Vatican sends Italian children born out to wedlock to America as orphans

She said "I placed you, because I couldn't keep you at that point in time because of the family situation. But I never consented to the adoption or to the fact that you would leave Italy and you would be far from me for the rest of my life. Piero Davi was one of thousands of children born out of wedlock that the Vatican repackaged as orphans. The church arranged the visas, helped by a 1950 U.S. law that broadened the definition of orphan to include a child with one parent, but one who couldn't provide care.

This reddit thread and the article/book are r-slurred and designed to generate a circlejerk. To be clear these were not babies taken out of nowhere, these were children growing up in orphanages sent abroad to families with the resources and desire to adopt. Somehow that's a bad thing?

Laurino told us the program hinged on a consent form the mothers were supposed to sign severing all rights to the child.

"Yes I signed the consent form but I had no idea when they were adopted abroad I wouldn't see them!"

!Catholics new libelous book just dropped, redditors circle the wagons to spew invective.