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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Catholics believe that unbaptized children go to Limbo.[/quote]

I'm Catholic, but not a theologian, but this is my attempt to explain.

Catholics believe that you can be saved either by baptism and remaining in a state thereafter or, if through no fault of your own you haven't been baptized, by leading a good life. The latter is sometimes mistakenly referred to as "earning" salvation.

The question arose as to what happened to unbaptized children who had not be able to "earn" salvation. Around 400 AD, a theologian came up with the idea that they went to limbo, which is the part of hell Christ descended into after his death (because prior to his death there was no salvation.)

In the 1950s and 1960s, a lot of Catholic schools taught the "unbaptized babies go to limbo" theory as if it were Church dogma. But it never was. Just one possible explanation. The Catechism of the Catholic Church doesn't include it.    Even Wikipedia recognizes that it is not and never has been official dogma.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo
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