Pope: All aborted babies are sent straight to heaven by their mother

Pope is doing away with "Limbo." Aborted babies are going straight to heaven. Wouldn't this make it hard for a Christian to feel sorry for an aborted baby?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2387589,00.html

This week a 30-strong Vatican international commission of theologians, which has been examining limbo, began its final deliberations. Vatican sources said it had concluded that all children who die do so in the expectation of “the universal salvation of God” and the “mediation of Christ”, whether baptised or not.

The theologians’ finding is that God wishes all souls to be saved, and that the souls of unbaptised children are entrusted to a “merciful God” whose ways of ensuring salvation cannot be known. “In effect, this means that all children who die go to Heaven,” one source said.

The commission’s conclusions will be approved formally by the Pope on Friday.

Then Siva teaches them to dance.

Because, obviously, God is okay with it.

straight to the lake of fire.:sarcasm:

I wonder if they will address abortion directly - or just leave it at that.

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What about 'original sin'?

unless you pass thru the birth canal.

Yet, there has never been much consensus on the rulings handed down.

:crazy:

Makes my head spin... Wait, I'm only talking figuratively here.

This is very odd to me. I work with a lot of Catholic theologians and the word has been for over a decade at the very least that limbo was an outdated idea.

Maybe this is finally putting a permanent lid on it?

n/t

It no longer is.

Ladies, if you don't have abortions, your baby could go to hell. According to the Pope.

why bother.

Sheesh.

to acquire sins of their own, apparently. Maybe the Catholic Church will move towards the idea of adult baptism. That would be ironic, given all the people they killed defending the idea of infant baptism.

i have never understood this. Most xtian religions believe that babies, etc go straight to heaven. So what is their objection to abortions? the babes get to bypass the horrible life on earth, and go straight
to their everlasting reward. I am glad the pope has decided that limbo is a dumb idea.

:shrug:

Or the pope gives a directive.

How can you be sin-free if you were conceived by people born in sin?

If they are considered the same as all the rest of us who aren't in a womb, the right to life that is, then how come they get the exemption and not us?

They have to wait for another TWO THOUSAND YEARS - maybe?

are under direct guidance from God, then how can dogma be changed? Isn't that anti-conservative?

Or is that only for those who make it to birth? Weird shit this religion.

"Vatican Express"

Fascinating really.

A group of theologians has concluded that it is God's wish that all souls be saved, and the souls of unbaptized children are entrusted to a merciful god.

Well, whew! That's a relief! Good thing that an omniscient being cleared that up through special revelation to the group of theologians. Of course, at the age of 18, forget about any special mercy I guess. Is 18 the divine cut off of childhood like it is in the US? I guess that would make sense. If a child hasn't figured out what the one true religion is by that time, then it sucks for him or her!

Honestly, religion is amazing. Simply amazing.

Given that a substantial proportion of adults are doomed to Hell (what proportion depends on your belief system) then wouldn't it be best to hedge your bets and do the thing that will absolutely guarantee your child a place in Heaven? If I believed in this sort of thing, my number one priority would be to ensure that my children didn't end up spending an eternity in torment.

This is what Andrea Yates was trying to do, I think. It makes some kind of sense in the context of that belief system. It does seem like sort of a dangerous idea to perpetuate, and that it would seem to undermine their stance opposing abortion.

Do they go to or do they go to hell? If hell, how will the babies feel about this in heaven? I don't think I'd be happy knowing that mom is burning in hell for an eternity.

Now the Pope has decided to take over that job.

Wonder if he's going to get a raise so he can buy some more cool looking shoes?

way with that one. Elect me Pope and I shall declare that all aborted infants go straight to hell.

equals "soul".

Unfertilized egg and sperm, one second before conception= "nothing".

Zounds!

And again, it proves what phony "pro-lifers" the Vatican are-- at least until they come out on the horror and carnage of the Preconceived Babies.