In more recent times, the International Theological Commission - a body of professional theologians who convene regularly to study various issues and advise the Pope - addressed the question of limbo in a document published in 2007. The Church also has special rites for the funeral Mass of infants who die before baptism.
28, recognizing that these unbaptized babies who died for the sake of Christ can intercede for us from their home in heaven.
For instance, we celebrate the feast of the Holy Innocents every year on Dec. Our liturgical tradition also at times contradicts the concept of limbo for unbaptized infants. Limbo is not included in our Creeds and is never mentioned in our current Catechism of the Catholic Church. However, limbo was never official Church doctrine it was always only a well-established but still speculative theological theory. It was posited that while God would never condemn the innocent to suffer eternal torment, the unbaptized could never enter heaven itself. The idea of limbo was a sort of comprise between the Church's teachings on the necessity of baptism for salvation, the reality of original sin, and our belief in God's justice and mercy. Generally, limbo was seen as the destiny of young children who died before baptism, and in some cases also as the eternal home of virtuous non-Christians. Limbo was meant for the non-baptized who were innocent of any serious personal sin.
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Q: What happened to Limbo? (Sacramento, California)Ī: Traditionally, limbo was thought of as a "place" in the afterlife that was neither heaven nor purgatory, but which also didn't involve the full sufferings of hell proper.
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