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Philadelphia Cuts Ties with Catholic Charities Over Gay Foster Parenting Refusal
LifeSite News ^ | 3/28/18 | Claire Chretien

Posted on 04/01/2018 5:58:41 PM PDT by marshmallow

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, March 28, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – 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 the U.S., Catholic charities in Boston, Washington, D.C., Illinois, and San Francisco have had to stop facilitating adoptions rather than place children with same-sex couples.

“A man and a woman united in marriage, together with their children, form a family,” the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches (CCC 2202). “This institution is prior to any recognition by public authority, which has an obligation to recognize it. It should be considered the normal reference point by which the different forms of family relationship are to be evaluated.”

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: catholic; homosexualagenda
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1 posted on 04/01/2018 5:58:41 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Country was founded on religious freedom, and now religion is oppressed , because mentally sick people refuse to abide by God, or in their case nature, or science.


2 posted on 04/01/2018 6:04:25 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: marshmallow
Catholic Charities refused to pimp out the children.
3 posted on 04/01/2018 6:08:34 PM PDT by donna (Together, Joe and Mika are a JOKA!)
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To: marshmallow
This is so sad. Foster children have often been abused and molested. They were dealt a bad hand in life, and the City of Filthydelphia want to place them in homes with perverts? Haven't the kids already suffered enough? Aren't the kids mixed up enough?

What could be lower than to play games with the lives of at risk children, games to satisfy the bureaucrats' embrace of prurience and perversion.
 

4 posted on 04/01/2018 6:08:49 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
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To: marshmallow

Wow. A church that still has morals. Thats rare.


5 posted on 04/01/2018 6:09:11 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk (Hey Newbomb, where is your bothers ElCamino ?)
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To: marshmallow

These kids could a religious household. The Rats are not helping ‘the children’


6 posted on 04/01/2018 6:20:53 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: marshmallow

Damn “progressives”, they’re creating more places I’ll never set foot in.


7 posted on 04/01/2018 6:21:24 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: marshmallow

Thus substantially increasing certain boys’ chances of being molested by their two “dads”.


8 posted on 04/01/2018 6:29:17 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: marshmallow

Goodbye!!


9 posted on 04/01/2018 6:34:01 PM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: manc

Told ya this would happen.

The gays were all “no this is about lovvve we don’t want to force our views on anyone”

Yeah BS


10 posted on 04/01/2018 6:34:48 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: marshmallow

Tell the Devil to go to HELL


11 posted on 04/01/2018 6:36:43 PM PDT by hapnHal
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To: FatherofFive
The 'Rats aren't helping the children, they're grooming them, as any predator does.
12 posted on 04/01/2018 6:36:55 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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Yep I remember VT civil unions and them saying they just want to visit in hospital, then MA got their marriage, and right away they went after Catholic Charities. Since then they have forced businesses to adopt their agenda,and what they have not understood is that millions of us have not accepted their lifestyle,and this family never will.


13 posted on 04/01/2018 6:37:56 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Two homo women adopted 6, or 8 kids and went right off the cliff killing all. No skid marks, but there was reports of abuse by these two women.


14 posted on 04/01/2018 6:39:00 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: marshmallow

These poor children.

Our Heavenly Father is the Giver of Life . . . male and female. What part of Mark 10:6-9 don’t people understand?
6 “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’[a] 7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,[b] 8 and the two will become one flesh.’[c] So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”


15 posted on 04/01/2018 6:44:00 PM PDT by Maudeen (Jesus . . . He Gave His Life for You!)
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Weird Mayor Kenney
Of Philadelphia

16 posted on 04/01/2018 6:44:06 PM PDT by Songcraft ("Pray without ceasing." 1 Thessalonians 5:17)
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To: manc

Hang in there Catholics.


17 posted on 04/01/2018 7:07:02 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: marshmallow

And sadly, the Catholic Church will do NOTHING about this injustice! We will not hear one single homily in any church in the area about this. There will be no political action done in return by the Church at election time. It is a shame, because the Church should be organizing, mobilizing and getting the Faithful out to the polls to vote out these vicious anti-Catholic losers like Kenney in Philadelphia.


18 posted on 04/01/2018 8:04:19 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: marshmallow

Philly... A city adhering to its motto: The City of Brotherly Love!


19 posted on 04/01/2018 8:18:48 PM PDT by octex
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good....now the Catholic church won't be saddled with multiple lawsuits from kids abused by their gay foster so called "parents"...

to become a foster child it takes a lot of chaos in the kids life, and the state takes care of them by putting them in chaotic homes?...nice...

20 posted on 04/01/2018 8:40:59 PM PDT by cherry
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