The unbaptized children and their destination 

In April 2012 it will be five years since it was published the document "The hope of salvation for infants who die without being baptized," in which the International Theological Commission of the Catholic Church had considered it inappropriate to the concept of limbo.

Originating from the Latin, the word limbo - limbu, 'edge' - has many meanings, but in the realm of religion, is the name given to the place where, according to Catholic theology after the XIII century, would meet the souls of very young children, that did not had any personal guilt, died without baptism that free them of original sin.

The published text in April 2007 by the Church "says that grace has priority over sin, and the exclusion of innocent babies from heaven does not seem to reflect the special love that Christ had for the children." The document, 41 pages, considers the concept of limbo reflected an "unduly restrictive view of salvation." According to the authors, "God is merciful and wants all human beings are saved." He added: "Our conclusion is that we analyze the various factors that provide a theoretical basis and liturgical serious to expect that unbaptized babies who die are saved."

Given this new understanding of the Church, the babies who die unbaptized are presumed innocent and their destiny, therefore, becomes the sky, verifying the same with the so-called infidels, or non-baptized, since they had led a good life.

The thought above has some implications that deserve little attention from scholars in the field of religion.

One relates directly to the baptism, known as the sacrament of the Catholic Church, considered essential to erase the effects of original sin and the sins committed by the person prior their admission, which is now no longer necessary condition for salvation, because it represents an evolution of Catholic thought and does justice to the goodness and mercy of God.

Before that, under the pontificate of John Paul II, hell no longer would be considered a particular place, to become, in the words of the pope himself, a state of mind. The succeeding years and, with the document now under consideration, the idea of limbo also ceased to exist.

The Church, however, still insists on an unfortunate mistake to teach the faithful that the soul is created at conception, which would explain their condition of innocence in the period of childhood, when we know, based on numerous facts, that the soul of a child can reach a new bodily existence bringing along passive errors and mistakes.

According to the spiritism teachings, the Spirit are created simple and ignorant, has to go through the experience of incarnation to progress. Perfection is their goal, but the way until it is hard and long, which means you have to go through a series of existence until it is cleared enough to turn off the fetters materials.

But the Church not recognizing the limb, moves to a fairer view of human life and breaks with the sectarianism that characterized the necessity of baptism for the disposal of the happiness of man. This new view is also in accordance with the logic, because, as we know, only a third of those who inhabit our planet professing Christian ideas, while two thirds of the ignorant and obviously do not submit to Christian baptism.

Not being baptized, where will go these people? 

By April 2007, according to the Church, they could not go to heaven. But now, with new ideas in the document in question, yes. They just have led a righteous life.

Remember, however, when we talk about heaven and hell, the words spoken by the late Pope John Paul II.

"Hell is not a furnace or heaven a place," the pope said.

"Sky is not heaven in the clouds or hell is not a terrifying furnace. The first is a situation where there is communion with God and the second is a situation of rejection." (Morning Post of 29/07/1999.)