I’m not sure if this one goes in the Religion and Secularism section or in the Entertainment section.  But apparently, mormons are in the habit of baptizing people, without their consent, after they are dead.  And this includes people who had been baptized into some other dogma when they were alive.  Needless to say, other dogma groups are bound to take issue with the practice.  In this case catholics.

WASHINGTON (CNS)—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’ Genealogical Society of Utah

Father James Massa, executive director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, said the step was taken to prevent the Latter-day Saints from using records—such as baptismal documentation—to posthumously baptize by proxy the ancestors of church members.

Posthumous baptisms by proxy have been a common practice for the Latter-day Saints—commonly known as Mormons—for more than a century, allowing the church’s faithful to have their ancestors baptized into their faith so they may be united in the afterlife, said Mike Otterson, a spokesman in the church’s Salt Lake City headquarters.

Found HERE

Yes, I remember hearing about this when a group of Jewish people complained about it. I find the whole thing an amusing example of the absurdities of religion, since I can’t imagine what difference it could make to declare a dead person a member of your religion posthumously. I mean, do they get kicked out of the heaven they went to originally? Do you not get to see them when you die because now they’re a different faith? Isn’t their some kind of Celestial Review Board that adjudicates posthumous interfaith membership disputes? Sheeshh!

HERE is a website that documents some of the back-and-forth between the Mormons and some Jewish groups, in particular about the Mormons’ penchant for retroactively “baptizing” Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

On the other hand, I have found the LDS a fantastic resource for geneaology research. They’re welcome to baptize my dead ancestors as long as they go to the trouble of collecting and making public all the records around the world about them. Since I have a lot of Irish Catholics in my family, I’d be especially sorry to see them denied access to parish records, which I have found very useful as a research source and much easier to find and use via the LDS than the Catholic church. Especially when the underlying controversy is so inane.