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
- Monastic life recalls primacy of God, Pope tells Vallombrosians (Dicastery for Communication)Pope Leo XIV received participants in the general chapter of the Vallombrosian Benedictines, a monastic reform begun by St. John Gualbert (c. 985-1073). “I thank all of you for the gift that your monastic life represents, recalling the entire Church to the primacy of God as the source of joy and the basis of personal […]
- Bishops' religious-liberty chairman welcomes Supreme Court decision on parental rights in education (USCCB)The chairman of the US bishops’ Committee on Religious Liberty welcomed Mahmoud v. Taylor, a 6-3 Supreme Court decision that affirmed the right to parents in Montgomery County, Maryland, to opt out their children out of K-5 “LGBTQ+-inclusive” storybooks. “Parents do not forfeit their rights as primary educators of their children when they send their […]
- Trinitarians focus on dialogue to help persecuted Christians, superior general says (Fides)In an interview with the Fides news agency, Father Luigi Buccarello, the superior general of the Trinitarians, offered insight into the religious order’s current priorities. Founded by St. John of Matha (1160-1223) for the redemption of Christians enslaved by Muslims during the Crusades, the Trinitarians now focus on interreligious dialogue and religious freedom “in support […]
- Equatorial Guinea's president meets with Pontiff (Vatican Press Office)Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the president of Equatorial Guinea, met with Pope Leo XIV on June 28. Following the audience, Obiang met with Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations. The parties discussed Church-state relations, the international situation, and “the effects of conflicts and issues of public […]