What's relevant is that Edgar was well taken care of and obviously loved -Our Blessed Lord must have wanted him to become a Franciscan sense he lived a holy life even as a child.He was blessed and our Lord works in mysterious ways as I said before,dear friend
I would be more concerned about the Children's aid society of the 1800’s founded by a sinister man and what was done to Irish catholic children in america- some were indoctrinated into believing the calvinst heresy that poverty was a result of their sinfulness.
Here is an excerpt of what was going on...
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/the-irish-orphan-abduction/Content?oid=1087070
“The nuns had reason to fear for the kids’ souls. For decades, do-gooder Protestant social workers in New York had virtually kidnapped Irish Catholic urchins off the streets—some of them orphans, some of them not—and shipped them out West.
As historian Maureen Fitzgerald recounts in Habits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York's Welfare System, 1830-1920, Irish kids swarmed the sidewalks of New York. These “ulcers of society,” as The New York Times called them, did what they could to put crumbs on the family table, begging, working, rag-picking, stealing.
The best remedy for this plague of disorderly young Papists, Protestant leaders agreed, was to transfer them “into Protestant homes outside the city.”
The legal mechanism for snatching kids away was a truancy law, which permitted any child not in school during school hours to be arrested and brought to a private mission, invariably Protestant. Fitzgerald writes that mission workers had no legal obligation even to contact the parents. If the impoverished mothers and fathers—many of them immigrants, not savvy to the ways of the city—never found them, the children could be legally committed for their entire childhood to the jurisdiction of the agency.
Which is where the notorious orphan trains come in.
A Methodist minister by the name of Charles Loring Brace, founder of the Children's Aid Society, conceived of the trains as an ingenious—and inexpensive—alternative to orphanages for the wretched Irish refuse. Families in the fabled American countryside would take in the street urchins and put them to work in the wholesome outdoors.”
What's relevant is that Edgar was well taken care of and obviously loved -Our Blessed Lord must have wanted him to become a Franciscan sense he lived a holy life even as a child. He was blessed and our Lord works in mysterious ways as I said before,dear friend
I believe you are mistaken. From what I've read, Edgar Mortara entered the Augustinian, not the Franciscan, order.
Once again, your response to the Mortara case puzzles me. You appear to be arguing that the end -- little Edgar becomes a RC and a priest -- justifies the means -- the kidnapping of Edgar by officers of the state at the behest of Piux IX. I had thought that ends/means rationality was a big no-no in RC moral teachings. Am I wrong to think this?
I wasn't aware of the abduction and resettlement of Irish orphans/vagrants in 19th century NYC, but from what you posted it seems perfectly awful. If the account is accurate, the participants in this scheme -- along with the child-snatching mobs in Arizona -- should have been ashamed of themselves.
However, given that I have not been advocating individual Methodist ministers, NYC bureacrats, or racist mobs from the 19th century as moral examplars, I fail to see the relevance of these shameful occurrences in US history to the issue we've been discussing: namely, the Holy Office-sponsored kidnapping of a Jewish child from his family so that he would be raised as a RC.