RCC honoring a Mormon?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Nabooru
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
mathonihah said:
But they don’t invent husbands and wives for people who never had one. Some of the suggestions seem to be that that is what they do.
Click to expand...
It happened for St. Damien.

Genealogy is a funny thing. People make up stuff. I’ve found it in my own family genealogy. People connect X to Y, but if/when you delve in, the connection doesn’t exist.

I don’t think this is a “Mormon thing”, I think it is a “genealogy thing”.
 
kimg901 said:
Im not sure the CC is playing along with them (lds) They are trying to respect them just as much as the next religion. And the mormon church having power? Here in Utah and parts of the surrounding they have alot of control. But our Bishop accepts them in the love of Christ and how much better is it to ask them to participate than to leave them on the side of the road? 😃
Click to expand...
Laie, Hawaii is like a mini SLC. The LDS Church owns not only the PCC, but numerous retail and residential properties in Laie. There’s even a beach house there for GA’s to use. (I have a friend in construction who was sent from SLC to remodel it years ago.)
 
mathonihah said:
But they don’t invent husbands and wives for people who never had one. Some of the suggestions seem to be that that is what they do.
Click to expand...
Check out the proxies done for previous Popes, and try making that comment again.

Try checking out Anne Frank.

Oh ye of little knowledge.

Mark Twain is credited with saying, “It is better to be thought a fool, than to open one’s mouth, and remove all doubt.”
 
LivingWaters7 said:
I’d venture to guess that while the vast majority of proxy sealings are done for couples that were married in this life, it seems like, at least in the past, certain people have submitted false information. For example:

sltrib.com/ci_13546142

Again, I’d bet that the vast majority of proxy sealings are legitimate.
Click to expand...
False information, either intentional or accidental, are excluded. Neither is officially sanctioned by the Church.
 
xixxvmcm85 said:
I’m having trouble understanding what exactly the controversy is. The Church (i.e. the local Bishop) honored two people for their commitment to the corporal works of mercy, that ultimately required the sacrificing of their own lives.
Click to expand...
I don’t see a controversy either. 🤷
 
superwimp said:
While the LDS baptize members for the dead, I never heard of them sealing dead husbands and wives.
Click to expand...
We do that. We will perform the earthly ordinance, but we believe that it only means something in the eternities, if our ancestors actually give a dang.

My dad was never LDS (or any other religion), but we got along pretty well and he accepted me and my strange ways. On his deathbed, I reminded him about mormon temples and our work for the dead, and said “ya know Dad, I’m going to seal you to all three of your wives. Is there any particular order you’d like me to do them?” He thought for a moment, chuckled and said “Nah, it doesn’t matter - they’re all in hell anyway.”

He left this life doubtful that there was a God, and he figured if there was, He might look very different than what the Mormons think of Him. I’ve done the earthly sealing ordinance for him and my mom, because I’d like to still be a family after death. I have no idea if him or my mom want to be together or not - there is evidence to support either outcome.

Our beliefs in the importance of such things spring from Christ’s words to Peter in St. Matthew 16: “and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” And also scripture’s numerous admonitions to be baptized (like in Acts 2 and other places).

Valid difference between LDS and other Christians: We figure you can choose to accept Christ after death.
 
mathonihah said:
False information, either intentional or accidental, are excluded. Neither is officially sanctioned by the Church.
Click to expand...
I don’t understand what you mean by this. Are you claiming that St. Damien of Molokai was never given a proxy sealing to a wife or are you saying that even if it was (erroneously) performed, the LDS Church has since canceled the sealing?

I remember when this news broke, and SLCTrib seemed to have had the exclusive scoop (while all other sources essentially used SLCTrib as their source). The LDS Church neither confirmed nor denied that the sealing took place, so I can understand having a healthy dose of skepticism, especially given the Trib’s notoriety of being on the forefront of publishing unflattering reports about the LDS Church. Then again, if it never happened, it would be very easy for the highly “correlated” LDS Church to deny the claim. Has the LDS Church amended their response one way or the other?

If the LDS Church has since admitted the error and has rectified the situation by canceling the sealing, I’d be very interested in reading the LDS’s press on it.
 
kimg901 said:
Im not sure the CC is playing along with them (lds) They are trying to respect them just as much as the next religion. And the mormon church having power? Here in Utah and parts of the surrounding they have alot of control. But our Bishop accepts them in the love of Christ and how much better is it to ask them to participate than to leave them on the side of the road? 😃
Click to expand...
Well said
 
xixxvmcm85 said:
I don’t understand what you mean by this. Are you claiming that St. Damien of Molokai was never given a proxy sealing to a wife or are you saying that even if it was (erroneously) performed, the LDS Church has since canceled the sealing?
Click to expand...
To be honest I don’t know the story. What I am saying is that if such a thing has happened, it was either done with malicious intent, or by mistake, neither of which would be officially sanctioned by the Church.
 
mathonihah said:
To be honest I don’t know the story. What I am saying is that if such a thing has happened, it was either done with malicious intent, or by mistake, neither of which would be officially sanctioned by the Church.
Click to expand...
Agreed, with a third option that a LDS member purposely submitted the names for temple work. At heart it is a zealous work, and I know more than a few LDS members who are beyond overzealous. (Especially recently returned missionaries!)
 
mathonihah said:
To be honest I don’t know the story. What I am saying is that if such a thing has happened, it was either done with malicious intent, or by mistake, neither of which would be officially sanctioned by the Church.
Click to expand...
Wow you really have no clue what your talking about do you? LDS church is so fake it a cult wake up!
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top