Principles and Formatting Guidelines for Religious Categories

Could the section on 'Punctuation and Abbreviations' please provide advice on the use of apostrophes.

Existing categories often include them (for example Category:St Mary's Church, Streatley, Berkshire ), but often do not (for example Category:St Mary Church, Speen, Berkshire or Category:St Giles Church, Reading, Berkshire)

I cannot find a Catholic, Religious Order category for Sisters of the Precious Blood, with or without “Sisters Adorers …” as in early and Wikipedia titles.

There are enough members in my extended family to make this category worthwhile. It was founded in Canada but also existed in the U.S. Can the project help with this?

I would like to add a category for a small country church where many ancestors have been members. New here. Would this be the right way to do it?

Profiles are placed in this category with this text [[]] .

As an example here's an obit referencing a service at the church as recently as 2019. https://obits.mlive.com/us/obituaries/annarbor/name/emery-gross-obituary?id=9780924

I would like to add this category for example to profile Russell-31412 among others. Thanks!

This has lost me a bit. Where does a Roman Catholic or Church of Ireland parish fit into this scheme?

What is this category Lutheran professional Genealogist about? Would who ever in this category be able to help??? I just starting to build this project.

I started a new Lutheran Project. I had someone in project asking about Famous Lutherans and adding them to project.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Lutheran

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Lutheran%2C_Professional_Genealogists

Billie

Regarding Catholicism: there are many inaccuracies in the following paragraph regardring Catholicism. As a catholic priest i can assure you that the term Catholic Church refers to ALL the particular Churches, both Western and Eastern, that compose it. Thus, what you here consider to be 'The Catholic Church is really the Latin Church (with several rites: Roman Rite, Ambrosian RIte, etc.). To this same Catholic Church belong all the Eastern Catholic Churches which are in communion with the Pope, Bishop of Rome, who is Supreme Pontiff of the whole Church, including necessarily all the Particular Churches making up the universal Catholic Church. There is no such thing as denominations within the Catholic Church. Rightly do the particular Churches deserve a Subcategory, but it must be under Catholic Church, for the term Catholic Church is not limited to the Latin Church, but covers all the particular Churches in Communion with Rome and with one another. Thus, under Catholic Church should be the sub-category Latin Church to which a majority of Catholics belong. Then there will be Sub-categories such as : Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Coptic Catholic Church, Maronite Catholic Church, Chaldean Catholic Church, and so forth, which are all Eastern Rite Churches, whereas the Latin Church to which most of us belong is a Western Rite Church. What is quoted here below is simply not right, for Catholic Church is not equal to Western Rite or Latin Church. Thank you!

In the process of working on the Category: Catholic Church category description, a G2G discussion occurred regarding different forms or rites for Mass in different churches in Catholicism and how those rites affect categories. As noted in that discussion, the focus of the structure of categories in these Principles is on the internal hierarchy of the churches themselves, not on the specific rites or practices used at any given time by any group or differences in theology or doctrine not reflected in the Church's own denominations and hierarchy. Those churches which are "in communion" with the Pope in Rome (whether accepting the Pope as supreme leader or not) have their own internal organizational structures rather than being a part of the hierarchy of episcopal conferences and dioceses which make up the main stream body of the western tradition Catholic Church. Thus, such churches, including the 23 autonomous Eastern Catholic Churches, are not included in Category: Catholic Church and its subcategories. Instead, these and other churches practicing Catholicism which have their own internal organizations should have their own categories under Category: Catholicism named according to the official name of each church with their own subcategories fitting their internal organization. For example, Category: Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is not a subcategory below Category: Catholic Church, but it is still under the structure for Category: Catholicism

Just a quick correction so a copy/paste error doesn't confuse people: Under item #3 under crosslinking congregations and related cemeteries, the second sample text (to put on the cemetery page) should read

Related: [[:Category: St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Savanna, Illinois]]

I moved the comments to the previous content of this page to the bottom of the page to preserve them while also avoiding confusion as to which comments relate to the recently adopted principles and which relate to earlier discussion drafts.

Vicky, I've sent you a private message so you will get my email to ease consulting. I've also added you to the info box on the Baha'i categories as an Interested Wikitreer so we keep track of who to consult until we have a project name to add.

Hi folks,

Regarding the Baha'i categories, I am the one who originally created them and I'd be happy to consult about how they might fit into the system you're creating here. I am an active member of the Baha'i Faith and have been chronicling the lives of some of our early adherants for some time now.

Kind regards,

Vicky Majewski