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Title: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Cantarella on January 30, 2019, 08:07:50 PM
Pope Francis says mothers who regret abortions should talk to babies in heaven

Francis speaks of how mothers must reconcile with their babies, and sing to him or her the unsung lullaby
Pope Francis spoke about abortion Sunday evening as he returned to Rome from the Panama World Youth Day, saying that a person truly understands the horror of abortion from within the confessional, hearing how women repent of their abortions.
The pope said that unborn babies must be given mercy, since “the message of mercy is for everyone.” And mothers who have aborted must also be given mercy, but, he said, it is a “difficult mercy” because the challenge is not in “giving forgiveness” but in accompanying a woman who has realized what she's done’

“These are terrible tragedies,” he said.

“A woman when she thinks about what she did… but I tell you the truth, you have to be in the confessional and you have to give comfort there; you can’t say anything,” the pope reflected.<


The Holy Father said that women “have to meet with their child.”

He continued: “I advise many times — when they call, they have this anguish: ‘Your child is in heaven, talk to him. Sing to him the lullaby that you have not sung… you have not been able to sing to him.’ And there is a way for the mother to reconcile with her child. With God there is already forgiveness; God always forgives. But mercy also, that you elaborate this. The tragedy of abortion, to understand it well, one must be in a confessional. Terrible.”

He again mentioned children at the very end of the press conference.

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I want to say another thing that I said when I came back from Colombia, speaking of the experience in Cartagena and the other cities, a thing that we don’t see in Europe, that is, the pride, in this case of the Panamanians. You lift up the children and they say to you, “this is my victory,” “this is my future,” “this is my pride.” This in the midst of the demographic winter we’re living in Europe. In Italy, below zero. It has to make us think. What is my pride? Tourism? The villa [home]? The dog? Or lifting up a child? Thanks! Pray for me, I need it.
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Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Merry on January 30, 2019, 08:26:05 PM
Theology is not his strong suit.

(Actually, Catholicism is not his strong suit.) 
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Incredulous on January 31, 2019, 12:47:53 AM


Bishop Fellay expressed the same theological premise from the pulpit, three years ago in San Francisco, prior to the "Walk for Life" rally.

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Extrapolating from Baptism of Desire & Blood, he claimed that aborted babies were martyred and thus baptized in their own blood.

The SSPX has always been admittedly weak in the theological department. 

But making-up Catholic theology for fun or to fit with modernist approval is surely sinning mortally.
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: King Wenceslas on January 31, 2019, 04:12:44 PM
"Pope" Francis at it again with his spirit of Vatican II theology. It's getting comical. :jester:

If a Catholic literally believed he is an actual pope he/she would throw himself/herself off the top of Yosemite.
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: King Wenceslas on January 31, 2019, 04:17:14 PM

Bishop Fellay expressed the same theological premise from the pulpit, three years ago in San Francisco, prior to the "Walk for Life" rally.

(https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsspx.org%2Fsites%2Fsspx%2Ffiles%2Fstyles%2Fnews_big%2Fpublic%2Fnews%2Fbishop-fellay-at-sf-walk-for-life460.jpg%3Fitok%3DD5ZDiEm6&f=1)

Extrapolating from Baptism of Desire & Blood, he claimed that aborted babies were martyred and thus baptized in their own blood.

The SSPX has always been admittedly weak in the theological department.  

But making-up Catholic theology for fun or to fit with modernist approval is surely sinning mortally.

If that is true it seems Fellay has got some of that old time religion of Vatican II. SSPX theology?  :facepalm:  You would think he got his ordination in secret from C. Kasper.

Very good thing to know this.

Abortion penitent: But Father I was just helping to get my baby into heaven.
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Ladislaus on January 31, 2019, 05:39:32 PM
Extrapolating from Baptism of Desire & Blood, he claimed that aborted babies were martyred and thus baptized in their own blood.

