Vatican sent Italian children born out of wedlock to America as orphans; new book uncovers program

[@13939014402]

06:30 “sent local priests to scour the countryside for more children”...Isn't this just human trafficking?

[@jklmnoqr]

Yes, it is!!!!!!

[@TraceyEaster760]

Imagine what these priests did to these children 😢

[@pluckybellhop66]

Yes. Ask the Irish, they know what those priests did.

[@apathyguy8338]

In the Pulitzer Prize winning book the Pope and Mussolini he found little over a decade or so earlier the Vatican rounded up thousands of Jews and shipped them to Hitler's Germany.

[@eyesauron]

Sickness

[@AlvenaNelson]

In Ireland..single mothers were imprisoned and enslaved. No harm ever came to the men that out them in this situation . The shame and torture is always on the women and the children.

[@JJ-mn8md]

The magdalene laundries

[@ieshjust16]

Yet, so many women will still participate when they know the burden falls on them. 🤦🏾‍♀️

[@joseywales148]

@@ieshjust16 Of course the women don’t mention that

[@kateyjrosalia4464]

And most women had hard lives all on the church in Ireland

[@zoeyrochellezhombie829]

Of course. Because we can't possibly SHAME the MEN for wrongdoing.

[@jj-if6it]

A widespread problem. Here in Australia, unwed teenagers were forced to give up their babies or told they died and adopted to other families. It is so unimaginably sad

[@MeyaRoseGirl]

And in the US, unwed pregnant girls were sent to rural camps that were impossible to escape until they give birth. The babies were then taken over state lines with falsified documents, so once the girls were recovered enough to start looking for their babies, they were gone without a trace. This is unfortunately an extremely common problem. These so-called "good Christians" justified their human trafficking by saying they were placing the babies in "good Christian homes," but there's no guarantee of that. There's a pretty good chance the couple will be divorced within a few years. Adopted children a far more likely to be abused, abandoned, etc. How is that better than the kid being raised by a poor single mom who actually loves her kid? Since so many of the records are downright lies, if you are adopted, you really can't trust any of the documents, and your best bet is to put your DNA in a database and hope that it gets you some family connections that will help you uncover at least a part of the truth.

[@Ann-eb8dp]

And not only teenagers All age groups and from all walks of life

[@samanthafairweather9186]

Umm..... Stolen generation anyone? My dad and uncle were on the government "hit list" because they were light skinned, due to one white grandparent. My nan and poppa had to do the midnight runner to keep them. I look like I'm fresh off a plane from England. I have absolutely nothing to make people think I'm Aboriginal, and people think I'm lying when I tell them. Because of this, Family Services NSW tried to convince me to give up my eldest because I was 17 when o had him. I refused. When my daughter (third child)!was born, they ended up getting them anyway. They were adopted out against mine and my husband's wishes (he's a Kiwi), even though they were only meant to be in temporary foster care (which I had stupidly agreed to ). Once adopted, we were no longer allowed to see them at all, and absolutely no contact. This wasn't back in the 60's and 70's. This was in 1995. It is still happening in Australia, it's just never spoken about.

[@panpan581]

@@samanthafairweather9186 why did they take them away? None of you had a job ? This is terrible .

[@andreadalpasso1515]

It's absurd that, as an Italian, I get to know this from foreign media and no one is talking about it here!

[@anahata2009]

Italy has a lot of catching up to do with regard to even acknowledging that women might be human beings with rights. I'm not surprised the story is buried there. Hopefully men like you will speak up more often.

[@jefflewis4]

It didn't just happen in Italy, last year it was reported that in Belgium the Catholic church sold about 30,000 Belgian children to adoptive parents without their mothers knowledge or consent from just after WWII until the mid 1980's. In Ireland it was reported to be 50,000 children sold for adoption without their mothers knowledge or consent until the late 1990's. The Catholic church must have been doing this practice all over Europe.

[@contrnsmagnificndjoobngtaint]

This isn’t so much an Italian thing than a Church thing

[@miapdx503]

It's the same here in the States. I learn from 60 minutes Australia, stories in America that get no mention here.

[@joanlynch5271]

Here in America there's an obsession with criticism of the past and especially of the Catholic Church.

[@petercummins8145]

They did that in ireland also .

[@TrinityTwo]

And Spain.

[@lindafraser2044]

It was done in a lot of places. My dad didn't know he had a sister til he was 30yo. My gran never talked of her because her and the 2 older boys were put in care when she split with her husband (something that wasn't done in the 50s) when she married my grand dad they went to pick up the three children, only to be told the girl had died. Many years later, a lady showed up, saying she was my gran's daughter. Took a bit to overcome, but she was the spitting image of my gran's sister and acted like everyone in the family. This was in Australia, and my gran was not Catholic...

[@richardthiele8363]

like in the movie “Philomena”

[@AngelicVirgo]

​@@richardthiele8363and the magdalene sisters.

[@autumnishotterthansummer]

​@@richardthiele8363that was exactly what came to my mind, Judy dench gave a heartbreaking performance

[@Cobunny2dan]

My mother in law found out she was pregnant a month after her boyfriend went into the Korean war. She was put in a Catholic home for unwed mothers and the baby was taken from her at birth. She never got to see him. They married when he came back from Korea and had two more children. She cried every year on his birthday.

[@sojaded85]

Omg.. that is so sad. And I feel heartbroken for her!

[@benekatalin]

Oh my God that's terribly cruel, Can't imagine her pain,nothing replaces this emptiness. Wish she would find her child.❤❤

[@faithfulservant3511]

A geneologist could probably find him now if the family hires one.

[@yolandabrinkman2653]

@@Cobunny2dan The Salvation Army has a department called Family Tracing. They may be able to help your family

[@Ready-ForTheEnd]

This is terrible. I cannot imagine.

[@robyndismon394]

'unwed mothers', 'out of wedlock children'. Only the women and children get these demeaning and despicable euphemisms cast onto them. Again the men get off SCOT free. Where were the FATHERS!

[@kevinkelly1586]

I agree that the unwed FATHERS should be held equally responsible.

