Last May, the Catholic Church banned Mormons from accessing parish registers, citing LDS proxy baptism for the dead as the reason.

And in November, a Jewish Holocaust survivors group unexpectedly announced it would no longer cooperate in the church's efforts to halt unauthorized posthumous baptisms of Holocaust victims.

In 1995, Jewish and LDS Church leaders signed an agreement that Mormons, when forwarding names for temple baptisms, could only enter the names of Holocaust victims to whom they were directly related. The church also agreed to remove the names — some 260,000 — of Holocaust victims already entered into the church's genealogical database.

Another 43,000 names of Holocaust victims were later removed, nearly all identified by the church, which now flags any identifiable names of Holocaust victims in its database with the designation "not available for temple ordinances."

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