:facepalm:

So pretty much everyone who's ever been killed is a martyr.  So if my unbaptized friend was killed by a mugger trying to get his wallet in the alley, he too was a martyr?

Come on, +Fellay.  Martyrdom requires that one be killed on account of Christ, either directly or indirectly (like St. Maria Goretti who was killed because she refused to commit a sin).  Are there some women and/or abortionists who commit abortions out of contempt for Christ?  Maybe, but the vast majority are just out there for self-serving motives (eliminate the burden of a child, make money, etc.)
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Cantarella on January 31, 2019, 08:44:58 PM
Francis, 2019:

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“I advise many times (to post-abortive women) — when they call, they have this anguish: ‘Your child is in heaven, talk to him. Sing to him the lullaby that you have not sung… you have not been able to sing to him.’ And there is a way for the mother to reconcile with her child.

Pope Pius XII, 1951:

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If what We have said up to now concerns the protection and care of natural life, much more so must it concern the supernatural life, which the newly born receives with Baptism. In the present economy there is no other way to communicate that life to the child who has not attained the use of reason. Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death without it salvation and supernatural happiness—the beatific vision of God—are impossible. An act of love is sufficient for the adult to obtain sanctifying grace and to supply the lack of baptism; to the still unborn or newly born this way is not open.


Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: 2Vermont on February 01, 2019, 04:42:14 AM
And from Pope Sixtus V in Effraenatam:

"Noticing that frequently by various Apostolic Constitutions the audacity and daring of most profligate men, who know no restraint, of sinning with license against the commandment “do not kill” was repressed; We who are placed by the Lord in the supreme throne of justice, being counseled by a most just reason, are in part renewing old laws and in part extending them in order to restrain with just punishment the monstrous and atrocious brutality of those who have no fear to kill most cruelly fetuses still hiding in the maternal viscera. Who will not detest such an abhorrent and evil act, by which are lost not only the bodies but also the souls?"
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Incredulous on February 01, 2019, 09:14:21 AM

Excellent citation 2Vermont!

But just think of it?  
The pathetic folly of the Baptism of Desire & Blood theology, where in reality, the unbaptized baby's soul is completely abandoned by his human family.

But ask a BOD advocate, "Well couldn't a relative just "desire" for the aborted baby to be in Heaven?  
He will reply with a stutter and be unable to articulate the theology to that level.

These are the Heresies the latest Jєω-Popes have sold us:
Benedict with his "limbo is empty" thesis and Francis "aborted babies are in Heaven".

I tell you, this heretical script is coming from the rabbis and it is no coincidence that Bp. Fellay is right in step with it.
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Ladislaus on February 01, 2019, 09:31:15 AM
I tell you, this heretical script is coming from the rabbis ...

Of course it is.
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Last Tradhican on February 01, 2019, 10:11:37 AM

Francis - Your aborted child is in heaven,

Bishop Fellay - expressed the same theological premise from the pulpit, three years ago in San Francisco, prior to the "Walk for Life" rally.

Extrapolating from Baptism of Desire & Blood, he claimed that aborted babies were martyred and thus baptized in their own blood.


If Bp. Fellay said that, he is an idiot,  just like Francis.  For if they thought about it one iota, they have just given the world the way to personally 100% guarantee Heaven for their children and the children of everyone else, just abort them. It is the easiest way to save the families of non-Catholics, just have them abort their children. Margaret Sanger would then be the greatest saint ever, and Planned Parenthood has saved more people than the Catholic Church.

Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Ladislaus on February 01, 2019, 11:06:15 AM
If Bp. Fellay said that, he is an idiot,  just like Francis.  For if they thought about it one iota, they have just given the world the way to personally 100% guarantee Heaven for their children and the children of everyone else, just abort them. It is the easiest way to save the families of non-Catholics, just have them abort their children. Margaret Sanger would then be the greatest saint ever, and Planned Parenthood has saved more people than the Catholic Church.

