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Granted. That doesn’t make their beliefs true, but yes; it may explain the beliefs.What you find in the dictionary/thesaurus may explain why some non-Catholics believe as they do.
Granted. That doesn’t make their beliefs true, but yes; it may explain the beliefs.What you find in the dictionary/thesaurus may explain why some non-Catholics believe as they do.
This is actually still an acceptable belief for a Catholic. The Church has chosen to take no official position on this issue, so a Catholic is free to believe it, or not believe it, as they choose. You will still find some Catholics who believe in Limbo of Infants and they’re allowed to do that.That unbaptized babies go to Limbo if they die in infancy
And, they were right in declining to make Limbo for unbaptized infants an official Church teaching because, in truth, we really don’t know if their souls wind up in Limbo.JanR:
This is actually still an acceptable belief for a Catholic. The Church has chosen to take no official position on this issue, so a Catholic is free to believe it, or not believe it, as they choose. You will still find some Catholics who believe in Limbo of Infants and they’re allowed to do that.That unbaptized babies go to Limbo if they die in infancy
And yes, it was taught pre-Vatican II and there was a push at the time of V2 to get the Church to make it an official teaching. The Vatican considered that but declined to make it an official teaching.
CatechismSo why baptize infants at all?
The Baptism of infants
1250 Born with a fallen human nature and tainted by original sin, children also have need of the new birth in Baptism to be freed from the power of darkness and brought into the realm of the freedom of the children of God, to which all men are called.50 The sheer gratuitousness of the grace of salvation is particularly manifest in infant Baptism. the Church and the parents would deny a child the priceless grace of becoming a child of God were they not to confer Baptism shortly after birth.51
1251 Christian parents will recognize that this practice also accords with their role as nurturers of the life that God has entrusted to them.52
1252 The practice of infant Baptism is an immemorial tradition of the Church. There is explicit testimony to this practice from the second century on, and it is quite possible that, from the beginning of the apostolic preaching, when whole “households” received baptism, infants may also have been baptized.53
Now it may confidently be said that, as the result of centuries of speculation on the subject, we ought to believe that these souls enjoy and will eternally enjoy a state of perfect natural happiness; and this is what Catholics usually mean when they speak of the limbus infantium, the “children’s limbo.”
Eternal separation from the beatific vision, as well as separation from baptized loved ones such as parents, sure sounds like punishment even if you want to paint Limbo as being DIsneyland with ice cream. Spin it how you like, it doesn’t exist in my book so there’s no point in even arguing about how wrong-headed Church theologians made up the story.Just a small note limbo was not a place of punishment.
Even after a while Disnetland and icecream can drive you nuts…DIsneyland with ice cream