During his first general audience of 2022, Pope Francis gave a rather lovely catechesis on St. Joseph and adoption — the sixth such address in a series about the foster-father of Jesus. You may not ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Nov. 18 rescinded a Trump administration rule that ensured faith-based social service agencies that provide adoption and foster care would continue receiving federal funding for services that ...
Monica Kelsey knew she was adopted. She also knew she wanted to find her birth mother. "It was never a question of if or when -- I knew I was going to find her one day," ...
While the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 17 decision handed Catholic Social Services of Philadelphia (CSS) a 9-0 victory, the Court sidestepped an important question about the strength of the First Amendment’s religious freedom guarantee. As ...
Responding to the recent Supreme Court decision to allow a Catholic adoption and foster care agency in Philadelphia to only place children in households with a mother and father, Monsignor Owen F. Campion writes that ...
In a major religious liberty ruling that gives religious groups timely new protection against state coercion, the Supreme Court held unanimously that the government cannot penalize a Catholic foster care agency for refusing to place ...
Legislation introduced in the Senate and the House aims to protect "the cherished freedom of religious liberty" of faith-based foster care and adoption providers who believe children "deserve to be placed with a married mother ...
A Department of Health and Human Services modified rule that helps ensure that faith-based social service providers will not be excluded from certain federally funded programs was met with approval by the chairmen of three ...
The path to adoption for Mandy and Keegan Wilson looked nothing like they envisioned. "Adoption is something I wanted to do since I was in high school," Mandy Wilson said. "I have friends who have placed ...
The Daughters of St. Paul have launched a "spiritual adoption" project as part of their #SpiritualCommunion online response to the COVID-19 pandemic. "Spiritual adoption is a specific effort within #SpiritualCommunion for those on the front ...
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