Sure, that's the conundrum of the whole anti-EENS mentality.  If you can be saved by following your own erroneous conscience, then the Catholic Church is an OBSTACLE to salvation.

You see, Catholics believe that all kinds of things are mortal sins that damn the soul if someone dies in that state.  So a Catholic who commits one mortal sin of weakness and dies goes to hell.

Meanwhile, a Prot think you can "sin boldly" (ala Martin Luther) and just wave your hand around and say, "Jesus" ... even while committing one adultery after another.  That Prot gets saved because he believed it was not a damnable offense.

Catholics go to hell for missing Mass on Sunday.  Prots can miss all they want and still be saved because they think the don't have to go under pain of sin.  So it becomes harder for Catholics to be saved then for Prots.

What absurdities the anti-EENS crowd involves themselves in.
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Incredulous on February 01, 2019, 01:25:02 PM
If Bp. Fellay said that, he is an idiot,  just like Francis.  For if they thought about it one iota, they have just given the world the way to personally 100% guarantee Heaven for their children and the children of everyone else, just abort them. It is the easiest way to save the families of non-Catholics, just have them abort their children. Margaret Sanger would then be the greatest saint ever, and Planned Parenthood has saved more people than the Catholic Church.
Mine is a "first hand" account of what Bp. Fellay said.  
The Mass was celebrated at the decommissioned St. Bridgette's church, now run by an art museum.
There was a "Star of David" in the tile-work over the Sanctuary. 
To make sure that HE was not photographed during this Mass with the occult symbol overhead, he ordered the security to warn the faithful in the pews that "no photos were allowed".
The ushers policed the aisles to make sure no pictures were taken.
Title: Aborted babies CAN be baptized by desire or blood.
Post by: Geremia on February 01, 2019, 04:00:56 PM
Extrapolating from Baptism of Desire & Blood, he claimed that aborted babies were martyred and thus baptized in their own blood.
Some of them certainly might have been. It's not too far-fetched to think that, as rabidly anti-Catholic and anti-Christ as abortionists are (cf. Margaret Sanger), abortion is a modern-day "slaughter of the Innocents," a phrase Pope Pius XI even used (Divini (http://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/docuмents/hf_p-xi_enc_31121929_divini-illius-magistri.html) §73) to describe children "in godless schools and associations" that teach, "according to the theories of advanced socialism," "irreligion and hatred".
Title: Re: Aborted babies CAN be baptized by desire or blood.
Post by: 2Vermont on February 01, 2019, 04:06:27 PM
Some of them certainly might have been. It's not too far-fetched to think that, as rabidly anti-Catholic and anti-Christ as abortionists are (cf. Margaret Sanger), abortion is a modern-day "slaughter of the Innocents," a phrase Pope Pius XI even used (Divini (http://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/docuмents/hf_p-xi_enc_31121929_divini-illius-magistri.html) §73) to describe children "in godless schools and associations" that teach, "according to the theories of advanced socialism," "irreligion and hatred".
Wait, so you're suggesting that women who have abortions think, "I hate the Catholic Faith, therefore I will abort"?  

Added: Furthermore, what is with the change in the title of this thread (to say something that is NOT taught by the Catholic Church)?
Title: Re: Aborted babies CAN be baptized by desire or blood.
Post by: Incredulous on February 01, 2019, 04:43:59 PM
Some of them certainly might have been. It's not too far-fetched to think that, as rabidly anti-Catholic and anti-Christ as abortionists are (cf. Margaret Sanger), abortion is a modern-day "slaughter of the Innocents," a phrase Pope Pius XI even used (Divini (http://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/docuмents/hf_p-xi_enc_31121929_divini-illius-magistri.html) §73) to describe children "in godless schools and associations" that teach, "according to the theories of advanced socialism," "irreligion and hatred".
How so?
Did they believe the Faith?
It might make people feel good, but no Sacrament has been given.
At best, the baby souls go to Limbo.
Title: Re: Aborted babies CAN be baptized by desire or blood.
Post by: Geremia on February 01, 2019, 05:38:35 PM
Wait, so you're suggesting that women who have abortions think, "I hate the Catholic Faith, therefore I will abort"?
I mentioned abortionists (which usually aren't the mothers).
Added: Furthermore, what is with the change in the title of this thread (to say something that is NOT taught by the Catholic Church)?
Are you saying the Catholic Church does not teaching one can be baptized by desire or blood?
Title: Re: Aborted babies CAN be baptized by desire or blood.
Post by: Ladislaus on February 01, 2019, 05:42:48 PM
I mentioned abortionists (which usually aren't the mothers).Are you saying the Catholic Church does not teaching one can be baptized by desire or blood?

