Limbo (theology)



Limbo is (Latin "limbus", meaning "edge" or "boundary", referring to the "edge" of Hell) is a speculative idea about the afterlife condition of those who died in original sin without being assigned to the Hell of the Damned according to Catholic theology. It is a region on the border of Hell or Heaven, serving as the supposed spiritual abode of unbaptized babies ("Limbo of Infants") and of the righteous ("Limbo of the Patriarchs"/"Limbo of the Fathers") who died before the coming of Jesus Christ. However, Limbo of the Infants was not an official doctrine of the Catholic Church.