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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 350

Edgardo Mortara

This picture kept in the Archivio Storico San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome and taken on Tuesday, April 17, 2018 shows an undated photo of Father Pio Maria Mortara, third from left, with some of his brothers. It’s an incident that has stained the Vatican for 160 years: a 6-year-old Jewish boy taken from his family by papal police and brought to Rome to be raised Catholic after church authorities learned his housekeeper had secretly had him baptized. Now the case has reared its head again, with new evidence that memoirs the boy wrote as an adult were altered to take the edge off his anti-Semitic views and enhance details favorable to the Catholic Church. (AP Photo)
April 20, 2018, 7:31 pm
Memoir of secretly baptized Jewish boy kidnapped by Vatican under fresh scrutiny
New evidence in 160-year-old affair shows that Edgardo Mortara’s memoir was altered to take the edge off his anti-Semitic views and enhance details favorable to the Catholic Church
By Nicole Winfield
Parents and children lining up in central London to audition for the leading role in Steven Spielberg's latest feature, 'The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara.' (Jenni Frazer/Times of Israel)
February 5, 2017, 3:24 pm
From London to Miami, kids line up to audition for historical Spielberg role
Director is on the lookout for perfect youth to play Edgardo Mortara, an Italian-Jewish boy who was taken from his family in the mid-19th century and raised as a Catholic
By Jenni Frazer
Gustavo Latis holds a framed portrait of Mortara (Rossella Tercatin/The Times of Israel)
December 16, 2014, 10:23 am
Ahead of film, nephew recalls ‘uncle-priest’ at heart of 1858 scandal
The shocking kidnapping of an Italian Jewish boy secretly baptized by a Catholic servant over 150 years ago will soon be a Spielberg production
By Rossella Tercatin
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