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From: "A. Day" <>
Subject: Re: [YKS] Last Rites
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:00:24 +0100
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I think there has been a change of mind about limbo where they thought
unbaptised children went recently, but I think they still believe in
Purgatory .Discussion on this would have reached the media I'm sure .
I'm sure God would not punish children because the priest was scared to go
Ann
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Subject: Re: [YKS] Last Rites


> Patrick Black wrote:
> > George,
> >
> > As a Catholic, I find the circumstances you outline puzzling. From
> > what you say, the only impediment to the last rites would appear to be
> > the fact that some of the children were baptised in a CE church. Yet
> > the Catholic Church has always recognised that a child baptised in
> > another denomination's church was validly baptised. The priest might
> > conduct a "conditional" baptism, to be sure, but it shouldn't preclude
> > him from the priest's minstrations at death. It sounds as though the
> > cleric in question was being over-zealous, even by the standards of a
> > century ago.
> >
> > My g-grandparents were married in an Anglican church even though my
> > g-grandmother was a Catholic - but it didn't stop them from having
> > their children baptised and brought up as Catholics.
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > Patrick
> >
> Patrick
>
> Many thanks for the reply - The children baptised into the Cof E are a
> direct result of the refusal to administer the last rites to either or
> both, Hugh born 1900 buried 1901 & Thompson Born 1889 buried 1901 (whom
> I believe had been confirmed a year earlier).
>
> Thompson having Diphtheria and, the deaths of the children being within
> a week of each other, may have made the Priest reluctant to enter the
> house to administer to the either of the children.
>
> I was really wondering are their souls condemned to purgatory - limbo or
> what, according to the RC church, happens to the unshriven, i.e. someone
> who has NOT had those rites administered?
>
>
> George
>
>
>
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