Raised by the Church: Growing up in New York City's Catholic Orphanages

The true story of a childhood spent in multiple religious institutions in postwar Brooklyn-and what it was like to enter the larger world as an adult.

In 1946, Edward Rohs was left by his unwed parents at the Angel Guardian Home to be raised by the Sisters of Mercy. The Sisters hoped his parents would one day return for him. In time they married and had other children, but Ed's parents never came back for him-and never signed the legal papers so he could be adopted by another family.

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