Category talk:Roman Catholic Church

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Contents 1 Proliferation of Vatican-related categories 2 Subcategories 3 lay cardinal 4 Stub articles on Papal Encyclicals

[edit] Proliferation of Vatican-related categories

Now we have a "sack of cats", if you will, containing Category:Roman Curia, Category:Curial Congregations, Category:Diplomats of the Holy See, Category:Vatican City, and Category:The Papacy. Isn't there a way to consolidate these five categories into one or two? Categories are supposed to make it easier to find articles, not to entangle the reader into a seemingly arbitrary hierarchical structure. --Smack (talk) 15:35, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

A dissent. Category:Vatican City needs to be kept seperate as it is a sovereign state. Category:The Papacy is a fairly wide ranging category that needs to include more than the administrative structures as it has theological, historical and ceremonial articles that can also hang off this. Not everything in Category:Roman Curia can be included in Category:Curial Congregations, although the congregations are a clearly defined category. As long as the inclusion criteria are clear (for both articles and sub categories) and properly followed, where is the problem? JASpencer 12:57, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

I should say re the above comment that I'm perfectly willing to accept that the inclusion categories may be unclear or not followed. If this is the case let's sort this out first. JASpencer 13:01, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Subcategories

There are far too many subcategories of Category:Roman Catholic Church and far too many parallel categories. I found the article Veneration in Category:Roman Catholic worship. With so many categories, it's too easy for things to be inappropriately categorized.

I think there needs to be some serious discussion regarding any categories related to the Catholic Church. --Elliskev 17:29, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] lay cardinal

I just created the new page titled lay cardinal. I don't know which pages ought to link to it, but at this time only Giacomo Antonelli links there. Perhaps those who read this talk page can link more pages to this now nearly orphaned article. Michael Hardy 05:42, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stub articles on Papal Encyclicals

Question... While browsing the articles contained in Category:Catholicism and Freemasonry there are a bunch of stub articles on various Papal Encyclicals that really do not say anything beyond the fact that the encyclical was against Freemasonry. (See, for example, Annum ingressi and Mirari Vos). Some don't even say that much (see: Inimica vis). Would it not make more sense to combine these into one article? Say: "Papal Encyclicals condeming Freemasonry" or something. I can understand that some of them deserve their own articles (Humanum Genus for example), but many of them could probably be combined in some form. Oh... a disclosure before someone yells foul... I come to this from both sides of the coin: I am a Catholic (not a "good" one in many eyes, but still a Catholic) and, yes, I am a Freemason. The suggestion stems from neither of these... I simply hate ultra stubby articles. Blueboar 20:50, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

I would disagree with combining the articles. Instead, read the encyclicals and expand the articles with appropriate commentary. These are both religious and state documents and deserve their own articles. TMLutas 19:12, 17 July 2007 (UTC)