As LDS Church prepares to open up more temples, leaders make more changes to endowment rite

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Monday that 12 of its temples — including four in the U.S. — will resume performing temple “endowments,” or ritual teachings about the origin and purpose of mortality.Because of the coronavirus, the faith’s temples shut down in late March and began to reopen in May for marriages (known as “sealings”) of couples under a Phase 1 plan, with stringent space limitations and mask requirements.Shifting i