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Is it Catholic for infertile couples to adopt children?
« on: June 25, 2019, 10:42:00 AM »
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  • Is it Catholic for infertile couples to adopt children?

    I have never heard of canonized married saints who adopted. Are there any?


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    Re: Is it Catholic for infertile couples to adopt children?
    « Reply #1 on: June 25, 2019, 10:48:21 AM »
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    Re: Is it Catholic for infertile couples to adopt children?
    « Reply #3 on: June 25, 2019, 11:06:35 AM »
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  • St. Joseph (Foster-gather to Jesus).

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    Re: Is it Catholic for infertile couples to adopt children?
    « Reply #4 on: June 25, 2019, 11:06:59 AM »
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  • St. Joseph (Foster-gather to Jesus).
    I meant foster-father 


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    Re: Is it Catholic for infertile couples to adopt children?
    « Reply #5 on: June 25, 2019, 11:13:58 AM »
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  • St Thomas More had several foster children:

    http://www.tudorsdynasty.com/children-wards-sir-thomas-more/

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    Re: Is it Catholic for infertile couples to adopt children?
    « Reply #6 on: June 25, 2019, 12:06:11 PM »
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  • Than to have an innocent child potentially (God forbid) be corrupted by two sodomites or a Communist snowflake and her antitheist partner? Potentially being raised by two people who spit on the Holy Name of Christ rather than revere and adore it?

    Yes, it is absolutely Catholic. You're raising a household where everyone could be saved, instead of a household where if everyone died at noon today, Central Daylight Time, not one soul would see the face of God. Not a single soul in that walls, that child included, would have any discernible chance of ever getting to Heaven.

    If it is possible financially, then absolutely. There are thousands of children that need a mother and a father to rear them in the ways of God. The child given to an infertile, loving Catholic family could be the priest that gives them viaticuм at the end of their lives. We need more Catholic families in the world to combat the rise of evil.

    O Lord, grant us holy Catholic families.
    Remember O most gracious Virgin Mary...

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    Re: Is it Catholic for infertile couples to adopt children?
    « Reply #7 on: June 25, 2019, 03:47:15 PM »
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  • St Thomas More had several foster children
    He wasn't infertile; he had his own biological children.


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    Re: Is it Catholic for infertile couples to adopt children?
    « Reply #8 on: June 25, 2019, 03:49:04 PM »
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  • St William of Perth:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Perth
    He married?

    St. Benedict, too, adopted Saints Maurus and Placidus.

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    Re: Is it Catholic for infertile couples to adopt children?
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  • St. Joseph (Foster-gather to Jesus).
    St. Joseph was in a virginal, not infertile, marriage.

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    Re: Is it Catholic for infertile couples to adopt children?
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    More so than remaining continent?


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    Re: Is it Catholic for infertile couples to adopt children?
    « Reply #11 on: June 25, 2019, 03:52:47 PM »
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  • More so than remaining continent?
    For you, I think we would all be better off if you remained continent.

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    St. Thomas: "one who is unable to beget...is not competent to adopt."
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  • St. Thomas very clearly says Whether adoption is rightly defined? (obj. 4): "one who is unable to beget...is not competent to adopt."
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    Re: Is it Catholic for infertile couples to adopt children?
    « Reply #13 on: June 25, 2019, 04:05:47 PM »
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  • For you, I think we would all be better off if you remained continent.
    St. Thomas says, discussing the marriage debt (objection 2 of q. 64 a. 2), that "even for married people it is better to be continent than to make use of marriage".

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    Re: Is it Catholic for infertile couples to adopt children?
    « Reply #14 on: June 25, 2019, 06:56:38 PM »
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  • Is it Catholic for infertile couples to adopt children
    A curious question! I wonder why you ask it. With respect, do you really think it could possibly be against the faith?
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    As an aside, I know a Catholic couple who were infertile. They adopted John, and before he was 12 months old she had delivered twins girls. There can be various reasons for infertility, and it seems it this case it was a psychological or emotional matter. John solved the problem for them and they made a happy Catholic family.
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