In honor of National Foster Care Month in May, and ahead of Dobbs’ third anniversary, Kimberly Henkel, co-founder of Springs of Love in Pennsylvania, joined other Catholic ministry leaders to call for deeper engagement. They stressed that while not everyone is called to foster or adopt, every Catholic can support families who do.
Katie McMahon and her husband realized the gravity of using in vitro fertilization, or IVF, to conceive when, years later, they needed to make a decision about their final four embryonic children frozen in time by cryopreservation.
Father Christopher Kight, new spiritual director for the national Catholic adoption and foster support ministry, shares his calling to support families through the journey of foster care and adoption and speaks of the ongoing need for this work.
Advocacy for the life of the unborn reminds us that Jesus is the true victor.
As Catholics, we do a good job of supporting women in crisis pregnancies, yet many are still unaware of the urgent need to get further involved by fostering, supporting foster families.
Mary Fuller was left on the back pew of Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit and was adopted 70 years ago. In 2020, she discovered and connected her birth family.
After a harrowing two-month journey from Ukraine to the United States, Anton Bezborodov arrived in Indianapolis April 22, 2022, where his true home is.
Leaning on Scripture and assisting others helped an adopted woman circle back to her faith and see that my worth was always there.
