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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
FAO, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Director General Graziano Da Silva, left, shakes hands with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres as he arrives to attend a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA, conference, in Rome, March 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
March 15, 2018, 4:57 pm
UN gets $100m in new funds for Palestinian aid after US cuts
UNRWA still faces $350 million shortfall to provide services for estimated 5 million refugees and their descendants
By Nicole Winfield and TOI staff
In this image taken from video, Five-Star Movement Leader Luigi Di Maio speaks to reporters as he leaves home in Rome, Monday, March 5, 2018, the day after Italy's general elections. (ANSA via AP)
March 5, 2018, 10:25 pm
Populist parties surge in Italy vote, mainstream suffers
Anti-immigrant League, anti-establishment 5-Star Movement win big, but both fail to secure a majority to govern
By Colleen Barry and Nicole Winfield
Actor Massimo Popolizio, who plays the part of Benito Mussolini in 'I'm Back,' stands in front of a giant image of the late dictator (Claudio Iannone via AP Photo)
February 2, 2018, 5:57 am
As Italian election nears, new film imagines Mussolini’s comeback
'I'm Back' is a spin on a popular 2015 German film that posited a modern-day resurrection of Hitler
By Nicole Winfield and MARIAGRAZIA MURRU
Pope Francis waves to the crowd as he arrives for a weekly general audience in St Peter's Square, on January 24, 2018, in Vatican City. (AFP PHOTO / Andreas SOLARO)
January 24, 2018, 8:21 pm
Pope: ‘Fake news’ is evil, like serpent in Garden of Eden
Francis compares purveyors of false information to snake's 'mimicry, that sly and dangerous form of seduction that worms its way into the heart with false and alluring arguments'
By Nicole Winfield
Pope Francis marries flight attendants Carlos Ciuffardi, left, and Paola Podest, center, during a flight from Santiago, Chile, to Iquique, Chile, January 18, 2018. (L'Osservatore Romano Vatican Media/Pool Photo via AP)
January 19, 2018, 2:55 am
Pope marries couple on papal plane in Chile
Told that two crew members had been forced to cancel their church ceremony after the chapel was damaged in Chile's 2010 earthquake, Francis offered: 'I'll marry you!'
By Nicole Winfield
Pope Francis arrives to board a plane to Yangon on November 26, 2017 at Rome's Fiumicino airport. (AFP PHOTO / Alberto PIZZOLI)
November 27, 2017, 5:20 am
Rohingya crisis looms large as pope travels to Myanmar
Francis seeks to bring a message of friendship to local Christians; the big question is whether he will raise the subject of alleged ethnic cleansing
By Nicole Winfield
People remove debris after an earthquake hit Ischia island, near Naples, Southern Italy, August 21, 2017. (Serenella Mattera/ANSA via AP)
August 22, 2017, 2:57 am
Italy quake rocks resort island of Ischia, at least 1 dead
Authorities worry death toll could rise with several people still trapped under rubble in popular tourist location
By Nicole Winfield
Qatar's Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani speaks during a luncheon hosted by the Arab Center of Washington, DC on June 29, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski)
July 2, 2017, 1:25 am
Qatar rejects Arab states’ ultimatum ahead of deadline
Doha refuses to comply with list of 13 demands, including severing ties with Iran, Muslim Brotherhood and shuttering Al-Jazeera
By Nicole Winfield
Cardinals and bishops attend a special mass celebrated by Pope Francis for Roman holiday of St. Peter and St. Paul in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Thursday, June 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
July 1, 2017, 4:02 pm
Pope dismisses doctrine chief in a week of Vatican turmoil
Jesuit Monsignor Luis Ladaria Ferrer gets powerful role that handles sex abuse cases and guarantees Catholic orthodoxy around the world
By Nicole Winfield
US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania arrive at Fiumicino's Leonardo Da Vinci International airport, near Rome, Tuesday, May 23, 2017. (Riccardo Antimiani/ANSA via AP)
May 23, 2017, 10:25 pm
Trump arrives in Rome for talks with the Pope
While they clash on a variety of issues, the two may find common ground in denouncing religiously inspired violence
By Nicole Winfield and Jonathan Lemire
In this Thursday, March 27, 2014 file photo, US President Barack Obama meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican. When Pope Francis meets with President Donald Trump at the Vatican May 24, the world will be watching how the Argentine "slum pope" interacts with the brash, New York billionaire-turned-president. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
May 5, 2017, 2:04 am
Slum pope-billionaire: When Francis meets Trump
On (almost) everything, they couldn't be more different
By Nicole Winfield
Pope Francis smiles as he talks to journalists during a press conference he held on his return flight from Cairo to Rome, Saturday, April 29, 2017 (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
April 30, 2017, 1:11 am
Pope warns of broad destruction if Korean tensions escalate
Francis says 'a good part of humanity' would be destroyed if war were to break out over Pyongyang's ballistic missile tests
By Nicole Winfield
Pope Francis salutes at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
April 26, 2017, 11:34 pm
In first papal TED talk, Pope urges solidarity with the poor
Francis warns the powerful to act humbly or risk ruin, in video recording released by Vatican
By Nicole Winfield
Pope Francis presides over a solemn Easter vigil ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, April 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
April 15, 2017, 11:40 pm
Pope presides over solemn Easter Vigil amid security fears
Francis gives a message of caring for migrants and denouncing corruption, urges hope
By Nicole Winfield
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