When I was a little girl the nuns taught us about limbo, all these little unbaptized babies floating about, prevented from joining their loved ones in heaven through no fault of their own. At a very young age I realized that this was a silly and very unfair concept although, in a way, I liked the idea of floating weightlessly through eternity. What amazes me is that any adult could accept this as doctrine. Just another reason why I stopped being Catholic before I reached my teens.
THE Pope is set to abolish the concept of Limbo, overturning a belief held by Roman Catholics since the Middle Ages.
Limbo has long been held to be the place where the souls of children go if they die before they can be baptised. However, a 30-strong international commission of theologians summoned by the late John Paul II last year to come up with a “more coherent and illuminating” doctrine in tune with the modern age is to present its findings to Pope Benedict XVI on Friday.
Vatican sources said yesterday that the commission would recommend that Limbo be replaced by the more “compassionate” doctrine that all children who die do so “in the hope of eternal salvation”.
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