The Church doesn't compel us to condemn as damned those who died in objective schism. As you wrote above: "The Church has never named a person that was damned. This is up to God." If the Church hasn't condemned anyone who died in schism, it doesn't command the faithful to do so.
It's not based on emotion and sentimentality; it is based on Catholic dogma and sound theology. Those who are baptized before the age of reason, obtain supernatural faith, hope and charity. If, after attaining the age of reason, they wer not guilty of formal heresy or schism, and if they never committed a mortal sin, or had perfect contrition for the one's they had committed, and hence died in the state of grace, they would be saved. To deny that, would necessarily entail denying several dogmas.
But what Catholics must affirm is that material schism, as such, will not prevent a person from being saved.
It just keeps getting better.
Nobody's "condemning" anyone. Church not only presumes, but commands that we presume that those who die in objective schism are lost. That is demonstrated not only by the practice of the Church, but also by papal teaching.
Name those "several dogmas" that are denied as you claim. Go ahead. You make things up as you go along because they sound good to you. When infants are baptized, they received infused supernatural faith and charity, but these must be affirmed by actual acts of faith, with the proper supernatural motive of faith, once they reach the age of reason. If someone were baptized as an infant but then for some reason was raised as an atheist, if these infused supernatural virtues are not confirmed by actual acts of faith, they are lost. It is only for those who are baptized without having attained the use of reason that a merely-infused supernatural virtue of faith is possible. All those having attained the use of reason are required to have explicit belief.
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