What is the state’s hold over Catholic Charities? Why can’t Catholic Charities simply operate independently of the State of New York. Match a child with adoptive parents; the parents file for a legal adoption. Unless Catholic Charities is using state money, I don’t see where the state comes into it.
I can’t speak specifically about Catholic charities of New York, but in my area Catholic charities organizations were having extreme difficulty in making adoption placements independent of the state. I suspect many of them are dependent upon state foster care contracts In order to subsidize the few non foster adoption placements they do.