Diocesan Membership

Membership Types

Renewed annually in the month first entered.

Membership provides key benefits to the Ordinary, his designee, and diocesan staff, including:

Twenty-four-hour emergency access to the President of the NCBC and the Executive Vice President for the (arch)bishop or his designee.
Five hours of consultation with an NCBC ethicist.
An online subscription to The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly (4 issues) to be shared throughout the diocese, with access to a searchable database of all back issues. Up to 3 print subscriptions for designated recipients.
An online subscription to Ethics & Medics (12 issues) to be shared throughout the diocese, with access to past issues. Up to 3 print subscriptions for designated recipients.
A discount on bulk and individual print or individual print subscriptions to Ethics & Medics sent to one address, which may be distributed to clergy and diocesan staff.
Discounts on Catholic Health Insurance Ethics Reviews (CHIER) of medical/pharmacy health insurance benefits plan design and monitoring.
A 20% discount on the personnel cost for a one-day seminar presented at your facility by an NCBC ethicist (travel expenses additional).
50% off an annual subscription to the NCBC’s syndicated “Making Sense of Bioethics” newspaper column.
Tuition discounts for diocesan staff for NCBC courses, seminars, and other NCBC-sponsored programs.
Sessions from past Workshop for Bishops
Access to past Webinars
Online access to past Bioethics Public Policy Reports
Email updates on current bioethics issues.