Would those baptized by desire go to Purgatory?

[Gorgias]

Jimmy writes "Recent doctrinal development has made clear that it is possible for one to receive baptism of desire by an implicit desire.

I don’t see how he could be any plainer. He talked about receiving baptism of desire by an implicit desire.

Yes. He asserts it. However, he doesn’t cite a doctrinally authoritative document, nor does he substantiate that point. Rather, he proves that justification follows, but he never shows that ‘baptism’ does.

 

[Fuerza]

Wouldn’t this imply that Non-Christians who wind up being saved automatically bypass Purgatory? By definition they have at least implicit desire for baptism. That would almost make it seem that there are situations where it’s better not to be Catholic, and we know that can’t be true.

 

[TheAdvocate197]

Yes, I know, it somehow it feels “wrong” which is one of the reasons I posted the question in the first place.

 

[Gorgias]

Wouldn’t this imply that Non-Christians who wind up being saved automatically bypass Purgatory? By definition they have at least implicit desire for baptism.

I’m just saying what the Church teaches.

This is at the heart of (part of) the discussion here. I’m not convinced that the Church is saying that those who do not know Christ or the Gospel experience the “baptism of desire” (although I recognize the Church’s teaching that they may be saved, by virtue of God’s gratuitous gift of sanctifying grace to them), nor am I convinced that the “baptism of desire” of catechumens necessarily implies the remission of temporal punishment due to sin.