“For Now We See Through a Glass But Dimly”: The First Synod of the Diocese of Calgary and the State of Post-Vatican II English-Canadian Roman Catholicism
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Between 6-9 April1994 the Roman Catholic Diocese of Calgary held its first diocesan synod. The synod, convoked in December 1990 by the Most Rev. Paul O'Byrne, involved three and half years of extensive planning and consultation. The bishop hoped that such a gathering of clergy and laity would provide an opportunity to reinvigorate the diocese, overcome division, reach out to the alienated, engage the laity in the life of the Church, and breathe new life into the directions of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). Like many dioceses in the Canadian church, the Diocese of Calgary experienced declining lay participation, dwindling numbers of priests and religious, inadequate financial resources, and growing disunity between liberals and conservatives in the decades that followed Vatican II. A close examination of this diocesan synod thus provides a unique lens through which to explore the issues and developments that have shaped and defined English-Canadian Roman Catholicism since the Second Vatican Council. The resolutions and deliberations of the synod are especially important for the insights they provide into the concerns and priorities of the laity. The exclusion of many of the resolutions approved by the synod from the bishop's promulgation and the frustration and disappointment experienced by many delegates sheds considerable light on the continuing tensions that exist within the Canadian 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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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".