[@lunchbox6576]

How are we blaming the fathers if the women refused to marry the father of their unborn children. Keep blaming men for a woman's attitude.

[@mizelle3603]

@@lunchbox6576 It's interesting that you believe these women were asked. Do you honestly believe that ALL the unwed moms out there were asked by the father of the baby, "Oh honey, now that you're pregnant, will you marry me?" What century are you living in?

[@robyndismon394]

@@mizelle3603 yes lord PREACH! Glad u set the record STRAIGHT

[@alexeialeksandr7606]

After a war I can think of 2 scenarios of how you end up an "unwed mother"...

[@heyokakoyeh]

Americans are adopting 3 year olds from India, and being told that their child was abandoned! This is still going on today!!!

[@alfredfreedomjones5105]

Is there a documentary or news article about this I can watch? Who is the one doing the adopting, is it indian immigrants or any american who wants affordable adoption? Thanks in advance

[@alfredfreedomjones5105]

More info please. Thanks

[@heyokakoyeh]

@@alfredfreedomjones5105 the 0astor and his wife adopted a 3 yr old boy from India. They were told that he was abandoned. They are on a mission to convert Muslims and Hindus to Christianity, one adoption at a time. So in a country where the two religions are always battling, those in charge (Muslim) abduct the Hindu babies and sell them to Christians in America.

[@LynetteA68]

When the US gov stopped allowing our Native (indigenous) American children to be adopted to people outside of our tribes via the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 it appears they had another way to get more children!! Thank goodness SCOTUS recently upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act stating Native (indigenous) American children have to be adopted by tribal members!! A Christian couple were trying to steal a Native American lil boy from his BLOOD family who wanted him so they challenged the law & surprisingly they lost!! I was shocked that the law was upheld due to the makeup of SCOTUS but thank goodness we won this one!! We’d already lost to many of our Native children who were kidnapped from their families and forced into gov and/or church run residential schools (last gov ran residential school didn’t close until 1996) where Native children were terribly abused (many died there) & not allowed to practice their customs, culture, speak their languages or practice their religious beliefs etc and most were moved so far away from family they were lucky if they ever saw them!!! Governments do the cruelest things!! Nanaya I hullo I kana~ ✌🏼 & 🫶🏼 my friends! ❤from CHAHTA OKLA🪶(THE CHOCTAW NATION🪶)

[@OrioleBeagle]

A lot of baby girls are killed in India.

[@ShannonMichelle7937]

The lady at the end really is her mother’s twin 🥰 that is so beautiful. I’m glad they found each other. ❤

[@Ariadne76-k3d]

Yes, but it's also sad. It's not just smiles and hearts.

[@hera7884]

This is literally Human Trafficking..

[@apathyguy8338]

A little over a decade earlier Pope Pious the 12th rounded up thousands of Jews and sent them to Germany for Hitler. I source the award-winning book the Pope and Mussolini.

[@apathyguy8338]

Little over decade earlier Pope Pius the 12th rounded up thousands of Jews and sent them to Hitler's Germany. I am citing a Pulitzer Prize winning book the pope and Mussolini. Just because you don't like reality doesn't mean you should complain about a response.

[@basicallyno1722]

@Amyvisitsyoutube you need to learn grammar.

[@basicallyno1722]

This is exactly what that is, but because it’s a church doing this (and especially the Catholic Church in Italy), it’s seen as charity work. Absolute insanity. This happened in the United States too, except the children were given away to other American families. Very prominent amongst Baptist churches in the south. This was known as “the baby scoop era.”

[@mysticcove3392]

​@@basicallyno1722 That happened in England too. Children were sent to Mainland Australia and Tasmania Australia.

[@kaycee625]

Very, very common in Spain for decades, that the mothers were told their babies had died. The doctors sold the babies to wealthy couples. It’s a huge scandal in Spain.

[@elizabethann8228]

And in the USA

[@krystlekatherine]

And today in the Ukraine ….

[@yolandabrinkman2653]

@kaycee625 this happened specifically to those with "questionable" political loyalties, married or not, into the 90s

[@Ready-ForTheEnd]

Now dig a little deeper. Do you all really believe those wealthy people just wanted children for photoshoots? I fear, no, I know they had more sinister intentions.

[@bribee384]

Omg my dad is one of them !!!!!!!!!!!! This is crazy to see covered

[@roundtwo3321]

These poor children were stolen from their mothers.

[@paultruesdale7680]

More like kidnapping

[@melissabruhn1429]

...for a profit.

[@jenniferburchill3658]

​@MatthewOlson Legally, it may have been "consensual". But, the reality is, they were forced and/or misled. Therefore, it's stealing.

[@paultruesdale7680]

@@MatthewOlsonGod would have wanted for the family to have stayed together, but the priests didn’t get that memo. Maybe you can explain why the present Pope has apologized?

[@danielzhang1916]

@@MatthewOlson they were taken and sent out of the country, how is that caring? the mothers had no idea they were even sent to America and renamed, how is that abandoned?

[@AmericanWoman1964]

It wasn't just Italy either. They were doing it in Boston, kids from Nova Scotia, gosh everywhere. They were making bank selling stolen babies. I was one. So lovely to hear this success story. God bless them. I wish I was as lucky.

[@peni1641]

oh my gosh😲are you going to do like a video post or a blog b/c I had no idea this was happeing in Boston.

[@AmericanWoman1964]

@@peni1641 No. It was a bad move, a bad adoption. Life has taught me that most really only want to hear the pretty stories and I just don't have a need to tell it anymore but find grace in living well.

[@TheRhNegative]

IRELAND has to be one of the worst

[@ellenadams7354]

God Bless you 😢🙏🏼❤️

[@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648]

God bless those children, you mean.

[@mexigirl64]

OMG😢; this is what happened to my father; His mother’s name was Rose: he passed at 56 in 1995. My dad searched endlessly for her; he was told from his American family the documents were so old they couldn’t be found. It was such a missing piece from my dad’s life; born in Sicily; Rose Molinaro❤

[@epiasta5976]

Do a DNA test on Ancestry and MyHeritage to find his relatives

[@farfallinaazzorra3493]

It's ROSA not Rose

[@IrishAnnie]

My husband is one of them. His mother was 19 years old, 3rd grade education. Fourth of six children and her father made her give him up. He has all the paperwork explaining all of this. His mother breast fed him for 12 days and they took him away. I cannot even imagine her pain. Horrible. Cruel. Did she come back for him and be told HE DIED?

