Talk:Catholic Church in India

Ecclesiastical Provinces
I changed it to a buletted list. Numbering is synonymous with ranking of the provinces. --Victor 18:08, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I think the list can be moved to another entry directing it from here. So that we can have room on more to talk about the History of Roman Catholicism in India and the contemporary situations. Any comments on that? Cheers ώiki Ѕαи Яоzε†αLҝ 22:13, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
 * done ώiki Ѕαи Яоzε†αLҝ 12:56, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Honest Question
Why is it called ROMAN Catholicism in India? If you are talking about the Latin Rite Only I might see the connection but we never call it Roman Catholicism. It is just Catholicism, or if we need to differentiate, we call it Latin Rite Catholicism or just the Latin Church. However, this article seems to be refering to all Catholics in India, Syrian Rite as well as Latin Rite and I also know of a hand full of guest Greek Rite Churches that use the Slavonic language which I do not understand of course but still, they are just as Catholic. Maybe I just do not understand your naming conventions in the English langauge but it seems to me that the article should just be Catholicism in India and include every kind of Catholicism in India. If you want to make an article about just the Latin Church centered in Rome as it exist in India then Maybe Roman Catholicism makes sense but a better name would be Latin Catholicism in India. Maybe I am being too technical but I just do not see how the name Roman Catholicism can be used and not cause a misunderstanding or hard feelings. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.127.251.137 (talk) 02:05, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know but I agree, I think it is because there are like two Anglicans on wikipedia who refuse to call us anything but Roman Catholic - funny since "Roman" Catholic was coined by reformation Anglicans to distinguish us(and I am Eastern Catholic not Latin Catholic) from the protestant state church. I am editing the content to remove "Roman" and replace it with Syromalabar etc when needed. Zaynaq (talk) 17:07, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I guess it would best to move the article to Catholic Church in India. Wiki San Roze†αLҝ 12:07, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Nestorianism
The part relating to the Nestorians (Saint Thomas Christians), under "Arrival of the Portuguese," needs to be rewritten.

In particular, it says:

"Most of them were following Nestorianism, which essentially viewed Mary, mother of Jesus Christ as a human being. This was in sharp contrast to the beliefs of the Latin Church which saw Mother Mary as Blessed Virgin Mary and Mother of God."

The phrase "mother of Jesus Christ as a human being" could be greatly misunderstood if the sentence is read with an implicit comma ("...Nestorianism, which essentially viewed Mary, mother of Jesus Christ, as a human being.") Obviously, everyone -- Latin or not -- believes that Mary is a human being.

Nestorius objected to the saying that "God was born," "God suffered," "God died" and so forth. So thus, he opposed to the common title of Mary as the "Theotokos" or "God-bearer" ("Mother of God"), proposing "Christotokos" as an alternative.

So what the sentence is trying to say is that Nestorians believe that Mary is only mother of Jesus' human nature. Opponents of Nestorius said that this was making Jesus into two people -- a human person and a divine person -- and essentially denying the Incarnation, as they understood it. Nestorius was excommunicated at the Council of Ephesus in 431.

I don't know how this sentence could be rewritten but trying to summarize a major theological debate in the Early Church on the nature of Christ in two sentences is rather difficult. Perhaps the paragraph should simply link to the article on Nestorianism rather than trying to summarize Nestorian beliefs.

Also, Nestorianism is already summarized earlier in the article, under "Early Christianity in India":

"Later, when the Western missionaries reached India, they accused this community of practicing Nestorianism, a heresy that separates Christ's divinity from his human nature."

This is not a bad summary. So perhaps this second summary of Nestorianism could simply be removed.

After all, this introduces a conflict in the article. The broader part of the quote I just used says:

"Later, when the Western missionaries reached India, they accused this community of practicing Nestorianism, a heresy that separates Christ's divinity from his human nature. However, many historians have rejected that the community was Nestorian and assert that this community was indeed practicing the Catholic faith in East Syriac traditions, before the arrival of European missionaries."

But then later in the article, it says:

"They made contact with the St Thomas Christians in Kerala, which at that time were following Eastern Christian practices and were under the jurisdiction of Church of the East. Most of them were following Nestorianism, which essentially viewed Mary, mother of Jesus Christ as a human being. This was in sharp contrast to the beliefs of the Latin Church which saw Mother Mary as Blessed Virgin Mary and Mother of God."

So were they or were they not Nestorian at the time? The article says "many historians" (this also needs a added) "have rejected that the community was Nestorian" but then later says "Most of them were following Nestorianism." So which is it? 50.125.90.241 (talk) 00:07, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Catholic Church in India
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Catholic Church in India's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "britannica": From Caste system among Indian Christians: Christian Castes Encyclopædia Britannica From Thomas the Apostle: </li> </ul>

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 09:43, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

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