Justice dictates that limbo no longer exists

From Mr Ivan Stevenage SIR – Fr Thomas Crean’s arguments for the existence of limbo (Letters to a non-believer, August 28) are interesting but do not go far enough. The impression is given, somehow, that limbo still exists. This is not so. Initially created for the souls of all the good people destined for heaven but unable because Jesus had not risen from the dead, it housed the human soul of Jesus for three days while his body lay in the tomb. As God, Jesus is everlastingly in heaven with God the Father and the Holy Spirit, but as man his soul needed “somewhere” to go for three days.
As Fr Crean says a bit further on: “God is just and he can never blame someone for what was not his fault.” Clearly this included aborted foetuses and unbaptised children and adults.
It seems to be unlikely that when Jesus opened the gates of heaven and led the multitude of good people into it, he left behind others for all eternity. His compassion surely includes his generosity. Having served its purpose, limbo/paradise no longer exists. One day we will know for sure.
Yours faithfully, IVAN STEVENAGE Thornton Heath, Croydon From the general secretary of Catholic Concern for Animals SIR – The “three parent” process reported last week (September 4), which, in the words of the Linacre Centre spokeswoman, “does not respect human life or parenthood”, could have been avoided had experiments on animals been banned. All these unnatural and unethical procedures depend on animals being used in this case nine highly sensitive macaque monkeys. When Cardinal Heenan wrote that God has the right not to have his creatures abused, he could not have imagined the ghastly uses to which they are now being put.
Yours faithfully, DEBORAH JONES By email