The History of the Congregation of Holy Cross by James T. Connelly (review)
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Abstract
Reviewed by: The History of the Congregation of Holy Cross by James T. Connelly Sean P. Phillips The History of the Congregation of Holy Cross. By James T. Connelly, C.S.C. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020. Pp. xxiii, 440. $49.00. ISBN: 978-0-268-10885-4.) The Congregation of Holy Cross was founded in response to the spiritual and material needs French Catholics faced in the field of education following the French Revolution. Starting as the Brothers of Saint Joseph in 1820, the community grew from serving primary schools in Le Mans, France, into an international spiritual family of priests, brothers, sisters, and lay collaborators working across five continents. James Connelly, C.S.C., as congregational archivist draws on the collections of the institutions and ministries of his community to present the first general history of the Congregation. The author does not dwell on individuals except in their relationship to the particular works of the Congregation. This is a history of institutions, with the University of Notre Dame, missions in Bengal, and the Oratory of St. Joseph in Montreal looming large. He outlines nearly two centuries of the community's history in universities and parishes while not dwelling on any one of them in depth. This book is intended as an introduction to the Congregation for general audiences and a starting point for further reading. His ample notes give incredible depth to these modest claims, and it is a great service to scholars of religious history particularly in Europe and North America. The book stops at 1998, leaving it for someone else to add the Congregation's contemporary history. Connelly admits the potential weaknesses of this book at the outset. It is not per se about particular people, nor does it explicitly treat the spirituality and charism of the Congregation, or systematically chronicle the contribution of female communities in the Holy Cross tradition. That is to say, it is not a comprehensive work that would require volumes. To his credit, anyone familiar with the charism of religious communities will agree that all these facets permeate the works of a congregation to such an extent that they become two sides of the same coin. Sean P. Phillips Our Lady of Victory Church (Washington, DC) Copyright © 2023 The Catholic University of America Press
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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 | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 0.004 |
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".