Author Topic: On infants who die without baptism (Read 1835 times)

Pax Vobis · « **Reply #5 on:** September 21, 2016, 02:13:54 PM »

So maybe Limbo is like the 'garden of eden'? An earthly paradise, but far below heavenly paradise.

Ladislaus · « **Reply #6 on:** September 21, 2016, 02:44:10 PM »

Quote from: Pax Vobis

So maybe Limbo is like the 'garden of eden'? An earthly paradise, but far below heavenly paradise.

That's always been my impression of it.

cassini · « **Reply #7 on:** September 21, 2016, 03:34:36 PM »

Doesn't the Church teach that unbaptised souls go to Limbo, a place of perfect natural happiness.

I recall Pope John Paul II bypassed this teaching and suggested they all go to heaven.

I was at a pro-life convention when I brought up the matter of Catholic teaching as a means to deter Christians from even thinking about abortion.
I said that if Pope John Paul II's 'wish' were true, what were Catholics worried about when it came to abortion. I said every abortion sent a child to heaven, a child that if it lived may have ended up in hell.

Well, as you can guess there was silence in that room of a few hundred people, including priests. The chairman said that a Fr Whatshisname would see me after the meeting and correct my thoughts.

Needless to say Fr Whatshisname never came within a mile of me afterwards. I have never attended a pro-life meeting after that.

Cantarella · « **Reply #8 on:** September 21, 2016, 03:41:00 PM »

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(still, this is a place where God is not, and they do not enjoy the Beatific Vision)

I believe that God would be there in a natural way. These inhabitants of Limbo could know God with their natural faculties, and I would even think that Our Lord and Our Lady and other saints might visit them. But God is not there supernaturally, i.e., in the Beatific Vision.

Does that mean that God can be in Hell in a natural way? I do not know what you mean. Limbo must be in Hell, because the proposition that there is an "intermediate" place has been condemned.

Matto · « **Reply #9 on:** September 21, 2016, 06:13:59 PM »

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They don't go to heaven is the only answer to give.

I agree they don't go to heaven, but I asked the question to see what others think. Many people who call themselves Catholics believe they go to heaven or at least that some of them do. Even some who claim to be trads believe this and after being reminded of this I started this thread to see what the Cathinfo posters believed.