According to him, those sixteen children were taken away because of a witch hunt that rivaled the Inquisition of the fifteenth century, though with a different goal in mind, that of proving that the values imparted by the family—the most sacred Christian institution—are inferior and less effective than those taught by the state. I wasn’t convinced. Reports of sexual abuse, whether true—as prosecutors alleged—or false—as Don Ettore maintained—couldn’t be boiled down to a power struggle between Communists and Catholics, no matter how prominent that struggle had been in the postwar era. I didn’t
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