[@chrdelgro]

your husband had a better life because of this; you wouldn't have met him, have children etc...count your blessings

[@rnelson0525]

Ridiculous. ​@@chrdelgro

[@rnelson0525]

​@@chrdelgroridiculous.

[@CKing-388]

He came from Italy? Doubt it

[@melissaford717]

​@CKing-388 Why? It happened. My own grandmother was sent to Ireland from Philadelphia to give birth to a son who was taken from her. It happened to many women. Stop acting ridiculous.

[@JanetBeebe-nh9re]

I was 15 years old, and my premie son was born in Cedars-Sinai. No one ever threatened me to call C.P.S. The nurses taught me how to take care of my son. I could never imagine life without him.

[@MaryKelly-ji8ve]

You are very lucky

[@karenbaxley3010]

yes you are a rare & lucky case 🙏

[@siewheilou399]

Are you talking about the hospital in Los Angeles?

[@Laoriginal718]

Why were you pregnant at 15?

[@faithlesshound5621]

@@Laoriginal718 Barring divine intervention, I would imagine the pregnancy came about in the usual way.

[@lauratrujillo583]

I just don't get why the monsters who are doing this never face charges... absolutely disturbing..

[@depp5601]

Cause for whatever reason they are protected. Well, we were just trying to help unwed mothers or help people have a family they couldn't otherwise have-leaving out the the the stealing of babies and just abuse all the way around.

[@nevaalton-lynn7765]

@@depp5601they stole these children. They get away with it because they are in with the government. If you can not figure it out after everything we are going through then you never will.

[@est9949]

Because there are people in their cult who have been indoctrinated from childhood to protect these criminals. This is how dictators brainwash their victims as well.

[@ardeladimwit]

they're saints doing God's Will, not monsters

[@Just..Me..]

Nothing to do with God's work. Quite the opposite. The Vatican has its own bank. Very despicable. But don't worry they have investigated themselves and found no wrong doing.

[@Wmuthoni]

I saw a similar documentary of the Catholic Church tricking unwed mothers in Chile to part with their children to be adopted to the US. One man in his fifties reunited with his mother and younger siblings. There’s also the Belgians who kidnapped biracial children in Democratic Republic of Congo with the help of the Catholic Church and several women are coming out in search of their families. The worst experience for these women is that they were forced into a special orphanage and yet they weren’t orphans their mothers wanted them and their Belgian fathers didn’t want them and that’s how they ended up in orphanages. So cruel the Catholic Church has been to vulnerable women and their children.

[@elizabethann8228]

Not just the Catholic Church. Protestant churches here in the USA too.

[@Lucylou7070]

were they tricked or did they not have jobs to support themselves because the father did not do thee right thing, or did their parents force the issue. It's much more complicated that what we're being told.

[@yvonnemurray5537]

I am in total shock…never knew this happened. Thank you 60 minutes for airing this story. It really needed to be told.

[@gerryyakovleff8606]

The slant is wrong - these non-orphans were the same as the unaccompanied minors crossing our southern border- looking for family reunification and easy access to USA. The poor families that adopted them were in for heartache when Mom & Pop showed up from Italy and regathered their kids together -

[@jstsayn9133]

A lot more of this and other baby stealing will be part of our society if trump's cult gets into office. That's the point of making abortions illegal: money-maker.

[@ilenebain6281]

@@gerryyakovleff8606 shut up! Your lies are awful!! My father is one of these kids. At 70 years old he finally got to meet his family. A very good portion of these children have never met their birth families.

[@gerryyakovleff8606]

@@ilenebain6281 I know 6 different Italian families in NYC that sent their kids to USA using this program - no child came into USA without paperwork - Italy did not allow the children to leave without verifying parental status - they needed their children post WWII

[@AWAW-z8r]

@@gerryyakovleff8606 you're watching an entirely different video apparently. Did you not see these adult children who spent their lives searching for their biological parents?? In any case, this was via the Catholic Church.

[@angelinimartini]

Thank you 60 minutes for always delivering these powerful stories.

[@rainydaywoman8997]

Thank you, 60 Minutes!

[@Lucylou7070]

Need more information before I thank anyone.

[@smrk2452]

This is the basis of the book/movie called Philomena. It happened in Ireland too.

[@bethgoldman2560]

It happened everywhere the Church was. The fact that it happened in multiple countries with heavy Church influence….it had to come from the Vatican itself.

[@shanereilly9216]

That movie is epic 😢

[@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648]

@@bethgoldman2560 I am, or try to be, a classic gospel Christian in the broad pattern of the Acts churches, though not as strong from lack of that kind of literally awesome community faith support. This is exactly what you'd expect out of an institution in love with itself as an institution, that isn't putting God and His gifts first.

[@ardeladimwit]

happened everywhere

[@bebomora7391]

This is heart breaking! Brought me to tears more than once. First when John said that, then when he said he learned Italian to speak with his family I cried again. ❤

[@NMV-ej4zd]

The reprehensible lies and acts of the Catholic Church done to unwed, pregnant women and then the molestation and rape of children by priests should never be forgiven by a just God.

[@Lionsdendaniel]

It’s not. Read revelation 17. The Mother of harlots

[@apathyguy8338]

A decade earlier the Catholic church under Pope Pius the 12th rounded up thousands of Jews and shipped them to Hitler's Germany. Selling children is like a Pleasant faux pas by comparison. I cite the award-winning book the pope and Mussolini.

[@sdilluminatigrandfounder3807]

@@Lionsdendaniel Ah, so you believe in that nonsense. It must be embarrassing to have to believe Unicorns and Talking Donkeys are real. 😆

[@cynthianussbaum3623]

​@@LionsdendanielRevelation 18!

[@jeanb.5405]

That is not how God tells it. He says forgive your enemies, and to Repent and be forgiven. He doesn't say condemn one another because you think its what I want.

