Green Catholicism, Passionist Style: St. Gabriel's Roman Catholic Church, Toronto, Third Sunday of Easter, 22 April 2007
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Abstract
Green Catholicism, Passionist Style: St. Gabriel's Roman Catholic Church, Toronto, Third Sunday of Easter, 22 April 2007 Environmental awareness has generally increased in past generation, and many western churches will at least seek to save some energy costs by weather-stripping their doors, caulking their windows, and blowing light insulation into their walls. Some churches do more. For example, Trinity Episcopal Church, Boston, as part of a $53-million restoration project that was completed at end of 2004, used materials made from sustainable resources and tapped deep wells for geothermal heating. But only a rare few aim for North American standard for buildings, which is certification by Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). LEED makes sure that a building site has been prepared with a minimal ecological footprint, that renewable resources have been used, that energy and water are being conserved, that air is being kept clean, and that environment is not being polluted, among other things. Its detailed and very modern performance standards make LEED system quite impractical for renovations of historic buildings, including old churches. But there are a few instances of LEED-certified worship spaces in new constructions, including Keystone Community Church in Ada, Michigan; Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church in Little Rock, Arkansas; and Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Wayne County in Wooster, Ohio. In Canada only LEED-certified church is Passionist parish of St. Gabriel of Sorrowful Virgin Roman Catholic Church-or St. Gabe's-on Sheppard Avenue East, in Willowdale section of Toronto. As soon as it was consecrated in November 2006, this stunning building was claiming public attention. Lisa Rochon in Globe and Mail of Toronto called it a miracle (5 October 2006). Christopher Hume, influential architecture critic for Toronto Star, identified it as of those rare projects that everyone should visit (17 May 2007). In May 2007 it won green design award in city's annual Green Toronto competition. Its environmental engineering alone is not, however, what makes St. Gabriel's important for church historian, theologian, and liturgist. What makes it important is its ecotheological design, inspired by thought of Thomas Berry (b. 1914), a former professor at Fordham University, who loved work of Teilhard de Chardin. Berry, like staff members of St. Gabriel's, is a member of Congregation of Passion, a Roman Catholic community founded by an Italian known as St. Paul of Cross (1694-1775). The founder promoted meditation on sufferings of Jesus; today's Passionists also contemplate the Passion endured by creation itself in despoliation and exploitation of our Earth, in words of one of St. Gabriel's websites (www .thepassionists.org/st-gabriel-ontario-parish.html; church has another website at www.stgabrielsparish.ca). The architect for St. Gabriel's new building, Roberto Chiotti, has earned degrees not only in architecture but also in theology, and for latter he studied with a Passionist priest and professor, Stephen Dunn, founder of Elliott Allen Centre for Ecology and Theology in Toronto. St. Gabriel's was established in 1951 north of Toronto on seven-and-a-half acres next to a rural road that cut through farmland. At that time Roman Catholic archbishop of Toronto recognized that this area would be growing in population, and he enlisted three religious orders, including Passionists, to build and administer churches there. The first St. Gabriel's seated five hundred in a drafty brick building. The archdiocese's contract with Passionists gave them authority over St. Gabriel's pleno jure and in perpetuum. Congregational leaders say that when canon lawyers read these terms today, their mouths gape. Such a sweeping grant of jurisdiction is no longer given. …
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 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) | 0.002 | 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 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".