Their proximate formal motive in doing the procedure is to make money.  Simply because they also happen to hate the Church, it doesn't mean that it's their motive in performing the abortion.

This kind of BoB is nonsense anyway.  There's no active and willful witness to the faith on the part of the babies.  Baby A gets killed by a doctor who's doing it because he despises Christ ... and goes to heaven.  Baby B gets killed by a doctor who doesn't care about Christ but just wants to make money ... and goes to Limbo.  And the Holy Innocents do not prove BoB for infants ... since they died before Baptism had even been instituted ... under the old dispensation.
Title: Re: Aborted babies CAN be baptized by desire or blood.
Post by: 2Vermont on February 01, 2019, 06:16:53 PM
Their proximate formal motive in doing the procedure is to make money.  Simply because they also happen to hate the Church, it doesn't mean that it's their motive in performing the abortion.

This kind of BoB is nonsense anyway.  There's no active and willful witness to the faith on the part of the babies.  Baby A gets killed by a doctor who's doing it because he despises Christ ... and goes to heaven.  Baby B gets killed by a doctor who doesn't care about Christ but just wants to make money ... and goes to Limbo.  And the Holy Innocents do not prove BoB for infants ... since they died before Baptism had even been instituted ... under the old dispensation.
Thank you.  With Geremia's recent posts here and elsewhere I wonder whether he is Novus Ordo.
Title: Re: Aborted babies CAN be baptized by desire or blood.
Post by: Incredulous on February 01, 2019, 07:19:25 PM
I mentioned abortionists (which usually aren't the mothers).Are you saying the Catholic Church does not teaching one can be baptized by desire or blood?
Germania,
Francis is teaching an open door to Heaven, ignoring Original Sin.
This is false. The Catholic impetus has always been to get the "Gateway" Sacrament, so our children have a fighting chance for Heaven.
Title: Re: Aborted Babies Cannot Go to Heaven
Post by: Ladislaus on February 01, 2019, 07:29:43 PM
just changing the thread title again
Title: Re: Aborted Babies Cannot Go to Heaven
Post by: Ladislaus on February 01, 2019, 07:30:20 PM
just changing the thread title again

I believe that if you change the subject line at the top of the page, it messes the Thread title up in some contexts.  I think that's a bug in the software.
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Ladislaus on February 01, 2019, 07:32:53 PM
So if I'm killed by a mugger in the alley who also happens to hate the Catholic Church, I'm a martyr?
Title: Re: Aborted babies CAN be baptized by desire or blood.
Post by: Geremia on February 01, 2019, 09:23:38 PM
This kind of BoB is nonsense anyway.
Can you give an example of how someone could be baptized by blood today, then?
There's no active and willful witness to the faith on the part of the babies.
That's required for baptism by blood?
Title: Re: Aborted babies CAN be baptized by desire or blood.
Post by: Geremia on February 01, 2019, 09:29:29 PM
How so?
Did they believe the Faith?
possibly
II-II q. 124 a. 1 (https://isidore.co/aquinas/summa/SS/SS124.html#SSQ124A1THEP1) ad 1:
Quote from: St. Thomas Aquinas
Some have said that in the case of the Innocents the use of their free will was miraculously accelerated, so that they suffered martyrdom even voluntarily. Since, however, Scripture contains no proof of this, it is better to say that these babes in being slain obtained by God's grace the glory of martyrdom which others acquire by their own will. For the shedding of one's blood for Christ's sake takes the place of Baptism.
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Geremia on February 01, 2019, 09:35:59 PM
So if I'm killed by a mugger in the alley who also happens to hate the Catholic Church, I'm a martyr?
possibly
All I'm arguing is that some (not necessarily all) aborted babies could (not necessarily are) be baptized by desire or by blood. I am not denying that some (if not all) aborted babies today go to limbo.

