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To: Cronos; count-your-change
It would be good if you actually did read the catholic encyclopedia on this:

The question therefore arises as to what, in the absence of a clear positive revelation on the subject, we ought in conformity with Catholic principles to believe regarding the eternal lot of such persons. Now it may confidently be said that, as the result of centuries of speculation on the subject, we ought to believe that these souls enjoy and will eternally enjoy a state of perfect natural happiness; and this is what Catholics usually mean when they speak of the limbus infantium, the "children's limbo."

We do not define what "children's limbo" means because we "don't know" -- it may be anything, but we know that God is love, God loves Children and Children who die without sinning are only tainted with the sin of Adam, unlike the rest of us.

The Catholic Encyclopedia may be interesting, even informative, but it is not Catholic Teaching.

Limbo was, and is, a purely imaginative place.

6,031 posted on 09/18/2010 1:53:24 PM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
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To: OLD REGGIE; count-your-change
We do not define what "children's limbo" means because we "don't know" -- it may be anything, but we know that God is love, God loves Children and Children who die without sinning are only tainted with the sin of Adam, unlike the rest of us.

we ought to believe that these souls enjoy and will eternally enjoy a state of perfect natural happiness; and this is what Catholics usually mean when they speak of the limbus infantium, the "children's limbo."
6,120 posted on 09/19/2010 3:35:57 AM PDT by Cronos (This Church is holy, the one Church, the true Church, the Catholic Church-St.Augustine)
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