This was a particular story that I had to address. According to the Brisbane Times, the Vatican has abolished the idea of Limbo altogether. For centuries, Catholics have grappled with the paradox of those young who were not baptized.

“The many factors that we have considered … give serious theological and liturgical grounds for hope that unbaptised infants who die will be saved,” says a document published by the US magazine Origins with the approval of Pope Benedict XVI.

“We cannot know with certainty what will happen” when an unbaptised baby dies, said panel member Paul McPartlan. “But we have good grounds to hope that God in his mercy and love looks after these children and brings them to salvation,” he said, quoted by the Catholic News Service.

I think the church got this one right, but for the life of me, I cannot understand why it has took them so long to figure this out. I mean, seriously, are we to believe that God would turn his back to those who certainly does not have control of their own free will… I’m glad in any case that this has at least been settled.

However, as a extension, they did make it a point that this was not to be considered Church Dogma, or in other words, this statement is not law, but a mere assumption. This is why they say “we have good grounds to hope”… Dogma would entail that this is an infallible statement.