(June 23, 2018 at 11:02 pm)Fireball Wrote:(June 23, 2018 at 10:47 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Yes. The doctrine is called "Infant Damnation." To be fair, Catholicism (at least the mainstream kind) isn't comfortable with the idea of God sending babies that young to Hell, and the Catechism's official statement is they generally hope God does the right thing. Honestly, I think it's as much an initiation ritual as anything else.
If I recall my early religious RCC training, unbaptized babies end up in some sort of in-between place called Limbo. Sending a newborn to hell is possibly beyond the pale, even for the RCC.
And the Limbo hypothesis has been downplayed in recent years, most famously with this famous 2007 document, commissioned by John Paul II and signed off on by Pope Palpatine.
It doesn't totally dismiss the idea of a Limbo, but the Church does not (and probably cannot) pick a side.
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