I found this thing from a report from the vatican for the belief of unbaptized people including babies who go to not so much purgatory but limbo which is just a nicer form of purgatory.
It was the French monk Peter Aberlard who introduced the idea of Limbo. Before the 13th Century, all unbaptized people, including new-born babies who died, went to hell because they had not been cleansed of original sin by the Christian baptism ceremony. Abelard said that babies who had no personal sin didn't deserve such punishment
Earlier this year, in his new position of supreme power, the Pope gave his approval to a 41-page document drafted by the International Theological Convention, although adding that its conclusions were not to be considered Roman Catholic Church dogma. Published in US magazine 'Origins', the report announced: "The many factors that we have considered... give serious theological and liturgical grounds for hope that unbaptised infants who die will be saved."
And so a concept that had been preached and believed in for 800 years has been virtually abolished. It's sad that a baseless fable should have caused so much mental anguish to Catholic parents of stillborn or early-dead children over the centuries, believing that their child would never reach Heaven, and whose little corpse was refused burial in the church graveyard. Instead they can now believe as the Muslims do, that the departing soul of an innocent babe will go straight to Heaven.
The word 'Limbo' comes from a Latin word meaning "the edge", and Limbo was usually described as a sort of dim and foggy place where there was no pain, but no real pleasure either. In Purgatory, that other no-man's-land between Heaven and Hell, there is pain. And plenty of it.
