[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - catholic

[Guy Godfroy]

9 août 2021 23:55:35 Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com>:

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> Guy Godfroy <guy.godfroy at gugod.fr> writes:
>
>> Anyway I still disagree. On a semantic point of view, being catholic and
>> following the roman, greek, armenian or byzantine rite are totally
>> unrelated. Honestly, I think having one single denomination=catholic
>> even without another key would be more correct than the present situation.
>
> Do you have a reference to scholarly work in comparative religion that
> supports the view that the there is a Catholic denomination which has
> sub-denominations within it?

This isn't "scholar" but here is a Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_communion#List_of_Catholic_churches_in_full_communion

> This does not seem like parallel structure
> to the many denomimations that consider themselves Protestant.

I'm not talking about protestants or orthodox. Only catholic.

> Also, it seems that Catholic is (in the outside-of-OSM world) considered
> an abbrevation/synonum for Roman Catholic, and I would not have thought
> it reasonable to refer to members of a Greek Orthodox church as
> Catholics. 

There are not catholic. They are orthodox.

And, it seems that there is one denomination "Eastern
> Orthodox" with 7 national churches, and another "Coptic Orthodox".

Again. Not catholic.

> I'm not an expert in this, but I have a general reaction that OSM
> tagging should be informed by consensus nomenclature of professional
> scholarship of the things being tagged.