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
- USCCB opposes EPA deregulation of greenhouse gas emission reporting (USCCB)In a 13-page letter to the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), four attorneys for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops urged the EPA to reconsider its proposed deregulation of greenhouse gas emission reporting requirements. The current regulations “can serve to protect our ‘common home’ for current and future generations and allow the […]
- Papal message pays tribute to Blessed Rosario Livatino, slain by Mafia (Società San Vincenzo De Paoli)Pope Leo XIV paid tribute to Blessed Rosario Livatino (1952-1990), an Italian magistrate slain by the Mafia, and praised the organizers of a new prize for justice that bears his name. The pontifical message, dated October 25, was the subject of a November 6 Vatican newspaper article. The message was signed by Archbishop Edgar Peña […]
- Vatican diplomat: produce more food with fewer chemicals (Vatican News (Spanish))Addressing a conference on agronomy and forestry, a Vatican diplomat lamented food waste as he called for sustainable agriculture to “feed the planet without waste, shifting from the logic of abundance to the logic of sufficiency.” Msgr. Fernando Chica Arellano, the Vatican’s representative to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, called for “producing more, but […]
- Holy See reaffirms support for Haiti, calls for care of creation (Vatican News)Addressing the Organization of American States (OAS), a Vatican diplomat expressed solidarity with the victims of Hurricane Melissa and support for strife-torn Haiti. Msgr. Juan Antonio Cruz Serrano added that he “considers commendable the task of international and regional organizations, such as the OAS, in raising awareness among governments and civil society about the abuses […]