Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Please, No "Baptizing" of the Dead Here

It seems the Vatican is getting fed up with the Mormons "baptizing" Catholics who have passed away. In fact, the Vatican Congregation for Clergy has just directed all Catholic bishops "to keep the Latter-day Saints from microfilming and digitizing information contained" in parish registers -- this to try and prevent Catholics from being used in the bizarre LDS rite of baptizing (by proxy) the dead.

The Vatican letter calls LDS baptisms for the dead a "detrimental practice" and directs each Catholic diocesan bishop "not to cooperate with the erroneous practices of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."