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Sources & method.

How we write, what we cite, and how we fix mistakes.

Only Church-approved sources

  • The Catechism of the Catholic Church, cited by paragraph and linked to the official text on vatican.va.
  • Scripture in the Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision, public domain), quoted word for word. We plan to add other approved translations only with the publishers’ permission.
  • Documents of popes and councils, summarized briefly and linked to vatican.va.

No original theology

We restate what the Church teaches in plain words. We do not offer our own opinions on doctrine. Every teaching sentence carries a citation you can check. If a claim can’t be traced to an approved source, it doesn’t go on the site.

How each page is checked

  • Every Catechism number is checked against the official vatican.va text, and every short Catechism quotation must match it exactly.
  • Every Bible quotation is pulled automatically from the hosted Douay-Rheims text, so it can’t be misquoted.
  • Every teaching paragraph must carry at least one citation, or the page fails the build.
  • Pages are checked for spelling, accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA) and speed before they are published.

Honest about our limits

There is no theologian or priest reviewing this site. Drafts are prepared with the help of AI tools, then checked sentence by sentence against the sources above. That is why every claim is cited, and why reader reports matter.

The liturgical calendar is computed from the General Roman Calendar using the open-source romcal library, with national calendars as an option. If a date looks wrong for your country, please tell us.

Corrections

If you find an error, report it. We aim to acknowledge reports within 24 hours, take down a disputed teaching sentence within 24 hours while we check it, and publish fixes within 72 hours, with a public note of what changed.

Copyright notices

Excerpts from the English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church for use in the United States of America Copyright © 1994, United States Catholic Conference, Inc. – Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Used with Permission. English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Modifications from the Editio Typica copyright © 1997, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops – Libreria Editrice Vaticana.