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The BIBLE and early christian tradition teach that one must publicly testify their sins to fellow believers, NOT to some guy who Rome designates as a cleric, although the latter is sufficient.

"Then said Jesus to them again, Peace [be] unto you: as [my] Father hath sent me, even so send I you. And when he had said this, he breathed on [them], and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; [and] whose soever [sins] ye retain, they are retained. (John 20:21-23)

Hmmm. Sounds like Christ is giving men the power to forgive sins, doesn't it?

Limbo was never a formal teaching of the Church. It is purely based on speculation of where infants who are not baptized go.

It was such intolerance and blind faithfulness to practices not mentioned in the scriptures or practiced by the Church pre-Nicea that drove me away from the RC Church

So your church 1900 years removed got it right, huh? How do you know that?

Regards

When I was taught the existence of Limbo in grade school, it was not presented to us little kids as "not a formal teaching of the Church". We were taught to BELIEVE it!

I guess we were a classroom of stupid nine-year-olds (or whatever).

Why won't somebody here acknowledge that, along with the good academic education we received in the Catholic schools (in my opinion), we absorbed some not-too-healthy mental attitudes also? I think that pertains to the period of time when one attended school. My children had a very different Catholic school experience from mine.