Well that's great...We don't care to hunt in your catechism because when we find what appears to be a definitive statement, you guys claim that it doesn't mean what it says...
So all you guys have to do is tell us the conclusive determination of what your catechism says on any given topic and we'll know what your religion teaches...
So what is the final determination on baptism in your catechism??? Easy, ain't it...
How refreshing to read the implication that you guys do not know what we teach.
However, it is mystifying then why, if you all don't know what we teach, you all engage in this reconnaissance by fire.
Since the method of the inquiry presupposes hostility, and since I do not want to offer helps to the answers to help a group whose rhetoric implies ill-will, I think I will let you all continue to charge us with saying what we do not say and accuse us of doing what we do not do.
It was always that baptism was necessary until the church decided it wanted happy happy members , and did not want God to look like a real judge.. so they "expounded " on the teaching ..
" THE Pope will cast aside centuries of Catholic belief later this week by abolishing formally the concept of limbo, in a gesture calculated to help to win the souls of millions of babies in the developing world for Christ."
A bit of man made theology here..
"The answer since the 13th century has been limbo. What remains in an uncertain state, though, is the status of all the pre-Christian and unbaptised adult souls held by some still to be in this halfway house between Heaven and Hell."