With the elimination of limbo in Church doctrine, are all these babies going to heaven?

Question

The Catholic Church recently announced that they are eliminating the doctrine of limbo from the original doctrine.

Answer 1

The Catholic Church never "believed" in limbo. The existence of limbo for unbaptized infants is not part of divine revelation, but rather was and is an educated theological "guess." The term was coined by St. Augustine of Hippo and literally means "fringe." This came about because God has not chosen to reveal what happens to deceased unbaptized infants. We know that baptism is absolutely necessary for salvation (John 3:5) because God revealed this. We also know that something called "baptism of desire" is possible. Since unbaptized infants seem incapable of any "desire" or act of their will, theologians have speculated throughout the ages about their destiny in this context St. Augustine thought that it would be an offense against God's justice to suppose He would allow such creatures to suffer any pain, but that rather God places such infants in a state of "natural," but not supernatural happiness for eternity. This he called "limbo."

Cheers :-)

Answer 2

The Pope is stating that they do not go to a place called Limbo as Catholic Dogma has never stated that there is such a place, Dante mentioned Limbo and so did Milton in his Paradise Lost, but it has never been official Catholic doctrine.
Theologians have been asking for the past few hundred years if there was such a place and the Pope has taken an official stand and said `No`
But also true is that the church has not taken an official stand on where the souls of unbaptized children go, Heaven or Hell, it is saying that they do not go to a third place called Limbo.
It is very ironic too that most of the questions regarding this Limbo statement have come from those who say they do not believe in God,Heaven or Hell etc, now why would this be I wonder!

Answer 3

>>The Catholic Church recently announced that they are eliminating the doctrine of limbo from the original doctrine.<<

No, she didn't. Limbo was never a doctrine, and it hasn't been eliminated as a possibility. The document states, "The conclusion of this study is that there are theological and liturgical reasons to HOPE that infants who die without baptism MAY be saved and brought into eternal happiness even if there is not an explicit teaching on this question found in revelation." (emphasis mine)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070420/ts_nm/pope_limbo_dc_2

Answer 4

It was never a doctrine, the people turned a "future doctrine" into a word limbo. A mistake by the people, we can only hope the babies go to Heaven.

Answer 5

First thing you need to do is ask yourself "what authority does the catholic have and from who?"
Now if you seek and find out the origins of the catholic church and it's history to the present day you will find out that it is not based on the bible whatsoever but Roman paganism and the ancient babylonian mystery religions. Everything from the obelisk in the vatican(which is the phallic symbol of osiris who is satan) to the contrary doctrines of what Jesus taught.(i.e. praying with beads when Jesus says don't, bowing down to statues which God hates more than ANYTHING)etc,etc!
Now this whole idea about heaven or hell when you die is unbiblical as well. Hell(the lake of fire) is on hold and waiting for the final judgement. The devil's not in hell, he's right here on earth! All those who are going to live with Jesus for eternity are going to be living right here on earth ! The new earth!

Answer 6

Those of us who are not Catholic did not accept "limbo".
We believe that all babies, and indeed children go right to heaven, before the age of accountability. Which would be different ages, depending upon the maturity and understanding of the child.

Answer 7

I haven't the faintest idea about what happens to babies who die before being Baptized.

I do know what happens to aborted babies (which constitute 100% of all babies who die without being baptized):

They are unceremoniously hacked, vaccuumed up, and put down the disposal.

That should be the real concern of people. Over 42 million abortions in the U.S. alone, and who knows how many worldwide.

That's a lot of babies lost in Limbo, or wherever...

Answer 8

There never has been a doctrine on limbo.

The Holy See did not annouce they were eliminating a doctrine that doesn't exist.

They announced that the issue deserved further study and GREAT HOPE.

Answer 9

First of all, Limbo wasn't an original doctrine.
Second, they are not Christians because they worship Mary not Jesus.
Third, the Bible teaches that it is appointed to men to die once, then the Judgment.

Answer 10

"Limbo" was hardly an "original doctrine" of the Church. It was added by Rome alone (no other catholic body accepted it, ever)...they've just finally come back to the original doctrine of the church. No change in status....there never was a limbo, anyway.