Preaching to the expired
Mormon rite wrongs JewsA Jewish group is considering legal action to stop the Mormon Church from posthumously baptising many Jews, especially Holocaust victims.
Under what Mormons call vicarious baptism - a significant rite of the church - the dead are baptised by living church members who act as proxies.
But in 1995, after evidence emerged that at least 380,000 names of Jewish Holocaust victims were on baptismal lists in the church's archives in Salt Lake City, the church agreed to end the rite without consent from descendants and said it would remove the names of Holocaust victims placed on the lists before 1995.
* Ray, 12/28/2003 02:07:51 PM
