But according to Catholicism, the souls of unbaptized babies go to Limbo instead of Hell because they died while they were too young to commit mortal sin.
That is a theological opinion, and not a teaching of the Catholic Church.
Benedict XVI most recently explained in his Berlin lectures that because God is omnibenevolent, he would make allowances for those who for reasons outside of their control could never know of the existance of the Catholic Church.
This is just an assumption, and nothing more. Only through baptism through the trinitarian formula and through full intellectual submission to the Roman Pontiff is one saved according to the Catholic faith.
The Roman Empire fell a long time ago, so the barbarians fulfilled the void and established new nations. The Roman Empire's successor was the Byzantine Empire which in a treaty, recognized Charlemagne as Emperor in the West. Charlemagne and later Holy Roman Emperor's recognized the other European monarchies so those monarchies were legitimate.
So you will accept pagan tribal warlords overthrowing and destroying a Christian empire as valid, but not Elizabeth's claim?
Your case for your royal candidate is inconsistent. Is or is the right of conquest not valid? Because if it is like you propose here, Elizabeth II is the "true" queen.
Just because he let it happen, doesn't mean that he willed it to happen. As I said, he allows sin because he does not want to interfere with free will, but he does not like sin.
He made the universe this way knowing how things would turn out. He could have made a world in which this couldn't happen, but he chose the configuration where it would.
Well since the Anglo Saxon Kingdoms established Christianity as the official religion, the government started supporting the building of churches all over the country and the Bishops assigned local priests to local parishes, so by 927, over 200 years after all the Kingdoms established Christianity, most of the subjects would be Christian. And even if the countryside was still pagan in 927, Catholicism was still the official established religion of England.
Until it wasn't. Roman Paganism came to overpower the Celtic faiths, which was overtaken by the Germanic faith, which was taken over by the Catholic, Which was taken over by the Reformist, Which was overtaken by Anglo-Catholicism/High Anglicanism...
You can see the problem I assume? There are many other religions with far older claims to being the "traditional religion of England". We've not even explored the fact Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have seperate state-sanctioned religions.
Correct. And there are monarchists today who view the French Republic as illegitimate just like I see the modern UK monarchy as illegitimate. I also view the French Republic as illegitimate but the difference is they want the Bourbons restored while I view the true monarchy of England as the true monarchy of France.
But all the monarchies of Europe are illegitimate, you could just as easily use the
Donation of Constantine and claim the rightful king of Western Europe is the Pope. It's a forgery of course, but it's from that the Pope drew the authority to crown himself as Lord of the Papal States.