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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 10:09 AM
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Theologians to ask Pope to suspend limbo?
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Theologians to ask Pope to suspend limbo?
Wed Nov 30, 2005 9:33 AM ET

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Limbo -- the place where the Catholic Church teaches that babies go if they die before being baptized -- may have its days numbered.

According to Italian media reports on Tuesday, an international theological commission will advise Pope Benedict to eliminate the teaching about limbo from the Catholic catechism.

The Catholic Church teaches that babies who die before they can be baptized go to limbo, whose name comes from the Latin for "border" or "edge," because they deserve neither heaven nor hell.

Last October, seven months before he died, Pope John Paul asked the commission to come up with "a more coherent and enlightened way" of describing the fate of such innocents.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-11-30T143158Z_01_DIT052305_RTRUKOC_0_US-POPE-LIMBO.xml


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