I’m confident that the highlight of Pope Francis’s recent meeting with members of the Papal Foundation at the Vatican was a little foster boy named Noah. Fresh off his baptism into the Catholic Church, he and his soon-to-be forever family were invited to join the pilgrimage of members of the charitable organization that responds to the pope’s desires for meeting urgent needs in the world. Right now, that includes Ukraine, so he offered his thanks to members of the Papal Foundation, which gives at least $1 million for the pope’s charitable use.
The foundation has not been without scandal, having been previously led by two bishops who turned out to be better friends of evil than God — one of them the notorious Theodore McCarrick, no longer a priest. I was actually a guest at a Papal Foundation dinner years ago where McCarrick talked about how Roe v. Wade wouldn’t be ending in our lifetimes — urging us, as I recall, to give up the fight. Mercifully, that might not be true at all, as we await the Supreme Court’s decision in the Mississippi case now before it, as we watch more states decide for themselves to protect unborn human life.
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