Tue 7 Oct, 2008

Racial Politics Get in the Way of Love

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An African-American lawyer defended an African-American woman’s custody of her biological son based on the argument that adopting him to a Caucasian couple to be raised as a Caucasian, was equivalent to institutionalized racism and racial genocide.

It is easy to see why a Caucasian adoptive parent of an African-American daughter and a bi-racial son might find this argument (which the episode seemed to support) a little troublesome. But I think the arguments posed by this lawyer should bother all of us. Continue reading

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Sat 30 Aug, 2008

Fostering the Culture of Life One Baby at a Time

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Our diocesen newspaper ran a story this spring about Edith George, a foster mother of 62 infants over the past 33 years. Edith had a special talent with babies, so much so that she received the nickname “the Baby Whisperer.” Edith’s love for babies flows from her love for God. She and her husband Don became foster parents because they wanted to offer children love and security
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Tue 24 Jul, 2007

Only one solution?

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Ellen Goodman begins her diatribe against the ban on partial-birth abortion by referring to a historical Supreme Court case (under Justice Joseph P. Bradley) that ruled that women are unfit for public life because working outside of the home is contrary to their nature as wives and mothers. She goes on to compare this ruling to the recent Supreme Court decision to uphold the ban on partial-birth abortion, claiming that
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Tue 16 Jan, 2007

Right Reason for Adoption

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What do adoption and Natural Family Planning have in common? They are both methods for planning one’s family and for receiving the gift of children. However, the other thing they have in common is the requirement for a good intention in order for their use to be morally good. Could adoption every be considered an evil choice?The obvious answer to the above question is yes. Certainly someone who adopts a… Continue reading

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Thu 2 Mar, 2006

Joyful Mysteries Lived

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We were recently chosen to adopt a baby girl, our first child. In our travels to pick her up, I found myself meditating on the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary. It struck me how much our own experience of expanding the love of our family parallels the way that God expanded the sign of His love by sending His Son. I guess it shouldn’t surprise me. After all, that’s what… Continue reading

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