Diocesan Membership

Membership Types

Dues: $1,600

Renewed annually in the month first entered.

Benefits and Services

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.

  • Diocesan members can enroll in the Diocesan Parish Partnership Program and receive the following benefits: permission to distribute the NCBC’s three end-of-life guides electronically or in print: A Catholic Guide to End-of-Life Decisions, A Catholic Guide to POLST, and A Catholic Guide to Palliative Care and Hospice; three monthly bulletin inserts: Living a Catholic Life, Making Sense of Bioethics, and Bioethics Public Policy Report; discounts on NCBC educational programs; and more.