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.
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.
A new film promises to open people’s eyes to the 100,000 children nationwide in need of loving homes while also inviting them to be a part of the solution.
Foster care is ‘not just pro-life, but truly whole life, reflecting both babies in the womb and families that have already chosen life but are still in need of support and resources…’
Using a combination of research, data and firsthand interviews as evidence, the author argues that the foster care system does not prioritize the well-being of neglected and abused children.
In a unanimous decision June 17, the Supreme Court said that a Catholic social service agency should not have been excluded from Philadelphia’s foster care program because it did not accept same-sex couples as foster parents.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling June 17 in Fulton v. Philadelphia, faith-based and other agencies across the country may not be forced by a government agency to violate their deeply held beliefs against placing children in households led by same-sex or cohabitating adults.
The Compassion Connection is looking for help to provide a merry Christmas to children living in foster care in Stearns County.
