[Aquinasfan]

The reason they were reluctant to use the word limbo is because long before the state of limbo became associated with the fate of children who died before baptism, it was originally posed as a theological state to which the righteous OT Jews -- like Abraham, Moses, etc. -- went before Christ opened up the gates of heaven.

I'd be surprised if "the Limbo of the Fathers" was dropped. The doctrine makes sense to me.

[eastsider]

I'd be surprised, too, and I'm sorry for any confusion my previous post might have caused. I was merely pointing out that the reason the word limbo was treated as it was in the document was not due to any sort of theological embarrassment -- which is the impression I got from the article-- but because the word limbo by itself is ambiguous. That's why "The statement referred merely to 'the Fate of Children who Die Without Baptism.'"

[Buggman]

I'd be surprised if "the Limbo of the Fathers" was dropped. The doctrine makes sense to me.

You think that Abraham, who was called the friend of God, and Moses, with whom God spoke face to face as one speaks to his friend, are in a place without God?