Limbus Infantium : Don’t Close the Doors on Limbo Yet A Summarizing of the Doctrine of Limbo
Catechetical Nightmares…
Baptism: Absolutely Necessary for Salvation in so Far as the Effect…Namely, GRACE!
Pope Pius XII….Of Holy Memory
All that we have said about protection and care of natural life is with even greater reason true of the supernatural life, which the newborn child receives with Baptism. The pope then added, In the present dispensation, there is no other means of communicating life to the child who has not the use of reason (emphasis mine). For an adult, Pius continued, an act of love may suffice to obtain sanctifying grace and so supply for the act of Baptism; to the child still unborn or newly born, this way is not open (emphasis mine) ( AAS, XLIII, 84) ."
Catechism of Pope St. Pius X
Children who die without baptism go into limbo, where they do not enjoy God, but they do not suffer either.
The Modern Catholic Speaks… It always bothered me that innocent babies were in some way ineligible to receive the fullness of God's Love. Now I know better. Catholics today do not have to believe in Limbo. There is one place of eternal rest and that is heaven.
Fr. Cantalamessa ….Papal Preacher and the Catholic Press
Let us forget the idea of limbo as the place ... in which children who are not baptized will end up. The fate of children who are not baptized is no different from that of the Holy Innocents… (Fr. Cantalamessa) News reports that came out just before the release of a document from the International Theological Commission: The Pope will cast aside centuries of Catholic belief later this week by abolishing formally the concept of limbo, in a gesture calculated to help to win the souls of millions of babies in the developing world for Christ.
Why is This Happening? Magisterialism …. Au Courant…Up to Date…
Similar to Legal Positivism… Church Teaching is Whatever is Most Current and Up to Date….
International Theological Commission… Former Second Secretary of ITC
Don’t Close the Door on Limbo…
Jansenist Heretics Condemned For Denying Limbo… Pope Pius VI…Of Holy Memory
Quid Est Limbus?
Christ Descended Into Hell… The Harrowing of Hell:This is the Old English and Middle English term for the triumphant descent of Christ into hell (or Hades) between the time of His Crucifixion and His Resurrection, when, according to Christian belief, He brought salvation to the souls held captive there since the beginning of the world. He went to Limbo…the Edge of Hell…not to the place of the demons. He conquered Hell. He did not experience Hell.
Limbus Infantium … St. Thomas Aquinas states that when our dear Lord descended to the dead, He only delivered the Fathers in Limbo, for they had faith and grace, but as for the infants they had not the use of reason at their death and so could not be united to Christ's Passion and Death by Faith and Charity ( ST, III,52,7).
Supernatural, Beatific Vision…
Key Point… Human beings are the only creatures on this earth made for an end…created for a goal…that they cannot reach on their own.
Source of Problem? The Error of Naturalism Those in Error…
The Great Fr. Dennis Fahey… “ Naturalism consists in the negation of The possibility of the elevation of our nature to the Supernatural Life and order, or more radically still, in the negation of the very existence of that Life and Order. Naturalism may be defined, therefore, as the attitude of mind which denies the reality of the Divine Life of Grace and of our Fall there from by Original Sin.”
Frs. Teilhard de Chardin and Henri de Lubac …Dangerous and Unsound Mentor… Mentored…
Fr. Henri de Lubac ….The Conflator!
Pantheism…
Babies NEED Baptism… By reason of this rule of faith from a tradition of the Apostles even infants, who could not as yet commit any sins of themselves, are for this reason truly baptized for the remission of sins, so that in them, there may be washed away by regeneration , what they have contracted by generation (Council of Trent).
THE ROMAN CATECHISM Roman Catechism of the Council of Trent taught that an infant coming into the state of grace "cannot be effected otherwise than by Baptism. Pastors, therefore, should inculcate the absolute necessity of administering Baptism to infants" (Part II: The Sacraments, Baptism, Necessity). In short, there is no divinely revealed way of infants being cleansed of Original Sin and coming into the state of grace except by sacramental Baptism.
The Church Fathers and Doctors Speak ...for from the fact that one does not merit punishment, it does not follow that he is worthy of being honored No Other means…..
Council of Carthage and Pope Zosimus It has been decided likewise that if anyone says that for this reason the Lord said: 'In My Father's House there are many mansions' that it might be understood that in the Kingdom of Heaven there will be some middle place, or someplace anywhere, where the blessed infants live who departed from this life without Baptism, without which they cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, which is Life Eternal, let him be anathema. (Contra- Pelagius)
Pope Innocent III For it would not be fitting that all little children, so many of whom die each day, perish without having some remedy for salvation provided for them by the merciful God Who wills that no one perish…The punishment of Original Sin is the loss of the Vision of God; the punishment of actual mortal sin is the torment of everlasting hell.
Limbo: A Place of Great Happiness "those who die in mortal sin, or with only Original Sin, descend immediately into Hell; however, to be punished with different penalties, and in different ways."
A Real Happiness in Limbo… In that state, the souls in Limbo are as fully happy on the natural level as human nature can be, a state akin to the happiness of Adam and Eve in Paradise - minus grace of course. The souls in Limbo are not in an infantile state; they are fully mature, and immortal, as their bodies will be at the General Resurrection ( Apologetics and Catholic Doctrine, by Archbishop Michael Sheehan) .
Problems Regarding Limbo…
Baltimore Catechism… Infants, who have not committed actual sin and who, through no fault of theirs, die without baptism, cannot enter heaven; but it is the common belief they will go to some place similar to Limbo, where they will be free from suffering, though deprived of the happiness of heaven.
Man is Capax Dei… Not enough to be capable of being shot upwards, one needs an archer.
St. Vincent Ferrer (Infants in Limbo) when they see the glory of the blessed, that they do not grieve nor are saddened, because it is not relevant for them, just as you are not saddened because you do not have a kingdom, which doesn’t pertain to you. But The son of a king, a prince, to whom the Kingdom pertains, grieves about this. Neither are you saddened when you see an eagle flying, because you do not have wings. So neither do these children grieve.
St. Thomas Aquinas states: I answer that… Christ's descent into hell had its effect of deliverance on them only who through faith and charity were united to Christ's Passion, in virtue whereof Christ's descent into hell was one of deliverance. But the children who had died in original sin were in no way united to Christ's Passion by faith and love: for, not having the use of free will, they could have no faith of their own; nor were they cleansed from original sin either by their parents' faith or by any sacrament of faith. Consequently, Christ's descent into hell did not deliver the children from thence.
Special Enlightenment of the Infant Could Mean Hell Fire for Those Little Ones Who Reject the Offer…
Evangelium Vitae…The Gospel of Life and the Question of Aborted Babies "that nothing is definitively lost, and you will be able to ask forgiveness from your child, who is now living in the Lord ( EV ,99) (Removed from Official Text). Final text reads: "you can entrust your infant to the same Father and to His mercy" ( Infantem autem vestrum potestis Eidem Patri Eiusque misericordiae cum spe committere).
For who would not detest a crime as execrable as this - a crime whose consequence is that not just bodies, but - still worse - even souls, are as it were, cast away? The soul of the unborn infant bears the imprint of God's image! It is a soul for whose redemption Christ our Lord shed His Precious Blood, a soul capable of eternal blessedness and destined for the company of angels! Who, therefore, would not condemn and punish with the utmost severity the desecration committed by one who has excluded such a soul from the blessed vision of God? Such a one has done all he or she could possibly have done to prevent this soul from reaching the place prepared for it in heaven, and has deprived God of the service of this His own creature (Effraenatam, October 29, 1588
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