Talk:Priesthood (Catholic Church)
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[edit] Priestation
How does a person becomes a priest? The process and studies must be included in the article.Herle King 07:26, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
- Are you refering to ordination? (which "makes" one a priest?) or are you refering to seminary studies (required prior to ordination). I agree, both need to be included.DaveTroy 17:20, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
- In the United States, there are two levels of seminary. The first awards a Bachelor degree. The second awards a Master degree. This usually takes six years. Then, they are ordained and assigned to a church where there is an opening on staff. Stryteler —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.143.214.136 (talk) 00:01, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Deacoinage
The way the article is written makes it sound as if a deacon once ordained priest seizes to be a deacon. This is not true. Orders are accumulative. Should this be corrected?
[edit] Merge with Holy Orders?
There are a couple of problems with this article. First, it propertly belongs to the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Second, the word "priest" in Catholicism's legal language (Latin) includes both presbyters (which is usually rendered "priest") and bishops. Therefore, it is also inaccurate as to information. Would it make more sense to merge this or correct it?DaveTroy 17:05, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Demographic history
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I came to this article hoping to find a chart of the number of Catholic priests throughout history, like catholic-hierarchy.org does for individual dioceses. -- Beland 17:00, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Priesthood, Presbyterium, Holy Orders, etc. Articles
I think that there needs to be some kind of revision of articles, in regard to the Catholic Priesthood (as in the shared ministry of Catholic bishops and presbyters). There is barely nothing at the Presbyterium article, and what should be there at that article is incorrectly found at the Priesthood (Catholic Church) article. Holy Orders, in the Catholic sense, is used mostly in reference to the actual sacrament by which presbyters and bishops are ordained - so I do not think that the Priesthood article belongs there, as DaveTroy suggested in February. And then there is the Catholic Church hierarchy article, which is basically the Catholic perspective of what the Holy Orders article give us. There are just too many articles about the same subject here.
Is there any way that this whole "priest problem" can be submitted to the WikiProject Catholicism/Catholic Collaboration Effort? I suggest that Wikipedia move most of the information in Priesthood (Catholic Church) to Presbyterium, and that some sort of merger occur between Holy Orders and Catholic Church hierarchy. Tajm 18:30, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
- I agree with Tajm. There is too much redundency, and I believe that the profliferation of articles will confuse most people. Unless you know the mintuae of Catholic theology and Canon law, the distinctions between the articles are not sufficient to be helpful. Whereas, if they are merged and people can see the topics together and how they relate, the logic and concepts will be more clear. I think Tajm's idea of sending the whole thing to the Catholic Collaboration would make the most sense.DaveTroy 06:53, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
