August 2009)
In April 2005 Cardinal Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI. William Levada was appointed as the new Cardinal President of the CDF and therefore took over the presidency of the ITC.
In 2007, the Commission called limbo an "unduly restricted view of salvation." (The full text can be found here.)
Although this report has been interpreted as "closing Limbo," such an interpretation is incorrect. The proper understanding is that existence of Limbo—especially, relative to unbaptized babies—must be considered in light of God's universal salvific will. The ITC acts as an advisory board and its documents are not considered expressions of Church teaching. The Commission, which serves in an advisory role to the Vatican and whose "documents are not considered expressions of authoritative church teaching," noted the theory's limitations in a document published April 20, 2007.
Read more about this topic: International Theological Commission, The Eighth Term (August 2004
Famous quotes containing the word august:
“O my dear Candide! You knew Paquette, that pretty attendant of our august baroness; I tasted in her arms the delights of paradise, which produced these torments of hell by which you see me devoured; she was infected and may have died of it.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)