[lit-ideas] Limbo in limbo?
- From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 20:19:08 -0500
Will limbo be missed? -EY
Limbo Faces Abolition
The Roman Catholic Church is set to renounce the
centuries-old doctrine of limbo. For centuries
many in the Church claimed that the souls of
infants who die before they can be baptised go to
a place called limbo, which is between heaven and
hell (‘Limbo’ comes from the Latin limbus, meaning
‘edge’.) Being innocents, they don’t deserve to go
to hell, but being burdened by Original Sin, and
unredeemed by baptism, they cannot reach heaven.
The poet Dante and others argued that the great
sages of the pre-Christian past, including Plato,
must also be in limbo. However, the new Pope is a
long-term critic of the concept (which never had
the status of official doctrine), and a commission
of cardinals is expected to denounce it soon.
http://www.philosophynow.org/issue54/54news.htm
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