Gingrich on ABC: 'GET OVER IT' Mourdock’s Rape Comments Are What ‘Virtually Every Catholic’ Believes

[msanthrope]

37. Yes, it does. Since the Council of Carthage XVI in 418. St. Augustine wrote the Canon.

Augustine rejected the Pelagian heresy of Limbo, and wrote specifically on this---I have found an English translation/synopsis of the Council of Carthage, since I am assuming you do not read Latin or Greek.

3a. It has been decided likewise that if anyone says that for this reason the Lord said: “In my house there are many mansions” [John 14:2]: that it might be understood that in the kingdom of heaven there will be some middle place or some place anywhere where the blessed infants live who departed from this life without baptism, without which they cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven, which is life eternal, let him be anathema. For when the Lord says: “Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he shall not enter into the kingdom of God” [John 3:5], what Catholic will doubt that he will be a partner of the devil who has not deserved to be a coheir of Christ? For he who lacks the right part will without doubt run into the left [cf. Matt. 25:41,46].

http://www.romancatholicism.org/jansenism/augustine-approvals.htm

This was adopted by Zosimus as a rule of faith---and Innocent did before him. That means it is Catholic dogma. It is infallible, according to the rules of your church, and was reiterated at Lyon, Florence, and Trent. Vatican I and II didn't touch it. THAT is why baptism is still de fide. Limbo was always considered a heresy, (no ullus alicubi locus) from the time of Pelagius.

Now, I get that Ratzinger has tried to fuddle with this--since it's pretty horrific. But he's going to have to do more than issue a letter saying there's always "hope." In order to change the rule of your faith, he's going to have to admit that one of the fathers of your church--the single greatest theologian your church ever produced--was wrong.

On edit--please note that I've cited actual sources. I would expect that further debate from you would include reference to those sources.