{"id":6476,"date":"2008-06-03T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/vatican_letter_directs_bishops_to_keep_parish_records_from_mormons\/"},"modified":"2008-06-03T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T18:39:00","slug":"vatican_letter_directs_bishops_to_keep_parish_records_from_mormons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6476","title":{"rendered":"Vatican letter directs bishops to keep parish records from Mormons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217; Genealogical Society of Utah.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The order came in light of &#8220;grave reservations&#8221; expressed in a Jan. 29 letter from the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the clergy congregation&#8217;s letter said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/0802443.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217; Genealogical Society of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6476\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,42,581,428,154,155,184,364,173,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-baptism","category-mormons","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-roman-catholic","category-sacramental-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}