Dead Babies Storm The Gates Of Heaven

[skeptik]

VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI has revised traditional Roman Catholic teaching on so-called "limbo," approving a church report released Friday that said there was reason to hope that babies who die without baptism can go to heaven.
Benedict approved the findings of the International Theological Commission, which issued its long-awaited document on limbo on Origins, the documentary service of Catholic News Service, the news agency of the American Bishop's Conference.
"We can say we have many reasons to hope that there is salvation for these babies," the Rev. Luis Ladaria, a Jesuit who is the commission's secretary-general, told The Associated Press.
Although Catholics have long believed that children who die without being baptized are with original sin and thus excluded from heaven, the church has no formal doctrine on the matter. Theologians have long taught, however, that such children enjoy an eternal state of perfect natural happiness, a state commonly called limbo, but without being in communion with God.
Pope John Paul II and Benedict had urged further study on limbo, in part because of "the pressing pastoral needs" sparked by the increase in abortion and the growing number of children who die without being baptized, the report said.
In the document, the commission said there were "serious theological and liturgical grounds for hope that unbaptized infants who die will be saved and brought into eternal happiness."
It stressed, however, that "these are reasons for prayerful hope, rather than grounds for sure knowledge."
Ladaria said no one could know for certain what becomes of unbaptized babies since Scripture is largely silent on the matter.
Catholic parents should still baptize their children, as that sacrament is the way salvation is revealed, the document said.
The International Theological Commission is a body of Vatican-appointed theologians who advise the pope and the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Benedict headed the Congregation for two decades before becoming pope in 2005.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070420/ap_on_re_eu/vatican_limbo





I'm not sure how relevant my title is to the subject matter, but I thought it was better than what Yahoo News used.

 

[J.]

my wife's grandmother is super duper devout catholic. never used birth control, which explains why she had 9 kids, and to this day my wife and her sister are considered the black sheep because their father (the black sheep of the 9) never got them baptized as children as a slap in the face to the grandmother.

the grandmother even once said they were going to hell or something

catholics......

 

[General Zod]

While all religions are bizarre, Catholicism takes the cake. Everything about it is based on either bastardized Christianity or Paganism.

Zod

 

[Guthrum]

I wonder how many dead babies it would take to get through the gates.

 

[MajestikMøøse]

Hey, say what you want about the Catholics, but at least they're not those damned dirty Protestants.

 

[JayKeeley]

I knew a catholic girl once -- she was a total whore at college. Every time she fucked some guy, she would make herself throw up in the morning through pure guilt.

 

[NAD]

Man, how rad would it be to have a whole host of Hell Babies that weren't baptised? It'd be like Critters but cuter.

 

[MajestikMøøse]

I wish I had a catholic slut whore

 

[NAD]

I've had two in my day. One was a bit slutty but she was sexually abused at a young age, the other wasn't a whore but didn't believe in dinosaurs. Call it a draw.

 

[Mormagil]

faith 100000000, reason...1

 

[Reign in Acai]

I wish I had a catholic slut whore

Bro, it's the 25th hour. Do you really think it's time to be "picky"?

 

[MajestikMøøse]

not really.

Send them over now, and I'll stimulate their vaginas.

 

[unknown]

my wife's grandmother is super duper devout catholic. never used birth control, which explains why she had 9 kids, and to this day my wife and her sister are considered the black sheep because their father (the black sheep of the 9) never got them baptized as children as a slap in the face to the grandmother.

the grandmother even once said they were going to hell or something

catholics......

a guy I worked with was named Dantalian (we called him 'Don' for short)...apparently his grandma was hardcore christian, and his dad hated her...so when Dantalian came along, the father named him that after a demon of some sorts to piss off ol grandma. pretty cool name and story.

 

[Guthrum]

 

[MajestikMøøse]

yup, the 9:00pm marker seems like about the point where my mind lost all coherency last evening.