Our Method and Sources

Every article we publish is anchored in traditional primary sources, and each is verified before it goes out. We tell you here exactly how we work and where our texts come from, because trust in a Catholic resource should rest on something you can check, not on our word alone.

How we work

We do not write from memory or summarise the internet. For each subject we return to the source — Scripture, the catechisms, the liturgical books, the lives of the saints — read it, and cite it. When a text exists in Latin, we keep the Latin alongside the vernacular. Nothing is paraphrased in a way that softens what the Church has taught.

Our sources

• Holy Scripture in its traditional form: the Douay-Rheims Bible together with the Latin Vulgate.
• The Roman Catechism of the Council of Trent (1566).
• The Catechism of Saint Pius X (1908).
• Dom Guéranger, The Liturgical Year.
• The traditional Missal and Breviary of 1962.
• The approved lives of the saints: Butler's Lives of the Saints and the Acta Sanctorum.

What we exclude

Our standard is the traditional Roman rite in its last received form, that of 1962. We do not draw on the reforms that issued from the Second Vatican Council — the new missal of 1969, the revised calendar and office — which mark the rupture beyond which the rite and its spirit were altered. When a modern question arises and must be addressed, we name it as modern, explain it plainly, and refer always back to the perennial teaching of the Church rather than to the latest opinion. The tradition is the measure; the present day is read in its light, never the reverse.

Our promise

Doctrinal fidelity. Real citations. No invented sources, no fabricated quotations, no source we have not actually consulted. If we cannot ground a claim in the tradition, we do not make it. This is the whole of our method, and we hold ourselves to it on every page.

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