[Poe White Trash]

True freedom does not give man the right to do whatever you or I please, not the duty to do whatever you must; but it means the right to do whatever you ought- and oughtness implies law, responsibility, purpose. In other words freedom in inseparable from the God of Love Who made us.

Fine words. I wonder what the mother and father of Edgar Mortara would have made of them.

[stfassisi]

I wonder what the mother and father of Edgar Mortara would have made of them.

Who cares... when Mortara was old enough he used his free will to become an Augustinian.

Our Lord works is mysterious ways and God protected Mortara from his parents.

Obviously God's will was followed by Mortara