Carol, The RC church has stated that the LDS baptizing of the dead is invalid. However, apparently the RC church did issue a directive to its bishops "not to give information in parish registers to the Mormons' Genealogical Society of Utah." The wording states the directive was given to the "episcopal conferences" which means each "area", country, for example, has the right to decide for themselves what they want to do. The U.S. is one episcopal conference (not to be confused with Episcopalians), Poland another. Though the U.S. bishops may vote to ignore this directive, I bet Poland rolls over, as it were. Poland already has bishops who have refused LDS access to RC church records so it's entirely possible that the other bishops will be convinced to agree with the directive. http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0802443.htm The above source is not the original source (can't find it in any language on the internet) but Catholic News Service states they have a copy of the original letter. BTW The Polish RC diocesan archives do, in fact, have other religion's records as well, depending on the archive. I don't know how an episcopal conference will handle the issue of LDS filming say, Greek Catholic records in its possession. Debbie Carol Goodson wrote: > Although I am a lapsed Catholic (so perhaps my opinion is > irrelevant), it would seem to me that if you believed that you were a > member of the one true Faith (whichever one it was), it wouldn't > matter if another church tried to baptize one of your own: it would > be invalid anyway and thus have no effect. > > Carol Goodson > Carrollton GA