Vatican <scp>ii</scp> and Feminism: Recovered Memories and Refreshed Hopes
Bibliographic record
Abstract
While the Second Vatican Council may have never used the word feminism in its documents, the decision to invite twenty-three women auditors to its third and fourth sessions began a trajectory of women's participation in theology and official church life that cannot be underestimated. The work of M. Carmel McEnroy and Catherine Clifford, as well as recent archival research, has recovered the informal but influential role these women played during the council. Yet possibly the most significant achievement of Vatican ii for women was that it afforded them the chance to become theologians and participate in the development of “feminist theologies.” The article traces the historical evolution of feminist theologies as “contextual” theologies, narrating how its projects embrace both “modern” and “postmodern” sensibilities. Given the recent call of Pope Francis for a “more incisive female presence in the church,” new hopes have arisen for what many in the church have considered a stalled trajectory of women's inclusion and participation in decision-making. The “pattern dynamics” of the next fifty years will tell whether or not Catholic women will finally cross the threshold to authentic baptismal equality in the church.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".