Talk:Catholic Church/Questions

Catholic Church in Europe

 * Secularism has seen a steady rise in Europe, yet the Catholic presence there remains strong.

Indigenous populations

 * the Church faces challenges in reaching indigenous populations where over 715 different languages are spoken.

Cultural Influence

 * By spreading Christianity it battled, and in certain cases eventually ended, practices like human sacrifice, slavery, infanticide and polygamy of evangelized cultures beginning with the Roman Empire.

Issues

 * Whether the article accurately presents the Church's teaching and actual practice with regards slavery over the course of history Slavery and Slavery II and Talk:Catholic_Church/Archive_36
 * Whether the long note summarizing the Church's relationship to slavery is needed and of appropriate length and detail
 * Whether the article accurately presents the Church's teaching and actual practice with regards the equality of women over the course of history Cultural Influence II and Polygamy-Roman Empire and Talk:Catholic_Church/Archive_36
 * Whether the article adequately explains "excesses of the colonial era" Talk:Catholic_Church/Archive_36
 * Whether the article adequately and accurately explains the church influence on universities Talk:Catholic_Church/Archive_36
 * Whether the article adequately explains the Catholic influence on art Talk:Catholic_Church/Archive_36

Sources to consider

 * Brett, Stephen F. (1994). Slavery and the Catholic Tradition: Rights in the Balance (American University Studies Series V, Philosophy. Peter Lang Publishing.  ISBN 978-0820423586.
 * Maxwell, John Francis. (1975). Slavery and the Catholic Church: The history of Catholic teaching concerning the moral legitimacy of the institution of slavery . isbn 978-0859920155.

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Albigensian Crusade - First papal inquisition

 * After a papal legate was put to death by the Cathars in 1208, Pope Innocent III declared the Albigensian Crusade. Abuses committed during the crusade prompted Innocent III to informally institute the first papal inquisition to prevent future abuses

Issues

 * Multiple issues with section on Catharism and the Medieval Inquisition
 * Whether to list the beliefs of Catharism
 * Whether it is important to mention the murder of the papal legate
 * Whether it is necessary to mention the low frequency of executions in the Medieval Inquisition

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Amerindian populations

 * Nevertheless, Amerindian populations suffered serious decline due to new diseases, inadvertently introduced through contact with Europeans,  which created a labor vacuum in the New World.

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Nazi Germany - World War II

 * Mit brennender Sorge, Pope Pius XI "condemned the neopaganism of the Nazi ideology-especially its theory of racial superiority...". Drafted by the future Pope Pius XII and read from the pulpits of all German Catholic churches, it described Hitler as an insane and arrogant prophet and was the first official denunciation of Nazism made by any major organization

Issues

 * Whether to use Bokenkotter's characterization of "Mit Brennender Sorge" which appears to be a selective quote from Falconi
 * Whether it is appropriate to get into the details of what David Kertzer and Pinchas Lapide asserted and what others though of Lapide's work
 * Whether the characterization of persecution in the Soviet Union is appropriate (considering that the persecution assuredly targeted Orthodox clergy more than Catholic clergy)
 * Whether it is necessary to cite the text of John Paul II's apology and to mention that he made it by inserting a prayer into the Western Wall
 * Whether the Church has encouraged or tolerated antisemitism over the course of history The Catholic Church in Croatia and anti-Semitism
 * Whether to mention the antisemitic statements and actions of Catholic clergy in Croatia The Catholic Church in Croatia and anti-Semitism

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