Cabrini: how did it come to this?

Last month 127 years of Catholic history disappeared, largely unnoticed. It happened when the Cabrini Society handed over its remaining services to a secular agency. Earlier this year, Cabrini had closed or transferred all its community projects. It was all too obvious that the little that remained - the fostering and adoption service and a residential unit in Kent - could not last long. It hasn’t, and with a transfer to an international charity, the Diagrama Foundation, Cabrini is no more.As the Catholic Children’s Society, it served Arundel & Brighton, Southwark and Portsmouth. It changed its name in 2009 after it opened its doors to gay adopters, but retained the support of the bishops, who continued to allow collections and other giving so that parishioners coul