Talk:FutureChurch

Notability of FutureChurch

The following facts, taken together, appear to indicate that the organization FutureChurch is notable per Wikipedia's notability policies for organizations:

• The Plain Dealer is the largest newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio, established in 1842 and today printing on paper and on the website cleveland.com. The search feature on their website shows 315 hits for "futurechurch". Most of these are letters to the editor or notices of upcoming events, of course, but they also include a January 2010 article about "an international postcard campaign urging the Vatican hierarchy to allow priests to marry" organized entirely by FutureChurch [1], and a September 2010 article on the 20th anniversary celebration of FutureChurch [2]. Moreover, a FutureChurch spokesman is quoted as an authority in the paper's July 2011 news article about the Vatican investigation of Cleveland Bishop Richard Lennon [3] and again in its news article about the Vatican's "extraordinary" reversal of Bishop Lennon's closing of 13 Cleveland-diocese parishes [4].

• Perhaps most significantly, the newspaper's March 2010 obituary of Fr. Louis Trivison, a co-founder of FutureChurch, mentions FutureChurch in the headline, and the first sentence of the obituary identifies this priest by associating him with FutureChurch -- not by associating him with the parish he pastored, which is not mentioned until later in the obituary [5].

• The National Catholic Reporter is a renowned Catholic newspaper (which today is both web-based and paper-based), and its notability is beyond question. A Google search of "FutureChurch" on the National Catholic Reporter website shows 4,570 hits. Among these are an October 2008 interview with FutureChurch executive director Sr. Christine Schenk conducted by noted Catholic reporter John L. Allen, Jr. [6], a July 2009 profile of FutureChurch executive director Sr. Christine Schenk [7], a blog post describing a meeting between FutureChurch and Cleveland Bishop Richard Lennon to discuss the controversial parish closings in the Cleveland diocese that led to a Vatican investigation [8], and a July 2011 article on FutureChurch's 15th annual celebration of the Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene [9].

• A number of conservative and traditionalist Catholic bloggers and websites have strongly criticized FutureChurch on their websites, e.g.: [10], [11]. Of course this is much less significant than the points above.

I have updated all the references on the page, incorporating many new sources (including some of those mentioned above.)

Fellow Wikipedia editors: Could you weigh in on whether this data suffices for "notability"? If not, what would you say would be convincing evidence of notability? — Lawrence King ^(talk) 00:12, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Since almost two weeks have passed and no one has commented, I am removing the notability tag. — Lawrence King ^(talk) 19:16, 28 March 2012 (UTC)