Template talk:Catholic Church sidebar

Add border around sidebar

I propose adding a border around the sidebar. At present, the template can blend into pages due to the fact that most of the content is concealed within collapsed lists and the template as a whole isn't that striking. It's mostly blank space (again due more than half of it consisting of collapsed lists). Adding a border around the edges would make the sidebar pop out more and clearly delineate it as separate and distinct from the article text. This is already done with {{Sidebar person}}. I have added this to the sandbox here. Ergo Sum 02:27, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

Done. Ergo Sum 14:05, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Edit request, 28 March 2019

Please remove "Catholic Church and Pandeism", which appears to place this alleged topic on a par with Islam and Judaism. 2600:8800:1880:FC:5604:A6FF:FE38:4B26 (talk) 23:33, 27 March 2019 (UTC) UTC)

• Note, please, above IP is now blocked for misconduct. See Talk:Catholic Church and Pandeism for well-participated consensus this article is fine as it is. There is no sort of rule that everything in the template must be of equivalent importance. Next person could come along insisting the Judaism page be removed on the claim of Islam being more important under current demographics. We need more of these, not fewer. Hyperbolick (talk) 22:42, 30 March 2019 (UTC)

 Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. — Newslinger talk 09:33, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

Deism and pandeism

There is no significance established for promoting these heresies to the same level as Judaism and Islam. The Catholic Church has no "relations" with deism or pandeism in particular; they are especially not notable enough to feature in a sidebar of limited space and scope. (Disclosure: I was the editor above known as "2600:8800:1880:FC:5604:A6FF:FE38:4B26".) Elizium23 (talk) 23:46, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Significant enough for the Church itself to write of its own efforts to crush Deism. Hyperbolick (talk) 23:50, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Sure bruh... incidentally, notability is established by "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". If we're going to admit deism and pandeism to this sidebar, then let's open 'er up to the other "Catholic Church and..." articles: there's "health care", "Nazi Germany", "slavery", "Politics in the United States", "HIV/AIDS", "evolution", etc. Why stop at your pet projects alone? Elizium23 (talk) 23:55, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Absolutely, include all of them. Make the most informative collection of links possible. Hyperbolick (talk) 00:01, 3 July 2019 (UTC)

THE TEMPLATE IS NOT TOO CATHOLIC AND ALSO, THESE TOPICS IS TOTAL NONSENSE, IN SHORT, NOT NECESSARY AND NOT EVEN WORTHY TO MENTION ON SIDEBAR

Anti-Catholicism (Why would you add this content in a sidebar talking about Catholic Church?)

Other Philosophies (Total nonsense, Monasticism should be moved to Philosophy section amd I wonder why these editors fail to mention Scholasticism which is Catholic's mark of distiinction when compared to other sects notably Eastern orthodox.)

NOTE:

Some topics leads to Interfaith pages instead of Catholic view such as "Theotokos".

Should we add the 'controversies'? Also, some topics included in 'controversies' should not be considered controversy like the Church's view on evolution. IS EVOLUTION ACCEPTED ACCEPTED BY MAJORITY OF PEOPLE NOWADAYS? WHY WOULD YOU CALL IT CONTROVERSY? HOW STUPID IT IS. Royalistandlegitimist (talk) 04:15, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

A collapsible option?

Hopefully there is at least one person who has this on their watchlist. This sidebar was recently removed from Eastern Catholic Churches, where it was contributing to a glut of material crowding the actual text of the article. However, it offers a lot of fairly important navigational aids for those interested in the topic more broadly. Perhaps we should devise a collapsed sidebar that can be used alongside infoboxes without taking up a whole screen? Best, ~ Pbritti (talk) 21:25, 22 September 2026 (UTC)