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The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed likely to side with a Catholic social services agency in a dispute with Philadelphia over the agency's refusal to work with same-sex couples as foster parents.
Philadelphia's Catholic adoption agency gave me a loving home, but the city wants them out Forcing faith-based foster, adoption agencies to close in the name of equality ensures children will ...
Catholic Social Services asked the lower courts to block the move by the city, but the federal district court refused. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also ruled against the foster care agency.
Philadelphia's Catholic Social Services says it wants to keep working with foster care families — but it will take intervention by the Supreme Court to make it happen.
Philadelphia's Catholic Social Services serves vulnerable foster children, most of them racial minorities, with compassion and skill. The city is now forcing it to choose between abandoning its ...
Following the ruling, Catholic Social Services reached a settlement with the city, and could once again help make placements of foster children on Friday, Sept. 24.
Catholic Social Services has been providing foster care for children in Philadelphia since 1917. The city began partnering with private foster care agencies in the 1950s and has been contracting ...
Washington D.C., Jun 3, 2019 / 13:00 pm. Lawyers representing Catholic Social Services of Philadelphia are appealing to the Supreme Court after the agency was stripped of its contract to provide ...
The Supreme Court today issued a narrow and limited ruling for Catholic Social Services in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia that focuses on specific contractual language. The ruling leaves intact the ...
Philadelphia cannot shut down Catholic Social Services because the ministry has the freedom to decide whether it will follow human rights statutes and choose not to discriminate against all families.
Until 2018, the Catholic Church in Philadelphia continued caring for orphaned and abandoned children by having Catholic Social Services place them in foster homes. Then the City of Philadelphia ...
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