Talk:Consecrated life

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[edit] Consecrated Life: hermits in the Roman Catholic Church

Someone added quotations from the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

1) I do not consider it appropriate to include these quotations in a general article on the Consecrated Life. If such extensive quotations from the Catechism ought to be given in Wikipedia, their place is in the article on hermits. But since apart from taking up space no harm is done by leaving them in here, I am leaving the decision whether to delete the quotations from the Catechism to later editors.

2) A more important point: The undoubtedly interesting comments from the Catechism must not detract from the fact that in the Roman Catholic Church it is the Code of Canon Law 1983 that is normative, not the Catechism, which is merely a kind of commentary (see the Apostolic Constitution "Fidei Depositum" on the purpose of the Catechism). Therefore I had previously provided the text of canon 603 concerning consecrated hermits and moved the quotations from the Catechism added by someone else to a position further down. But on re-visiting the article today I found that a subsequent editor deleted the text of canon 603 and in its place moved back the quotations from the Catechism. I have now restored the text of canon 603 to the appropriate place in the article (and – again out of consideration for the other editor's apparently strong interest in the quotations from the Catechism – have not deleted them but relegated them once more to a posterior position).

11:59, 6 July 2007 (UTC)