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The Doctored ‘Memoir’ of a Jewish Boy Kidnapped by the Vatican<\/h4>\n
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Edgardo Mortara\u2019s autobiography is roiling Catholic-Jewish relations\u2014based on the false assumption that the text is accurate.<\/a><\/p>\n

\nDavid Kertzer, The Atlantic, <\/em>April 15, 2018<\/a>\r\n\t \t\t
David Kertzer is the author of The Pope Who Would be King: Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe<\/em>. His book The Pope and Mussolini<\/em> won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2015, and his book The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara<\/em> was a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1997. He is the Dupee University Professor of Social Science at Brown University.<\/div> 
\n<\/div> After a century and a half, the story of six-year-old Edgardo Mortara\u2014a Jewish boy who was kidnapped by the Vatican\u2014has once again become the subject of acrimonious debate.The facts are certainly dramatic enough: In June 1858, on the orders of Pope Pius IX, papal police knocked on the Mortaras\u2019 door in Bologna, Italy, and seized the boy from his family. He had been secretly baptized by a Catholic servant and so, according to Church doctrine, could not remain with his Jewish parents. In a tear-soaked scene, Edgardo was torn from his father\u2019s arms and hustled into a police carriage bound for Rome, where he would be raised in Church institutions. Worldwide protests followed.Thousands of people\u2014from American protesters to the French emperor Napoleon III\u2014demanded the child\u2019s return. Pius IX refused.<\/p>\n

The case has reverberated into the 21st century. Pope John Paul II\u2019s decision to beatify Pius IX in 2000 led to angry protests from the descendants of the Mortara family and from Rome\u2019s Jewish community.More recently, Steven Spielberg\u2019s announcement that he plans to make a movie about the event (based on my book, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara) produced a new burst of attention, especially from conservatives in the Roman Catholic Church worried about popular reaction to the retelling of the story. Perhaps most unexpectedly, the Mortara affair has been taken up as a cudgel in the internal Church struggles over Pope Francis\u2019s attempts to reform the Church.<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Edgardo Mortara\u2019s 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, they were deeply mistaken. Indeed, a reviewer for the conservative Catholic journal First Things used the text to defend Pius IX\u2019s actions, sparking numerousheatedresponses, including from an archbishop. What none of them has addressed, however, is that the published memoir itself has been heavily doctored.<\/p>\n

The actual document Edgardo wrote differs in many passages from what Vittorio Messori, Italy\u2019s foremost conservative Catholic journalist-turned-polemicist, has published.<\/p>\n

Messori\u2019s work represents the first translation of Edgardo\u2019s memoir\u2014originally written in Spanish\u2014first into Italian, then into English. And it\u2019s a work that casts the episode in a light sympathetic to Pius IX.The Atlantic emailed Messori, one of the most influential critics of Pope Francis in Italy, asking him to explain the discrepancies. Messori at first attributed any errors to the English translation of his book, which he said he did not get to review.<\/p>\n

But the same discrepancies appear in the Italian version he prepared himself; asked to comment on specific passages, he did not respond.In 1888, three decades after he was taken from his family, Edgardo wrote an account of his story in Spanish, referring to himself in the third person. By then, having been raised in a seminary, he had become a Catholic priest; years later, members of his order prepared a typescript of his account. It was the copy of this spiral-bound memoir in Rome\u2019s Canons Regular archive that Messori says he found and translated into Italian for publication; the English version that appeared last fall relies on Messori\u2019s translation, rather than the original Spanish.I personally compared the Italian and English versions of the Edgardo Mortara memoir published by Messori with the original, which I too located at the Canons Regular archive and digitized.<\/p>\n

In Messori\u2019s version of the memoir, the reader is treated to a heartwarming story of a six-year-old child who is overjoyed to be taken from his parents so that he can become a Catholic\u2014a child who would later have an uncannily accurate memory of what had happened to him.<\/p>\n

But this is not the narrative Edgardo actually wrote. The happy version instead emerges from numerous changes to the original, including the addition and deletion of entire paragraphs\u2014changes that are common to both published versions of the Edgardo Mortara memoir in Italian and English.<\/p>\n

A case in point is the addition of a 300-word paragraph, presented seamlessly with the rest of the text. It offers a justification for Pius IX\u2019s action in ordering Edgardo\u2019s removal from his family, and also describes the touching scene of the Inquisitor, Father Feletti, the man responsible for ordering the boy taken, going to see little Edgardo.\u201cIn Rome, with great pleasure and tears in his eyes,\u201d Messori\u2019s version of the memoir reads, \u201cFather Feletti hugged the Mortara child, for whose eternal salvation he had suffered so much, and he always had a special affection for him. Father Mortara will always hold very dear the memory of this respectable friar, who was one of those who more closely intervened in the spiritual regeneration and rehabilitation of his soul.\u201d Neither this scene, nor the rest of the paragraph in which it appears, are to be found in Edgardo\u2019s original memoir.<\/p>\n

Many of Messori\u2019s deletions involve omitting observations by Edgardo that fit uneasily with a pro-Church narrative. Edgardo, for example, notes in his original account that the servant who baptized him was only 16 years old. This is an important point, since his parents had used the fact that she was both illiterate and young to try to discredit her account of the baptism. But Messori\u2019s version does not include this detail.
\nSimilarly, in the original memoir, Edgardo writes of the pope\u2019s decision to send the police to seize him: \u201cGiven that they [the Mortara parents] did not consent, Pius IX had to proceed, as Pope and as King, to the order of violent kidnapping.\u201d Messori\u2019s version does not include the terms \u201cviolent\u201d or \u201ckidnapping,\u201d so that the pope\u2019s \u201corder of violent kidnapping\u201d becomes simply an \u201corder of sequestration.\u201dDefenders of the pope\u2019s action in taking Edgardo have argued that the events had nothing to do with anti-Semitism, yet the way Church authorities treated Jews was deeply rooted in demonization.<\/p>\n

