OH BABY!

This tragic scenario is not impossible.

A mom and dad with their week-old infant are driving to the church where their baby will be baptized as a Roman Catholic.

Approaching them, in another car, is another mom and dad with their own week-old baby. They are returning home after their the baptism, RC, of their child.

There’s a collision and everyone dies including the two babies, one baptized, one
un-baptized.

Traditional Catholic teaching is that God looks differently on the two babies, in terms of the afterlife. The baptized baby goes to heaven, without question.

The unbaptized baby goes to Limbo

To any kind of modern mind this seems absurd. No God worth the title would make this kind of discrimination. The teaching itself is stupid and embarrassing.

So much so that even Ratzinger wants to fudge it, per this CNS story.

Even such a simple issue generates tons of blah blah.

The document, published April 20, critiqued the traditional understanding of limbo, arguing instead that there was good reason to hope unbaptized babies who die go to heaven.

Some people saw that as a reversal of a centuries-old Catholic principle. But rather than announcing a radical break with the past, the commission said it was assessing an issue in theological evolution.

These people are getting paid out of the collection plate for their blah blah on this.

Father Sobrino suggests that at the very least, we should turn off their air-conditioning.

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