Gay adoption bill could downsize Catholic agencies

May 17, 2013 - 02:04 am .- As a new bill aims to bar federal funding of adoption services that do not place children with gay couples, an Illinois Catholic leader warned a similar law there downsized faith-based agencies.

French couple claims police violence at marriage march

Apr 4, 2013 - 03:59 pm .- A couple in France is reporting acts of violence by police officers against participants in a recent march to defend marriage against redefinition by the French government.

Pro-adoption ad campaign reaches women nationwide

Jan 9, 2013 - 02:04 am .- A national ad campaign that promotes adoption as an alternative to abortion has reached hundreds of women and has helped many of them arrange adoptions for their babies.

Media group encourages pregnant women to consider adoption

Nov 13, 2012 - 11:50 am .- The Austin-based pro-life media group Heroic Media has released a new video for National Adoption Month to encourage women with unexpected pregnancies to consider adoption.

Catholic couple's 'apostolic hobby' assists 1,400 Chinese orphans

Oct 25, 2012 - 12:02 pm .- For the past decade and a half, an American couple living in China have cited total reliance on God as the source of their success in giving aid to hundreds of medically-fragile orphans.

Ill. Catholic Charities seek new path without foster care, adoption

Oct 20, 2012 - 05:23 pm .- The Catholic Charities agencies of Illinois are trying to meet society’s needs “in a different way” in their first year without the state contracts that supported their adoption and foster care services.