Robert Siegel talks to Howard Berkes, who explains the Mormon baptism ritual and the two decade controversy over the baptism of Jews. Mitt Romney is under pressure today to condemn a Mormon ...

Mormon Church leaders apologized Tuesday after ... he was being baptized and would rather have been home playing video games.

LDS leaders have apologized for the baptism of the parents of famed Nazi ... of names that are misspelled or changed purposely to game the system, say, Jeus Christ without the first “s.” ...

The Wiesenthal Center has posted an image of the Wiesenthal baptism record on its website. The Mormon Church responded with an apology and an unprecedented public rebuke of the responsible Church ...

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.

The Roman Catholic Church declared Thursday that Mormon converts must be rebaptized, a setback to the Mormon Church’s effort to characterize itself as a Christian denomination. The Vatican’s ...

A new Mormon church policy considers church members in same-sex marriages as apostates whose children will be barred from baptism and church membership unless they disavow same-sex unions.

LDS leaders emphasize that the spirits of the dead must accept the baptism — it cannot be involuntarily imposed. And Mormons are instructed to only baptize family members, particularly after ...

“We believe in baptism of the dead by proxy,” said Anita Curtis, former director of the center who now teaches seminary in the Mormon church in Mobile. As explained on the faith’s ...

There are witnesses present and a proper record is kept, although the ceremony does not make the person for whom the baptism is performed a Mormon. Confirmation and higher ordinances can also be ...