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The city of Philadelphia will no longer place foster children with parents through the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s Catholic Social Services (CSS) because the archdiocese won’t place kids with same-sex couples. “A short time ago, the City ceased new foster care child intakes with CSS,” Kenneth Gavin, the archdiocese’s chief communications officer , told LifeSiteNews via email. “CSS is, at its core, an institution founded on faith based-principles. As such, CSS conducts its operations based upon deeply held religious beliefs and principles.” The archdiocesan program “recognizes the vital importance of the foster care program in our city and is proud to provide safe and nurturing foster environments to young people in need,” said Gavin. “Given the longstanding partnership between CSS and the city, we hope to continue our productive relationship with the City of Philadelphia to serve those among us in need.” As same-sex “marriage” was introduced and eventually imposed on th...

In all the debate over gay adoptions and Catholic Charities , the Church’s teaching that gay adoption does “spiritual violence” to the kids has been ignored at best or dismissed as “homophobia” at worst. Instead, we’re told over and over that same-sex parents are wonderful, with hints that they may be even better than normal opposite-sex parents because they take kids who straight parents pass up and even that they appreciate the kids more because they can’t have biological kids of their own. But is that the reality? The National Catholic Register sought out kids of same-sex parents for their take on how it affected them. Charles Mitchell and two brothers were adopted as infants by two men. He called same-sex adoption “a tragic social experiment ” and said, “ homosexuality destroyed a normal way of life for us.” Often, the homosexual parents shown in the media are straight-laced, responsible men. Mitchell said that his “dad” and “uncle” weren’t unlike that. But “it’s not just...

The media may have painted the same-sex adoption fight as a battle over religious freedom. But there’s much more at stake. When Massachusetts wanted to force Catholic Charities ’ adoption services to submit to the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling about homosexual “marriage,” the Church refused. The media played the story as a simple confrontation over religious rights — as if Catholic Charities’ right to affirm traditional marriage is only defensible in the same way as tribal religions’ rights to get high from peyote buttons. People like Charles Mitchell who grew up with homosexual parents know that the Church’s opposition to the practice isn’t an eccentricity of Catholic belief. It’s a bold, counter-cultural stand in defense of children. Charles Mitchell and two brothers were adopted as infants by two men. He called same-sex adoption “a tragic social experiment” and said, “homosexuality destroyed a normal way of life for us.” Often, the homosexual parents shown in the media ar...