The Price of Children

The Vatican adoption scandal seen on 60 Minutes . “I was spellbound . . . one of the best books I’ve recently read” —Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge . A powerful church. An acquiescent government. In The Price of Children , investigative journalist Maria Laurino details the shocking story of mothers and children deceived and exploited as directed by the highest levels of the Vatican. Between 1950 and 1970, the Vatican and the American Catholic Church sent near