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Catholic and Mormon communities will undoubtably continue to carry out charitable work together, doctrinal issues remain a stumbling block, beginning with the fact that the Vatican in 2001 declared that they do not view the Mormon church as Christian.

In a June 2001 response to a “dubium,” or “doubt” submitted on whether baptisms conferred by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the vernacular were considered valid by the Catholic Church, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and the future Pope Benedict XVI, who oversaw the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the time, replied with an unambiguous one-word answer: “Negative.”

In an accompanying article in the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Cardinal Luis Ladaria, a Spanish Jesuit who now heads the Vatican’s doctrinal office but who at the time was a consultor with the department, explained the reasoning, saying it was above all because “Mormons hold that there is no real Trinity, no original sin, [and] that Christ did not institute baptism.”

When the Mormon church was first founded by Smith in 1830 the answer was different, Ladaria said, because at the time “the matter and the words of the form of baptism were correctly utilized,” and the newly-established Mormon community was treated like other non-Catholic Christian communities.

However, Ladaria said that in the 20th century, the Catholic Church “became more aware of Trinitarian errors which the teaching proposed by Smith contained.”

Ladaria said the conclusion that Mormon baptism is invalid came as the result of a “detailed study,” which found that the concept of baptism in the Catholic Church and in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints differs “both for what concerns faith in the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, in whose name baptism is conferred, and for what concerns the relationship to Christ who instituted it.”

“As a result of all this, it is understood that the Catholic Church has to consider invalid, that is to say, cannot consider true baptism, the rite given that name by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.”

....Pope Francis said that when a church or a parish start doing business, it’s like saying that salvation is no longer free.

....[Bishop Phalana]said that in some parishes, priests refuse anointings, burials, baptisms, and weddings if those requesting these sacraments cannot pay.

“We should not give an impression that as a result of giving, you will receive church services, a special kind of blessing, divine favour, healing and a miraculous breakthrough,” Bishop Phalana said. “You cannot buy the grace of God. You cannot buy healings and miracles. They come as a free gift from God.”

https://www.scross.co.za/2018/12/sacram ... hop-warns/

reflexzero wrote:I’m going to say no. Although I’m sure that little upstart American church would secretly love nothing more than having validation from Rome.