Are you suggesting that they are in "Limbo" - if so what right does the RC Church have to evict them?
I am suggesting they *were* yes. The Patriarchs were not in heaven, because Christ opened heaven. Yet they were clearly not deserving of being burned in the fires of hell. So they must have been in a part of hell where *there was no pain or minimal pain*. That's limbo. Of course, the Patriarchs are in heaven now.
if so what right does the RC Church have to evict them?
None whatsoever. The Church has no right to change the reality of the thing, only to divine what that reality is.