AmericanPapist Comments
That is absolutely morally disgusting.
Please see Archbishop Niederauer's letter at http://www.qdomine.com/
archbisho...opstatement.pdf
Now before you all burn me at the stake, maybe the Archbishop was thinking this:
1)We can't do adoptions any more since by law same sex parents would have to be considered and that's against Church teaching.
2)If we not invloved at all, by default more chidren will be adopted by same sex parents.
3)If we get our parishes directly involved(see excerpts from letter below)maybe, just maybe some of these children will be adopted by faithful Catholics.
"Catholic Charities CYO proposes to work with the pastors and parish
staffs of the Archdiocese to develop and implement a program that
will communicate to our parishioners the immense need for adoptive
families for at risk youth, encourage parish families to consider
whether they might be able to open their hearts to such a child,
and provide information and guidance for those families who signal
an interest. Such a parish program could be particularly productive
because it would place the call to consider adoption within the
liturgy where Christ’s call to love and sacrifice is uniquely
enfleshed. This program will include the following elements:
• The identification of twelve parishes from throughout the
Archdiocese that would be willing to participate in a pilot
program promoting adoptions.
• In collaboration with pastors and parish staffs of these
parishes, the design of a presentation could be made effectively
to parish communities during the Sunday liturgies. This
presentation could speak to the overall questions of adoption,
but should certainly focus upon adopting children presently in
the foster care system within the Bay Area.
• The provision of follow-up information and support for those
families in each parish who show an initial interest in
adoption. This follow-up would come from parish volunteer
leaders working with Catholic Charities CYO staff.
• The creation by Catholic Charities CYO staff and the pilot
program parish representatives of an ongoing communications
strategy which would include information packets that would go
to all parish families, information about the resources of
California Kids’ Connection, and parish bulletin announcements.
• The expansion of this pilot program to reach all Archdiocesan
parishes, through a corps of volunteers recruited from and
rooted in the parishes who would promote ongoing education
regarding adoptions for at risk children.
• Pilot program to begin July 2007."
Thomas,
I don't want to burn you at the stake, but it seems to me that Niederauer is parsing this pretty thinly. The Vatican was very clear about the issue: no children can be adopted into same-sex "families," which are not families at all. As then-Cardinal Ratzinger said, homosexual "families" do great violence to children. It is against Church teaching. What about these statements does Niederauer not understand? By enlisting with Family Builders, which prides itself on adopting children with homosexuals, he is going against Vatican directives. This so-called Pilot Program is just a wedge in the door of his dissent against Church teaching.
The one phrase from the original statement that stuck in my head has been the characterization that gay adoption "does violence to the children".
I believe this particular wording was chosen specifically because it cannot (or should not) lend itself to nuance. It is really hard to justify something "in the spirit of not doing violence to children".
If they really wanted to help the situation, they should divert their resources to find ways to flood the waiting lists of prospective parents with as many Catholic couples as possible -- thereby increasing the likelihood that a child will NOT be adopted into a gay family.
Didn't take me long to figure that one out at all.
What chance do we stand against evil when the good people of Gotham do nothing?
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