Lost limbo

Re “Vatican panel condemns limbo to eternal dustbin,” April 21

Let me get this straight: Limbo refers to “a state of natural happiness,” and it was time for the Catholic Church to decide that babies who die unbaptized or aborted are not doomed to a state of natural happiness.

They now have the opportunity, like the rest of us, to go to heaven. I can’t speak for everyone, but I’m thrilled.

Sarcasm aside, wake me up when the church acknowledges that the kingdom of heaven is within -- and when it devotes itself to assisting individuals to be healthy enough to pursue a relationship with divine will, instead of to building bigger cathedrals and sending out updated bulletins on who gets to go to heaven.

MARY ANAGNOS

North Hollywood

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Hallelujah! I was so worried about all those babies going to limbo. What a waste that must have been for all these years!

HILDA E. WENNER

Santa Barbara

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We can all breathe a sigh of relief now that the Catholic Church has abolished limbo and promoted unbaptized babies to heaven. Too bad it took the church centuries to decide that helpless infants shouldn’t be held responsible for their theological views.

Maybe in a few more centuries, the church will see the folly in terminating an imaginary destination.

JAMES UNDERDOWN

Los Angeles

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Catholicism holds that everyone is born with original sin and that the only way to expunge that sin is through baptism.

Christians believe that humans are born inherently bad; Judaism holds that humans are born inherently good. Enough said.

MICHAEL GOTTLIEB

Philadelphia