Towards a More Pastoral Approach: Examining Pope Francis' Ideas on Accompaniment and Contextuality as Resources for the Renewal of Ecclesial Engagement with Families in a Postcolonial Caribbean
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Abstract
This dissertation is interested in the dialectic between the enactment of magisterial norms on marriage and the family and the human experiences of kinship and relationality in the Caribbean in particular, and in the world church in general. It contends that while this dialectic is a concern throughout the global church, the legacy of colonialism and its recalibration in the current world system complicates the church’s ministry to families in the Caribbean. The situation is further complicated by the church’s own historical implication in the enterprise of European conquest and colonization. The logic of coloniality has meant that while colonial administration has ended in many places, global systems and policies continue to produce its effects in regions such as the Caribbean. This is layered on top of several other challenges facing marriages and families at this present moment. While marriage and family life are theological realities, they are also products of situated histories and cultures. This is the context within which the church’s ecclesial approach needs to be comprehensively worked out with honesty, humility, magnanimity and repentance. This dissertation argues that in his writings Pope Francis has made available resources that provide pathways toward a more meaningful pastoral approach to address the problem. By engaging a decolonial analytic, this study shows that his ideas on accompaniment and contextuality make an important contribution to the renewal of ecclesial approaches to marriage and family life in the Caribbean.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.032 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".