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Monday, April 29, 2019

Federal Court Rules Against Catholic Foster Care Agency

A federal appeals court sided with the city of Philadelphia against a foster parent and the Catholic foster care agency with which she works in a Monday ruling.

In Sharonell Fulton, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, the court upheld a city policy that prevents Catholic Social Services from finding families for foster children, according to a press release from Becket Law.

In 2018, the city of Philadelphia made an urgent call for more foster parents to help the "nearly 6,000 children and youth" in foster care in the city. Despite being a top-ranked foster agency, Catholic Social Services was not allowed to place more children with families.

A week after making the call for more foster parents, Philadelphia stopped referring children to Catholic Social Services and then threatened to terminate its contract with the organization if it did not give up its religious beliefs about marriage. Becket notes that no family had ever filed a complaint with Catholic Social Services on account of its Catholic mission, and no child had ever been unable to find a home because of the organization's beliefs.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

If you knew the consequences these kids go through with the INEPT city of Philadelphia. THEY NEED KIDS TO STAY IN THE SYSTEM OR THEY DON'T GET PAID. CORRUPTION is rampant. They don't give a SHIT about any child.

Anonymous said...

so if you dont belive in the satanic luciferian lies and deception, but believe a child should be raised by a M/F family unit. then you CANNOT PLACE CHILDREN??? WOW so now government is forcing this evil demonic BS on orphans WOW

Anonymous said...


Case needs to be appealed to en banc of the Circuit, and then to SCOTUs if need be.