There’s older notions, for example, like when we say Jesus descended into hell and then rose again, that Jesus was going to a holding place for people who had died before Jesus’s coming in the incarnation and that they were then brought into heaven. So they did not have the vision of God in God’s presence, but they also weren’t experiencing suffering apart from not having God’s presence, you know, made to them right there in that moment. But because they didn’t have any personal sin, they were not being punished with any pain or suffering, but they were in a place of natural happiness. And so it was considered a place of what was referred to as natural happiness, so that unbaptized infants weren’t in the presence of God with what we refer to as the beatific vision, in God’s presence and really a supernatural happiness. Paul: I can, yes, limbo is a theological notion related primarily for us in this context to unbaptized infants who die. Rebecca: So to begin, could you talk to us about what limbo is exactly? It’s always nice to spend a little time visiting with you. Catholic on issues relating to pastoral ministry, public policy, theology, and ethics.Įmily: Paul, thank you so much for joining us on Glad You Asked. Claretian Father Paul Keller is a frequent contributor to U.S. But do Catholics still believe this?Įmily: Our guest today is going to help us figure out the complex strands of thought surrounding this tradition. Rebecca: Once, it was far more common for Catholics to believe that people who had not been baptized, or who had lived prior to Jesus, went to a kind of in-between zone, neither heaven nor hell – a neutral space. Today, we’ll be discussing a question which might have had a different answer 800 years ago. Catholic.Įmily: I’m Emily Sanna, managing editor at U.S. I’m Rebecca Bratten Weiss, digital editor at U.S. Rebecca: Welcome to Glad You Asked, the podcast where we answer the questions about Catholicism that are easy to ask but not so easy to answer. The following is a transcript of this episode of Glad You Asked:
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