Chicago Man Faces Criminal Trial For Taking Jewish Daughter To Church

[Godboy]

Parents shouldnt be allowed to brainwash their children into believing crazy retarded shit. That in itself should be illegal. I say send both parents to jail.

 

[Anguille]

Stories like this are why kids should be spared from any exposure to religion other than as a subject in social studies and history classes.

Participation in religion is an adults only activity.

 

[Anguille]

Those Catholics are devious. lol!!

'Edgardo Mortara’s parents, ignoring the law, hired a Catholic teen-age girl as a nanny. When Edgardo fell ill at age 17 months, the nanny prayed for the child and baptized him. Five years later, after she told her parish priest that Edgardo was not being raised Catholic, Papal States police on June 24, 1858 enforced the law and brought Edgardo to Rome. Eight days later his parents arrived in Rome where they stayed for a month and pled for his return. Edgardo, then six years old, met with his parents every day but never showed any desire to rejoin them, as he himself later attested.​

Edgardo remained in Rome and was educated under the personal protection of Pope Pius IX, always free to return to his parents. At age 17 he went to Bologna to spend a month with his parents, but decided to return to Rome and become a Catholic priest."

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The Mortara Case

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[Conspiracist]

The guy changed religions so his wife's family would accept him He claims he never really detatched himself from Catholocism and wishes for his child to be raised a Catholic.

It smells of revenge on the father's part but who can tell?

 

[JakeStarkey]

Regardless of her eventual faith, it should not be a criminal matter

Isn't it just a criminal matter because the guy ignored the court? Otherwise I agree, it should be a civil matter or family court matter if the courts need to get involved at all.

-TSO

Let's get to the center again. "After the unannounced baptism, a Cook County Circuit Court judge took the unusual step of temporarily barring Reyes' husband, Joseph, from exposing their child to any religion other than Judaism. But Joseph Reyes then allegedly defied the order by taking his daughter to Mass at Holy Name Cathedral — with a television news crew in tow."

The former husband made a civil matter a criminal one when he defied the Judge's order.

A mediator is a great idea, but dad was bad and the judge will make him sad. Rightfully so.