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This past week, the Mormon Church, and Mitt Romney, came under fire when it was discovered that the parents of Simon Wiesenthal were proxy-baptized by the Church. In 1995, the Church of Latter-day Saints, more commonly known as the Mormon Church, outlawe

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has apologized for a Mormon who baptized the late parents of famed Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal. But despite calls this week from Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and others to rethink the controversial rite,

Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor whose name was inappropriately submitted to a genealogical database from which names are extracted for proxy baptisms in temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is outraged. "I think it

Just in case Mitt Romney thought he could rest on his laurels for convincing the CPAC that he was a) a conservative and b) that Mormons can get along with Evangelicals, the religion issue popped up again this week. It wasn't Newt Gingrich or Rick Santoru

( jhohmann@politico.com ; Twitter: @jameshohmann) THE MESS IN MAINE – SOME RESULTS WENT TO SPAM: In another inexcusable failure of the caucus system, “Maine Republican Party chairman Charlie Webster has admitted that the state party made numerous clerica

Mitt Romney is in an impossible situation. He's a devout man who has stayed true to his faith and to his family. But unlike Rick Santorum, who is a Catholic, Romney is a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints - a Mormon - whose religion is considered

THE OTHER SHOE DROPS: Turning back the tide of information overload with a digest of the latest developments in news conservatives need to pay attention to: As Massachusetts governor (2003-07), he reduced a 3 billion dollar budget shortfall through a com

Mitt Romney is in an impossible situation. He's a devout man who has stayed true to his faith and to his family. But unlike Rick Santorum, who is a Catholic, Romney is a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints - a Mormon - who religion is considered st

By Dan Merica , CNN Here's the Belief Blog’s morning rundown of the top faith-angle stories from around the United States and around the world. Click the headlines for the full stories. From the Blog: CNN: Explainer: How and why do Mormons baptize the de

Simon Wiesenthal: his parents were posthumously baptised as Mormons By following stories, you will be notified when new articles on this topic are published. These will appear in your dashboard. In order to view this article, the recipient must be a subs

Posthumous baptism of Holocaust survivors is back in the news, and that always raises a range of questions, not only about Mormon-Jewish relations, but about interreligious relations in general and how we know when they are really real. Most recently, th

By Dan Gilgoff , CNN.com Religion Editor The recent disclosure that Mormons baptized the dead parents of Jewish Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal by proxy has sparked outrage in the Jewish world. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has apologized

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints president Thomas Monson recently earned a runner-up “Worst Persons” award on Keith Olbermann‘s Countdown for having to issue an apology for “continuing (the church’s) policy of posthumous baptism” without the f

The recent disclosure that Mormons baptized the dead parents of Jewish Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal by proxy has sparked outrage in the Jewish world. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has apologized for the baptism, which it says resulted f

In his otherwise highly interesting review of Tom Segev’s biography Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends [NYR, December 8, 2011], Louis Begley says that Wiesenthal was the first recipient of an honorary degree “granted a Jew by the Jagellonian Universi

This week, LDS Church leaders apologized for the unauthorized proxy baptism of the parents of Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and punished Mormons responsible for the violation of the Church’s policies against posthumous baptism of Ho

Above, a photo of Simon Wiesenthal. (RNS) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has apologized for a Mormon who baptized the late parents of famed Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal. But despite calls this week from Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and

A painting of John the Baptist baptizing Jesus at the LDS visitor center in Salt Lake. Photo by Jason Andrew/Getty Images. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has apologized for a Mormon who baptized the late parents of famed Nazi-hunter Simo