I should also note that when [insert JP2's original name] "helped a Jewish refugee", he was merely following canon law, which stated that since a child does not have enough judgment to choose to convert, unbaptized children should be returned to their parents.
Canon law also holds that when a child is baptized, even in error, he or she is under the guardianship of the Church, not the heathen parents. Thus, Edgardo Montara, a Jewish child who was baptized by a Catholic servant, was taken away from his Jewish parents, and Pope Pius IX rebuffed appeals to return the child. Pius IX was later beatified by...drum roll please...Pope John Paul II.
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Date: 2005-04-19 06:13 pm (UTC)Canon law also holds that when a child is baptized, even in error, he or she is under the guardianship of the Church, not the heathen parents. Thus, Edgardo Montara, a Jewish child who was baptized by a Catholic servant, was taken away from his Jewish parents, and Pope Pius IX rebuffed appeals to return the child. Pius IX was later beatified by...drum roll please...Pope John Paul II.