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    1. [IRL-CO-DONEGAL] Vatican letter directs bishops to keep parish records from Mormons
    2. Liam Martin
    3. Saving our souls - losing our records 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. Read on at the URL http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0802443.htm Clearly, genealogists will now be sent different planets in paradise. Liam "A bird in the bush is worth two in the cat"

    05/07/2008 05:48:34