Duszpasterska opieka i głoszenie Dobrej Nowiny Chrystusa rodzicom dzieci zmarłych przed urodzeniem
The pastoral care and the preaching of the Good News of Jesus Christ to the parents of the infants who died without baptism

Summary/Abstract: The article describes the changes in the pastoral care of the Church based on the change in Catholic Theological Opinions concerning the fate of infants who died without being baptized. It was just impossible to preach the Good News of salvation in Jesus Christ in the time in which the prevailing opinion about the fate of infants who died without being baptized saw them in hell or at least away from God’s presence. The Second Vatican Council gave decisive impulses to theological opinion which now tends to spread the deep hope about the mysterious plan of God who, in a way known only to Him, might save unbaptized infants. The main reason for that hope are: the will of God who wants to save all the people, the love of Jesus for children proved in the Gospel, the salvific death of Jesus for every human person and the unlimited mercy of God. In addition the changes in the Cannon Law and in the liturgy based on the teaching of the Second Vatican Council now allow the burial of unbaptized infants and the celebration of the rite of Christian funeral as well as the Holy Mass. All those arguments allow the preachers of the Word of God to deliver the Good News to the parents bereaved by the death of their unbaptized child.

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