User talk:Colenso

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[edit] Roman Catholic Church

Hello Colenso, welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for taking an interest in this article. I want to apologize to you and explain why I reverted your edit to the lead section of the Catholic Church page. We have had many ongoing discussions about this subject on the talk page and have reached a consensus between editors on how to present this issue. Please go to the Roman Catholic Church talk page and see the discussions both current and prior on this issue. The Roman Catholic Church has not always called itself the Catholic Church. The term "Catholic" was first used several hundred years after the church was founded by Jesus. Before calling itself the Catholic Church, it was just the Church, neither Roman Catholic nor Catholic Church because there was only one church in the world up to then. The terms Catholic and Roman Catholic were used to to distinguish the Church from separations like the Eastern Orthodox and Protestant churches. NancyHeise (talk) 15:36, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Colenso, the present wording at the head of the RCC page is a compromise, arrived at after thousands of words of argument, debate and reverts. The Church OFFICIALLY calls itself the Catholic Church. (Catholic means Universal) The term "Roman Catholic" was invented at the Reformation and is more often used by protestants or in protestant countries to refer to the Church. Although Wiki rules indicate we should use the more general English name, this is balanced by using the Official name in the heading for accuracy. Any change to the agreed wording simply starts the whole row up again. Xandar (talk) 13:27, 16 May 2008 (UTC)