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NEQUAQUAM SINE DOLORE
LETTER OF POPE JOHN XXII
TO THE ARMENIANS NOVEMBER 21, 1321 [excerpt] |
[Docet Romana Ecclesia] . . . illorum vero animas, qui post sacramentum baptismatis susceptum nullam omnino peccati maculam incurrerunt, illas etiam, quae post contractam peccati maculam vel in suis manentes corporibus vel eisdem exutae et purgatae, in caelum mox recipi.--Illorum autem animas, qui in mortali peccato vel cum solo originali decedunt, mox in infernum descendere, poenis tamen ac locis disparibus puniendas: [nimirum puerorum animas poena damni, non sensus, in limbo afficiendas.]¹
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[The Roman Church teaches] . . . that the just souls who after having received the sacrament of baptism, incur no stain of sin at all, and that even more, who after having contracted the stain of sin, are laid aside and purged, either remaining in their original bodies or by themselves [as souls], are received immediately into heaven.--but that the souls of those who depart in mortal sin or with only original sin, descend immediately to hell, nevertheless to be punished with different punishments and in disparate locations: [the souls of children, without a doubt, are burdened in limbo with the pain of loss, but not with the pain of sense.]¹
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JOHN XXII
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¹ Antiquores quaedam editiones textum praebent, qui id expresse affirmat; pergunt enim post verba: << ac locis disparibus puniendas >> : << nimirum puerorum animas poena damni, non sensus, in limbo afficiendas >>. |
¹ Certain editions of the text survive in the annals which explicitly affirm, after the phrase "to be punished in different locations," that "the souls of children, without a doubt, are burdened in limbo with the pain of loss, but not with the pain of sense." |