Talk:List of Catholic authors

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This list will probably not get deleted. I still have that much faith in this place. However it does need to be pared down alot. It should be limited to authors where their religion is clearly important to their work. For example writers like Graham Greene or G. K. Chesterton would make sense. Any old writer from a Catholic family in Catalonia or Poland does not.--T. Anthony 03:17, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

I'm working on paring it down. However I didn't get as strict as I did with List of Catholic artists because there are people important to Catholic literature who aren't all that devout in Catholicism. For example Santayana I think does fit a list like this even though he was either agnostic or atheist.--T. Anthony 04:01, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
For whatever reason I didn't feel like doing the verifying work on the French and Spanish sections. I'll leave that to others. Most everything else should be defensible. For example I replaced most of the borderline Czech writers that were listed with priests and people imprisoned by Communism for their religious zeal.--T. Anthony 12:42, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] AfD results - No consensus

This article was nominated for deletion on November 18, 2005. The result of the discussion was no consensus. An archived record of this discussion can be found here.

[edit] Pruning list to only include authors who profess Catholicism in writings

There are still some leftovers. Antidote 23:46, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Probably a good idea.--T. Anthony 02:46, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Suggestions

Wikipedia talk:Featured lists it was suggested this needs more references. Any thoughts?--T. Anthony 12:07, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit by Friuli

Friuli reverted my edit, which changed the loaded term "pro-abortion lobby" to the more neutral term "pro-choice lobby". The term "pro-abortion" is in Wikipedia's list of political epithets. The pro-choice movement is generally referred to as such, not as "pro-abortion", "pro-death" or other emotionally-driven, weighty terms. Wikipedia has a commitment to the neutral point of view; let's try to avoid loaded terms. Joie de Vivre 20:16, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pope Pius II

My guess would be that Pius II, currently listed in the "Italian language" section, wrote in Latin rather than Italian. He was a great classicist and a learned man, and he wrote as laureate for the Emperor in German-speaking Vienna - the universal learned language, Latin, would have been the obvious language for him to write in. This guess is confirmed by [[1]], which describes him as a "Latin poet". So he shouldn't be in the Italian language section. But shouldn't there be a "Latin language" section for all those who wrote in Latin during the Middle Ages - e.g. Thomas of Celano, who wrote the Dies Irae - or even those who wrote Christian poetry in Latin in the late Roman Empire, e.g. Prudentius? User: ildottore

[edit] Theologians

Do the leading Catholic theologians belong here? We have long had non-fiction, philosophical writers like Maritain listed here, and also devotional and apologetic writers (e.g. John Salza), so the page clearly isn't limited to Catholic writers of fiction (poetry, novels, short stories, and plays). It seems non-fiction writing will meet the criteria of 'authorship'. On this logic, I think you have to admit de Lubac, von Bathasar, Garrigou-Lagrange etc. - they wrote a lot of important and influential books which are clearly about Catholicism. Thus I have added their names. Unless the page is to be limited to writers of fiction and poetry only, they have to be included.

[edit] Proposal for re-organization per language only

I think that the combination of organization per degree of Catholicism of a country and per language is contradictory. Some languages are spoken in countries with high degrees of Catholicism and low degrees. E.g. Dutch in Belgium (very catholic) and the Netherlands (somewhat catholic).Andries 16:34, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Why is German traditionally Non-Catholic?

Germany is listed as a traditionally Non-Catholic society. But Germany has always been about equally divided between Catholicism + Protestantism. So I would support to remove the artifical division into Catholic + non-Catholic societies - this is leading nowhere.