Homosexual Adoption Ends 100 Years of Adoption Services by Boston Catholic Charities
By John-Henry Westen

BOSTON, March 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The board of directors of Catholic Charities today announced that Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Boston, will not seek a renewal of its contract with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to provide adoption services. Catholic Charities will work with the Department of Social Services and other appropriate agencies to make this transition as smoothly as possible.

Late last year, the Pope's representative to the United States asked the Boston Archbishop, now Cardinal, Sean O'Malley to end the practice of allowing homosexual adoptions. Catholic Charities admitted last October that it was involved in the practice, which according to Catholic teaching is an abuse of children.Story

San Francisco to “Review” Gay Adoption Policy in Response to Levada Directive
by Hilary White

SAN FRANCISCO, March 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Archbishop William Levada, the current Prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), has announced that no bishop should allow homosexual partners to adopt children through their charitable agencies.

The statement was sent in an email to the Archdiocese of San Francisco Catholic Charities citing recent documents from the CDF published under then-Cardinal Ratzinger. “Catholic agencies should not place children for adoption in homosexual households,” Levada wrote. The rest