Pope abolishes limbo, opening heaven's gates

Dave, I'm finding this story all over the secular press but there's nothing on the Vatican's website or the International Theological Commission's page addressing this.  Even Time has picked up the story but at this point it looks like everyone's working off the same wire reports.

The Origins website cited in these articles only has this outside the subscription firewall:
-- What happens to infants who die without having been baptized remains one of theology's thorniest questions and one that the church has yet to answer definitively despite the once widely taught theory of limbo, observes the International Theological Commission in a new study. Growing numbers of unbaptized infants give the question new urgency, it notes, and developments in theology and in society during the last 50 years give "serious theological and liturgical grounds for the hope that unbaptized infants who die will be saved and brought into eternal happiness even though there is not an explicit teaching on this question found in revelation."

Origins comes under the Catholic News Service and looks like a repository for official documents.  Anyone know for sure? 

This is different from purgatory--this is the idea that there's a place where the souls of unbaptized children go that's not heaven (because they're not part of the Church) or hell (because they're not deserving of punishment).  There's much I run into that once it's explained I can understand -- I still disagree with it but at least I understand the argument that's being made.  That said, I've never heard a satisfactory answer for purgatory either.  This is going to take some looking into... (and so far, it's not very promising!)

I will ask my father.  He goes to Catholic church every single day and follows the dogma to the letter.  It does sound funny that one man can say that "Limbo" no longer exist and "poof" it's gone.  So it was there and now it is no longer there because the Pope says it's not?  What about the previous popes who said it was there?  Are they saying that something changed or that it was never there in the first place, making all the other popes wrong?

Before I got saved I knew I wasn't good enough to get to heaven, but I did think I might be barely hanging on to a loose string hanging off of a cloud somewhere in purgatory.  But Praise be to God, that heaven is my home because HE is good!