Talk:Canonical visitation

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"Confusing" Tag[edit]

I have removed the tag: "All or part of this article may be confusing or unclear."

The language of the article is formal and ecclesiastical, and some paragraphs are formidably long. However this is well-written prose. If Wikipedia had a scale of clarity for articles, this one would rank fairly high, IMO.

Wanderer57 (talk) 03:45, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Concrete and contemporary examples[edit]

Most of the text is still from the 1913 Encylopedia, however there should be information on modern practices, such as the use of the Visitation to wipe out homosexual behaviour among priests [1] and to examine the situation of feminist nuns [2]. ADM (talk) 06:01, 31 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

additionally, the article focuses exclusively on Roman Catholicism. Parochial visitation was a very important institution in Reformation Germany (partly co-opted by the state) and elsewhere, including the Church of England. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.36.187.181 (talk) 16:48, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Visitation is more than Roman Catholic[edit]

I believe that you will find that the visitation is carried out by more than the Roman Catholic church, as it is/was done by the Anglican Church. See Clergy of the CofE database. — billinghurst sDrewth 06:38, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@Billinghurst: Does the term "Canonical visitation" only relate to the Catholic Church or not? I have not found any non-Catholic use of the expression.

If enough secondary or tertiary sources are found in support of visitations being used outside of Catholicism, those information can be added and the article may be renamed to a broader name (Visitation (Christianity) is already taken, and I have no better idea). Veverve (talk) 15:27, 2 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]