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Unbaptised baby limbo is abolished
by Pope The 800-year-old concept of limbo in which unbaptised
babies who die are said to be stuck between heaven and hell has been abolished
by the Pope.
Benedict XVI said there were serious grounds to believe that children
who died without being baptised could go to heaven after all.
His decision followed a three-year study by a theological commission.
The problem had been the Catholic belief that baptism is the only way
to remove the stain of original sin that they think all children are born
with.
In the 5th century St. Augustine said babies who died without being baptised
went to Hell. In the 13th century theologians came up with the concept
of limbo as a place where dead babies were denied the vision of God but
did not suffer. |
