Graveyards for unbaptised children are scattered throughout Ireland. Now, towns and villages are reclaiming these lonely and forgotten burial places writes Carl Dixon

THE Catholic primate, Cardinal Sean Brady, is confident the new papal nuncio, Archbishop Charles Brown, will forge “strong and fruitful” links between Ireland and the Holy See.

THE Roman Catholic Church has effectively buried the concept of limbo, the place where centuries of tradition and teaching held that babies who die without baptism went.

A Vatican advisory commission said today there was reason to hope that babies who die without baptism can go to heaven, suggesting that the Catholic Church revise its long-standing teaching on so-called limbo.