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The Pope’s Limbo

April 24, 2007 Graeme Codrington Future Trends, Innovation, Media tidbits, The Quick and the Dead - case studies No Comments

It’s official. After 800 years of being Catholic church policy, the theological construct of “limbo” has been abolished (read the International Herald Tribune on this). This was a place were unbaptised babies were said to go, awaiting some kind of final judgement at the end of times. It was “created” over 800 years ago, as a way of dealing with two competing theological factions in the Catholic Church. Last week, after a 3 year theological review, the Pope agreed that it was an error in judgement, and officially “abolished” it as a concept in Catholic dogma.

Good for him!

I suppose the lesson for us all is to ask what long held beliefs we each have that we need to be prepared to give up – no matter how embarrassing or life-changing it might be to do so. You can criticise the Vatican for this change. But you can’t argue with their guts to do something!

What do you need to change? And do you have the guts to do so?

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