by the Way . . .

On another Vatican front, an international theological commission may advise Pope Benedict to revise the Church view that babies who die before they can be baptized go to limbo, or to at least stop talking about it. Baptism is required for heaven admission, so it is a difficult situation. Last October Pope John Paul asked the commission, then headed by the current Pope, to come up with "a more coherent and enlightened way" of describing the fate of such innocents. A report is expected soon.

Any change will presumably be retroactive.