The Roman Catholic Church has effectively buried the concept of limbo, the place where centuries of tradition and teaching held that babies who die without baptism went. IE 11 is not supported.

In the world of Vatican reversals, it's a big one. According to a 41-page report released last week by the Roman Catholic Church's International Theological Commission, limbo—a celestial middle ...

The Roman Catholic Church may formally do away with the theological concept of limbo. For centuries, limbo was seen as a place between heaven and hell, reserved for unbaptized children and those ...

Leading Roman Catholic theologians have been meeting in Rome to consider whether or not to abolish the idea of limbo . Why? Because it appears to have become too unpopular.

St. Alphonsus Catholic Church in Bridgetown, N.S., will hold its final mass on Sunday, marking the end of more than ...

Limbo was a theological solution to the problem of what happens to good but unbaptized people after they die. The New Testament is full of passages that say baptism is necessary for salvation.

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Limbo will become a theological anachronism that historians of theology note but everyone else ignores. It is not mentioned, for example, in “The Catechism of the Catholic Church.” ...