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Move to canonize Pius IX insults Jews
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In 1858, the police of the papal city of Bologna took a 6-year-
old boy named Edgardo Mortara away from his parents and sent him to
the pope (Pius IX) in Rome. At first the parents were not even told
why this highhanded act by the pope's forces had taken place. It was
because a Christian woman claimed that, several years before, she had
secretly baptized little Edgardo. The pope himself would bring up
this little Christian, who was not to be left in the care of his own
parents.
The par...
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