Family is where you find it, as they say. It is a broad statement in the face of which the Church’s social teachings have to hold their own against a panoply of options that vie both for attention and recognition in a confusing world. Thomas Coram’s Foundling Hospital, right in the heart of London, stands apart from the maelstrom, being founded long before anyone thought of the present kaleidoscope and for the sole purpose of “the education and maintenance of exposed and deserted young children”. Orphans, then, in the old-fashioned sense.
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Finding Family at the Foundling Museum
family is where you find it, as they say. it is a broad statement in the face of which the church’s social teachings have to hold their own ...
Mary Walker
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