Talk:Reginald Foster (Latinist)

Recent Deaths nomination

I nominated this page for the Recent Deaths item on the English Wikipedia front page. {{ITN note}}

Schoen (talk) 02:48, 28 December 2020 (UTC)

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Funny inteview with Fr. Foster in Milwaukee: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MTSuIZqn84 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br-4-iEVYXU Bob Schram

Huh?

"The irony is that his outfit has a lot in common with that worn by plumbers." Maybe I'm missing some important contextual cue, but... what's ironic about that? -Agur bar Jacé (talk) 21:00, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Stop the vandalism

For some reason an editor, User:CENSEI is mass deleting a section of this article. Probably s/he is following my account, since it's an editor who has been a problem elsewhere that I've edited. The material deleted could probably use better citation, but it's most certainly not disparaging or libelous or anything like that. Nor implausible. For that matter, the citations are given in an approximate way in the body, they just need to get expanded citation details. Actually, the citation quality of the deleted section is quite a bit better than for the rest of the article.LotLE×talk 19:20, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm, how many ways can it be said : Unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material about living persons — whether the material is negative, positive, or just questionable — should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion, from Wikipedia articles, talk pages, user pages, and project space. CENSEI (talk) 19:44, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

If you actually believed that, you would have removed the lead and the teaching section. Also... well, everything else in the article. In fact, this strange overreading of WP:BLP would require you to delete the entirety of about 80% of all WP biographies. For some reason, you decided instead on random deletion of the section you did. Admittedly, it was poorly named before I changed it... but even so, there was nothing remotely "contentious" about the material. I have a funny feeling that deleting the section was out of some weird grudge of yours and/or a dislike of the recent film, Religulous, in which Foster was interviewed (and hence you vandalized the whole section in which I added that mention). LotLE×talk 19:56, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Religious views

views that he made apparent in the religulous movie seemed very significant, (enough so that they are mentioned in the intro ¿but not elaborated on in the body?). that movie is what brought me to this article in the first place because i wanted to know more about what he was talking about in the movie. ¿could some one add this?99.147.123.96 (talk) 18:32, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Latin liturgy

It seems that Fr. Foster is on the record as being a critic of the latin liturgy, saying that it made the Vatican look a bit medieval. This might seem uncharacteristic for a professional latinist, but then again Foster is somewhat of a “latin liberal”, like Voltaire and Diderot, since he has also expressed disbelief in things like inerrancy of Scripture or the literal existence of Hell. [1] ADM (talk) 16:03, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Reference Edit

Reference 4 from The Catholic News Agency in 2006 has a broken link.

The old link is https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=7855

The new link should be https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/7855/famous-latinist-fired-from-gregorian-university-announces-new-school

I would change it but I do not know how to. 443st (talk) 22:52, 3 October 2022 (UTC)