Waiting for a baby: on Advent and adoption
Mike and Maria Slavik are embracing Advent, a season of anticipation, of waiting and praying for a baby that changes everything.
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Kim Doyle had two desires in her life — to be a teacher and to adopt children. “I never thought I’d ever be anything else but a teacher,” said Doyle, who has worked in education for more than three...
View ArticleWomen honored for life-giving sacrifice
My lifelong dear friend, also known as my “other brother Mark (Claesgens),” and his sister and I grew up like siblings, as our adoptive parents were close friends.
View ArticleCan a mother forget her child? Honoring birthmothers
Birth mothers, or “first mothers,” often experienced the loss of belonging during their unexpected pregnancies and relinquishment of children for adoption. They were hurt to the core by shame and...
View ArticleHome of love multiplied
Gretchen Thibault will never forget the news footage 17 years ago that altered her family forever: a CBS News special showing a Romanian orphanage where malnourished toddlers were tied up in cribs. “It...
View ArticleIndian couples frustrated as Missionaries of Charity stop adoptions
Although the sisters continue to keep and care for abandoned, destitute and sick children, they have stopped putting children up for adoption. The nuns said they made the decision because new...
View ArticleAdoption vs. surrogacy
As the discussion on surrogacy continues before a Minnesota state legislative commission studying the issue, the divide between the two sides becomes clearer, even as proponents of the practice try to...
View ArticleCardinal Nichols apologizes to unmarried women coerced to give up babies
An English cardinal has apologized for the "hurt caused" to young unmarried mothers pressured by church agencies in the mid-20th century to surrender their children for adoption.
View ArticleBishops back bill to let agencies opt out of adoption for same-sex couples
Three bishops, in a joint letter to the measure's sponsor, voiced their support of the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act, which would permit social service agencies to refuse on religious grounds to...
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Adoptive parents nervous after raids of Missionaries of Charity homes
Children are fed at the at Missionaries of Charity’s Shishu Bhawan care center in Kolkata, India. CNS photo/CNS photo/Saadia Azim Theodore Kiro held 13-month-old Navya on her return to his family after...
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Seeing the best at the worst of times
iStock/coffee Roxanne Loper was almost home. Her journey had begun 15 months before, when she spotted a picture of a baby girl on the World Partners website and sensed something special. She and her...
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All children deserve a home, pope says, encouraging adoption
Pope Francis talks with young people during an audience with a delegation from the Institute of the Innocents, a Florence-based organization dedicated to caring for children. The pope met the...
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Adoption offered gift of life; reunion 46 years later an unexpected gift
Matt Davis is pictured with his birth mother, Cindi Salyer, in 2017, their first reunion since he was born. Thanks to the courage of Salyer, a teenage birth mother in 1971, and the work of Catholic...
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Home of love multiplied
Part five in a 14-part Year of Mercy series highlighting local Catholics who live out the corporal and spiritual works of mercy. From left front, Maggie Thibault runs to a local park with Stas (in...
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Indian couples frustrated as Missionaries of Charity stop adoptions
Anirban Mukherjee and his wife, Sampa, pose May 2 with their 17-month-old son Anirban at Shishu Bhavan, the Missionaries of Charity children’s home in Kolkata, India. The parents adopted Anirban from...
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Adoption vs. surrogacy
Surrogacy opponents lay out key differences in legislative hearings Editor’s note: This is the third story in a series on surrogacy, which a Minnesota State Legislature commission is studying as it...
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Medina family adopts children with special needs from China
The Mulvahill family of Holy Name of Jesus in Medina includes 14 children adopted from China. Posing for a photo on the front steps of their home are, front row, from left: Joey, 8, and Luke, 7; middle...
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Cardinal Nichols apologizes to unmarried women coerced to give up babies
Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster, England, is seen at the Vatican in this 2014 file photo. In a program to be aired on ITV, he apologized to unmarried women pressured by the church to hand over...
View ArticleBishops back bill to let agencies opt out of adoption for same-sex couples
Three bishops, in a joint letter to the measure’s sponsor, voiced their support of the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act, which would permit social service agencies to refuse on religious grounds to...
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