Dear Sirs,
Outside the visible sacramental unity of the roman catholic church there is no salvation with the exception of invincible ignorance. That is because none can be damned for invincible ignorance. A mortal sin requires a full knowledge; intellect and full act of the will; consent.
The church teaches that all who have aquired the use of reason generally believed to be 7 years of age must desire the sacrament of baptism.
Infants do not have the use of reason therefore can not desire baptism.
I do not understand how an adult has the valid exception of invincible ignorance but not a baby. An adult is subject to original sin just as much as a baby or infant is subject to original sin. Certainly if a fetus is aborted and the soul is present than the fetus is subject to original sin but it is also invincibly ignorant and not culpable of it's own death. It did not die for the faith or have the use of it's reason. It certainly has committed no mortal sin. It can not desire baptism or the love of God that we know.
The scripture teaches that all must become adopted sons of Christ and be born again of water and the spirit for all were sons of adam and original sin. All I know is that the belief in original sin is de fide and the dogma of outside the visible sacramental unity of the church no salvation is de fide.
None are damned for invincible ignorance. Those in hell are there with eternal certainty and if released would effect the same sins over again.
I thought that original sin was a predisposition to sin but not actually a state of general mortal sin against all humanity but mortal sin is particular. It must be earned so to speak. The second council of Lyons 1274 references Limbo as a place in between heaven and hell to which infants are consigned. A place without eternal punishment but they do not receive the beatific vision. It seems to be consisent that those individuals with invincible ignorance would go to the same place as the infants without punishment but without the beatific vision.
The current problem in the church is that we must hold all infallible universal papal magisterium as one unified visible witness to Christ. This includes all extra ordinary and ordinary papal infallible magisterium. I do realize not all papal magisterium is infallible.
When the Popes teach the same thing over long periods of time it is infallible. This may be some of the confusion I do not know. I do know we must assent with certainty to hold all infallible papal magisterium as one unified witness to Christ not just rare ex cathedra decrees. Modern people do not believe a merciful God that would send aborted babies to limbo. If that were true we would need an immense fear of God's justice and commandments that is not present in modern man that demands God be completely merciful but never just. I have always believed the good thief St. Dismus was a baptism of desire case. Had he been pardoned he would immediately have sought out catholic baptism and instruction because he manifested perfect contrition. Really old people say 93 years of age who have perfect contrition and desire to be members of the catholic church and believe it is the true church and publically profess it do not always receive the sacrament of water baptism. I thought we are not required to believe de fide any have obtained perfect contrition and baptism of desire but that it is a valid exception as is baptism of blood. those who are in mortal sin are in this state wether or not they are roman catholic as the natural law is forever written on the heart, mind and soul. Those in mortal sin are subject to the tyranny of Satan and are spiritually blind not invincibly ignorant.
This spiritual blindness is a just punishment for their mortal sin. If man viewed the Incas as subject to the tyranny of the devil and the Spanish rule as an improvement from this tyranny they would view the church differently as Spain just about went bankrupt discovering and saving the pagan Indians from the tyranny of the devil.