Completely unknown to him, 6-year-old Edgardo Mortara had a secret. The boy was born in 1851 to Jewish merchants in Bologna and fell ill shortly after birth.

Edgardo Mortara’s own account of these events recently appeared in English for the first time. But if anyone was expecting it to help clarify the controversial event at the heart of the story, ...

Edgardo Mortara was raised as a ward of Pope Pius IX. The civil law in the Papal States, as well as canon law, required Catholic children to be given a Catholic upbringing.

After a century and a half, the story of six-year-old Edgardo Mortara—a Jewish boy who was kidnapped by the Vatican—has once again become the subject of acrimonious debate.

"Pius IX, of course, did not tear Edgardo Mortara away from his family because they were Jews per se, but because they were not Christians." I think on this one point the author is mistaken, and ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The story of Edgardo Mortara, a Jewish boy seized from his family and raised as a Catholic — after Pope Blessed Pius IX learned he had been secretly baptized by a nursemaid ...

The Truth between Us #10 — On June 24, 1858, papal police arrived at the home of a Jewish family in Bologna to take their 6-year-old son, Edgardo Mortara, and permanently hand him over to the ...

Revered Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio is returning to Cannes with “Kidnapped,” a drama that reconstructs the true tale of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy who was kidnapped and forcibly ...

In the film “Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara,” a representative of Pope Pius IX arrives at a Jewish family’s home in Bologna, Italy, on a June night in 1858.

In 1858, a young Jewish boy living at Bologna, Italy, was taken from his family by decree of the Catholic Church. The child, Edgardo Mortara, was allegedly baptized as a baby by a household maid and ...

One of nine children born to Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara (Fausto Russo Alesi) and his wife Marianna (a heartbreaking Barbara Ronchi), Edgardo is only 6 when he is seized at home by Bologna ...

Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara 2024, NR, 135 min. Directed by Marco Bellocchio. Starring Fausto Russo Alesi, Barbara Ronchi, Paolo Pierobon, Filip Timi, Fabrizio Gifuni, Enea Sala ...