It's much more probable that by "heaven" naturalistic Bergoglio meant a naturalistic "heaven" (= limbo).
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Incredulous on February 01, 2019, 09:45:30 PM
So if I'm killed by a mugger in the alley who also happens to hate the Catholic Church, I'm a martyr?
Ladislaus,
This topic is degenerating, but you did hit on an important point, which is, what are the rules for martyrdom?
In context to pro-aborts wanting to murder pro-lifers, how could we  make ourselves martyrs out of the event?
I think we need to solicit +W's opinion?
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Last Tradhican on February 02, 2019, 04:31:06 AM
possibly
All I'm arguing is that some (not necessarily all) aborted babies could (not necessarily are) be baptized by desire or by blood. I am not denying that some (if not all) aborted babies today go to limbo.

It's much more probable that by "heaven" naturalistic Bergoglio meant a naturalistic "heaven" (= limbo).
The Catholic way of speaking to the public ( as opposed to speaking to oneself) is to bring forward dogma, and quotes by the Fathers of the Church and  saints that have stood the test of time. The Protestant way of speaking to the public is to bring forward personal opinions. Does the writer of the post above have anything to counter these quotes?

Dogma - “Regarding children, indeed, because of danger of death, which can often take place, since no help can be brought to them by another remedy than through the sacrament of baptism, through which they are snatched from the domination of the devil and adopted among the sons of God, [the sacrosanct Roman Church] advises that holy baptism ought not to be deferred for forty or eighty days, ... but it should be conferred as soon as it can be done conveniently…” -Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Cantate Domino, February 4, 1442

"Likewise, whoever says that those children who depart out of this life without partaking of that Sacrament (Baptism) are alive in Christ, certainly contradicts the apostolic declaration and condemns the universal Church, in which it is the practice to lose no time and run in haste to administer Baptism to infant children, because it is believed as an indubitable truth, that otherwise they cannot be made alive in Christ." -Saint Augustine, Father and Doctor of the Church, Epistle 167, AD 415

"If you want to be a Catholic do not believe, do not say, and do not teach that infants carried off by death before they are baptized can attain the remission of original sin." - Saint Augustine, Father, Doctor, and Bishop of the Church, On the Soul and its Origin Book II

“The idea that infants can be granted the rewards of eternal life without even the grace of baptism is utterly foolish.” -Pope Saint Innocent I, Letter to the Bishops of the Church, 417 AD

"[Those dying with only original sin on their souls will suffer] no other pain, whether from material fire or from the worm of conscience, except the pain of being deprived forever of the vision of God." -Pope Innocent III (1160-1216), Corp. Juris, Decret. l. III, tit. xlii, c. iii -- Majores





Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: 2Vermont on February 02, 2019, 06:42:52 AM
possibly
All I'm arguing is that some (not necessarily all) aborted babies could (not necessarily are) be baptized by desire or by blood. I am not denying that some (if not all) aborted babies today go to limbo.

It's much more probable that by "heaven" naturalistic Bergoglio meant a naturalistic "heaven" (= limbo).
:facepalm:
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Geremia on February 02, 2019, 12:19:01 PM
The Catholic way of speaking to the public ( as opposed to speaking to oneself) is to bring forward dogma, and quotes by the Fathers of the Church and  saints that have stood the test of time. The Protestant way of speaking to the public is to bring forward personal opinions. Does the writer of the post above have anything to counter these quotes?

