Fears over Mormon baptisms of dead Catholics

THE Mormon community in Ireland have moved to quell concerns about their practice of baptising dead Catholics into the Mormon faith.

Fears over Mormon baptisms of dead Catholics

Concerns arose as a result of a dispute between a Catholic archbishop and the National Library of Ireland over access to parish and diocesan records.

According to a report in the Irish Catholic newspaper, Archbishop of Cashel, Dermot Clifford and Bishop of Kerry William Murphy have written to the library to object to the records being made available indiscriminately to any member of the public.

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