Limbo is part of Hell? I was taught that limbo is neither heaven nor hell but a state where the soul does not suffer yet does not achieve the beatific vision, a place of "natural" happiness or contentment.
Please tell me where the Church teaches that Limbo is in hell.
Marsha
........Likewise, there is a minimum damnation and a maximum, as damnation means, essentially, the lost of the Beatific Vision. Minimum damnation is death in infancy without Baptism and eternity in Limbo. Deprivation of the vision of God is damnation; in the case of infants, it is the punishment which they share with all men for the sin of Adam.
Thus Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) said: "The penalty of original sin is the loss of the vision of God; the penalty of actual sin is the torment of everlasting hell." (Innocent III: Epist. Majores Ecclesiae Causas, 1201. Denz. 780)
St. Bonaventure said: "The punishment of being deprived of the sight of God and the loss of heavenly glory effects both adults and children who are unbaptized.
The children are punished with others, but by the mildest punishment because they deserve only the punishment of loss but not the punishment of the senses." - Fr. Wathen's Who Shall Ascend?