{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.catholic-church-in-argentina","code":"thing-q1813246","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1813246/","name":"Catholic Church in Argentina","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 Argentina is the collective presence of the Catholic Church within Argentina, comprising Latin and Eastern Catholic ecclesiastical jurisdictions and their communities in communion with the pope, rather than a single autonomous national church.","purpose":"Enable an agent to recognise the Catholic Church in Argentina as a national ecclesial presence, assess its institutional and pastoral state, and identify which authority can permit a proposed 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entity and authorised representative would enter an agreement or answer for an obligation?","id":"applicable-civil-standing-q02","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"ownership-funding-and-stewardship","name":"Ownership, funding and stewardship","description":"Attributes property and financial responsibilities to evidenced entities.","findings":[{"id":"resource-control-and-conditions","name":"Resource control and conditions","description":"Record ownership, administration, funding sources and restrictions without assuming common national ownership.","questions":[{"text":"Who owns and who administers the relevant property, funds or institution?","id":"resource-control-and-conditions-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"What donor conditions, public funding terms or ecclesiastical permissions constrain its use or transfer?","id":"resource-control-and-conditions-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"pastoral-presence-and-participation","name":"Pastoral presence and participation","description":"Assesses 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