It is telling that some of the alterations Messori\u2019s version makes to Edgardo\u2019s actual words come at those points of his memoir where Edgardo reveals the anti-Semitic attitudes his Church mentors had drummed into him. Edgardo recalls his embarrassment as a child when, together with his fellow seminary students in Rome, he \u201cwalked through the ghetto, or Jewish district.\u201d Messori\u2019s version of the memoir ends the sentence there, but Edgardo\u2019s original continues that he had \u201calways professed an inexpressible horror\u201d toward the Jews. Similarly, later in his account, in referring to his parents, Edgardo writes, \u201cThe Mortaras hold to the Jewish religion, which is false, contradictory, absurd, condemned by history, and condemned to be labeled \u2018ridiculous,\u2019 as it is by most men.\u201d Messori\u2019s version does not include the \u201cfalse,\u201d the \u201cabsurd,\u201d the \u201cridiculous,\u201d and the condemnation\u2014a softening of language that lessens the impression that Church mentors may have filled a Jewish child\u2019s mind with anti-Semitic ideas.<\/p>\n

But the problems with the accuracy of the memoir are not limited to distortions in Messori\u2019s translation. The man who wrote this account had been separated from his family at age six, suffered from numerous psychological ills later in life, and was constantly bombarded with the official Church narrative of the divine grace he had received. By the time he wrote his recollections, he had incorporated that Church narrative into sermons he was delivering throughout Europe, praising Pius IX for having him taken from his parents. In this way, he was able to justify his own choice to become a priest while inspiring his listeners to embrace Jesus and the Church.<\/p>\n

The part of the memoir that the conservative Catholic media is most loudly trumpeting today is Edgardo\u2019s description of how, after learning of the baptism but before Edgardo was taken away, Pius IX repeatedly tried to arrange some kind of compromise with his parents. In Edgardo\u2019s original account, the pope proposed sending him to a Catholic boarding school in Bologna, for, \u201cThat way, his parents would be able to visit him whenever they wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Inquisitor, Edgardo writes, repeatedly went to the Mortara home to convince his parents to accept the pope\u2019s thoughtful plan. Ignatius Press, publisher of the English-language memoir, highlights this episode in its brief catalogue blurb for the book, and in his introduction Messori calls this the book\u2019s greatest \u201crevelation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet this account is pure invention\u2014and not by Messori, but by Edgardo himself. The Inquisitor went on trial in 1860 on charges of kidnapping the boy; trial transcripts offering hundreds of pages of first-hand accounts\u2014from the boy\u2019s parents, the police, and the Inquisitor\u2014all make clear that the Inquisitor never spoke with the Mortaras before the papal police took Edgardo away. The appearance of the police that night in June 1858 came as a complete shock to the Mortaras. The only offer that Church authorities ever made came after the boy was already securely in Rome in the House of the Catechumens, the Church institution dedicated to converting the Jews.<\/p>\n

Edgardo\u2019s parents were then told that if they themselves were to enter the House of Catechumens along with the rest of their children, and accept baptism, they would once again be able to live together as a family\u2014a Christian family.As if to ward off questions about the accuracy of Edgardo\u2019s memory, Messori makes repeated corrections throughout the text to verifiable historical mistakes, including names of Church officials and locations and dates of certain events, without noting that he is making changes.<\/p>\n

Messori, though, is hardly the first to alter Edgardo\u2019s story; rather, his book piles a new generation of inventions upon the old. Church defenders have long crafted their own narrative of what happened to the boy and his parents, instrumentalizing the Mortara family tragedy to tell a story that suited their purposes. <\/p>\n

After the boy\u2019s kidnapping, as accounts spread of his mother\u2019s loud wailing, his father\u2019s fainting, and his siblings\u2019 terror, Church partisans began spreading their own, very different narrative of what had happened. In the fall of 1858, Bologna\u2019s Catholic newspaper reported that the child\u2019s removal \u201cwas all carried out with gentleness, solely through the use of persuasion\u201d and that \u201cwhenever the carriage stopped in any town or city [on its way to Rome], the first thing that he asked was to be taken to the church, and when he entered he remained there at length, showing the \u2026 most moving devotion.\u201d No account was more influential than that published around the same time in the Vatican-supervised Jesuit journal, Civilt\u00e0 Cattolica.<\/p>\n

It claimed that Edgardo showed \u201cextraordinary happiness\u201d on entering the Catechumens. The boy, the Jesuit journal reported, had a single idea \u201cstamped on his forehead, and even more in his heart \u2026 the singular grace that he had received through Baptism and, by contrast, the immense misfortune for his parents of being and wanting to remain Jews.\u201dToday, the Edgardo Mortara episode continues to roil the Roman Catholic Church and Catholic-Jewish relations.<\/p>\n

For those in the Church unhappy with the relatively progressive path the current pontiff is set upon, Pius IX remains a hero, the model of a pope who would risk all to stand up for the eternal verities of the faith. Those who take a different view should know that the translation of Edgardo\u2019s memoir is not a faithful one. Edgardo did indeed praise Pius IX, but the story of what actually happened to him as a child is different from what that pope\u2019s supporters would have us believe.<\/p>\n

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