{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T08:26:52Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 24.7, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a094b8-da99-7f33-b6a9-889fc10cd2ef\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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"vr.tr.catholic-church-in-australia", "name": "Catholic Church in Australia", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise the Catholic Church in Australia as a national ecclesial presence, assess its institutional state, and identify which authority or legal entity can legitimately act on a particular matter.", "definition": "The Catholic Church in Australia is the community of Latin and Eastern Catholic faithful and ecclesiastical institutions in Australia in communion with the pope, organised through dioceses, eparchies and other canonical structures rather than constituted as a single civil legal entity.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the collective identity, Australian institutional boundaries, ecclesiastical relationships, governance, public activities and accountability of the Catholic Church in Australia, while distinguishing that collective from its constituent bodies and their separate legal identities.", "in_scope": [ "National ecclesial identity and relationship to 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Torres Strait Islander peoples", "Catholics in Australia" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The Catholic Church through its Australian bishops, dioceses and eparchies.", "master_systems": [] }, "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Retraumatization of survivors by careless reporting." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Act 2018, Parliament of Australia." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "The Catholic Church in Australia is encountered through worshipping communities, dioceses, eparchies, religious institutes and institutions providing education, health care and social services.", "The national description supports discussion of religious life and public participation, while specific decisions require identification of the responsible ecclesiastical authority or civil entity." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "recognition": "This national ecclesial community has no single visible form, and buildings, clothing or symbols cannot establish institutional 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"service-affiliation-and-control", "name": "Service affiliation and control", "description": "Defines how education, health, aged-care and welfare institutions relate to the Church.", "findings": [ { "id": "institutional-responsibility-chain", "name": "Institutional responsibility chain", "description": "Record ecclesiastical recognition, sponsorship, ownership, operation and governance as distinct relationships for Catholic services.", "questions": [ { "text": "What makes the institution Catholic, and which body can confer, oversee or withdraw that recognition?", "kind": "definition", "id": "institutional-responsibility-chain-q01" }, { "text": "Which entities govern the service, employ its workforce and hold its assets, and how do those roles differ?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "institutional-responsibility-chain-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "worship-community-and-mission", "name": "Worship, community and mission", "description": "Makes the Church's religious participation, pastoral 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totals?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "participation-populations-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "pastoral-and-public-presence", "name": "Pastoral and public presence", "description": "Records how Catholic communities and institutions make worship, pastoral care and mission activities available.", "findings": [ { "id": "community-access-and-service-reach", "name": "Community access and service reach", "description": "Record coverage relevant to rural and remote communities, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, migrant communities and different Catholic traditions using evidenced local arrangements.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence describes access to worship and pastoral care across geography, language and Catholic tradition?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "community-access-and-service-reach-q01" }, { "text": "Which authority or institution can respond to an identified gap, and what community consultation is required?", "kind": "action", "id": 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"text": "Which safeguarding requirements and reporting routes apply to this entity, activity and Australian jurisdiction?", "kind": "action", "id": "entity-specific-safeguarding-accountability-q01" }, { "text": "What dated independent assessment or official record supports claims about implementation, corrective action or redress participation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "entity-specific-safeguarding-accountability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "reform-and-institutional-succession", "name": "Reform and institutional succession", "description": "Tracks the status of reform decisions and changes to constituent bodies.", "findings": [ { "id": "implementation-and-successor-responsibility", "name": "Implementation and successor responsibility", "description": "Record whether Australian Catholic reform commitments have been authorised and implemented, and how responsibilities transfer when institutions merge, close or change sponsorship.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Australian Catholic 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"evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Catholic Church in Australia this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Australian Business Number (ABN)", "value_or_pattern": "11 digits", "note": "Applicable Australian church entities may hold individual ABNs; these do not identify the entire Catholic Church in Australia as one organisation." }, { "scheme": "Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Charity Register", "value_or_pattern": "Entity name and ABN", "note": "Identifies registered charitable entities associated with the Church, rather than a universal registration for the national Catholic community." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Catholic Church in Australia this model covers, and on what evidence?", "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.", "evidence": [ "Code of Canon Law (1983), promulgated by the pope, governs the Latin Church.", "Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (1990), promulgated by the pope, governs Eastern Catholic churches.", "Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Act 2012, enacted by the Australian Parliament, provides the regulatory framework for entities registered with the ACNC." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Catholic Church in Australia this model covers, and on what evidence?", "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.", "evidence": [ "Worship, sacramental ministry and pastoral care.", "Religious education and operation of Catholic schools.", "Provision of health, aged-care and social services through associated organisations.", "Formation of clergy and religious communities.", "Public advocacy and engagement on social and ethical questions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Catholic Church in Australia this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Clergy and institutional sexual abuse, safeguarding failures and inadequate responses to survivors.", "Fragmented accountability across dioceses, religious institutes and separately governed service providers.", "Confusion between canonical authority, civil ownership and legal responsibility.", "Financial misconduct or inadequate oversight of charitable assets." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Catholic Church in Australia this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Territorial dioceses differ in geographic extent, population and pastoral needs, including remote-area ministry.", "Eastern Catholic jurisdictions may overlap geographically with Latin dioceses while serving distinct church traditions.", "Civil incorporation, property arrangements and applicable state or territory laws vary across Australia." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": 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