The Last Things
Eschatology — death, particular judgment, heaven, hell, purgatory, the Second Coming, the resurrection of the body. The last things in Scripture, the Fathers, and the Magisterium.
2 articles in this pillar
- Hope for Unbaptized Infants: What the ITC Document of 2007 Actually SaysFor most of Catholic history, the consensus theological view was that unbaptized infants who died went to Limbo — a state of natural happiness without the beatific vision, neither heaven nor hell.
- Purgatory: The Doctrine from Scripture and the FathersCatholic teaching holds that those who die in the friendship of God but with imperfect purification — venial sins not repented, attachments to created goods, debt of temporal punishment — undergo a purifying experience after death…