Who Is Helen Radkey And Why Is She Out To Get The LDS Church?

Posted by admin on Dec 5, 2009

Helen Radkey is a researcher who has been on a decadeslong drive to undermine the LDS Church’s temple ritual in which living Mormons are baptized for a person who has died. Here she goes through some of her numerous boxes of research files on the baptisms that take up part of an extra bedroom in her home.

Each folder contains the name and personal information of an individual who has been posthumously baptized. She found the data through the church’s Family History Library, poring over its genealogical records and looking for those people she believes ought not be there.

Since 1993, she has garnered widespread media attention with every new find. She traveled to Rome several times to “warn” Vatican officials of the growing warmth between Utah’s Mormon and Catholic leaders, reporting proxy baptisms of dead Catholics, including martyrs and saints.

She alerted Jewish genealogists that Mormons were not keeping their 1995 agreement to stop baptizing Holocaust victims.

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