[@theoccasionalvideo]

This is also an assault on the very idea of "family", not surprising coming from unmarried men with unlimited power.

[@fornax5798]

Hey man, they aren't LGBT, so everything is fine /s

[@LoneWulf278]

Well said!

[@leevancliffneridacampo7769]

Right indeed?!🧐🤔

[@jeanb.5405]

SO What was the Church Supposed to do with all these babies being given away? They didn't go to the home and force the mothers to give the babies up. The parents did that. They took care of them and the women who were sleeping with men out of wedlock were possibly taking advantage of this good organization (the orphanage) like women today take advantage of birth control and abortion. Oh if i get pregnant I will just give him to the orphanage! Maybe the Orphanages were over run - likely they were. And since America wanted the children for Parents who desired to raise them - why wouldn't the Church seek some relief of the care and responsibility of the burden? Are they just supposed to keep gathering babies until they have no money to feed any of them and then you would say they are cruel for not feeding them?

[@ginahill503]

Just shows HOW PHONY the whole religious BS thing is. Hypocrites. Child traffickers. Child molesters. Disgusting!

[@Violetsoul91]

Pieros testimony is powerful. Im so glade he found his Mother.

[@crowwoman9218]

I was 18 had a baby and I couldn't tell my Irish Catholic family. She was given up for adoption and I regret it to this day.

[@mizelle3603]

I hope you find her. I'm an adoptive mom - I adopted my 3 grandchildren - all born out of wedlock, 3 different birth dads. I wasn't happy about that, but it's not their fault how they were conceived. Ancestry DNA or 23andme might help you. Perhaps she is searching for you too. Social media helps too. God bless you on your search.

[@karenmariecraig5619]

I have a cousin who had 4 with 3 different men and she never raised them. They were adopted by family members of our family and their respective father’s families Best thing that happened to them was escaping from their parents grasp.

[@mizelle3603]

@@karenmariecraig5619 God bless those children and the folks that stepped up to raise them. I feel very blessed to have my 3 grandchildren in addition to my 7 biological. It wasn't the life I planned but I get more than my fair share of hugs and kisses. My husband and I feel very lucky.

[@kingmufasa8929]

Go find her

[@nicolad8822]

Did you go to England?

[@60asteroid]

That family dinner outside with Mary, reunited with her children made me tear up. Beautiful.

[@kmwilson28]

This was not just in Italy. I experienced a similar situation here in the US in the 1970’s…

[@sirdavidstratton9789]

That’s such a cruel thing to do to children. The Vatican should be held responsible and be taken up on charges.😡

[@carolaguilera6911]

It was. 1950 . 🤡

[@melissabruhn1429]

​​@@carolaguilera6911so?!? Why should the church be let off the hook regardless of when it happened for their profit?!? It was a deceit and harmful.

[@howardloewen1834]

@@carolaguilera6911 Rome has not changed.

[@eurowan]

@@carolaguilera6911”They publicly declare that they know God, but they disown him by their works.”​-TITUS 1:16.

[@callicordova4066]

Cruel to the mother, too.

[@vinucini4341]

BEAUTIFUL MOMS WITH A HEART OF GOLD. who went searching half a century for her lost child.❤

[@SewingBoxDesigns]

My maternal aunt ran into the same bs. My mom's older sister was married in the court house just days before her then 18 yo husband shipped out to Vietnam. 9 months later, the Catholic hospital tried to shame her into giving up my cousin. Back then blue eyed blond babies were in huge demand and the church hospital was literally telling young mothers and couples with "too many" children to give up good looking babies or telling them the baby was born dead. Lots of adopted people finding out their real parents never intended to give them up. Another friend (married with 2 kids already) of my mother's was shocked in the 90s to find out her third child, a daughter had indeed survived and had been baby farmed out to a couple with money. They refused to let parents see their 'deceased' babies back then, and who knows who got buried in the baby's place.

[@debfryer2437]

I was 47 when my true parentage was revealed. I had no idea but all my life I felt something was wrong.

[@victoriamarie35]

Did you get a DNA test? How did you find out please?

[@debfryer2437]

@@victoriamarie35 I found out by spiritual means very unexpectedly.

[@debfryer2437]

@@victoriamarie35 Thank you. It is a very inspiring story and one which I have shared with friends but very few family who would not believe me.

[@FoundSheep-AN]

@@debfryer2437can you share it? Have you the proof your parents are not your DNA parents?

[@susanallen6423]

I’m glad these things are at least coming out into the light now. 😪❤️

[@maxim3830]

Catholic Church has one of the most impressive track records in child trafficking, if not the most impressive one, worldwide. It's very sad how this institution has become a source of so much pain for so many (mostly) women and children. It's also not surprising that the Catholic Church favors "looking forward" over "looking back", because when doing the latter, it becomes hard to see a bright future for the institution...

[@mcawesomest1]

Same with Ireland, Canada and the USA had their own Orphan Train- most used as physical laborers and farm help.

[@i_am_elle_gee6917]

Just one of the atrocities that powers-that-be in the church are capable of doing without a hint of remorse.

[@bunjijumper5345]

IF you think that the Catholic Church is bad, imagine what it's like growing up under Islam like I did. I grew up in Algeria. My brother was killed by my family for being gay. You have no idea.

[@fornax5798]

@@bunjijumper5345 I'm so sorry to hear. These institutions especially hate the LGBT community even though it isn't as emphasized as a sin as many others, to the point I'm confident they just do it for bloodlust (and any conservative religious people who see this, I myself am not LGBT so don't use that card with me.) Having any authority from an institution claiming powers over your spiritual purpose and justifying any atrocities as "consequences of God" has no place in democracies.

[@floridafamilyfun1597]

@@bunjijumper5345 Two things can be true.

[@timdowney6721]

@@bunjijumper5345 Listen to some of the Trumpvangelical preachers. They are ranting about imprisoning and/or killing LGBTQ people.

[@Aurorr]

​@@floridafamilyfun1597 state of all countries with religious fanatics

[@NMB1984]

This is absolutely horrific!

