Limbo Lessons

Joanna Cohen
5 min readApr 26, 2020

Put our time in confinement to good use

I can’t remember when I first heard the word limbo. Not the dance where you get low and try to clear the pole, but the waystation, the in-between place, where souls are consigned.

Limbo is associated with Catholicism, but was never official doctrine. It was a softening of the teaching of the philosopher Augustine, who believed that infants who died without being baptized would go to hell.

Instead, the church said, such children would end up in limbo, where they would experience no sensory…

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Joanna Cohen

Writer, athlete, mom, sports fan. New York City native. Probably the only person on earth who has interviewed Derek Jeter and written dialogue for Susan Lucci.