The Kidnapping of Edgardo MortaraBy: David I. Kertzer Now filmed by Steven Spielberg, starring Mark Rylance as the Pope. The extraordinary story of how the Vaticans imprisonment of a six year old Jewish boy helped to bring about the collapse of the popes worldly power in Italy. Bologna: nightfall, June 1858. A knock sounds at the door of the Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara. Two officers of the Inquisition burst inside and seize Mortaras six year old son, Edgardo. As the boy is