Vatican’s Secret: Italian Children Born Out of Wedlock Trafficked to America
This report details the Vatican’s practice of sending thousands of Italian children born to unwed mothers to America under the guise of orphan visas during the mid-20th century. Many of these children were not orphans, and their mothers, often pressured or misled by the Church, were unaware of their children’s adoptions. The Church, driven by financial gain and demand from American Catholic families, sometimes even told mothers their children had died. This resulted in the pain and separation of families, as many adoptees later struggled to reunite with their birth mothers, some of whom are still dealing with the aftereffects of the program.
John Q. Hosedrinker