Mary and Limbo changed?

[john8791]

Sounds like one of those urban myths that crops up whe one is trying to attack your beleifs. I would ask him for deatils. What church, what Pastor, etc. Tell him you need this info becuase you want to write the Bishop of that diecese to tell him what a terrible thing was done these people.

You might also want to visit a catholic Cemetery yourself. you would be supriesed to wee how many graves there are for still born or miscarried children.
I,

I hardly think this is a myth. He is 70 years old and comes from rural Montana. I did some checking on Google and found this from the Milwaukee Archdiocese:
“Catholic cemeteries are blessed or consecrated for the sacred purpose of burying the dead and caring for those burial places. In times past, the unbaptized and those who died by suicide were buried in separate adjoining land because they could not be buried in consecrated ground. Now we believe God alone should judge for God alone knows each person’s heart of hearts. Since a Catholic cemetery is already blessed, there is no need to bless an individual grave at the time of committal, instead a prayer of invocation is offered there prior to each burial.”

I also found that Canon 1183.2 seems to leave it up to the local ordinary to decide as a pastoral matter.

 

[LilyM]

Limbo is eternity without God. It is not heaven, and it is not earth. It is hell. Perfect natural happiness for a supernatural creature such as man, made in the image and likeness of God, is perfect unhappiness.

Simply put, if heaven is the presence of God, and these unbaptised babies are denied that, then what else could Limbo be but Hell?

 

[john8791]

vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/cti_documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20070419_un-baptised-infants_en.html

I think this clears up the Church’s current and past state of teaching on the fate of un-baptised-infants.

Chuck

Yes it does put to rest that the practice of not burying unbaptized infants in consecrated ground is not a myth. It seems to me that baptism of desire should apply here assuming the parents were going to baptize the child.
I have to say though, this does appear to be a change rather than a development in doctrine. Even if you grant that limbo is a theological conjecture, the language of the Baltimore Catechism would seem to directly contradict the hope described in the above document.

“100. Before Vatican II, in the Latin Church, there was no Christian funeral rite for unbaptised infants and such infants were buried in unconsecrated ground. Strictly speaking, there was no funeral rite for baptised infants either, but in their case a Mass of the Angels was celebrated and of course they were given a Christian burial. Thanks to the liturgical reform after the Council, the Roman Missal now has a funeral Mass for a child who died before Baptism, and there are also special prayers for such a situation in the Ordo Exsequiarum.”