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Pope Reverses Church Stand on Limbo

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Reply Fri 20 Apr, 2007 10:09 pm
Updated:2007-04-20 23:20:15

Catholic Church Reverses Teaching on Limbo

By NICOLE WINFIELD
AP

VATICAN CITY (April 20) - 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 to hope that children who die without being baptized can go to heaven.


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Reply Fri 20 Apr, 2007 10:19 pm
just when I'd nearly entirely forgotten about limbo...
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Reply Fri 20 Apr, 2007 10:21 pm
Such a bunch of construct, one can only wonder at the embrace of this mountain.
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Reply Sat 21 Apr, 2007 12:45 am
As far as I noticed, this only refers to the limbus puerorum.

The limbus patrum might be still my place :wink:
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Reply Sat 21 Apr, 2007 01:10 am
..... "children who die without being baptized can go to heaven" .....

presumably by means of a stretched limbo ! :wink:
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Reply Sat 21 Apr, 2007 02:21 am
That's some "stretch"!
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Reply Sat 21 Apr, 2007 03:45 am
What utter nonsense. People are expected to change a life long held belief, just because a head of a church said so. Starts to get you to thinking as to whether the entire structure of a church is simply a mass of conjectures, politics, and what a particular person in power tends to favor. Laughing
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Reply Sat 21 Apr, 2007 04:36 am
I had thought they got rid of the whole concept years ago. You don't hear much about the whole limbo/purgatory thing any more.
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Reply Sat 21 Apr, 2007 04:57 am
Things don't suit them anymore so they just change the rules.
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Reply Sat 21 Apr, 2007 06:13 am
Walter Hinteler wrote:
As far as I noticed, this only refers to the limbus puerorum.

The limbus patrum might be still my place :wink:


Nah, you're headed straight for purgatorium, Walter. Smile
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Reply Sat 21 Apr, 2007 06:16 am
Phoenix32890 wrote:
What utter nonsense. People are expected to change a life long held belief, just because a head of a church said so. Starts to get you to thinking as to whether the entire structure of a church is simply a mass of conjectures, politics, and what a particular person in power tends to favor. Laughing


Yes, I think you've described the Church structure pretty well, Phoenix.
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Reply Sat 21 Apr, 2007 06:23 am
Phoenix32890 wrote:
What utter nonsense. People are expected to change a life long held belief, just because a head of a church said so. Starts to get you to thinking as to whether the entire structure of a church is simply a mass of conjectures, politics, and what a particular person in power tends to favor. Laughing


That might certainly be so.

But since to Catholic belief the Pope as the Successor of Saint Peter is the Vicar of Christ at least fro Catholics it's not an utter nonsense at all.

Besides that, "limbo" had never been defined as official Church dogma - it was a "children belief" as we learnt in religion classes. (Which I could later verify when studying history at university :wink: )
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Reply Sat 21 Apr, 2007 06:36 am
If it was good enough for Chubby Checker, its good enough for me.
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Reply Sat 21 Apr, 2007 06:52 am
I wonder did he have to consult with God or did he decide to make the change by himself? I guess he felt the need to make a Cult -ural change. Pun intended.
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Reply Sat 21 Apr, 2007 07:12 am
farmerman wrote:
If it was good enough for Chubby Checker, its good enough for me.


I agree. But I think we need to raise the bar.
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Reply Sat 21 Apr, 2007 08:21 am
au1929 wrote:
I wonder did he have to consult with God or did he decide to make the change by himself? I guess he felt the need to make a Cult -ural change. Pun intended.


There are some good sites about various religions including the Catholic online, au.
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Reply Sat 21 Apr, 2007 08:25 am
Re: Pope Reverses Church Stand on Limbo
Merry Andrew wrote:
VATICAN CITY (April 20) - Pope Benedict yadda yadda "serious" grounds to hope


he's expecting to find a new tablet?

sheesh
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Reply Sat 21 Apr, 2007 08:37 am
Re: Pope Reverses Church Stand on Limbo
ehBeth wrote:
Merry Andrew wrote:
VATICAN CITY (April 20) - Pope Benedict yadda yadda "serious" grounds to hope


he's expecting to find a new tablet?

sheesh


possibly the one that Moses dropped :wink:
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Reply Sat 21 Apr, 2007 09:57 am
Re: Pope Reverses Church Stand on Limbo
ehBeth wrote:
Merry Andrew wrote:
VATICAN CITY (April 20) - Pope Benedict yadda yadda "serious" grounds to hope


he's expecting to find a new tablet?

sheesh


New tablet? Does Ratzinger take pills? Laughing
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Reply Sun 22 Apr, 2007 12:40 pm
Re: Pope Reverses Church Stand on Limbo
Merry Andrew wrote:
Updated:2007-04-20 23:20:15

Catholic Church Reverses Teaching on Limbo

By NICOLE WINFIELD
AP

VATICAN CITY (April 20) - 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 to hope that children who die without being baptized can go to heaven.


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It's hard to top that one.
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