The recipe called for the fat of an unbaptized infant, for goodness' sake.
But her ways were so much more-efficient-than the hurried slaughter of the unbaptized infants purchased from their uncaring, gin- or opium-sodden mothers in some slum.
He concluded that unbaptized infants go to hell as a consequence of original sin.
Starting around 1300, unbaptized infants were often said to inhabit the "limbo of infants".
They did not even stop there, but let out all the unbaptized American infants we had been accumulating for two hundred years and more.
As for unbaptized infants, the Church is unsure of their fate; "the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God".
Or bathed in the blood of unbaptized infants, or desecrated in some other terrible way.
Others held that unbaptized infants suffered no pain at all: unaware of being deprived of the beatific vision, they enjoyed a state of natural, not supernatural happiness.
Renatus used this account to bolster his claim that unbaptized infants could attain paradise, if not the kingdom of heaven.
The church once taught that it was the place where unbaptized infants went when they died.