Is there a difference between Limbo and Purgatory?

Question

I have just heard from a person that the Pope has cancelled Limbo but not Purgatory... I was always taught that they were the same thing.... Is there a difference? Thanks for your help.

I did ask for you opinon on the matter.... I don't need you to judge me.... I just asked a question,.. It doesn't mean that I believe it just that I wanted to know the difference.... This is why some people don't post question because they are searching for help and you are just using sarcasm to belittle them.... a...holes

Answer 1

Limbo was cancelled (actually stated to not exist) a while ago. Limbo is the place where the souls of unbaptized babies and children would go if they died young. Pergatory is the place you go to to wait out your fate in hell. A sort of Hell lite if you will. These concepts are only found in the Catholic teachings, no other christian based denomination has such a place.

Answer 2

Purgatory Vs Limbo

Answer 3

Limbo Vs Purgatory

Answer 4

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Is there a difference between Limbo and Purgatory?
I have just heard from a person that the Pope has cancelled Limbo but not Purgatory... I was always taught that they were the same thing.... Is there a difference? Thanks for your help.

Answer 5

Ah, but the Catholic Church is one of the few denominations that does accept the possibility that souls in a state of purgatorial suffering may not be confined to one location. Saints such as St. Padre Pio and St. Margaret Mary Alacoque (the nun to whom Christ revealed the devotion to His Sacred Heart) were both visited by suffering souls who asked for their prayers. It may be that some lost souls are set at liberty by the devil to deceive or harass the living and that some ghosts are earthbound souls performing their Purgatory on earth. The Church allows for the possibility of both, if for no other reason than keeping silent on matters which cannot be proven. Generally speaking, however, a soul that has left the body does to either Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory. Heaven is the realm of God, and only purified and completely holy souls go there. Hell is the place of Satan, and souls which have rejected Christ or died in a state of mortal sin will go there. Most of us who love God and yet have not purified ourselves of attachments to sin and worldly things will find ourselves spending time in Purgatory. God cannot look upon sin, so the soul that enters Heaven must be completely cleansed. Souls in Purgatory are saved and on their way to Heaven, so Purgatory is a place of suffering and yet of joy, as well. Limbo, once thought to be the place where the souls of unbaptized infants and righteous souls who never knew Christ, was never an official doctrine of the Church. Limbo was recently declared to be non-existant.

Answer 6

Purgatory is a place where those who die friends of God, but imperfectly sanctified, go for a little "spiritual tune-up" prior to entering heaven.

Purgatory is an official doctrine of the Catholic Church, and pretty much always was.

Limbo was a threoretical concept of middle age scholarship, was never an official doctrine of the church, and dealt with a totally different issue entirely.

Answer 7

Limbo has NEVER been a doctrine that Catholics MUST believe. It was just an attempt to explain where babies might go if they were not baptized but, Purgatory is doctrine. This is where souls go, or the state of a soul at death, where they have not really removed all the shape of sin-- that the sin could fit back in somewhat like the way a virus molds itself to the shape of the cell so it can infiltrate and change the molecular makeup of the cell. This way in Purgatory the virus cannot attach itself to the cell anymore because it has a totally different shape. I know-- it is hard to follow---maybe I'll go back to my original example which is a rinse cycle.

Answer 8

Limbo was a place of no torment or punishment where virtuous people who had never heard the message of Christ went, they could never enter into Paradise, but they didn't deserve Hell, hence, a third option. To enter Heaven you have to be free of sin, like a Saint. Since most people do not achieve Sainthood in their Earthly life, they are sent to a place of punishment as penance for their lapses. Unlike Hell, the punishments of Purgatory can be compassed, and all people there will eventually enter Heaven. The Protesters abolished Purgatory and made simple conversion a guarantee of salvation.

Answer 9

limbo was never fully an Rcc doctrine - it was a belief that it was a place, more special then any for this the children who died without being baptized. God has a special placein His heart for children as we all know through scriptures. generally these little ones have no choicein the matters of baptism or their death so.... He was tought to have a very special place for them!

purgatory is where those who are baptized go to await their turn of judgement before Jesus.

so basically - limbo unbaptized children and purgatory, baptized awaiting the judment of God.

God Bless!!

Answer 10

Limbo is no longer considered a Roman Catholic doctrine or belief (many say that it never was, but I've met older people who believe in it and said it was taught to them in parochial schools prior to Vatican II). However, Purgatory still is. The primary difference, as I understand it, is that Limbo was primarily understood to be for unbaptized infants (or those individuals who'd never heard the Gospel message), whereas Purgatory existed more for sinners who committed their sins by their own will (as opposed to unbaptized infants, who were not openly sinning, but still retained the mark of original sin due to not having been baptized).