The shameful tale of the Jewish boy kidnapped by the Catholic church
I meet the director of a new film about a six-year-old snatched from his family – after he’d been baptised by the family maid
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I meet the director of a new film about a six-year-old snatched from his family – after he’d been baptised by the family maid
“Rapito” is a compelling and often infuriating tale of church power that will likely never be shown at the Vatican.
However significant the years during which he was Pope were in the evolution of the Roman Catholic church, Pius himself was more of a passenger than a driver of the engine of history.
<p>David Kertzer's book argues that defenders of Pope Pius XII's actions during the Holocaust mistake his defense of the prerogatives of the Catholic Church for a defense of the victims of Nazi persecution and genocide. </p>