Hi Dennis! Yes, it is hilarious to me. After all, what difference does it make if they baptize people that God has already judged? Do you think God will change his mind? And no, I don't find it disrespectful if the Mormons truly think they are helping people get into heaven. Actually, it shows quite a bit of respect. How many thousands (or millions) of people have Catholics "converted" over the centuries through force, humiliation, and downright deception? Isn't that disrespectful? nick On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Dennis Benarz <benarz@hotmail.com> wrote: > No Nick, it is not hilarious. It is all about respect, respect for your > word > and respect for others. The Church of Latter Day Saints secretly and > unilaterally abrogated an agreement reached in May 1995 to stop performing > "proxy baptisms" and they are now being held accountable. This is a very > serious issue for Catholics and Jews. > > Don't you find it disrespectful and insulting to Jews that the Church of > Latter Day Saints surreptitiously performed proxy baptisms for nearly a > half > million Jewish holocaust victims? > > By the way, your view of Vatican doctrine is skewed. The Catholic Church > does not hold the Mormon baptism of the living, much less the dead, to be a > valid form of baptism. Like I said, the real issue here is respect. > > Dennis > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "nick bulka" <nick@bulka.com> > To: <galicia@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 6:09 PM > Subject: Re: [GALICIA] Catholic church to keep records from Mormons > > > > This is hilarious. This means the Vatican actually believes that the > > Mormon > > "rebaptisms" actually mean something to God. > > > > > > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Ken Sigmund <cub2544@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> [Also posted to LDS-GENEALOGY] > >> > >> The following is from the 16 May 2008 issue of *The Catholic Witness*. > >> The > >> story was also covered by the *Deseret Morning News* on 04 May. > >> > >> I am flabbergasted... > >> ----- > >> > >> *Bishops to Keep Records from Mormons* > >> 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. Father James Massa, > >> executive > >> director of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat of Ecumenical and > >> Interreligious > >> Affairs, said the step was taken to prevent the Latter-day Saints from > >> using > >> records - such as baptismal documentation - to posthumously baptize by > >> proxy > >> the ancestors of Church members. Posthumous baptisms by proxy have been > >> a > >> common practice for the Latter-day Saints - commonly known as Mormons - > >> for > >> more than a century, allowing the church's faithful to have their > >> ancestors > >> baptized into their faith so they may be united in the afterlife, said > >> Mike > >> Otterson, a spokesman in the church's Salt Lake City headquarters. > >> ********************************* > >> Need to contact the list manager? > >> GALICIA-admin@rootsweb.com > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> GALICIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > > ********************************* > > Need to contact the list manager? > > GALICIA-admin@rootsweb.com > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > GALICIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ********************************* > Need to contact the list manager? > GALICIA-admin@rootsweb.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GALICIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >