Answers for Latter-Day Saints

Start Here: Common Questions, Clear Answers

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints often bring sincere, thoughtful, and deeply personal questions when exploring Catholicism. On Catholic Answers Live, our “Questions from Non‑Catholics” and “Open Forum for Non‑Catholics” shows have welcomed many such conversations with LDS listeners. We’ve gathered some of the most frequent and compelling questions from those encounters into a single page, complete with direct links to each on‑air answer, so that you can explore them at your own pace.

Whether you’re a practicing member of the LDS Church, a former Mormon, or simply curious about Catholic teaching, this page offers a helpful place to begin your journey toward deeper understanding.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Are there parallels between Mormonism and Islam? 
2. Did you ever hear of any miracles in the LDS church? 
3. Why does the Church consider Mormon baptism invalid?
4. Do you find Mormon women more stressed because of a requirement to server from the church?  
5. I’m LDS. How do you justify including the apocrypha in the canon?
6. How can the doctrine of the Trinity be explained to someone from the Latter-day Saints tradition who wants to understand it?
7. If indulgences for the dead are possible can the LDS doctrine of baptizing the dead be considered valid?
8. How would I explain that there is only one God to a Mormon?
9. What does Catholicism claim that sets itself apart from the rest of the Abrahamic faiths?
10. I’m a former Mormon. How do we know that the Apostasy never happened?
11. I felt power coming from the Mormon priesthood. How and why could this be? 
12. How can I explain Psalm 82:6 in a Trinitarian way to a Mormon friend who believes it relates to them becoming gods?
13. How do we prove polygamy wrong using scripture?
14. Could you elaborate on Ezekiel 37 and why it does or doesn’t defend Mormonism?
15. Do the Dead Sea Scrolls support the LDS saying that Scripture has been corrupted?
16. I was baptized in the Mormon church. How do I go about being a part of the Catholic Church?
17. I grew up, was married, and divorced in the Mormon church. What do I need to do to be fully accepted into the Catholic Church since divorce is not acceptable? 
18. What do the earliest texts and the Church Fathers have to do with talking to Mormons about Jesus’ divinity?
19. Why do Christian denominations practice the holy eucharist differently? Would it “count” for a Mormon or Baptist?
20. I was raised Catholic but became Mormon. I’m considering Catholicism again. How do I proceed?
21. I’m in conversion with a missionary of the LDS Church. What questions and topics should I bring up to be a good representative of the Catholic Church?