Idiots

These bozos don't know what they're doing. Somebody stop them.

Vatican letter directs bishops to keep parish records from Mormons

By Chaz Muth
Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In an effort to block posthumous rebaptisms by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Catholic dioceses throughout the world have been directed by the Vatican not to give information in parish registers to the Mormons' Genealogical Society of Utah.

An April 5 letter from the Vatican Congregation for Clergy, obtained by Catholic News Service in late April, asks episcopal conferences to direct all bishops to keep the Latter-day Saints from microfilming and digitizing information contained in those registers.

The order came in light of "grave reservations" expressed in a Jan. 29 letter from the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the clergy congregation's letter said.

Folks, take it from me: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been doing us all a big favor for as long as I have been doing genealogy. They have traveled all over the world and microfilmed church and civil records in little towns from Albania to Zambia. MANY of the original records they have copied have been subsequently destroyed, whether by fire, flood, storm, ignorance, or war. If the Mormons hadn't copied them, they would no longer be available to anyone.

Why do the Mormons copy them? Because they believe they have a religious obligation to posthumously baptize their ancestors into their church.

So what? That's their belief, not mine. The world benefits from it, and nobody suffers because of it. If some American Indians wanted to posthumously induct my ancestors into their tribe, and held a religious ceremony to do so, I would consider it an honor. Why is this different? Who are they hurting?