04-21-2007, 10:51 PM
<b>Catholic Church Reverses Teaching on Limbo</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->VATICAN CITY (April 21) - Pope Benedict XVI has reversed centuries of traditional Roman Catholic teaching on limbo, approving a Vatican report released Friday that says there were "serious" grounds<b> to hope that children who die without being baptized can go to heaven</b>.
Theologians said the move was highly significant - both for what it says about Benedict's willingness to buck a long-standing tenet of Catholic belief and for what it means theologically about the Church's views on heaven, hell and original sin - the sin that the faithful believe all children are born with.
Although <b>Catholics have long believed that children who die without being baptized are with original sin and thus excluded from heaven,</b> the Church has no formal doctrine on the matter. Theologians, however, have long taught that such children enjoy an eternal state of perfect natural happiness, a state commonly called limbo, but without being in communion with God.
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Theologians said the move was highly significant - both for what it says about Benedict's willingness to buck a long-standing tenet of Catholic belief and for what it means theologically about the Church's views on heaven, hell and original sin - the sin that the faithful believe all children are born with.
Although <b>Catholics have long believed that children who die without being baptized are with original sin and thus excluded from heaven,</b> the Church has no formal doctrine on the matter. Theologians, however, have long taught that such children enjoy an eternal state of perfect natural happiness, a state commonly called limbo, but without being in communion with God.
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