Key Findings in Analysis of Memoir of a Jew Raised Catholic

The case of Edgardo Mortara has roiled Catholic-Jewish relations ever since the 6-year-old Jewish boy was taken from his home in Bologna by papal police in 1858 and brought to Rome to be raised a Catholic. The move was ordered after church authorities learned he had been secretly baptized. Church law at the time required all Catholics to be raised as Catholics and educated in the faith. Recently, the case has made headlines again after a U.S. historian, David Kertzer, found discrepancies...

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