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VATICAN CITY, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Theological advisers to Pope Benedict XVI have disposed of the Roman Catholic doctrine of limbo started in the Middle Ages by St. Thomas Aquinas.
Limbo is the place, Catholics have believed for centuries, to which unbaptized babies are consigned.
While official Vatican removal of the doctrine could be a year or more away, the pope, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, said in 1984 that, "Limbo has never been a definitive truth of the faith," The New York Times reported.
"Personally, I would let it drop, since it has always been only a theological hypothesis," the cardinal while serving as Pope John Paul II's doctrinal watchdog.
Ideas about limbo have been changing since the 1960s Second Vatican Council. Pope John Paul II omitted the term from an updated catechism and, shortly before his death, asked the Vatican's theological commission to consider the question of unbaptized babies, the newspaper reported.
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