Agreement reached on conscience rights

Agreement reached on conscience rights

Last month, we posted about an attack on the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act in the form of Senate Bill 1564. The Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act allows medical personnel and health care facilites to avoid participating in medical procedures...
IL bishops urge lawmakers to oppose taxpayer-funded abortions

IL bishops urge lawmakers to oppose taxpayer-funded abortions

Illinois' Catholic bishops today sent a letter to Illinois House members to reject House Bill 4013 and its call for public funding of abortions. Both the House and Senate reconvene today after a two-week spring break. House Bill 4013 passed the House Human...
CCI Radio Hour: March 16, 2015

CCI Radio Hour: March 16, 2015

March 16, 2015 show Bishop Edward Braxton of Belleville talks about the pastoral letter he issued in January, "The Racial Divide in the United States." Fr. William Grogan, the Archdiocese's vicar for health care, and Patrick Cacchione of the Illinois...
Agreement reached on conscience rights

Conscience rights under attack

The Illinois Healthcare Right of Conscience Act allows medical personnel and health care facilites to avoid participating in medical procedures — such as abortion, sterilization, and certain end-of-life care — that violate their beliefs and values. Senate...
IL bishops urge lawmakers to oppose taxpayer-funded abortions

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of life legislation this session

State lawmakers have introduced more than 6,200 bills for this session, and these two are on our pro-life radar screen. The Good: CCI is again supporting the Ultrasound Opportunity Act in the form of House Bill 2701, which simply calls for women who are more than...