However, Gary Mokotoff, a Jewish genealogist who has been involved in the issue, begged to differ.

"If the problem still exists, whatever the church is doing to prevent it is not working" Mokotoff told JTA on Friday.

"A single person called Helen Radkey can find hundreds, if not thousands, of examples of Holocaust victims being submitted for posthumous baptism, then why can't the church, which claims they actually have people working on it, find the very thing that Helen is finding?" he asked.

Mokotoff, who has relatives that died in the Holocaust, said the baptisms of Nazi victims were particularly jarring.

"These people died because they were Jews," he said, "and here you are bringing them into a second religion even though these people are not related to you."