Tuesday,
1/22/13
Today
we are asked to pray for unborn children. We used to be told that children who
die without Baptism are confined to Limbo, but in recent times the Church has
rejected that notion. Pope Benedict and a Church instruction from 2007 have
taught that such infants would not be deprived of entrance to heaven or of
enjoying the Beatific Vision. Rome has said that although we are bound to see
baptism as essential for salvation God is not bound by any such regulations.
My own
understanding of the condition of unborn children was strongly effected by
paragraph 19 in the Constitution on the Church in the Modern World.
“The dignity of man rests above all on the
fact that he is called to communion
with God. The invitation to commune with
God is addressed to man as soon as
he comes into being.”
I
would like our English translation of that Latin document to say, “The dignity
of any human consists in his or her being called to communion with God.”
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