Looks like Rome is planning on abolishing limbo. I wonder what will happen to all of the poor souls there? Limbo is just a "hypothesis", they say. They are right about that. It is not taught in Scripture, but is more the product of scholastic reasoning. They have been planning this for sometime now, as limbo is not even in the new catechism. What they will replace it with, if anything, is a mystery.
I find this interesting and am blogging about it because Anglicans (anglo-catholics especially) are often accused by Romanists of holding beliefs that certain Reformers and/or the Articles of Religion rejected. They seem to think that our whole position as a true branch of Christ's One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church is undermined because our beliefs about a doctrine may have changed, or developed, over time. Or they think that our change of opinion about, say, Benediction, indicates that there is some fundamental problem in our tradition as a whole. This is a very arrogant supposition, though. It assumes that the Roman Catholic Church is the only Church that is allowed to change positions on certain matters of faith and practice over time. Why Rome and no one else? Sounds pretty arbitrary to me.
