Talk:catholic

Shouldn't the adjective sense be lower case "c" catholic? --Connel MacKenzie 07:41, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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I clicked the [rollback] button, and it seems I may have taken a good edit along with the (spam?) link. External links are supposed to be in the ===External links=== section only. --Connel MacKenzie T C 04:47, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

THE WORD "CATHOLIC"

It is interesting to me that an organization with rather strict beliefs and policies is known as "Catholic". I would like to know which came first, the word "Catholic" (in the Christian sense), or "catholic" (in the diverse sense).

The second meaning "all-encompassing" is the older one; it is also the meaning of the Greek word. The Catholic Church is named after its claim to be the universal Christian church. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 20:22, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

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catholic

Rfv-sense "Permissive of unprotected sex." (The label needs formatting into {{lb}}, btw.) I'm unfamiliar with and don't know how to search for this; I checked the first couple pages of results for google books:"catholic" "unprotected sex" and google books:"catholic sex" and didn't spot anything.

There can be little doubt that this references the ban of the Catholic Church on the use of contraceptives, including condoms.^[1] Rather than being permissive of unprotected sex, which is anyway only permitted between husband and wife to obey God's command to procreate, the Church has condemned the use of condoms as being against the law of God and of nature. It does not follow, and is also not true, that the Church condones unsafe sex; instead, it promotes abstinence as the alternative. The drive-by IP editor who added this sense presumably intended it as a joke that is also a jab against the Catholic Church.  --Lambiam 02:45, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

• RFV failed Wonderfool69 (talk) 20:57, 21 May 2023 (UTC)