limbo?

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What is the church teaching on Limbo?

As far as I know it is not a dogma and Catholics are free to believe in it or not. Correct?

I got the following from scripture Catholic
 
The Catechism of the Catholic Church has this about the salvation of unbaptized children:
1261 As regards children who have died without Baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as she does in her funeral rites for them. Indeed, the great mercy of God who desires that all men should be saved, and Jesus’ tenderness toward children which caused him to say: “Let the children come to me, do not hinder them,” allow us to hope that there is a way of salvation for children who have died without Baptism. All the more urgent is the Church’s call not to prevent little children coming to Christ through the gift of holy Baptism.
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and from 1257:
God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism, but he himself is not bound by his sacraments.
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Arturo_Ortiz said:
What is the church teaching on Limbo?

As far as I know it is not a dogma and Catholics are free to believe in it or not. Correct?

I got the following from scripture Catholic
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It’s a valid theological speculation, but it’s not binding on Catholics, and has not been expressly sanctioned in the newest Catechism. 🙂
 
Thanks for the replies. I myself think that it is a possibility

God Bless
Arturo
 
It is De Fide that unbaptized infants are not during their life fit to enter Heaven, however the majority of modern theologians say that they would be covered by implicit baptism of desire which would remove their original sin immediately before death (Aquinas states that events can occur in an order and yet have no time elapse between them). It really comes down to whether or not perfect charity is required for implicit baptism of desire. If it is, then unbaptized infants will go to limbo. If it is not, then they will go to Heaven. The magesterium has rejected (albeit not infallibly) the idea that a person could die in original sin only and be damned. Theoretically a Catholic could hold that such a person would be damned, as long as he also held that no one would actually die in such a state.
 
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