Adoption
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Public Education & Information
- National Adoption Awareness Month
- National Adoption Day: raise awareness of 100,000+ children in foster care
Bulletin Inserts
Handouts
Speakers' topics
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Corporal works of mercy you can do...
- Send a Walmart gift card to Catholic Charities Adoption Services to assist their birth families
- Help support St. Joseph the Worker Respect for Life Ministry’s Aging Out of Foster Care shower. They are collecting Walmart & Visa gift cards. Send any cards to St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church, 455 Ames BLVD, Marrero, LA 70072. For more information email Brenda.
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Pastoral Care
Adoption services through Catholic Charities
CrossroadsNOLA — foster care & adoption services
6 Ways You Can Support Adoption
For Birth Mothers -- A wonderful online forum where they can connect
Aging Out of Foster Care Parish Support
Support One Heart NOLA (Southshore) & James Storehouse (Northshore) in their missions to to serve and support children in foster care and those aged-out of foster care -
Prayer & Worship
Spritual works of mercy you can join in praying...
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Church Teaching
From Pope St. John Paul II's Address to the Meeting of the Adoptive Families organized by the Missionareis of Charity
"Adopting children, regarding and treating them as one's own children, means recognizing that the relationship between parents and children is not measured only by genetic standards. Procreative love is first and foremost a gift of self. There is a form of 'procreation' which occurs through acceptance, concern and devotion. The resulting relationship is so intimate and enduring that it is in no way inferior to one based on a biological connection. When this is also juridically protected, as it is in adoption, in a family united by the stable bond of marriage, it assures the child that peaceful atmosphere and that paternal and maternal love which he needs for his full human development."