(March 30, 2016 at 3:29 am)Constable Dorfl Wrote:(March 29, 2016 at 3:35 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Catholicks do seem to struggle with this issue. Its what happens when you let fairy tales run your lives.
http://catholicherald.com/stories/Straig...eaven,6744
Yes...when faced with a problem they invent bullshit.
Until the '80's at least limbo was a central rcc doctrine, haing the seal of papal infallibility and all. Stillborn infants couldn't be buried on "consecrated" ground because of it. The main reason it is now relegated to speculation is because it was deemed to be losing the church adherents and also peripheral enough to drop without controversy or notice.
It was a theological speculation and not a doctrine.
As for losing adherents, the Catholic Church is actually growing.