose))“A photograph of this innocent event was plucked from obscurity and grossly mischaracterized during the height of nationwide social unrest,” said the parents of former students at Saint Francis High School (Mountain View, Calif.), whose annual tuition cost is $21,200.