Limbo is in Limbo

People, mostly non-Catholics from what I am reading, have noted that the idea of Limbo is being dispensed with by the Vatican. I don't understand the hubbub. Limbo was never a Church Doctrine. There is no reference to it in scripture, and Christ never said anything that would even lead one to conclude it exists. It was always a theological theory. It is an ecclesiastical urban myth. It is an arcane concept postulated thousands of years ago that had more use by non-Catholics to tease the Catholics in the school yard than anything else.

If the discussion of theological theory gets you a better parking space, somebody please let me know. It doesn't make a difference in making you a better person. It is the spiritual equivalent of arguing over which end of the egg to break. However, if that's what you like to prefer to talk about instead of baseball or Dungeons & Dragons, so long as you don't use it to justify demonizing certain segments of the population, live and let live.

Comments

[Dave]

Celibacy was not a part of church doctrine either. Yet it is still practiced...

Why?

[KipEsquire]

That's very easy for an enlightened, Twenty-First Century, developed-nation Catholic to say, but to the ignorant Third World masses -- who incidentally are the Vatican's target audience and whose babies have a nasty tendency to die -- this is critical and potentially heart-wrenching stuff.

[Tony]

Celibacy is a discipline in the church, not a theological theory. And are we supposed to promote a non-doctrine because someone's feelings might be hurt? We believe, as we always have, that the fate of unbaptized babies is in the hands of an infinitely merciful God.