[@vanialee-leepierre5578]

This is so heartbreaking 😢

[@brettrobertson2538]

the vatican strikes again. how many awful things have these devils done

[@johnquartieri5141]

Probably a whole lot worse!

[@vacationrequests]

The Crusades, Changing the heritage of Africans and Arabs to Gentiles, etc.

[@vacationrequests]

Ahm! They are actually, factually, literally: "Jews".

[@vacationrequests]

Oh! The Catholic monetary currency which was involved in slavery, and the currency was abandoned in the 18th century to 19th century. FACTS!

[@safeman1x]

Every religion is like this. I have yet to find one that doesnt have blood on their hands

[@annies805]

In the 70's, I gave birth to my daughter when I was 20. My husband was in the Navy and overseas at the time. I had to go to a Catholic hospital. Because I had checked in by myself, they put me in with a girl who was giving her baby up for adoption and sent a nun in to convince me to give my daughter up!!! I was livid. The following day my room was plastered with the picture of his ship, the crew picture and every picture I could find of him in uniform!

[@SpecialSP]

This is like the "mixed race" babies from the Korean War. Churches cause so much harm through their own judgements!

[@stephaniesamaniego2713]

100% agree

[@c.d.meloney]

The Vatican is evil.

[@jenniferburchill3658]

Organized religion does more harm than good.

[@LillianSteele-u9v]

And this stuff is still being revealed today here in the us and it is about US adoption rules many years ago here in the USA. My mom's oldest niece was a school social worker and saw this stuff when she was a young educator in the mid 1950s in a large northern city in America.

[@stenbak88]

Not even a little like that

[@jillian7636]

Such an egregious act! I was born in 1963 and my godmother was an unwed mother years earlier. She was pressured by the church and family in the US to give up her son. Her and my mother have pieced together who he is. He’s a successful Broadway actor!! She’s never reached out though and never had any other children. This scarred her for life and made her mistrust her Catholic school, her church and the community that pressured her to go away and have her baby alone. They wouldn’t tell her friends where she was so they could support her.

[@faithfulservant3511]

Perhaps she should reach out through a third party. I'm sure he would appreciate knowing he was loved.

[@TsetsiStoyanova]

Sue the church. They got money to pay reparations to everybody and their grandmother

[@wkdlama]

I know that the church got money for these "adoptions".

[@LoneWulf278]

Oh, no doubt.

[@DarkPesco]

Of course you know that! It was in the video! They got the modern-day equivalent of about $4,000/child! It is human-trafficking! It is kidnapping! It is a disgusting form of slavery! It is certainly anti-christianity!

[@alfredfreedomjones5105]

$475 per child, it was mentioned

[@apathyguy8338]

Hardly necessary for that church leadership. Little more than a decade earlier they rounded up thousands of Jews and ship them off to Hitler's Germany. I cite the award-winning book the pope and Mussolini.

[@jeanb.5405]

@@alfredfreedomjones5105 Which Covered the Costs of Sending them to America and the Costs of Feeding them and Clothing them & their Medical Needs until they were sent since the Mothers and Fathers did not feed and clothe them or pay for their needs in any way shape or form.

[@mawasorangutan]

I'm constantly crying when watching philomena movie about the same issue but involving babies from Ireland 😢

[@e_libby]

Thank you for telling us your stories. It's beautiful that you were able to find the truth.

[@VSVickery]

As an adoptee, none of this is surprising. The agency from which I was adopted made up fake names. Austin, TX

[@Think-dont-believe]

Ft worth 1965 same..

[@anneahlert2997]

In the 1930s, a cousin of mine gave her baby up in Illinois. She later tried to find out what happened to the baby, but they never told her. She did find out, though, that birth records at the time were being forged so adoptees would never find out they were adopted or the names of their real mothers.

[@IrishAnnie]

My husband was one of these children. They “assigned” him a name as to shield him from his mother coming for him. And, as in this 60 Minutes, some were told the child died.

[@JillWhitcomb1966]

I'm an adoptee, as well, as is my sister. The adoption agency from Fargo, North Dakota, claimed that my sister (born in 1963) was German heritage and that I (born in 1966) was Norwegian heritage. It wasn't until we were both 50+ years old that my sister discovered that her birth Mom is Chippewa/ Ojibwa and an enrolled member of a Native American tribe, and I'm less than 20 % Norwegian. Adoption agencies lied and fabricated about the babies, and their ethnic background, just to put those babies into the arms of married couples who wanted them.

[@joanezra5154]

I am an adopted child and was not allowed to see my original birth certificate until I was 73 years old.Not the Catholic church but the archaic laws from New York state.My adopted parents were great no reflection on them.

[@hildamaine8319]

They were selling them at today's money, $4,500. So they were "Scauring" for more children. This is beyond horrible.

[@hensonlaura]

Scouring.

[@proverbs3_5-8]

They did this in Spain too. One of the children now an adult found out he was sold for a much as a house which they call a flat during the time of his adoption.

[@LisaEichler-Johnson]

Good typical Catholic values, hopefully one day people still trapped in religious abuse will escape the cycle in more numbers.

[@maplebones]

The Roman Catholic Church is the wealthiest corporation in the world. You don't get that rich by feeding the poor.

[@lilywondertwin]

I was born in 1969 to an unwed mother in Chicago Illinois . My Mom was at a home for unwed mothers . They tried to take all of their babies as payment for help . Dear Pope sorry isn’t enough . The home neglected me and messed me up for life thinking no one helps me . When my Mom had a man from work help get me back after 6 weeks I was in dirty diapers and crying . Catholic church you need to start paying out some cash for all this you started .

[@mistyvaughn6356]

It seems like taking children from their families and adopting them out illegally was a global issue for decades.

[@SewingBoxDesigns]

Especially after the Spanish flu and the world wars.

[@gemini_minor]

It still is, unfortunately... I've heard that it's still occurring in India as well as some countries in Africa.

[@mtl6905]

@mistyvaughn6356 At the heart of all programs was and is the selling of children and babies.

[@lupea8079]

In Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and America as well. In Mexico you would just sell unwanted children into slavery.

