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Foster Care &Amp; Adoption

Pope are seen in a file photo walking outside Health and Human Services outside the Mary E. Switzer Memorial Building. On March 6, 2026, HHS proposed scrapping a Biden administration policy requiring foster homes to affirm a child's gender transition or sexual orientation. (OSV News photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters)

HHS proposes scrapping policy requiring foster homes to affirm children's LGBTQ+ identity

Kate Scanlon|Mar 9, 2026|3 Min Read

Children hold hands on a ride at Luna Park in Coney Island on opening day of the season in Brooklyn, New York, March 29, 2025. (OSV News photo/Kylie Cooper, Reuters)

Leaders in foster care, adoption look at post-Roe landscape for their ministries

Katie Yoder|May 27, 2025|6 Min Read

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New movie about foster care invites people of faith to take action

Katie Yoder|Jul 5, 2024|6 Min Read

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Catholic couple alleges state denied them foster parenting chance over religious beliefs

Kate Scanlon|Aug 9, 2023|3 Min Read

Chad and Melissa Buck. (Becket Fund via CNA)

Catholic adoption agency in Michigan wins settlement allowing it to operate in accord with the faith

Jonah McKeown|Jan 25, 2022|3 Min Read

Sharonell Fulton has fostered more than 40 children through Catholic Social Services. (Photo courtesy of Becket Fund for Religious Liberty)

City of Philadelphia to pay $2 million to Catholic foster care agency in settlement

Christine Rousselle|Nov 23, 2021|3 Min Read

A family is seen near the U.S. Capitol in Washington Nov. 18, 2021. The Biden administration and the Department of Health and Human Services announced Nov. 18 the reversal of a Trump-era HHS rules change that ensured faith-based adoption and foster care agencies would not be excluded from federal funding for providing services consistent with their religious beliefs. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

HHS rescinds rule protecting faith-based foster care, adoption agencies

Catholic News Service|Nov 23, 2021|2 Min Read

Sharonell Fulton, one of the plaintiffs in Fulton v. Philadelphia who has fostered more than 40 children through Catholic Social Services. (Becket via CNA)

Philadelphia Catholic agency can once again help make foster care placements, after settlement with city

Matt Hadro|Sep 27, 2021|3 Min Read

Sharonell Fulton, a foster parent in Philadelphia, is pictured with a young woman and children in a May 23, 2018, photo. In a unanimous decision June 17, 2021, 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. (CNS photo/courtesy Becket Religious Liberty for All)

Philadelphia foster parents welcome U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous ruling

Gina Christian|Jun 17, 2021|4 Min Read

Women pose for a picture near the U.S Supreme Court building in Washington June 17, 2021. 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. (CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters)

Ruling seen as victory for children, foster parents and religious liberty

Matthew Gambino|Jun 17, 2021|5 Min Read

Women pose for a picture near the U.S Supreme Court building in Washington June 17, 2021. 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. (CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters)

Supreme Court rules in favor of Catholic agency in foster case

Carol Zimmermann|Jun 17, 2021|6 Min Read

Cecilia Paul, right, a foster mother through Catholic Social Services of the Philadelphia Archdiocese for more than 40 years, is pictured in her Philadelphia home in this 2015 file photo with daughter Taylor and son Jamil, both of whom she cared for as a foster mother before adopting them. A Department of Health and Human Services modified rule taking effect Jan. 19, 2021, helps ensure faith-based social service providers will not be excluded from certain federally funded programs. (CNS photo/Sarah Webb, CatholicPhilly.com)

Bishops applaud HHS rule change that aids adoption, foster care providers

Catholic News Service|Jan 15, 2021|2 Min Read

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