Dogma - “Regarding children, indeed, because of danger of death, which can often take place, since no help can be brought to them by another remedy than through the sacrament of baptism, through which they are snatched from the domination of the devil and adopted among the sons of God, [the sacrosanct Roman Church] advises that holy baptism ought not to be deferred for forty or eighty days, ... but it should be conferred as soon as it can be done conveniently…” -Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Cantate Domino, February 4, 1442

"Likewise, whoever says that those children who depart out of this life without partaking of that Sacrament (Baptism) are alive in Christ, certainly contradicts the apostolic declaration and condemns the universal Church, in which it is the practice to lose no time and run in haste to administer Baptism to infant children, because it is believed as an indubitable truth, that otherwise they cannot be made alive in Christ." -Saint Augustine, Father and Doctor of the Church, Epistle 167, AD 415

"If you want to be a Catholic do not believe, do not say, and do not teach that infants carried off by death before they are baptized can attain the remission of original sin." - Saint Augustine, Father, Doctor, and Bishop of the Church, On the Soul and its Origin Book II

“The idea that infants can be granted the rewards of eternal life without even the grace of baptism is utterly foolish.” -Pope Saint Innocent I, Letter to the Bishops of the Church, 417 AD

"[Those dying with only original sin on their souls will suffer] no other pain, whether from material fire or from the worm of conscience, except the pain of being deprived forever of the vision of God." -Pope Innocent III (1160-1216), Corp. Juris, Decret. l. III, tit. xlii, c. iii -- Majores
None of these quotes prove babies cannot be baptized by desire or by blood.

To assert that all aborted babies must go to limbo seems to deny God's omnipotence.

Can someone please give me an example of how one can be baptized by desire or by blood today? If it's not possible, then why does the Church teach it?
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Ladislaus on February 02, 2019, 12:41:46 PM
To assert that all aborted babies must go to limbo seems to deny God's omnipotence.

Ah, so here we go ... with people claiming that the denial of BoD/BoB denies God's omnipotence and also His mercy.  And so they sit in judgment of God.  One could take your pseudo-logic to the next step ... to assert that ANY aborted babies MUST go to limbo seems to deny God's omnipotence.  You speak nonsense.

So does the fact that people in mortal sin go to Hell deny God's omnipotence also?
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Incredulous on February 02, 2019, 01:43:26 PM


We have all been judaized... just some more than others :facepalm:
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Geremia on February 02, 2019, 02:17:39 PM
denial of BoD/BoB denies God's omnipotence and also His mercy.
I don't understand your point. It's not Catholic to deny BoD & BoB anyways.
Also, I'm still waiting for you to explain how someone today can be baptized by blood or by desire.
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Last Tradhican on February 02, 2019, 04:44:38 PM
None of these quotes prove babies cannot be baptized by desire or by blood.
That is likely because you do not want to see anything that proves that babies must be baptized to be saved. You do not have eyes to see, because you choose to be blind. The quotes are very clear, BOD and BOB are not sacraments, the quotes are speaking of the sacrament of baptism and two of them very precisely even say the sacrament of baptism.

Dogma - “Regarding children, indeed, because of danger of death, which can often take place, since no help can be brought to them by another remedy than through the sacrament of baptism, through which they are snatched from the domination of the devil and adopted among the sons of God, [the sacrosanct Roman Church] advises that holy baptism ought not to be deferred for forty or eighty days, ... but it should be conferred as soon as it can be done conveniently…” -Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Cantate Domino, February 4, 1442

