The certification program was simply excellent – thorough, cutting-edge information on beginning-of-life, end-of-life, and emerging bioethical issues presented in a clear, understandable format. I highly recommend this program to priests, seminarians, and consecrated religious who are seeking to articulately dialogue with the culture and counsel those with difficult bioethical questions.
—Sr. Shirley Lagerson
Sisters of Life
Suffern, NY
2024-2025 graduate
The NCBC Certification Program offers a rewarding and challenging educational opportunity to both foster and enhance knowledge in bioethics. Additionally, what is significant for me in my role as a Clinical Manager is that the program offers an up-to-date knowledge base of information, applicable to both my professional and personal life, that is faithfully grounded in the Catholic moral tradition.
I am undeniably grateful for tremendous learning experience of the NCBC’s Certification Program. I earnestly and highly recommend it to interested Catholics and to those of good will.
—Russell A. Lee, MSN, RN, CRNI
Clinical Manager
Franciscan Health
Munster, IN
2024-2025 graduate
The program gives a fantastic overview of Bioethics challenges internationally. It also provides enough material to go even deeper if one is interested in specific subjects.
The program has not only taught me a great deal about Bioethics, but about the Catholic faith in general. It has shown the logic and consistency of Catholic teaching, as well as its prophetic anticipation of new ethical challenges. It has made my faith stronger.
As a German, I was wondering if the program is mostly for Americans. While it uses many US documents, I was very pleased to discover that its content is truly universal – it is Catholic in the best sense. I can highly recommend it.
—Dr. Florian Huber
Munich, Germany
2024-2025 graduate
The NCBC’s exceptional educational program offers an opportunity for academic and medical professionals, truly anyone interested in religious truth, to participate in a year-long, intensive study of solid, orthodox Roman Catholic biomedical moral theology. Through weekly online asynchronous engagements with a comprehensive curriculum taught by experts in the field, participants are offered transformative opportunities to engage actively in critical, contemporary conversations about human dignity, the common good, justice, freedom, and responsibility.
—Rev. Patrick S. Flanagan, CM
Chair & Associate Professor
Department of Theology & Religious Studies
St. John’s University
Queens, NY
2024-2025 graduate
The NCBC certification program has significantly contributed to my personal and professional development. It offered training on essential topics, including ethical challenges at the beginning of life, gender issues, ethics committees, ethical dilemmas at the end of life, and many other relevant subjects. As a chaplain, I wholeheartedly endorse this program for my fellow chaplains, aspiring chaplains, and all medical professionals to participate in this certification program.
—Elias Mena
Board Certified Chaplain
Bakersfield, CA
2024-2025 graduate
