But one day, the Second Vatican Council decided that was no longer the case. While some of you were still alive (if you were born before 1966), Catholics who ate red meat on Friday’s would go to hell for it. What happened to Limbo is just the latest example of such a thing. And now, suddenly, they don’t know what the truth is while at the same time and in the same stroke of the pen, they are changing the doctrines of salvation. According to them, they not only reveal truth, they can make it. The Pope (and the Catholic Church) claim to be modern day revealers of God’s truths. But to me, it illustrates one of the great flaws of the Catholic church along with any other churches that believe in modern, on-going revelation from God. He either won’t say, or doesn’t know any more. Now, it’s just suddenly unnecessary and not necessarily true. Again, the Pope isn’t saying the doctrine is right or wrong. You can be a Catholic and not believe in Limbo.
Now, no priest has to teach it and no one has to believe it. It’s somewhere in between, which, ironically, means Limbo is in doctrinal limbo.įor all of your life up until just recently, every Catholic had to be taught and had to believe in the doctrine of Limbo.
What happened to Limbo? Pope Benedict quietly put the doctrine into a new category. It also, wasn’t in the Bible and now, suddenly, it is no longer a Catholic doctrine. It wasn’t heaven and wasn’t quite as bad as hell. (Remember, this is Catholic teaching rather than biblical teaching.) According to the Roman Catholic Church, when a good non-baptized person (or an innocent, non-baptized infant) died their soul couldn’t go to heaven, and it was distasteful to think of them as going to hell, so a third option became official church doctrine. Actually, it’s the fourth option when one also considers their doctrine of Purgatory. Limbo is a Catholic doctrine about a third possible destination in the afterlife.
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