"Likewise, whoever says that those children who depart out of this life without partaking of that Sacrament (Baptism) are alive in Christ, certainly contradicts the apostolic declaration and condemns the universal Church, in which it is the practice to lose no time and run in haste to administer Baptism to infant children, because it is believed as an indubitable truth, that otherwise they cannot be made alive in Christ." -Saint Augustine, Father and Doctor of the Church, Epistle 167, AD 415
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Cantarella on February 02, 2019, 09:48:23 PM
Not only Bergolio here publicly utters an obviously Pelagian heresy; but the statement can actually have a counterproductive effect even on a natural level, by actually encouraging abortion; instead of preventing it. If a woman is deciding whether to have an abortion, and someone (in this case, the "Pope",  "Vicar of Christ" himself!) tells her the pretty lie that her aborted baby would go straight to Heaven and be in the happy company of the angels, this could push her over the brink.

When was the last time that you heard a Pope, or anyone of public importance really, telling women that if they don't want to deal with an unwanted pregnancy, what they need to do in the first place is to close their legs and preserve their chastity?
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Cantarella on February 02, 2019, 10:07:39 PM
St. Thomas taught that unbaptized children (whether aborted or not) go to Limbo of Children, in Hell in Summa Theologica. III, Q. 52, a. 7


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7. Whether the children who died in original sin were delivered by Christ?

I answer that, As stated above (Article 6 (http://www.newadvent.org/summa/4052.htm#article6)), Christ's (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08374c.htm) descent into hell (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07207a.htm) had its effect of deliverance on them only who through faith (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752c.htm) and charity (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09397a.htm) were united to Christ's Passion (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11527b.htm), in virtue (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15472a.htm) whereof Christ's (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08374c.htm) descent into hell (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07207a.htm) was one of deliverance. But the children who had died in original sin (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11312a.htm) were in no way united to Christ's Passion (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11527b.htm) by faith (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752c.htm) and love: for, not having the use of free will (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06259a.htm), they could have no faith (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752c.htm) of their own; nor were they cleansed from original sin (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11312a.htm) either by their parents' faith (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752c.htm) or by any sacrament of faith (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752c.htm). Consequently, Christ's (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08374c.htm) descent into hell (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07207a.htm) did not deliver the children from thence. And furthermore, the holy (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07386a.htm) Fathers were delivered from hell (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07207a.htm) by being admitted to the glory (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06585a.htm) of the vision of God (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02364a.htm), to which no one can come except through grace (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06689a.htm); according to Romans 6:23 (http://www.newadvent.org/bible/rom006.htm#verse23): "The grace (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06689a.htm) of God (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm) is life everlasting." Therefore, since children dying in original sin (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11312a.htm) had no grace (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06689a.htm), they were not delivered from hell (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07207a.htm).

Reply to Objection 1. The holy (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07386a.htm) Fathers, although still held bound by the debt of original sin (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11312a.htm), in so far as it touches human (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09580c.htm) nature (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10715a.htm), were nevertheless delivered from all stain of sin (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm) by faith (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05752c.htm) in Christ (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08374c.htm): consequently, they were capable of that deliverance which Christ (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08374c.htm) brought by descending into hell (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07207a.htm). But the same cannot be said of the children, as is evident from what was said above.

Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Cantarella on February 02, 2019, 10:21:55 PM
<<<< By the way, that is the reason why aborted (either voluntary or involuntary) infants cannot be saved through any hypothetical "Baptism of Desire". They have not the use of free will, therefore, they cannot have Faith of their own, nor they are cleansed from original sin either by their parents' Faith or by any sacrament of Faith.
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Pax Vobis on February 02, 2019, 10:46:58 PM
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Consequently, Christ's (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08374c.htm) descent into hell (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07207a.htm) did not deliver the children from thence. And furthermore, the holy (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07386a.htm) Fathers were delivered from hell (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07207a.htm) by being admitted to the glory (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06585a.htm) of the vision of God (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02364a.htm), to which no one can come except through grace (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06689a.htm); according to Romans 6:23 (http://www.newadvent.org/bible/rom006.htm#verse23): "The grace (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06689a.htm) of God (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06608a.htm) is life everlasting." Therefore, since children dying in original sin (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11312a.htm) had no grace (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06689a.htm), they were not delivered from hell (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07207a.htm).
St Thomas’ logic also applies to the “invincibly” ignorant, aren’t delivered from Hell because they have not grace.  (though I highly doubt that these individuals even exist because once a child reaches the age of reason, they are enlightened as to the realities of the natural law (at least), so no one can be said to be “invincibly” ignorant of the 10 commandments.)
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Geremia on February 05, 2019, 05:38:20 PM
Fr. Francis O’Connell, C.Ss.R., Outlines of Moral Theology (1953), as quoted on the last page of Conlon's Sources of Baptism of Blood & Baptism of Desire (https://archive.org/details/SourcesOfBaptismOfBloodBaptismOfDesire/page/n179):
Baptism of Desire ... is an act of divine charity or perfect contrition... These means (i.e. Baptism of Blood & Desire) presuppose in the recipient at least the implicit will to receive the sacrament... Even an infant can gain the benefit of the Baptism of Blood if he is put to death by a person actuated by hatred for the Christian faith...
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Ladislaus on February 05, 2019, 05:56:15 PM
St Thomas’ logic also applies to the “invincibly” ignorant, aren’t delivered from Hell because they have not grace.  (though I highly doubt that these individuals even exist because once a child reaches the age of reason, they are enlightened as to the realities of the natural law (at least), so no one can be said to be “invincibly” ignorant of the 10 commandments.)

This is very important ... so as not to become a Pelagian heretic.  Invincible ignorance by itself does nothing except excuse from actual sin.  It is exculpatory but not salvific.  There must be some other factor which actually supplies the grace.  Ignorance cannot do that.  To say that lack of sin = grace is Pelagianism and a denial of Original Sin.

That's why Pope Pius IX in the famous passage that's always distorted by the anti-EENS crowd says that the invincibly ignorant can be saved (not period, not in that state) ... but by the operation of light and grace.  Because they place no obstacle in the way of this operation, they can be said to be "on the way" of salvation.  But they are not saved in their state of ignorance.
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Ladislaus on February 05, 2019, 05:57:54 PM
Fr. Francis O’Connell, C.Ss.R., Outlines of Moral Theology (1953), as quoted on the last page of Conlon's Sources of Baptism of Blood & Baptism of Desire (https://archive.org/details/SourcesOfBaptismOfBloodBaptismOfDesire/page/n179):
Baptism of Desire ... is an act of divine charity or perfect contrition... These means (i.e. Baptism of Blood & Desire) presuppose in the recipient at least the implicit will to receive the sacrament... Even an infant can gain the benefit of the Baptism of Blood if he is put to death by a person actuated by hatred for the Christian faith...


Nothing but gratuitous modernist/heretical trash.  There's no theological proof for this assertion whatsoever.
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Geremia on February 05, 2019, 06:33:09 PM
Nothing but gratuitous modernist/heretical trash.  There's no theological proof for this assertion whatsoever.
Where is your "theological proof for" seeming to think that the use of reason is necessary for baptism by blood?
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Last Tradhican on February 05, 2019, 06:49:33 PM
Where is your "theological proof for" seeming to think that the use of reason is necessary for baptism by blood?
LOL, what proof has Geremia  supplied for anything he's speculated on here? He might as well quote the CCC, if he's going to use a quote from a nobody from 1953. He can't quote dogma, Church Fathers, Saints and he asks for theological proof? 
Title: Re: Francis on Aborted Babies in Heaven
Post by: Geremia on February 07, 2019, 02:25:54 PM
what proof has Geremia  supplied for anything he's speculated on here?
There's no theological proof for this assertion whatsoever.
See what I posted here (https://www.cathinfo.com/general-discussion/aborted-babies-baptism-of-blood/msg642711/#msg642711).