Monday, June 30, 2008

The Vatican Business of Religion

The Vatican Business or Religion

Vatican Orders Records Withheld from Mormons
The Catholic News Service has published an article about new Vatican orders to not cooperate with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the microfilming of records. The Vatican wishes to block posthumous rebaptisms by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a practice that Catholics, Jews, and some others find objectionable.
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 January 29 letter from the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the clergy congregation's letter said.

When did religion become like private businessman’s clubs, it seems to me that religions are public in the United States that is one of the reasons the don’t pay taxes. So it should be up to the local governments who can access their records.

The Vatican though the years has trouble with their faith, first with the pre-Christians, then the non-Christian in Spain (Muslims and Jews) and now with the Mormons. They obviously they do not believe in Jesus Christ and his wisdoms

Anti-Vatican is not anti-Catholic the local church do a lot of good work and maybe not even listen to this ban at all. It is the Vatican that keeps supporting every dictator that comes along so they can still operate within the country.

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