Limbo is obviously where St. Philomena, St. Christopher, etc., went to meet the pre-Christians like Vergil, Cicero, Aeneas, Orpheus and Eurydice, and the Holy Innocents slaughtered by King Herod.
This is the ROMAN Catholic Church, so it is obvious you have to retain some Roman Stuff, which probably makes your kraut-and-wurst Catholics nervous. Limbo is merely the Hades of the pagan era, with a new sign out front. And, a damn great idea!
When we were kids, we thought it an even better idea, as Limbo offered the possibility of avoiding those namby-pamby, rosary-rattling goodie-goodies, who were always pointed out as going straight to Heaven. Yuck!
PRE-CISELY!!! Brilliantly and succinctly stated.
The Pagan afterlife is the Christian hell. Our heaven they couldn't even conceive of, except perhaps as deification (e.. Romulus, Aeneas).
I think the two of you are confusing the Limbo of the Fathers (aka Abraham's Bosom) with Limbo for the unbaptised innocents. Two different ideas. The first is well founded doctrine. The latter has always been theological speculation.
SD