Talk:Catholic League (French)

message: Isn't this Catholic League also, and perhaps better, known as the "Holy League"?  I'd think it should at least mention that as a bold-alt-title.  Alai 16:25, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Find a ref for this and add it. TMLutas (talk) 03:31, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: I have returned the deleted References section, on the principle that this article will be rendered more wholesome and authentic when it sticks closely to assessments of reputable historians, and that deletions of references, under whatever justification, are not symptoms of a collegial view. I have edited together the suppressed historical view without deleting any of the RC apologia, for which unidentified references are asserted.--Wetman (talk) 03:05, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: I updated my first draft at updating this entry.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wsbonduran (talk • contribs) 02:59, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The article does need an overhaul. Perhaps some basic bibliography would make a start in the right direction.--Wetman (talk) 20:05, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: A recent edit under a summary "tried to edit out bias, provided balanced information" but which substitutes an uncritical RC whitewash, is scarcely a step in the right direction. This article now needs to be rewritten from ground up, sticking close to published assessments, both apologetical and historical. --Wetman (talk) 02:12, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

text: Substitution of one bias for another is not "balance", still less compliance with NPOV. Unfortunately, the bias tag must stick until an objective version comes along.FactStraight (talk) 23:03, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: The article says "The Catholic League of France aimed to preempt any shift in power to the Huguenots and to protect French Catholics' right to worship."  Was this right ever seriously threatened in France?  I know that in Germany, under Cuius regio, eius religio, there were Protestant states where Catholicism was banned, and in England too, but I was wondering if there were French Protestants who proposed this as a political program or if this is simply referring to fears based on the situation outside of France. --Jfruh (talk) 02:28, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Right to worship? 

message: "In a time when religious fundamentalism was unusual, the League was an extremist group bent on the eradication of French Protestants..." The very first paragraph provides information of questionable historicity.
 
If the 16th century (protestant reformation, religious wars in multiple countries, Wars of Kappel, Munster commune, massacre of Vassy, the Michelade, Saint Bartholomew's day massacre, The Schmalkaldic War, ...) wasn't a time of religious fundamentalism then there was no era of religious fundamentalism at all.
This sentence should be rewritten or removed. 
Furthermore I don't think that the eradication of Protestants was the sole main goal of the League. I suggest that keeping France a catholic monarchy was their primary objective. "Eradication of Protestantism"(as opposed to eradication of Protestants) would be a more neutral description of their activities.
Isidoros47 (talk) 00:09, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religious fundamentalism unusual???