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Roman Catholic AnswerYou have been seriously misinformed by someone who is wilfully ignorant of what the Church has always taught. The Catholic Church has never, in twenty centuries, said anyone is going to hell. The Catholic Church is the Mystical Body of Christ which exists only out of Christ's love for men and exists to get everyone to heaven. Furthermore, the Church teaches only what Christ taught, and He was extremely loving of little children, but here is the "Official teaching of the Catholic Church" on the subject of unbaptized infants. If you are talking about adults, the only non-baptized adult I know of is a convert on their way to baptism and the Church certainly doesn't condemn them either, instead teaching that the grace in the desire to be baptised provides in that instance.

from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 1994

1261 As regard children who have died without Baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as she does in her funeral rites for them. Indeed the great mercy of God who desires that all men should be saved, and Jesus' tenderness toward children which caused him to say: "Let the children come to me, do not hinder them," (Mk 10:14; cf. 1 Tim 2:4) allow us to hope that here is a way of salvation for children who have died without Baptism. Al the more urgent is the church's call not to prevent little children coming to Christ through the gift of Holy Baptism.

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