Latter-day Saints trace posthumous baptism to the Apostle Paul, who wrote in 1 Corinthians 15:29, “Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead not rise at all?

The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith declared that baptisms in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are “not the baptism that Christ instituted.” The ruling was a ...

The Mormon Church apologized Tuesday for a “serious breach of protocol” after it was discovered that the parents of the late Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal were posthumously baptized as Mormons.

In fact, however, proxy baptism is functionally equivalent to those Mormon missionaries coming to my door. Based on a hint in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians that early Christians engaged ...

Such baptisms can only be performed in special fonts in Mormon Temples. Women act as proxies for women and men for men. There are witnesses present and a proper record is kept, although the ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is again warning its members not to submit names of Holocaust victims for proxy baptism. The church statement comes on the same ...