Does Limbo actually exist? I heard that pretty much everyone in the Church for centuries held that unbaptized infants went to eternal hellfire and never questioned it. Cantate Domino also says the following:
[color=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)]It firmly believes, professes, and proclaims that those not living within the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics cannot become participants in eternal life, but will depart “into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels” [Matt. 25:41], unless before the end of life the same have been added to the flock; and that the unity of the ecclesiastical body is so strong that only to those remaining in it are the sacraments of the Church of benefit for salvation, and do fastings, almsgiving, and other functions of piety and exercises of Christian service produce eternal reward, and that no one, whatever almsgiving he has practiced, even if he has shed blood for the name of Christ, can be saved, unless he has remained in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.[/color]
this definition says that those not living within the Church will go to everlasting fire. So doesn't this mean Limbo at least has some fire in it? Auctorem Fidei of Pope Pius VI condemns the following statement.
26. The doctrine which rejects as a Pelagian fable, that place of the lower regions (which the faithful generally designate by the name of the limbo of children) in which the souls of those departing with the sole guilt of original sin are punished with the punishment of the condemned, exclusive of the punishment of fire, just as if, by this very fact, that these who remove the punishment of fire introduced that middle place and state free of guilt and of punishment between the kingdom of God and eternal damnation, such as that about which the Pelagians idly talk,—false, rash, injurious to Catholic schools.
However this quote is very ambiguous and I don't even know what the Synod of Pistoia is saying. I came across this via this person debating with MHFM
3. While you are very willing to see nonexistent contexts, you fail to see a blatant context, in Auctorem Fidei: it's talking about the illegitimacy of a rejection of the 'limbo of lost infants' as a pelagian fable, which would be injurious to Catholic schools, just like it would be injurious to Catholic schools to call the 'baptism of desire/blood' a modernist fable.
Thoughts? I am kind of confused. I think limbo with small amount of fire seems possible.
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