This week a 30-strong Vatican international commission of theologians which has been examining Limbo began its final deliberations. Vatican sources said that 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.
I think that this means that the kind of sacramental theology on which the idea of limbo was based, is now definitively out for the RC's. Now the recognition that extra Ecclesiam salis est is in keeping with a somewhat inclusivist stance on such matters to be found in post VatII writing on other faiths and 'separated bretheren', but I feel that this is the final plank to secure that understanding.
Pope to end doctrine of Limbo:
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