{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.catholic-church-in-brazil","code":"thing-q1426688","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1426688/","name":"Catholic Church in Brazil","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Society, people and institutions","entryKind":"thing","plane":"SOC","domain":["SOC.ORG"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"The Catholic Church in Brazil is the community of Catholic faithful and ecclesiastical institutions in Brazil in communion with the pope, comprising Latin and Eastern Catholic jurisdictions rather than a single national corporation.","purpose":"Enable an agent to identify the Catholic Church in Brazil, assess its institutional and pastoral condition, and determine which ecclesiastical or civil authority can authorize a proposed action.","scope":{"in":["Criteria for including communities and institutions within the Catholic Church in Brazil","Ecclesiastical jurisdictions, national coordination and relationships with the Holy See","Clergy, religious and lay participation in pastoral and institutional life","Territorial access to worship, sacraments and pastoral services","Accountability, institutional resources and relationships with Brazilian public life"],"out":["The universal Catholic Church's complete doctrine and worldwide governance","Independent Catholic denominations outside communion with the Holy See","Detailed operational models of individual schools, hospitals and charitable organizations","Individual biographies, sacramental records and personal religious beliefs","Buildings and sacred objects as architectural or material assets"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Inclusion depends on a documented relationship to Catholic ecclesiastical authority, rather than use of the word Catholic in an institution's name.","The country-level church must be distinguished from the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil, or CNBB; a coordinating body is not interchangeable with every jurisdiction it serves.","A national description must identify the relevant constituent authority before attributing ownership, employment, decisions or liabilities.","The model must accommodate Catholic communities with different ritual and jurisdictional arrangements without assuming that all belong to an identical territorial structure.","Self-identified Catholic population, participation in parish life and formal institutional coverage are distinct measures of presence."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"ecclesial-identity-and-boundaries","name":"Ecclesial identity and boundaries","description":"Establishes what the national designation includes and how constituent identities are verified.","layers":[{"id":"communion-and-inclusion","name":"Communion and inclusion","description":"Tests the ecclesiastical basis for including a community or 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hold?","id":"representation-and-binding-effect-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"What instrument establishes whether this national statement or decision binds, advises or represents the affected bodies?","id":"representation-and-binding-effect-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"population-and-pastoral-presence","name":"Population and pastoral presence","description":"Connects religious identification to the distribution and accessibility of Catholic community life.","layers":[{"id":"religious-identification","name":"Religious identification","description":"Makes demographic claims comparable and explicit about their measurement basis.","findings":[{"id":"dated-catholic-population","name":"Dated Catholic population","description":"Record Catholic identification using the source's actual categories, geographic units and population universe.","questions":[{"text":"How many people identify as Catholic in the relevant Brazilian geography, for which reference year and survey 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relevant?","id":"effective-pastoral-coverage-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"ministry-resources-and-accountability","name":"Ministry, resources and accountability","description":"Relates pastoral responsibilities to personnel, assets and mechanisms for answering for institutional conduct.","layers":[{"id":"ministry-and-operational-control","name":"Ministry and operational control","description":"Distinguishes pastoral authorization from employment, ownership and management.","findings":[{"id":"responsibility-for-people-and-assets","name":"Responsibility for people and assets","description":"Map the bodies responsible for clergy, religious, lay workers and resources used in a Catholic activity.","questions":[{"text":"Which diocese, religious institute, association or other entity authorizes the ministry, employs its workers and controls its assets?","id":"responsibility-for-people-and-assets-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"Which responsible entity must approve the proposed staffing, funding or property action?","id":"responsibility-for-people-and-assets-q02","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"oversight-and-safeguarding","name":"Oversight and safeguarding","description":"Records applicable reporting channels and evidence of accountability at the responsible entity.","findings":[{"id":"verifiable-accountability-arrangements","name":"Verifiable accountability arrangements","description":"Assess documented safeguarding, complaint handling and financial oversight while distinguishing policy from implementation.","questions":[{"text":"What current safeguarding, complaint and financial oversight arrangements apply to this Brazilian Catholic body, and what evidence demonstrates their operation?","id":"verifiable-accountability-arrangements-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which ecclesiastical and civil channels are appropriate for the specific concern, and what reporting duties require 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identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Catholic Church in Brazil this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-identifiers-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-standards-and-regulation","name":"Standards and regulation","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Catholic Church in Brazil this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-real-world-use","name":"Real-world use","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Catholic Church in Brazil this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-real-world-use-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards","name":"Failure modes and 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