New scrutiny of Edgardo Mortara's memoir

By Nicole Winfield
Updated April 21 2018 - 12:33am, first published 12:27am
The memoir of Edgardo Mortara, a Jewish boy forcibly raised a Catholic, is under new scrutiny.
The memoir of Edgardo Mortara, a Jewish boy forcibly raised a Catholic, is under new scrutiny.

It's an incident that has stained the Vatican for 160 years: a six-year-old Jewish boy taken from his family by papal police and brought to Rome to be raised Catholic after church authorities learned his housekeeper had secretly had him baptised.

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