Divorcing couple at war over child’s religion
“Rebecca Reyes opened an e-mail from her estranged husband last November to learn to her shock that he had their three-year-old daughter baptized in the Catholic Church even though she said the couple, in happier times, had agreed to raise her in the Jewish faith.
What happened over the next few months brought the couple’s private battles into the open and raises questions about how far the court system can - or should - go in dictating what faith separated parents teach their children.
Following the unannounced baptism, a Cook County Circuit Court judge took the unusual step of temporarily barring Reyes’ husband, Joseph, from exposing their child to any religion other than Judaism. But Joseph Reyes then allegedly defied the order by taking his daughter to mass at Holy Name Cathedral - with a television news crew in tow.”