Positions divergentes des prélats catholiques sur le baptême des enfants Finaly
Catholic Prelates’s Differing Positions on the Finaly Children’s Baptism (1945-1953). – The affair of the Finaly children is the most famous example of the problems encountered by a number of Jewish families in getting back their children who had been hidden by Christians during World War II. The le...
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Bulletin du Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem
2007
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| Online dostop: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Izvleček: | Catholic Prelates’s Differing Positions on the Finaly Children’s Baptism (1945-1953). – The affair of the Finaly children is the most famous example of the problems encountered by a number of Jewish families in getting back their children who had been hidden by Christians during World War II. The legal proceedings brought by the family, who settled in Israel after the war, against the nanny who had saved and converted Robert and Gérald Finaly, were an exception because in 1953 they went all the way to the French Supreme Court. An enormous press campaign erupted when the two children were kidnapped in February 1953 by members of the clergy who refused to hand them over, on the grounds that they had been baptized as Catholics. The investigation undertaken in 2003 –50 years after the “Finaly Affair”– came up with unexpected revelations about the key role played by Cardinal Gerlier in this abduction. The article examines the positions of Pius XII, the Holy Office and many members of the French episcopate over the validity of this belated baptism. |
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