[@wanderingspark]

It happened in Korea after the Korean war and continued for decades. I had a friend in college who was born in Korea in the 1980s and adopted and raised by Americans parents. He went looking for his birth mother as an adult. Not only was she still alive, but she had never given him up for adoption. She took a nap after he was born and woke up to find that someone had stolen her baby. She didn't see him again for 26 years.

[@cindyhesson9213]

This doesn't surprise me at all. We will never know the horrific things they have done .😢

[@artstrology]

There are people who have kept track. We know many of the things they have done, and the public does not even know the worst yet.

[@catalinabarsana7595]

Praying that all the horrific things done by the catholic church be fully expose.

[@backtoasimplelife]

Just from what we do know, there should be investigations and imprisonments, then sue the Vatican into bankruptcy and distribute the proceeds of everything among their victims.

[@Weatheredstorms1]

It wasn’t only in Italy but in many European countries and the US. My mother was one of them. She was forced to place my siblings. At the time that’s what you did and what happened when you became pregnant and the father ran. My grandmother though is where I cannot make any forgiveness for. She was about looks and how it would look at their church. Yet my grandmother was almost in her second trimester when she married her first husband. He’d been married prior and had two other children. Yet she treated my mom this way. She forced my mom to live in a maternity home then relented and allowed her to come home. My mom gave birth to a Boy and a girl whom she was forced to place. Sadly both were placed in separate homes. My brother’s family took kindness and allowed my mom and our family to be a part of the family. My sister though hates my mom and doesn’t understand she had no choice. She found us and had a chip on her shoulder against my mom from the first time she messaged her. My brother doesn’t even have contact with her and they’re full siblings.

[@mariejane1567]

It wasn't just Europe it happened and happens in Africa too

[@michelemcguire8995]

Human trafficking!!

[@apathyguy8338]

A little over a ticket earlier this exact same Catholic leadership rounded up thousands of Jews and shipped them to Hitler's Germany. I cite the pool surprise winning book the pope and Mussolini.

[@earthstara2408]

AbsouLutely!

[@LoS-ke7ez]

even surrogacy i consider that. if you pay for a person, then thats that

[@Courtannica]

@los surrogacy isn't tra fficking. Now taking babies from mothers. Yes. Definitely

[@SewingBoxDesigns]

And they still want to move thousands of immigrants into the USA for the federal 'resettlement' money the church NGOs get per head. Do the research. Catholics, the Lutheran's, the Jewish League, all human trafficking NGOs.

[@mariebrown5729]

Heart breaking 💔

[@RonjaBlom82]

They did this to thousands of Chilean children too, but instead of the church it was the Chilean and Swedish government and adoption agencies. The now sitting Swedish prime minister knew at the time and still haven't been held accountable. I wonder how many more children who have been stolen from families and/or a parent who couldn't or didn't have the means at the time for their child/ren. Or who many was told that their child died but is living in some other country.

[@tashikoweinstein435]

The state of Oregon tried to this when my mother had my sister in 1977, luckily my family was able to get involved and keep my sister! After that my mother refused to have me in the hospital out of fear for losing me like she almost lost my sister!!

[@helenwenzel7603]

What a terrible thing to go throughout your life. Thise who are reunited us awesome. God bless all of you.😊

[@lenorepaletta9267]

Thank you. John Campitelli is our hero. What this story didn’t tell is the tireless efforts of John to help many of us reunite with our Italian birth families. He is incredibly humble and kind.

[@healing682]

Why is this is a surprise? It happened all over the world. Spain, Argentina, Ireland, Scotland...

[@juanitaross5492]

The chalholc church in Italy is so freaking rich and they wouldn't help these women and traffic the children. How much do want to bet they made a big profit doing this. I call that evil domonic forces.

[@rnelson0525]

And the nuns have to fight for every penny on retirement. And the Priest live like kings!!!!

[@intermezzomusic]

Self-righteous religious leaders who are much more sinful than most laymen.

[@lindagardenlady]

They will answer to God!❤❤

[@TheSimmpleTruth]

Fake religion and fake religious leaders.

[@AA-ct7cb]

Yes. Watch out for the self-righteous, they are the worst.

[@rosag1788]

​@@lindagardenlady Really? Wasn't it easier to stop those criminals from doing it? Vatican criminals act on his name to do all kind of crimes.

[@abigailandino6251]

Yup

[@rdfbeauty]

This is extremely sad and heartbreaking my gosh . My mom told me that when she had my brother at a young age they tried to get her to give my brother up for adoption and she refused. Gratefully her dad and aunt were there to speak up for her. She told the doctor that even though she was a young mother she wanted to keep and raise her child. He is now 45 and doing well .

[@jodyloges3084]

Thank you for speaking up.

[@yoshreimi]

Very cruel yet they will fight any atheists about "morals"

[@lynnpoole7830]

Bingo.

[@eurowan]

“They publicly declare that they know God, but they disown him by their works.”​-TITUS 1:16.

[@MandoDando]

Atheist and a person believing in a god is the same thing. Atheist has Faith in their GOD .....science, evolution, etc... Both pretend they "KNOW" but there are only a few that have "The Truth" and if you meet them,.....you know.

[@Mehki227]

​@@MandoDandoThat is absolutely not how it works. We don't worship science. We just don't believe a god exists. That's it. We can be flatearthers, anti-vaxxers and subscribe to any wacky non scientific whatever... The one common denominator is we don't believe your good exists. I know you have difficulty understanding that someone doesn't worship something - so you make it up in your own head without knowing anything about atheism that we must be worshiping "something". Nope. I've been a lifelong atheist and no I don't worship science but I do accept observable, repeatable, provable FACTS!

[@Mehki227]

​@MandoDando That is absolutely not how it works. We don't worship science. We just don't believe a god exists. That's it. We can be flatearthers, anti-vaxxers and subscribe to any wacky non scientific whatever... The one common denominator is we don't believe your good exists. I know you have difficulty understanding that someone doesn't worship something - so you make it up in your own head without knowing anything about atheism that we must be worshiping "something". Nope. I've been a lifelong atheist and no I don't worship science but I do accept observable, repeatable, provable FACTS!

