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I wear many different hats. First and foremost, I'm the mother or four children ages 15, 12, 11 and 6 and step-mother to another beautiful 6-year old. I worked as director of a non-profit pregnancy resource center for 7 years and was recently working as the resource development coordinator for a non-profit free clinic. I'll be spending my next year serving as a VISTA volunteer with AmeriCorps. I am working as a liaison between our local university and our middle school designing and implementing service learning projects in an effort to fight poverty and encourage post-secondary learning. I also volunteer at our YMCA as a swim instructor and have worked as reporter for a local online news station, newspaper and radio station. And of course I enjoy free lance writing!

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Religion & Spirituality > Christian Beliefs & Culture Newborns and heaven: A discussion of baptism as a requirement

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According to the Catholic Church, baptism IS a requirement to entering heaven. Although a newborn is free of any actual sin, everyone is born with original sin. Original sin is a consequence we all face because of the first sin by Adam. Baptizing a newborn cleanses them of original sin, thus making them eligible to enter heaven. However, since an unbaptized newborn is free of actual sin, they don't qualify for admittance to hell either. It is believed that these small souls spend eternity in Limbo; a place somewhere between heaven and hell. The thought of their newborn spending eternity in...

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