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Philomena Lee gives an interview at the end of a press conference in Rome, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, after her meeting with Pope Francis a day earlier and the Oscar-nominated film based on her story of trying to find a son taken from her 50 years earlier. One of the main criticisms of the Vatican in a U.N. report on sex abuse was the Holy See's failure to investigate the arbitrary placement of girls in church-run workhouses in Ireland, where their out-of-wedlock babies were taken from them and put up for adoption. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Inspiration for ‘Philomena’ doesn’t blame church

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Philomena Lee, an Irish woman whose search for the son that she gave up for adoption in the 1950’s, and is now a Hollywood film, meets with Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. With her life story now the subject of an Oscar-nominated film, Philomena Lee is calling for government reforms, in Ireland and the U.S., that would grant adopted people access to adoption files. (AP Photo)

Philomena Lee, US lawmaker push adoption rights

Associated Press