Friday, March 10, 2006
SF CATHOLIC CHARITIES TOLD TO STOP GAY ADOPTIONS
San Francisco, Mar. 10 (CWNews.com) - The San Francisco archdiocese will review its current policy, which allows adoptions by same-sex couples, after receiving instructions from the Vatican on the subject.
Ironically, the instructions from Rome came the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Archbishop William Levada, who was head of the San Francisco archdiocese when the adoption services run by Catholic Charities there placed adoptive children with same-sex couples. And to compound the irony, the reconsideration of that policy appears to have come as the result of inquiries from the Boston Globe, a paper that has criticized the Massachusetts bishops for their recent decision to seek exemption from a state non-discrimination policy that requires adoption agencies to work with gay couples. ...
Archbishop Levada acknowledged that he had assented to the placement of several children in gay households while he was Archbishop of San Francisco. But now he acknowledged that Church teachings "require that a Catholic bishop follow this clear guidance from the Holy See in his oversight of Catholic diocesan agencies," the Globe reported.
