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Benny has dismissed the idea of Limbo. Gone and completely thrown it out, bless'im. He gave a quite reasonable report about it, saying that it was never a divine truth of faith, more like a theory that had gotten out of hand (partly thanks to good old Thomas Aquinas) and was being presented as fact. My catechism didn't state it as such but used the words "it is thought that," didn't say by whom of course, but I've seen other catechisms that gave it as straightaway carved in stone.

His commission to study this subject concluded it was more likely that unbaptised infants, and holy people who lived before the time of Christ, were in God's care, and since God wishes everyone to come to Heaven, we must trust to His infinite mercy and mysterious ways. Suits me. I never believed in Limbo anyway. Sounded to me like a well-equipped bus station with no exit.