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Article: Pope of infallibility set for beatification.(Pope Pius IX)
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- September 1, 2000
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Pius IX, a controversial choice, issued `Syllabus of Errors'
Elena Mortara remembers being in the Rome synagogue in April 1986 when Pope John Paul II made his momentous visit, believed by historians to be the first time a pope set foot in a Jewish place of worship since the days of St. Peter. He stirred hearts that Sunday by condemning "anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone."
The words had special resonance for Mortara, the great great niece of Edgaro Mortara, who in 1858 was removed from his Jewish family in Bologna, Italy, by authority of Pope Pius IX. The 6-year-old boy had been secretly baptized two years earlier by a ...