Limbo - "where you go when you're not going anywhere else."

[Matilda]

I read this interesting article this morning on Limbo by Aussie
ex-priest Paul Collins, and thought you might like to take a look
at it too.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/lose-limbo-but-salvage-purgatory/2005/11/30/1133311102059.html


I didn't know how the concept of Limbo came into being, nor did I
realise that it was never official Church teaching.

I like Paul Collins - he resigned after a number of run-ins with
the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith under then Cardinal
Ratzinger because of books he wrote critical of the direction of
the Church today. Many people here believe it was Cardinal Pell
who dobbed him in. He's a broadcaster of some note, a very
intelligent man, humorous and gentle.

[hedgehog]

1. How many other medieval leftovers are still around?

Mandatory priestly celibacy, anyone?

[YOY]

2. Passion Plays

The Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Blessed Virtues (I've always thought of Sloth as a chemical imbalance/depression...hardly a sin.)

The "Structure" of the afterlife based on Dante's Divine Comedy...that's pretty much gone.