Where Do Unchristened Babies Go?

The Vatican announced on Friday the results of a papal investigation of the concept of limbo. Church doctrine now states that unbaptized babies can go to heaven instead of getting stuck somewhere between heaven and hell. If limbo doesn't exist, what happened to everyone who was supposed to have been there already?

Where do babies go in Dante's Inferno?

In the Catholic faith during the Middle Ages, it was believed that babies who died in infancy (Had not committed personal sin), but are not baptized (And are not cleansed of original sin) are sentenced to Limbo, the outermost region of Hell.

What happens to babies who die without baptism?

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church has effectively buried the concept of limbo, the place where centuries of tradition and teaching held that babies who die without baptism went. ... The Church teaches that baptism removes original sin which stains all souls since the fall from grace in the Garden of Eden.

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