A 13 mesi dalla visita di papa Benedetto XVI alla Sinagoga di Roma, per il rabbino capo di Roma,
Riccardo Segni «non c’è stata ancora alcuna ”risposta decisiva” alla richiesta delle Comunità ebraiche italiane di riportare alla luce le storie dei bambini scampati alla Shoah, nascosti in conventi, battezzati e mai restituiti a quello che remained of their original families or communities, often left unaware of their origins ». It is therefore concluded that many Jews were hidden and saved in Catholic convents (which is impossible without the authorization of the Pope), but is accused of having them baptized and left unaware of their Jewish origins.
THE HISTORICAL NAPOLITANO: 'ALL BACK " -" The Holy See has always returned to their families of origin, the Jewish children who survived the Holocaust in Catholic institutions and has always ordered not battezzarl, "she insists, in a
ASCO memo http://www.asca.it/news-SHOAH__S_SEDE__BIMBI_EBREI_SEMPRE_RESTITUITI_A_FAMIGLIE__MAI_BATTEZZATI-995602-ORA-.html , prof.
Matteo Luigi Napolitano , International Director of the Pontifical Committee of Historical Sciences to the problems of contemporary history.
"They have caused great surprise to the statements by Rabbi Di Segni, who escaped the Holocaust on Jewish children hidden in convents, baptized by the Holy See and never returned to their communities' and families of origin" . Napolitano continued:
"As chairperson of the International Pontifical Committee of Historical Sciences to the problems of contemporary history, I wish to state that the Holy See has comprehensively documented and the sensitive issue several years before: just a long my article signature, based on unpublished sources Vatican, 18 January 2005 and appeared in the newspaper "Future" as well as with the book "Pacelli, Roncalli and baptisms of Holocaust" (Piemme 2005), which I wrote together with Dr. Andrea Tornielli. Our research and - concluded Napolitano -
led to two important conclusions: the ecclesiastical directives were not always baptize Jewish children from their families assigned to the Apostolic See, to escape the Holocaust, and secondly, the practice followed by the Holy See after the war (and also happened in an Italian case) was always to return children to their families of origin, ie parents or relatives, if they were again asked for the return '.
THE HISTORICAL Loparco "FEW Baptized" - In 2004, the historic
Grazia Loparco, professor at the Pontifical Faculty of Educational Sciences Auxilium, published a large study (
"The Jews in the religious institutions in Rome." From arrival to departure (1943-1944), the Jews saved by order of Pius XII, in the convents of Rome: in 4329 hundreds of religious institutes of women, in some forty men and institutions in a dozen parishes. Published in the Future results on
http://www.mascellaro.it/node/459 , it is confirmed that respect to the Jews who were admitted to convents "the number of baptisms was minimal," while there is "no case of non-return of children to families." The Jewish children in orphanages instead returned "all their communities," says the scholar. He added that when some children asked for baptism "were discouraged because they were not in conditions of freedom to do it. Based on archival documents and eyewitness accounts, the studio is painfully exciting, is not silent unhappy attempts at conversion or omit the case of six baptisms in Rome: the five "little Jew, received, saved and then baptized" in Santa Maria delle Thanks in the way of Balduina and then the yearning for a baby, rescued from a Nazi raid by the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in Via Giusti. I vividly remember Sister Myriam Capone:
"He went right in front of a truck full of Jewish men, women and children, guarded by the SS. A woman gave a little cry for attention. The nun looked at him and saw that it offered her, and almost threw the child who held her in his arms. The truck was gone. Sister returned touched Jesus in the Eucharist, with the little creature in her arms. Must have been about two months' . Transferred safer with other orphans,
"nobody came looking for her. Made seven years, was christened with the name of Mirella, first name of Superior. Then it was adopted, but was very often to visit. Even after marrying, asked where I was, and came to greet me with her husband and her adopted daughter (India), up to Rovereto, where I was then, ".
Many others will be converted freely once they become adults. Just as the predecessor of Di Segni, the chief rabbi of Rome at that time, Eugenio Zolli, that just after the war he decided to be baptized with the name "Israel Pio Eugenio Zolli" in the form of gratitude for the work the Church and its pontiff against the Jews of Rome: "This that the Vatican did will be indelibly and eternally engraved in our hearts. Priests, and prelates, have done things that will always be a title of honor for Catholicism ' (P. Dezza "Eugenio Zolli: From Chief Rabbi to witness of Christ (1881-1956)" The Civilization Catholic , 21.2.1981, p.. 340)
Maddy Curtis, the ninth of twelve children, four of them with Down syndrome, is the finalist of the popular program American Idol of 2010. Young and well known face on American television, with its 20 years has shared her beautiful voice and his conviction in defense of human life from conception to natural death. As told to ArgentinoSalerta http://www.argentinosalerta.org/index.php/component/content/article/1-familia-y-vida/1395-maddy-curtis-de-finalista-en-la loperacion-triunfor-American-a-la-defensa-de-la-vida humana-video-, his Catholic faith and experience of family have played a decisive role in his career as a singer for beginners. Love of his brothers understood the greatness of the gift of life: "I believe that God wanted to use my story to show how special children with Down syndrome. Ninety per cent of pregnant women who receive a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome babies choose abortion. This breaks my heart. My brothers are so special to me and allowed me to change much. I want to tell everybody how happy I am to be happy and to live with them ". Unfortunately, the Curtis is absolutely right, as shown by several sociological studies cited by Future 23/2/10 http://www.avvenire.it/Cronaca/BAMBINI+DOWN+FACEBOOK_201002230953517370000.htm . 
