The Inquisitor’s justification for taking the child was based in Church teachings: No Christian child could be raised by Jewish parents.
Refusing to return the child to his family, Pope Pius IX began to regard the boy as his own child.
The case of Edgardo Mortara became an international cause célèbre.
As Edgardo’s parents desperately search for a way to get their son back, they learn why he–out of all their eight children–was taken.
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