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There is a systemic pattern of abuse with the catholic church and children, the shit is beyond words.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/09/world/09vatican.html
Many Jewish children went to live with catholic families when their own families were taken to concentration camps. After the war Jewish families attempted to reclaim their children. The catholic church sent out a directive that stated the children should not be returned to their parents..
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The one-page, typewritten directive, dated Oct. 23, 1946, was discovered in a French church archive outside Paris and made available to The New York Times on the condition that the source would not be disclosed. It is a list of instructions for French authorities on how to deal with demands from Jewish officials who want to reclaim Jewish children.
"Children who have been baptized must not be entrusted to institutions that would not be in a position to guarantee their Christian upbringing," the directive says.
It also contains an order not to allow Jewish children who had been baptized Catholic to go home to their own parents. "If the children have been turned over by their parents, and if the parents reclaim them now, providing that the children have not received baptism, they can be given back," it says.
Even Jewish orphans who had not been baptized Catholic were not to be turned over automatically to Jewish authorities. "For children who no longer have their parents, given the fact that the church has responsibility for them, it is not acceptable for them to be abandoned by the church or entrusted to any persons who have no rights over them, at least until they are in a position to choose themselves," the document says. "This, obviously, is for children who would not have been baptized." "You used to be so cool, but now, you know you're so cold"
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