The Sisters of St Francis..(brown Franciscans) ????
Actually I believe many of the church fathers did not believe there was an eternal soul in an unborn Baby
" But limbo has long been regarded as the common teaching of the church. In the modern age, "people find it increasingly difficult to accept that God is just and merciful if he excludes infants, who have no personal sins, from eternal happiness," the new document said."
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0702216.htm
It is interesting that Limbo was sent into limbo apparently with the belief of original sin.. It just did not make grieving parents happy, and surely we want Happy Happy members..
I think this sets the church up to declare a new sacrament..abortion.. after all ..all those babies are assured heaven.. something they just might be denied if they actually lived..
“I think this sets the church up to declare a new sacrament..abortion..after all..all those babies are assured heaven..something they just might be denied if they actually lived.”
This comment is too far out from reality to be accepted as one without an s/ tag.
Sadly, Rome teaches that unbaptized babies do not go to heaven but to a fictional land called Limbo where they are deprived of the presence of God for eternity.
That is UNTRUE as I pointed out.
The Church has NEVER suggested Limbo as anything more than a THEORY. The Church has NEVER definitively stated that where the unborn/unbaptized are. And there has certainly NEVER been even a suggestion that they would be denied the presence of God for eternity.
As I stated, theologians through history have WANTED to find Scripture that could be used to definitively stated that these children were in Heaven; unfortunately, such Scripture does not exist. If there was even the flimsiest way to justify their Salvation from the Bible, that would have been Church teaching from the beginning.
I think this sets the church up to declare a new sacrament..abortion.. after all ..all those babies are assured heaven.. something they just might be denied if they actually lived.
I've given this one A LOT of thought. The Holy Innocents are martyrs because they died FOR Christ. The only way I could see aborted babies granted martyr status is to proclaim (and I would not disagree with this) that abortion is a tool of Satan that is used by his spawn to destroy Christianity.