[@oldhaglady62]

This happened in the USA as well, but as far as I’m aware, the children were adopted in the USA. My mother has been in an unwed mother’s home. My mother couldn’t be guilted into giving me up for adoption….but she said a lot of women were guilted into adoption.

[@lindagardenlady]

So heartfelt--these poor kids... Thank goodness there are some that have found their relatives!! Bravo 👏 👏 ❤❤

[@america1403]

Truth shall always come to light, a minute, an hour, a day or several decades later!

[@Kekaweek]

Every entity thinks an apology is sufficient enough for the atrocities they enact upon citizens.

[@ericzoo6342]

It's things like this why people don't gravitate towards the church.

[@danielzhang1916]

people are leaving the Catholic church because of these abuses and more

[@apathyguy8338]

10 years earlier Pope Pius the 12th rounded up thousands of Jews and and shipped them to Hitler's Germany. I cite the award-winning book the pope and Mussolini.

[@Maddie9185]

People are leaving all organized religion

[@lalibellahorne]

It’s like that with any religion, Ukrainian Orthodox Church sometimes uses people to manipulate them and control. Don’t make me start on Islam, that is extreme of extreme.

[@jeanb.5405]

Not Really No its Not. Its people like you who make these assessments that the Church was somehow the bad guy in all this. The Church can't possibly support babies endlessly so they sent them to a country that wanted children after all these were UNWANTED children.

[@janetslicer3637]

Well, that is the Catholic church for you. Money talks especially in the Catholic church. I have become so embarrassed and disappointed with the actions of these "men of God" that I finally walked away from the church for good. It is sad. I can no longer defend their centuries old actions. Shame on them. We won't even speak of the other atrocities visited upon thousands of other children from members of the clergy. Damn them to hell.

[@eurowan]

“They publicly declare that they know God, but they disown him by their works.”​-TITUS 1:16.

[@IrishAnnie]

Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. The majority of priests are good men. I know ours to be. They are suffer when crimes are committed by pedophiles. It sheds a terrible light on them as a whole.

[@cynthiafisher9907]

@@IrishAnnieIt’s the whole system that is corrupt. There are definitely good people in the clergy, however, the higher you go, the more corrupt it is.

[@Victoria-i5k1d]

@@eurowan God? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 RIGHT!!!!! 🤬

[@Victoria-i5k1d]

@@IrishAnnie until you find HE travels to other countries to unleash his evil on children there. Just saying.

[@pamelacrane2864]

Children are one the greatest gifts any women can ever to be blessed,

[@LisaEichler-Johnson]

Not always and it is something about quality of life and not just abuse and survival.

[@lorigbasmajian3843]

Not true either

[@SusanDoe-qn7vp]

Not for everyone. Some women don’t want to have children

[@Arfarf69]

Nope, it’s a gift for a dad

[@irenemorley75]

@@SusanDoe-qn7vp No normal woman would feel that way.

[@BA-ef4pr]

As an adoptee, this breaks my heart. I wasnt one of these children, but my adopted parents did lie about my heritage and circumstances of my birth and adoption. A child does not recover from this type of betrayal.

[@latinaalma1947]

I was not adopted my parents divorced when I was 4 ot was the 1950s. I grew up wihtout any memory of her but there were photos in an album. Even though I didnt have a memory of her, I longed for her all my childhood. At 31 I made my dream come true. She lived in England. I flew over to see her numerous times. Then when she had had a stroke was widowed .....she had remarried a Brit...I was called by a friend of hers they thought sje needed a nursing home. I flew over and she didnt want a nursing home. So my mate eho had become an RN at 50 said lets take her to Guatemala we can rent a house amd affrpd round the clock care. We dopid that and she ha a wonderful end of life she loved wking up I opeme her shutters and she would say how beautful the volcano amd roses in front of her window were...I hope my ending is as serene amd happy.

[@Sheshe661972]

What a blessing you were to her in her last days. Children truly are a blessing. How dare the "church" have done such an atrocious act without those mothers having a choice! How DARE THEY???!!! 😡😡😡

[@the3spirit]

*It is misleading to only mention Italy in the title & captions, when the host mentions at the very start that this also happened in Belgium.*

[@ih8utbe]

The Catholic Church needs an overhaul. Lots of bad things done in the name of God and Jesus.

[@Someonesaidthis]

We need to just stop believing in religion..

[@Courtannica]

It's not just the catholic church

[@naturalista2.074]

These are very bad things that are done but it's done because of THEIR self greed! This has nothing to do with God. It sucks that people who are supposed to represent God are giving him a bad look. They are sheep in wolf clothing with their hearts far from God.

[@malindaallen718]

Just leave it. It's rotten.

[@kathywotring9762]

Jesus was never religious, he was spiritual. Religion was created for control of different beliefs, separating the masses. Jesus believed in unity of humanity, not separation. I Never looked up to any Pope. I can sense things. My abilities show people behind the mask they wear. I've never been religious or felt comfortable in a church. God's church is nature.

[@ronnyt101]

Thank you for making this documentary. Eye opening

[@TsetsiStoyanova]

Look up orphan trains. This program took place for 80 years straight

[@trudy285]

This atrocity is something l can believe that really did happen. I was a Catholic child of the same time period this video speaks of. Catholic Charities seemed to me at that time while growing up, to be a very busy entity. Now l know why. And l am disgusted. Women, mothers, are NOT Disposable! This is incredibly heartbreaking for all individuals involved for forced separation, lies, and the deceit to steal from and abuse these women. We can never go back to such an existance for women, unwed mothers ever ever again. Brightest Blessings to whomever chooses to read this. 😔✌️❤️🦋🙏

[@writerconsidered]

This church is the gift that keeps on giving. Keep your kids away from these monsters. I absolutely hate this church. Any charges? Any lawsuits? That is straight up child trafficking. Selling them on an open black market.

[@sdilluminatigrandfounder3807]

Just stay away from religion altogether. It's all nuts.

[@Meadowlark57]

A close family member was a child that came from Italy in the very early 1960's. Nothing has been learned of his history. Thankfully, he has a big wonderful family in the USA but knowing more info and his family in Europe would be wonderful, too.

