Catholicism puts limbo on back burner
After several years of study, the Vatican's International Theological Commission said there are good reasons to hope that babies who die without being baptized go to heaven. Really? It seems kind of odd to backtrack on a few hundred years of dogma. Unbaptized babies now have a fighting chance to enter the pearly gates but the Church was careful not to say that they were wrong about it. The commission's document said salvation for unbaptized babies who die was becoming an urgent pastoral question, in part because their number is greatly increasing. Many infants today are born to parents who are not practicing Catholics, and many others are the unborn victims of abortion, it said. So, to make us feel feel better about aborted babies and increased baby death, the ITC decides to make limbo not such a big deal? I am corrected in this next paragraph, specifically that limbo is not official dogma: Limbo has never been defined as church dogma and is not mentioned in the current Catech...