Limbo in Limbo
Dec. 1st, 2005 12:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bironicUnder the advisement of a committee of theologians, the Pope is considering abolishing the concept of limbo. (Full story.)
I ask out of curiosity and a sort of amused incredulity: How can this be done? Are they going to deny, after 2,000 years of Christian religious and literary tradition, that limbo ever existed? How do they claim the authority to declare this? Is the proposal most likely to be dropped?
...Maddy?
Edited: Right, sorry, Limbo doth not equal Purgatory. Fixed now.
I ask out of curiosity and a sort of amused incredulity: How can this be done? Are they going to deny, after 2,000 years of Christian religious and literary tradition, that limbo ever existed? How do they claim the authority to declare this? Is the proposal most likely to be dropped?
...Maddy?
Edited: Right, sorry, Limbo doth not equal Purgatory. Fixed now.
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Date: Dec. 1st, 2005 10:07 pm (UTC)1.) Aren't limbo and purgatory two seperate things?
2.) A papal decree is religious law. James Joyce satirizes this at great length in his short story "Grace" in Dubliners, which I think you might be interested in. I'm sure you can find it online, but it's impossible to grasp the double-edged aspect of every line unless a.) you're hardcore catholic b.)you read all the footnotes the penguin version kindly provides