Pierre Hubert Subleyras, Pope Benedict XIV 1746 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Pope Benedict XIV (1740-1768), Bullarium, Tomus Secundus, in quo continentur constitutiones, epistolae, aliaque edita ab anno MDCCXLVI usque ad totum annum MDCCXLVIII (Volume 5; Melchin: 1826)  6-112. De baptismo Iudeorum sive infantium sive adultorum. Venerabili Fratri Arichiepiscopo Tarsen. Vicegerenti.  February 1747 Archbishop of Tarsus, Ferdinando Maria de Rossi (1696-1775) The pope cites Aurelio Piette († 1730) Elucidationis difficiliorum   theologiae quaestionum: Pars Quinta (Louvain: 1730)  361: Why therefore does the Church of Rome not baptize the children of the Jews and take these baptized children from their parents lest in hatred of Christ they instill multiple impieties?  Response.  I ask again, why does the Vicar of Christ tolerate those most hostile enemies of Christ in his own city?  Why does he not send them away? Christian Zendri, Umanesimo giuridico ed ebraismo:  La questione del battesimo invitis partentibus nel pensiero di Ulrich Zasius con l'edizione e la tradizione delle  Questiones de parvulis iudeorum baptisandis (1508) Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche Università di Trento 98 (Milan: CEDAM, 2011)