CCI Fact Sheet on SB 1909 and HB 2463: Deceptive Practices of Limited Services Pregnancy Centers Act
CCI Fact Sheet on SB 1909 and HB 2463:Deceptive Practices of Limited Services Pregnancy Centers Act Pregnancy centers offer important services to low-income, vulnerable, and marginalized women across Illinois. They are generally small community or church-affiliated...
USCCB Launches Heart of the Revival Weekly Newsletter
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishop’s Secretariat of Evangelization and Catechesis has launched its Heart of the Revival weekly newsletter for ongoing inspiration and information as we journey forward toward the 2024 National Eucharistic Congress....
Illinoisans Support Rate Cap on Personal Loans
Predatory Lenders’ Predictions of Gloom-and-Doom Fail to Materialize as Consumers Embrace Illinois’s Interest Rate Cap. Illinoisans support the 36% Rate Cap on personal loans and employ a variety of different ways to handle an emergency need for cash–disproving the...
Statement of the Archdiocese of Chicago on the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago Statement Against Anti-Catholic Bigotry
The Archdiocese of Chicago welcomes the statement of support from the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago in light of recent anti-Catholic caricatures and attacks following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health...
Amendment to Health Care Right of Conscience Act Passes IL General Assembly
CCI Statement in Opposition to Amending the Health Care Right of Conscience Act
CCI opposes amendments to the Health Care Right of Conscience Act
Spring 2021 Legislative Roundup
Invest in Kids Act: In the Budget Implementation Act (BIMP), we were successful in fighting off the Governor's proposed cuts and in achieving a one-year extension of the program. The Invest in Kids Tax Credit is now scheduled to expire on January 1, 2024. This change...
ASK YOUR LEGISLATORS TO OPPOSE HOUSE BILL 2789
House Bill 2789 (see fact sheet here) seeks to codify, during a gubernatorial declared public health emergency, a new complaint process against public and nonpublic schools that can apparently be submitted by anyone for any perceived violation of mitigation efforts....
Extreme Proposed Changes to Schools’ Sex-Ed Curriculum in SB818
SB 818 mandates adding considerable course material and instruction on sex education in public schools. After reviewing the materials mandated in the bill that are contained in the National Sex Education Standards, the Catholic Conference feels compelled to speak...