What is limbo and who goes there?

Question

Pope just revised Catholic doctrine on limbo. Anyone have the skinny?

Answer 1

The Church has pondered the suggestion of Limbo for a few hundred years and has decided that it is not a good idea. Limbo was never official doctrine.

Jesus said, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. He who believes and is baptized will be saved." (Mark 16:15-16)

For centuries, people have wondered about children who died before they were baptized. The Bible does not explicitly state that they will go to heaven.

Limbo was suggested as the place where unbaptized babies went when they died. This idea was never official Church doctrine and has been rejected.

The Church now says that it is not sure what happens to unbaptized babies when they die but she entrusts them to the mercy of God.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

First of all limbo has never been dogma but theological speculation in regards to the souls of unbaptized infants. Since we are all born with original sin which the Sacrament of Baptism removes and since there can be no sin in the presence of God one must speculate as to what happens to those infants who die without Baptism. Can they go to heaven? I pray that there is a limbo or that God's mercy is so great and inclusive to include the most innocent of us who have not had the benefit of His Baptismal Grace.

In Christ

Answer 3

Limbo was never an official teaching of the Church. It was only theological speculation because it has not been revealed what happens to babies who die without baptism. The Pope didn't revise anything because there is nothing to revise.

Answer 4

Limbo was never official Church doctrine.

It was a common belief, however, that limbo was a neutral place, not one of paradise nor of suffering, that the souls of unbaptized babies went to.

The pope did NOT change anything, he simply re-emphasized the official stance.

Answer 5

I do not have the "skinny." However, I must question the logic of those who believe that Reality changes simply because a man's opinion of it changes.

You have every right, as a Catholic (I assume) to believe whatever you want to. However, part of loving God is loving Him with our mind... this involves thinking logically and examining things. Just a thought, which you may freely disregard.

May the LORD bless thee and keep thee. =)

Answer 6

Limbo is one of those Catholic myths started by the priesthood many centuries ago in order to control the masses. Purgatory is the same thing. It exists only in the imagination because it ain't in the Bible. The Pope goes there when he wonders what to do about dead babies that die outside of the Catholic church because he believes that only Catholics go to heaven----rubbish, that ain't in the Bible either.

Answer 7

It's a set of poles, 2 upright and one movable that goes across. The object is to work your way under the cross-bar without knocking it off its perch. Whoever can go the lowest without knocking it over is the winner. Apparently Benedict is more flexible than he looks for his age.

Answer 8

It is an eternal state of perfect natural happiness, but without being in communion with God.

By definition, all the unbaptized (who have lived a virtuous life) will be there, not just babies.

Answer 9

limbo mean, the result of every individuals deeds wethere it is good or evil doings during its time on earth before he or she got dead.

Answer 10

There is not, and never has been, any official doctrine on 'limbo'. Period.