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I don't know if the unborn's soul is with the Lord in a miscarriage, do you?
Does the Church teach that a miscarried embryo, the soul is in heaven?
Take your time finding the answer to that one.
The Church makes no call in sure knowledge on the disposition of any soul aside from the known Saints but She states that we have every justifiable hope and reason to believe they are in heaven through a Baptism of desire:
"The Hope of Salvation for Infants Who Die without Being Baptized."
A quote from this document:
Our conclusion is that the many factors that we have considered above give serious theological and liturgical grounds for hope that unbaptized infants who die will be saved and enjoy the beatific vision. We emphasize that these are reasons for prayerful hope, rather than grounds for sure knowledge. There is much that simply has not been revealed to us. We live by faith and hope in the God of mercy and love who has been revealed to us in Christ, and the Spirit moves us to pray in constant thankfulness and joy.
What has been revealed to us is that the ordinary way of salvation is by the sacrament of baptism. None of the above considerations should be taken as qualifying the necessity of baptism or justifying delay in administering the sacrament. Rather, as we want to reaffirm in conclusion, they provide strong grounds for hope that God will save infants when we have not been able to do for them what we would have wished to do, namely, to baptize them into the faith and life of the Church.
So She comments on it far more than She will or the disposition of your or my soul. And the comment is we have every reason to believe they are in heaven because of Baptism of desire.What has been revealed to us is that the ordinary way of salvation is by the sacrament of baptism. None of the above considerations should be taken as qualifying the necessity of baptism or justifying delay in administering the sacrament. Rather, as we want to reaffirm in conclusion, they provide strong grounds for hope that God will save infants when we have not been able to do for them what we would have wished to do, namely, to baptize them into the faith and life of the Church.
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