Maternity Home Has Been Helping Moms and Saving Babies From Abortions for 40 Years

Working at a Manhattan homeless shelter in the mid-80’s, Chris Bell saw an unmet need for pregnant homeless moms. Generally, shelters couldn’t provide for them for more than a few days, he recalled.Bell turned to his spiritual advisor, Father Benedict Groeschel, Franciscan priest and EWTN host, and together they were inspired to create Good Counsel homes.The first home was in a former convent in Hoboken, N.J., opening in March 1985. Good Counsel now operates four homes in the Bronx, Staten Islan