So when a Pope is baptized and sealed in marriage in a temple ceremony by temple Mormons, it doesn't actually mean anything?
I don’t know the details, the whole story seems bogus, the wife name is factitious etc.
My suggestion Ansell is it seems this is very important to you, you keep dwelling on this story news reports now days always seem to get things scrambled, so go to the nearest local Family History Center in your area and asked them.
I do not have that calling to keep FH records.
Again many here like to play word games no matter how many time they are told it is a vicarious gift to another maybe even to a stranger who lived very long ago.
Many LDS take time out of their busy life to think of others, so they have the opportunity or an option to either accept the gift when they are prepared to receive, or chose otherwise either way the work is done.
Jesus Atonement was done for all those who lived in the past and those at the time, and those yet to be born a vicarious gift is waiting there for all His Children who would have had they tarred, and those not yet born.
So when a person is baptized in a temple ceremony vicariously in the temple it doesn’t actually mean anything?
This is the question you should have asked Ansell milk before meat because you do not understand and took a world report as factual.
When the vicariously temple work is done in a orderly fashion for that person no one always knows, if the gift was accepted or not.
If that person was not married in this life when they died, no one from this side can claim another and marry them, it does not work that way according to my understanding you can only be sealed to someone that you were already married too while living.
Again this is why milk before meat for those who are dull and do not listen let alone follow the Lord’s counsel.
Some here are like babes with tommy guns have no clue what they are doing just fire in any direction...
Some of my Christian friends gave me that metaphor because of certain Christians they encounter in their life who go off half cocked.
1 Cor. 3
1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
Hebrew 5
11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
I would also like to say I am a lay person and only speak from limited understanding in this area.