[Apologetics] Posthumous ´baptism´

[Stephen Korsman]

 Posthumous ´baptism´<http://closedcafeteria.blogspot.com/2008/05/posthumous-baptism.html>
via The Cafeteria is Closed <http://closedcafeteria.blogspot.com/> by Gerald
Augustinus on 5/4/08

From the Salt Lake City Tribune <http://origin.sltrib.com/news/ci_9148958>

The Roman Catholic Church recently directed dioceses worldwide not to give
parish information to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The move is "an effort to block posthumous rebaptisms," according to an
article reported Thursday by Catholic News Service. CNS cites an April 5
letter from the Vatican Congregation for Clergy that directs all Catholic
bishops "to keep the Latter-day Saints from microfilming and digitizing
information contained" in parish registers.
A main tenet of LDS Church doctrine is to baptize posthumously, by proxy,
all who have died without an LDS baptism, to enable them the opportunity to
accept the faith in an afterlife. Baptisms for the dead are performed in LDS
temples worldwide. The church collects birth, death, christening, marriage
and other related information of deceased people, from archives and
registers of churches and denominations, when access is permitted.
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," CNS
reported.


It gets pretty ugly in the paper´s comments section:

This is just more proof that Brother Brigham was right. The great and
abominable church, the w***e of all the earth and so on. I hope all other
churches refuse to give out lists of boys under 18 to the catholic church.
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