Pope Leo XIV will have a “real-time digital encounter” with participants attending the National Catholic Youth Conference this fall.
Pope Leo XIV will have a “real-time digital encounter” with participants attending the National Catholic Youth Conference this fall.
“There are no unwanted children,” an anonymous inspiring quote declares, “just unfound families.” If that’s so, the almost 400,000 children in the U.S. foster care system — approximately 100,000 of whom are legally adoptable — need only wait. But the reality, especially in post-Roe v. Wade America, presents a more complex and challenging scenario — one in which foster care must, Catholic experts urge, be viewed as a pro-life issue.