Catholic Church and homosexuality

Homosexuality and the Catholic Church - Attitude of the Catholic Church to homosexuality and gay people. Article “Catholic Church and homosexuality” in English Wikipedia has 85.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 208 references and 16 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Catholic Church and homosexuality” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Catholic Church and homosexuality”, its content was written by 408 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 958 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 358 times in English Wikipedia and cited 894 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1607 in August 2014
• Global: #5460 in October 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #56281 in October 2020
• Global: #49732 in October 2020

There are 12 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Catholic Church and homosexuality		85.7143
2	Swedish (sv) Katolska kyrkan och homosexualitet		79.1228
3	German (de) Homosexualität und römisch-katholische Kirche		76.1905
4	Italian (it) Omosessualità e cattolicesimo		68.8319
5	Catalan (ca) Homosexualitat i catolicisme		55.7264
6	Spanish (es) Iglesia católica y homosexualidad		47.7919
7	Czech (cs) Homosexualita a katolická církev		36.8589
8	Portuguese (pt) Homossexualidade e catolicismo		30.6711
9	Indonesian (id) Gereja Katolik dan homoseksualitas		29.183
10	French (fr) Position de l'Église catholique sur l'homosexualité		20.1402

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Catholic Church and homosexuality" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Catholic Church and homosexuality		1 828 415
2	Spanish (es) Iglesia católica y homosexualidad		449 888
3	Italian (it) Omosessualità e cattolicesimo		332 921
4	German (de) Homosexualität und römisch-katholische Kirche		258 372
5	Portuguese (pt) Homossexualidade e catolicismo		226 038
6	Japanese (ja) 同性愛とカトリック		129 411
7	Indonesian (id) Gereja Katolik dan homoseksualitas		58 416
8	French (fr) Position de l'Église catholique sur l'homosexualité		55 747
9	Czech (cs) Homosexualita a katolická církev		11 034
10	Esperanto (eo) Samseksemo kaj katolikismo		2 583

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Catholic Church and homosexuality" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Catholic Church and homosexuality		10 181
2	Spanish (es) Iglesia católica y homosexualidad		1 647
3	German (de) Homosexualität und römisch-katholische Kirche		560
4	Italian (it) Omosessualità e cattolicesimo		543
5	Portuguese (pt) Homossexualidade e catolicismo		477
6	French (fr) Position de l'Église catholique sur l'homosexualité		452
7	Japanese (ja) 同性愛とカトリック		311
8	Indonesian (id) Gereja Katolik dan homoseksualitas		119
9	Czech (cs) Homosexualita a katolická církev		108
10	Swedish (sv) Katolska kyrkan och homosexualitet		38

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Catholic Church and homosexuality" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Catholic Church and homosexuality		408
2	Italian (it) Omosessualità e cattolicesimo		209
3	German (de) Homosexualität und römisch-katholische Kirche		165
4	Spanish (es) Iglesia católica y homosexualidad		54
5	Portuguese (pt) Homossexualidade e catolicismo		27
6	French (fr) Position de l'Église catholique sur l'homosexualité		23
7	Japanese (ja) 同性愛とカトリック		23
8	Czech (cs) Homosexualita a katolická církev		20
9	Swedish (sv) Katolska kyrkan och homosexualitet		10
10	Indonesian (id) Gereja Katolik dan homoseksualitas		8

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Catholic Church and homosexuality" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Catholic Church and homosexuality		3
2	Spanish (es) Iglesia católica y homosexualidad		3
3	German (de) Homosexualität und römisch-katholische Kirche		1
4	Indonesian (id) Gereja Katolik dan homoseksualitas		1
5	Catalan (ca) Homosexualitat i catolicisme		0
6	Czech (cs) Homosexualita a katolická církev		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Samseksemo kaj katolikismo		0
8	French (fr) Position de l'Église catholique sur l'homosexualité		0
9	Italian (it) Omosessualità e cattolicesimo		0
10	Japanese (ja) 同性愛とカトリック		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Catholic Church and homosexuality" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Catholic Church and homosexuality		358
2	Japanese (ja) 同性愛とカトリック		262
3	Indonesian (id) Gereja Katolik dan homoseksualitas		102
4	Italian (it) Omosessualità e cattolicesimo		60
5	German (de) Homosexualität und römisch-katholische Kirche		30
6	Spanish (es) Iglesia católica y homosexualidad		28
7	Portuguese (pt) Homossexualidade e catolicismo		28
8	Czech (cs) Homosexualita a katolická církev		12
9	French (fr) Position de l'Église catholique sur l'homosexualité		6
10	Esperanto (eo) Samseksemo kaj katolikismo		4

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Homosexualitat i catolicisme
cs	Czech Homosexualita a katolická církev
de	German Homosexualität und römisch-katholische Kirche
en	English Catholic Church and homosexuality
eo	Esperanto Samseksemo kaj katolikismo
es	Spanish Iglesia católica y homosexualidad
fr	French Position de l'Église catholique sur l'homosexualité
id	Indonesian Gereja Katolik dan homoseksualitas
it	Italian Omosessualità e cattolicesimo
ja	Japanese 同性愛とカトリック
pt	Portuguese Homossexualidade e catolicismo
sv	Swedish Katolska kyrkan och homosexualitet

Best Rank

English: #56281 10.2020

Global: #49732 10.2020

Best Rank

English: #1607 08.2014

Global: #5460 10.2020

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