<i>Noli me Tangere</i> in a Reflection on Touch, Taboo, Clergy Child Sexual Abuse, and Pastoral Care
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract The phrase “Noli me tangere” (Do not touch me) is the Latin translation of a passage from John 20:17, in which the risen Jesus meets Mary Magdalene, and prohibits her not to touch him “because I have not yet ascended to the Father” (NRSV). Interpretations vary as to why Jesus refused to be touched by Mary Magdalene, and this essay places the passage in the context of clergy sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. “Noli me tangere” is typically uttered in a register of warning before a danger. Physical and sexual touching can cause harm and leave marks on the victim, and victims/survivors feel defiled and have a distorted view of their body and often do not like to be touched. Sexual relations between a child and an adult belong to the realm of taboo. The transgression of a taboo leads to the feeling of defilement and shame. A closer look at the characteristics of the sense of touch explains why the child feels involved in the act of sexual abuse. Provided with these insights, the author explores their implications for the use of touch in the care of victims/survivors of clergy sexual abuse.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
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".