Again, Jews Fault Mormons Over Posthumous Baptisms

New York Times/December 21, 2003
By Ian Urbina

A Jewish group says it is considering legal action in an effort to stop the Mormon Church from posthumously baptizing many Jews, especially Holocaust ... Under the practice, known by Mormons as vicarious baptism -- a significant rite of the church -- the dead are baptized by living church members...

Correction: December 23, 2003, Tuesday

An article on Sunday about a Jewish group's complaint regarding the Mormon Church's practice of vicarious baptism of Jews used a misspelled given name in some copies for the Utah senator who helped to broker an earlier agreement about the practice. He is Orrin Hatch, not Orin.

Correction: December 25, 2003, Thursday

An article on Sunday about a Jewish group's complaint regarding the Mormon Church's practice of vicarious baptism of Jews referred imprecisely to the International Genealogical Index in Salt Lake City. It is a listing that includes the names of those who have already been baptized and is part of the church's genealogical archives; it is not the archives themselves.