[lbo-talk] Fox News Analyst: Gibson's "Passion" is Anti-Semitic

[kjkhoo at softhome.net]

Whatever might have been the 'correct' theological position, limbo 
was the place you went to if you weren't baptised. That was how it 
was taught -- at least in the missionary schools in one colony: no 
salvation outside the church; no matter how good you were, it was 
limbo. So, unbaptised babies went to limbo; good non-catholics went 
to limbo, and so on...

kj khoo

At 10:05 am -0600 26/2/04, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>That was not the position of the Roman church even before Vatican II. (For
>the ecclesiastical-minded, see DS 3866-3873.) --CGE
>
>
>On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Jon Johanning wrote:
>
>>  ...The background to this is that, since the Council of Trent in the
>>  16th century, which was responding to the Reformation, the official
>>  Catholic position was that the Catholic Church was the "body of
>>  Christ," meaning that if you were outside that "body" Christ couldn't
>>  save you. The 2nd Vatican Council in the early 1960s became much more
>>  inclusive, but old Mel, going with his sect's rejection of Vatican II,
>>  feels he has to condemn his own wife to hell-fire (or at least
>>  purgatory, I suppose -- I don't know old Mel's position on the exact
>  > arrangements in the hereafter)...