Join Us on Tuesday for ‘Making Room in the Inn: Opening Hearts and Homes to Foster and Adopt Children’

A post-Roe society warrants a new vision of radical solidarity with children — especially those in the foster-care system and/or in need of adoption.

On Tuesday at 2 p.m. Eastern, I’ll be moderating a discussion co-sponsored by the National Review Institute, the Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas, Springs of Love, and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth.

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I’ll be talking with leaders of this work — Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Deb Niesen of the same, and Kimberly Henkel, who runs two ministries with her husband, one for couples who bear the cross of infertility and another walking with couples who are foster and adoptive parents.

Our goal is to light a fire under us all when it comes to thinking in creative and practical ways to make sure there are no orphaned children lost in a system that leads them to desperation when they age out.

More on the speakers below:

Kimberly Henkel is the founder and executive director of Springs of Love, a ministry to encourage, educate ,and equip Catholics to discern and live out the call to foster and adopt. She is also co-founder of Springs in the Desert, a sister ministry to Springs of Love, that is dedicated to spiritually and emotionally accompanying those struggling with infertility and loss. Kimberly holds a PhD in moral theology/ethics, with a focus in bioethics, from the Catholic University of America. She was the former executive vice president of the National Pro-Life Action Center on Capitol Hill. She studied bioethics in Rome at the Regina Apostolorum and earned a Master’s degree in Theology from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family. Kimberly and her husband of 14 years, Greg, are adoptive parents to four young children and live in a small town in Ohio.

Debra Niesen is the Lead Consultant for Pro-Life Ministries at the Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas, working with Archbishop Joseph Naumann, the recent chairman of the USCCB Pro-Life Committee. Her office runs the Gabriel Project and Project Rachel ministries as well as the new foster-care ministry, and she is privileged to be on the board of two pregnancy-resource centers and an adoption ministry. Her favorite pro-life work is being a wife and mother of five wonderful children.

The Most Reverend Joseph F. Naumann was installed as the fourth archbishop and the eleventh bishop of the Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas, on January 15, 2005. His chosen episcopal motto is Vitae Victoria Erit (Life will be Victorious). Archbishop Naumann has championed the cause for the right to life throughout his ministry. He seeks to lead his flock in upholding and promoting the immense dignity of every human person from conception to natural death.

Julia Dezelski is assistant director for marriage and family life at the USCCB Secretariat of Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth.

Kathryn Jean Lopez is senior fellow at the National Review Institute where she directs the Center for Religion, Culture, and Civil Society and editor at large at National Review.

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