Vatican sent Italian children born out of wedlock to America as orphans; new book uncovers program
During the 1950s, the Catholic Church in Belgium separated thousands of newborns from their unwed mothers and put them up for adoption, often without the mothers' consent. The women were shamed into surrendering their babies by their families and a powerful church. Last month, Pope Francis apologized for those forced adoptions.
But Belgians weren't the only victims. From 1950 to 1970, the Vatican sent 3,500 Italian children to America on something called an orphan visa. The trouble was most were not orphans. Like their Belgian counterparts, they too were the children of unwed mothers. Many mothers later went searching for their children, only to discover they had been sent across an ocean. Today, thousands of American adoptees are still struggling to piece together their lost lives.
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It's almost like you shouldn't trust the judgement of people who believe inter-dimensional space wizards are real
And that's not even touching on the part where the "inter-dimensional space wizard who will send you to the torment nexus" is just a pretense for controlling and subjugating people.
Yeah, I'm fine with anything resembling gods being out there. But trusting other humans who want to control you blindly? WTF is wrong with you
I just can’t grasp how someone could be a catholic in current times
Religious*
For a couple of people I know, the answer would be: "This is obviously terrible, yes, but we need to preserve our traditional values at all costs, otherwise Muslim immigrants will replace us".
“It doesn’t affect me personally.”
Fuck the Catholic Church
Signed: Recovering socially catholic person who was forced to deal with the very insular and problematic Catholic bullshit for 18 years. Trauma is center to Catholicism. It is the point.
Why do people do so much fucked up shit in the name of a supposedly perfect loving God?
The people wanted to do the fucked up shit regardless but need a mental justification to hide behind
For that gods approval, when the scriptures are twisted to fit those who seek power's narrative.
Same thing happened in Ireland.
Yeah. Really weird pattern of behavior there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Peter_Pan
Ah, America. The cause of and answer to the world's problems.
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