Talk:Religious order

message: Should Society of the Sacred Heart be added? Or is is identical to another name already here, or does it not qualify?
Tualha 03:23, Nov 17, 2003 (UTC)
There are several different congregations that use Sacred Heart in their names.
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Anybody, please have a look at the Knights of the Cross page. Does it belong to the list here? Thank you. -- Matt Borak 14:11, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

message: Not all religious orders are monastic and not all members of religious orders are monks or nuns.
I also don't think it should be merged, as Monastic Order is a fairly long and independant page right now.Some guy 03:20, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do not merge with monastic order 

message: Religious Order is a much broader term than Monasticism. Typically Monastry is a place where Monks lead a prayerful secluded life. Religious Order is a society of people believing in a particular faith and typically leading a life helping others. Lot of times, people belonging to a religious order run Schools, Universities, Hospitals, Orphanages and a host of other missions to help people.
OK I see the point you are making . . . but that is not what the article is talking about.  The article talks about religious orders as being monastic groups.  All the current content of the article is already covered in 'monasticism.' I agree that this is not full picture of religious orders but the broader picture has not been written into this article.  Such as that the Jesuits are a religious order but they are not all monks.  If another article needs to be written then perhaps it does, but the content as it sits is simply duplicated.Danieljames626 03:19, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do not merge 

message: "Monastic" does not mean "religious order" fro all the reasons correctly outlined above
Cor Unum 10:47, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  DO NOT MERGE 

message: I have two main reasons
#Christian monasticism is a quite different thing from those religious orders that live active lives in the world.
#I'm not sure if the term "religious order" applies outside Christianity, but monasticism certainly does.
The article on religious orders is quite weak and tends to spill over into monasticism, but that could be solved by looking in greater detail on the varieties of religious orders.  The Mendicant orders (Franciscans and Dominicans) are prime candidates, one could also consider adding the various orders of canons, and the Jesuits have already be mentioned.  All of these deserve at least a paragraph in this article. --SteveMcCluskey 21:30, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Also, do not merge

message: I've tagged the section because it lacks neutral sources. ♥ ' ♥ (Talk) 13:51, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I'll reword this one ok? ♥ Xuandy ♥ (Talk) 15:14, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No, the section at Religious order#Jehovah's Witnesses already had three references, and two of the three are non-Witness ("neutral") publications. In any event, User:Xuandy chose the wrong tag for his issue. The POV tag has been removed. --AuthorityTam (talk) 16:08, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jehovah's Witness 

message: Is this sentence (under "Orthodox tradition") incoherent? There is no definition in the Oxford dictionary that conforms to this. Could someone expert rewrite it to be clearer? --lifeform (talk) 04:37, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Eastern Orthodox sources (of which I have cited a couple in the article) are better.  Esoglou (talk) 06:36, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "The profession of monastics is known as tonsure..."?? 

message: Not a single mention of Pagan, Masonic, Church of All Worlds, etc.!   GodOfNonTyranny 20:56, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extremely Biased Article