That document on Limbo…
Posted by Terry Nelson on Apr 22nd, 2007
From what I understand, it can’t change the perennial teaching of the Church…
Rorate Caeli and Immaculate Heart of Mary Hermitage seem to have it right:
[Errors of the Synod of Pistoia.] The doctrine which rejects as a Pelagian fable that place of the lower regions (which the faithful generally designate by the name of limbo of the children) in which the souls of those departing with the sole guilt of original sin are punished with the punishment of the condemned, exclusive of the punishment of fire [...] is false, rash, injurious to Catholic schools.
Auctorem Fidei
Pius VI
August 28, 1794
(Quote courtesy of Rorate Caeli.)
April 22nd, 2007 at 9:19 am
Actually, there is another document which specifically says that one may NOT have “good” hope for the salvation of those who die outside the Catholic Church ie: without some form of baptism. Trusting in God’s mercy is pretty lame when it was God who supposedly damned everyone with Original Sin. Why look up to such a being with such hope when…He’s the one responsible for everyone “getting it” anyways? Here is my reference:
The Syllabus of Errors #17 under Indifferentism…
http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius09/p9syll.htm
Sure, it makes people like me happy but it isn’t what the Church believes about salvation and what it does mean is that God himself, knowing people will die outside of the Church including babies and innocent children, must will their separation from Him forever since He allowed them to be conceived with Original Sin and knew that they would die w/o baptism. Original Sin is the most unjust, immoral doctrine I can possibly think of.
April 22nd, 2007 at 11:31 am
Thanks Born Again Pagan lady!
I have to start studying the writings of the popes and the Councils more.
Thank you very sincerely!
April 22nd, 2007 at 11:41 am
No problem, bud! I know you’re honest and smart which hardly something I can say about a lot of people. Don’t let the Matrix win!