[@PlanetEarth143]

These American adoptees should sue the Vatican

[@howardloewen1834]

The Vatican is a church/state therefore cannot be sued.

[@CarlaMcCarthyPomegranate96]

I second that! 💯❗️

[@SeanMcReynolds025]

I saw this last night on 60 minutes and all I could think about was the Judi Dench movie “Philomena”

[@abelincoln3261]

I was born at Touro Infirmary, New Orleans LA my birth mother was sent to await my arrival at The Maud Billington Booth Home for Unwed Mothers , where she spent several weeks both before and after my birth. I spent years researching my first days weeks and months on this earth... I more then likely know more about my life then most of the world. What I know took years to unravel. A Louisiana baby is born in a state that still rules under .Napoleonic Rule Louisiana stands out as the only state in the United States whose legal system is rooted in the Napoleonic Code, a stark contrast to the English common law system followed by the other 49 states. This unique legal framework is a testament to Louisiana's rich history and cultural heritage, influenced by French and Spanish colonial rule.As such the laws that govern Louisiana adoption forbid any and all release of blood relatives names on adoptions documents. Thus the only way to search for birth parents in Louisiana is to petition the court to have one's records opened... due to a medical emergency ie:a bone marrow transplant... I know of only one case that has ever been successful in the state of Louisiana.

[@quentinjersey6935]

The RC Church did the same thing to young women in the US in the 50s and 60s, pressuring young women to give up their children and keeping bad paperwork on purpose so these women could never find their children

[@eurowan]

“They publicly declare that they know God, but they disown him by their works.”​-TITUS 1:16.

[@naturalista2.074]

Absolutely! They make up their own rules and say "it's from God". They are full of Deadman bones and corruption.

[@sookie4195]

They did this in the Kansas City area too. My best friend was one of those babies. The orphanage was off the Paseo Blvd. There was also was a Catholic girls home off of 63rd and Troost.

[@meticulous_pickulous30]

This was a business for them plain and simple, they have to answer for their atrocities

[@b.l.8611]

So sad. I can’t imagine the heartbreak these woman went through. Absolutely awful! My only hope is that all children went to good homes when they were adopted. Terrible situation on both ends of this situation.

[@Ann-eb8dp]

But they did not all go to good homes Some went to homes where there was domestic violence , mental illness such as schizophrenia, emotionally and sexually abused plus the feelings of abandonment, alienation ,etc that can come with being adopted being cut off from your roots your history

[@mariefils3857]

This is true evil to do something like this. As a Christian, it breaks my heart to see how the Catholic Church treated these women and their children. It’s all greed for power and money. They are good people in all religions but these Catholic leaders think they are God but THEY ARE NOT. They are sinners just like us in need of a Savior. Please do not confess or pray to them. Pray directly to God our loving Father in heaven.🙏🏾 They supposed to help people/ families not separate them. Pure evil.

[@tiatabuavou897]

You right ❤❤❤

[@peggycampbell905]

Trafficking, priests raping children, the church helping Nazi’s what more do you need to know?

[@Plethorality]

Where the money goes. Where the bodies are buried. Etc Etc.

[@catalinabarsana7595]

The jesuits, freemasonry and secret societies created by the catholic church thier evil/lucefirian deeds????

[@marybrand1977]

That’s why I’d had enough of their sanctimonious rhetoric by age 50 and left.

[@bursegsardaukar]

@@marybrand1977You are not the only one. There is a documentary about the child sex abuse cases by priests and one former priest told that he was part of the church group with millions of dollars in their budget to cover up these cases. The priest left the Catholic Church and is now helping lawyers dealing with child sex abuse cases.

[@afripinoy]

The wickedness and cruelty in thiis world is so deep that if you truly have a conscience, then this is the type of story that makes one cry to see that even the church that is claims to be good is this cruel. I am out of words .

[@georgialee01]

If our world wasn’t so misogynistic, these kids could’ve stayed with their mothers. I am an only parent. I raised my son. On my own. He is in college for engineering. On an extremely large academic scholarship. He taught himself to speak German. He plays the harmonica, the trumpet the guitar, and is now learning the banjo. I gave him everything he wanted and needed in life. Above all I gave him love in a safe place.

[@shaymalchione809]

I was raised Catholic but between this & the sex crimes against children I no longer consider myself one. They’re a disgrace against humanity.

[@teresaolszanka112]

Let's not forget the Spanish Inquisition also instigated by the Vatican. Then we have the Vatican's dealings with mafia organizations, with the German nazis.....

[@maplebones]

I left those abusers behind when I reached the age of reason.

[@youmonxintl]

This kind of stories always touch me. My father never was able to find out about his birth parents and the reason why he was given up for adoption. One good thing about it was that there was no money changing hands. He lived his whole life with the stigma and the yearning for truth. I am sure he was deeply affected by his origin. He was socially awkward. His birth parents had several of their own biological children after he was adopted. He was the black sheep of the family. He only slapped me once, never laid a finger on my youngest brother, but instigated a couple of very harsh physical punishment upon my other brother who resembles him the most among us three siblings. I guess he took to heart very deeply about his shortcomings and the “shame” of being born out of wedlock, the sense of being second-class growing up in the only family he knew and had. My family is from China, by the way.

[@pattyrodriguez5085]

What courageous woman, they choose LIFE for their children

[@karenbaxley3010]

i know of numerous people who’s mothers came to get their kids- the kids who had been told they were abandoned were not told who the strange woman who showed up was their mother- then they told the mother - see we told you he doesn’t want to go with you

[@lxlx3458]

Thank you for sharing with us!

[@winnie2379]

I volunteer at a pregnancy resource center that assists parents throughout the prenatal period and then through their child’s 4th birthday. I encourage readers to support places like this in their community.

[@SuenosDeLaNoche]

My heart hurts seeing the looks on the faces of these innocent children. Religion. Love it or leave it, the most vulnerable in life should not suffer because of it.

[@teresaolszanka112]

We need to separate religion from the institution of religion like the corrupt Vatican. So rotten through and through that Pope Benedict XVI saw no possibility of reforming it and chose to resign. John Paul I refused to participate in Vatican games so he was found dead in the morning after 33 days of papacy.