How this site is made
Editorial Standards
You have arrived at a site about the Catholic faith run by people you have never met. That is a fair reason for caution. This page explains exactly how the work is done, so you can judge it on its method rather than on our word.
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How doctrine is sourced
Every doctrinal claim on this site is traced to one of three places: the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Sacred Scripture, or the Church Fathers. Where a claim is contested, developed over time, or easily misunderstood, we say so rather than flattening it.
The rule we hold ourselves to is simple: if a teaching cannot be sourced, it does not get published. Not softened, not hedged — omitted. A devotional site that guesses at doctrine is worse than no site at all.
Where a term is likely to be unfamiliar, it is explained in the glossary rather than assumed. Scripture is normally quoted in a modern English translation for readability. Where a passage is drawn from the Douay-Rheims — as in the Gallery of Light — it is marked as such beneath the quotation. Psalm numbering differs by one across most of the Psalter between the Vulgate tradition and modern Bibles, so where that matters we give both. Catechism references appear as section numbers (for example, CCC §1324) so you can check them yourself against the Vatican's own text.
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Teaching and opinion are kept apart
There is a difference between what the Church holds and what one layman thinks, and blurring the two is the most common failure of Catholic writing online.
On this site, Church teaching is always cited. Anything that is not cited is opinion, reflection, or pastoral suggestion — and where the distinction could matter to a reader, it is named outright. Phrases like the Church teaches are used only where the Church actually teaches. Where faithful Catholics genuinely disagree, we present the disagreement instead of picking a side and calling it settled.
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What this site is not
Profess Your Faith is an independent lay project. It is not a parish, a diocese, an apostolate, a religious order, or any official organ of the Catholic Church. Nothing here carries an imprimatur, and nothing here speaks for the Magisterium.
It is also not a substitute for a priest. For confession, spiritual direction, annulment questions, questions about your own situation, or anything requiring the sacraments, go to your parish. This site can explain what the Church teaches; it cannot absolve you, direct you, or know your circumstances.
If anything here ever contradicts the Church, the Church is right and we are wrong.
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Corrections
We will get things wrong. When that happens, we want to know, and we would rather be corrected by a reader than leave an error standing.
If you find a mistake — a misquoted verse, a misattributed Father, a garbled teaching, a broken link — write to [email protected] and say what is wrong and where. Doctrinal errors are treated as the most serious kind and are prioritised over everything else.
When a correction changes the substance of a page, we note it on that page rather than editing quietly. Small fixes — typos, punctuation, a dead link — are simply made.
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Review and revision
Pages are not written once and abandoned. Doctrinal and devotional pages are reviewed periodically, and revised where a source has been updated, a link has died, or a passage has simply aged badly. Where a page carries a published or updated date, that date is real.
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On the use of AI
We think you are owed a straight answer about this, so here it is.
Artificial intelligence is used in the making of this site — in drafting and editing prose, in building the site itself, and in research and structuring. It is a tool used in the work, in the way a word processor or a concordance is a tool.
What AI does not do here is decide what the Church teaches. Every doctrinal claim is checked against the sources named above by a human being before it is published, because a language model is capable of producing a fluent, confident, entirely wrong sentence about the faith. The editorial judgement, the sourcing, and the responsibility for what appears on this site are human and remain so.
We disclose this because a site asking for your trust on matters of faith should not be quietly vague about how its words are made.
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Who writes this
Profess Your Faith is the work of lay Catholics, not clergy and not theologians by profession. We are not writing from authority. We are writing as people who went looking for clear answers, found them harder to come by than they should have been, and decided to build the thing we had wanted.
That is a reason to check our sources rather than take our word — which is exactly what this page is asking you to do. Every claim is cited so that the argument stands on the Church's authority and not on ours.
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How this site is funded
Running a site costs money, and you should know where ours comes from. There are three sources: advertising, merchandise, and music.
Advertising is served through Google AdSense. We do not choose the individual adverts, and an advert appearing here is not an endorsement. Merchandise and the Treblelation music project are our own, and links to them are marked as ours.
No one pays for coverage on this site. No doctrinal position here has ever been shaped by a sponsor, and none ever will be. If that changes, this page changes with it.
Write to us
Corrections, questions, disagreements, and requests for a topic are all welcome at [email protected]. We read everything, even when we cannot reply to it all.
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