In other news, Francisco Franco and the Catholic Church, echoing the Argentine dirty war, stole babies from ‘undesirable’ families and sold them to families that kept up better on their church donations and Party dues. Apparently collaborating doctors helped arrange the theft and then told a lot of parents that their kids had died.
After Franco the Church kept selling babies for money through the 1980’s and maybe through the mid-90’s.
Another great PR moment for Vatican City…