Learning to Love the World Anew: Vatican <scp>ii</scp> and Catholic Social Ethics
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Abstract
This article explores how Catholic social ethics was developed and transformed since the late 1950s. It notes major shifts in perspective, method, and focus, thanks to John xxiii, before turning to examine how Vatican ii itself took this transformation further still, through the conciliar discussions and eventual key documents. It offers a summary and assessment of the most important conciliar documents in this respect. It then, in turn, explores the most significant developments in Catholic social ethics under each subsequent pontificate, focusing both on key teaching documents and on notable events, movements, and methods that emerged. In exploring the ebb and flow in Catholic social ethics in this period, the article particularly compares differing church-world dynamics evident in each period considered. Finally, it offers an overview and assessment of the transformative effect of Pope Francis's pontificate to date upon social ethics. In offering “joined-up” social ethics, Francis is not only helping to make the social vision of Vatican ii a major missionary priority for the church once again in interconnected and surprising ways, but is also offering genuinely groundbreaking contributions to the corpus of social thought and practice. As increasing numbers of Catholics find renewed inspiration in the socially transformative power of the gospel once more and find collaborators who share such values, the coming decades could prove to be among the most fruitful of all for the church's call to justice.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.020 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".