No - not the dance!

A story about refugees on a British base in Cyprus, whom Britain refuse to accept responsibility for, had one of them saying "we are in limbo".  So what exactly does that mean?  Well it's all to do with Catholic dogma, according to which you cannot go to heaven unless you've been baptised, and if you don't go to heaven then you automatically go to the other place.  But this produces a problem - what about all those who have lived a blameless life, but did so before Jesus was born and the (Catholic) church came into existence and therefore had no chance of being baptised? What about children who are stillborn, or who die unbaptised in very early infancy before they are capable of sin?  Are they to be condemned to Hell?  And so the concept of Limbo was born - a sort of neither here nor there place where such souls can rest easy for eternity - not accepted into Heaven, but not subjected to the torments of Hell.