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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Catholic Charities of Philadelphia's Chris Minnick works to stabilize and enrich the lives of seniors in need, aged 60 and ...

Catholic Social Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia is once again helping make foster care placements, following a legal settlement with the city to cap a years-long court battle.