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I just got flamed on a Catholic thread for daring to question my Church’s wrongheaded slant to the left.
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Oh dear...

Well if you dont like being attacked by other Catholics you wont like what the Mormons do to Catholics...

Mormons Dead Dunk Catholics
The Vatican objects to the Mormons practice of using the information from the records to do posthumous rebaptisms.

A January 29, 2008 letter from the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith expressed “grave reservations”. The April 5, 2008 letter was from the Vatican Congregation for Clergy. Both are legitimate groups with in the Catholic Church. Jewish leaders also consider this practice to be disrespectful to the dead.

In 2001, the Catholic Church published a document stating that it does not consider any baptisms by Latter-day Saints to be valid.

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20010605_battesimo_mormoni_en.html

http://genforum.genealogy.com/poland/messages/45444.html

Gilberto,
Here is the official stance on the LDS records. Hopefully
will answer your questions:

Vatican Orders Records Withheld from Mormons
The Catholic News Service has published an article about new Vatican orders to not cooperate with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the microfilming of records. The Vatican wishes to block posthumous rebaptisms by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a practice that Catholics, Jews, and some others find objectionable.

Catholic dioceses throughout the world have been directed by the Vatican not to give information in parish registers to the Mormons’ Genealogical Society of Utah.
An April 5 letter from the Vatican Congregation for Clergy, obtained by Catholic News Service in late April, asks episcopal conferences to direct all bishops to keep the Latter-day Saints from microfilming and digitizing information contained in those registers.

The order came in light of “grave reservations” expressed in a January 29 letter from the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the clergy congregation’s letter said.