re: #141 CuriousLurker

That book is on my Amazon list. I’m still only about 2/3 of the way through the current one (I’m reading it slowly because some most of it is really disturbing, so I end up switching to something else for a while).

There’s another book that came out a few years back called “The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara,” where a six-year-old Italian Jewish boy had been baptized secretly during an illness by his nurse. The police later showed up to take him away because in the Papal States, it was illegal for a non-Catholic to raise a Catholic child. He was raised in the church and became a priest.

en.wikipedia.org

The whole notion of taking a child away like that makes me sick to my stomach.