Topic: "Limbo" to be done away with?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5406552.stm

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"Most priests don't talk about the notion of limbo anymore. There is a understanding that it just simply doesn't wash with people," says Mr Walsh.

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Some argue that the question of limbo has taken on fresh urgency because it could be hindering the Church's conversion of Africa and Asia, where infant mortality rates are high.

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in my best Church Lady immitation

Well, isn't that conveeeenient!?


(uh....isn't the pope supposed to be infallible, and informed by god about matters of faith? why then does the pope need to ask a council to invent a rule for what happens to dead babies???????)

Geez.... here I had images of a nice sandy beach, the smell of ganja, a very white guy in a funny hat half bent over backwards trying to get under a broom stick to the rythmic sounds of Bob Marley.


But to answer your question...I guess once you admit Galilleo was right... you can't leave babies swinging in the breeze.

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The goal in Life's Journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "holy moly what a ride!"

what is limbo? is that the same as purgatory? I know very little about Catholicism but have heard something about purgatory

anyhoo yea, glad we have a guy settin the regs here, I can rest easy now