Catholic Charities builds a bridge
Carney, Cynthia J.
C Catholic Charities builds a bridge atholic Charities USA is now taking steps to provide a network of information for more than forty of its agencies who place children from Central and...
...Reverend Robert J. Vitillo of Caritas International and Sister Mary Bartholomew, MSBT, of the Catholic Social Services of Philadelphia paved the way for Hernandez when they went on a fact-finding mission in January 1986 to Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Chile...
...C Catholic Charities builds a bridge atholic Charities USA is now taking steps to provide a network of information for more than forty of its agencies who place children from Central and South America...
...So this shouldn't be addressed as only an adoption program, but as a program that will help the country's children in the best way for the particular country...
...The office is envisioned as providing referrals to participating Catholic Charities chapters...
...Hernandez expects to take his first trip to Central America in March or April...
...But Raul Hernandez, M.D., who has been hired to establish the office, stresses that the office is not simply an adoption program...
...According to Rosemary Winder Strange, director of social services at Catholic Charities USA, it will also offer training in intercountry adoption Issues...
...The welfare of the children is our biggest concern, whether they are helped by staying in their country or by being placed with a family in the U.S...
...The newly-formed National Office for International Child Care and Placement is being established jointly with the migration and refugee services of the U.S, Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, D.C...
...We know we want to get involved in (his issue because we want to clean up the kinds of problems that have been occurring in intercountry adoption," says Msgr...
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...We see this office as a chance to build a bridge between the U.S, church and the church in Latin America, We want to make contacts with church and government officials to see how we can best help them create programs to help their children...
...Nicholas Dimarzio, director of migration and refugee services...
Vol. 114 • February 1987 • No. 3
