But What About The Folks Who Are Already In Limbo?

This is interesting:

Limbo -- the place where the Catholic Church teaches that babies go if they die before being baptized -- may have its days numbered.

According to Italian media reports on Tuesday, an international theological commission will advise Pope Benedict to eliminate the teaching about limbo from the Catholic catechism.

The Catholic Church teaches that babies who die before they can be baptized go to limbo, whose name comes from the Latin for "border" or "edge," because they deserve neither heaven nor hell.

I'm not sure what this means from a practical standpoint. Would folks currently in Limbo automatically go to Heaven once Limbo is eliminated from the Catholic catechism, or will the Church simply decide that Limbo never really existed? I guess we'll find out soon enough.

Seriously though, I have attended Catholic schools all my life, and I don't remember ever being taught about Limbo, so it is probably a good idea to get rid of this outdated concept in its entirety. In fact, everything I know about Limbo comes from the Jimmy Cliff song.