Public release notes
A record of meaningful improvements to Catechumens, newest first. We publish changes that affect what visitors can understand or do—not internal maintenance noise.
Checks report what passed for that release. They do not establish participant validation, accessibility conformance, uninterrupted availability, or approval of religious content. Source availability is time-specific, and pastoral, rights, privacy, and locale limits remain visible elsewhere on the site.
· Version 130
After a visitor chooses Show more in the resource library, keyboard focus now moves to the first newly revealed resource instead of staying after the added batch or returning above the catalogue. Search, filters, catalogue order, destinations, source and rights boundaries, storage, tracking and religious content are unchanged.
Release check: 249 automated checks passed at release.
Browse the resource library· Version 129
If the U.S. daily-readings feed cannot be loaded, its existing publisher fallback now shows a visible arrow and announces before opening a new tab. The same-site retry, USCCB destination, feed behavior, edition and locality limits, rights boundary, religious content, privacy and access controls are unchanged.
Release check: 248 automated checks passed at release.
Open U.S. daily readings· Version 128
Selected source cards now distinguish publisher handoffs from material hosted on Catechumens. Publisher links show and announce that they open a new tab; locally hosted readings use a same-site arrow and stay in the current tab. Resource selection, exact destinations, approval and rights rules, religious content, tracking and access controls are unchanged.
Release check: 247 automated checks passed at release.
Review the formation source cards· Version 127
Before a visitor records a resource issue, the form now names the processing status and 90-day expiry time stored with the resource, revision, category and receipt time. It also explains that expiry cleanup runs when reporting or maintenance operates and that the temporary abuse-control bucket does not store the raw network address in the report. No input, retention rule, report behavior, religious content, tracking or access control changed.
Release check: 246 automated checks passed at release.
Review the resource-report boundary· Version 126
The Worker now resolves a request before deciding whether a public visit should start bounded source maintenance. Successful public HTML pages and the explicit health endpoint retain that recovery path, while nonexistent scanner routes, other API responses, private legacy paths and non-GET requests do not consume the visit trigger. The shared lease, source cadence, external probe, failure redaction, religious content, visitor data and access controls are unchanged.
Release check: 245 automated checks passed at release.
View current service status· Version 125
Links that select a starting context and promise parish preparation, post-initiation follow-up or purpose-based help now wait for that section to render, move it into view and place focus on its heading. The chosen context, visit-only storage default, saved journey, religious content, parish boundaries, privacy behavior and access controls are unchanged.
Release check: 244 automated checks passed at release.
Prepare a post-initiation follow-up· Version 124
The saved and downloadable offline reference now sends its two online recovery links directly to catechumens.com instead of the legacy Sites hostname. The source answers, prayers, edition and approval record, rights boundary, offline cache, plan storage and download behavior are unchanged.
Release check: 243 automated checks passed at release.
Manage offline access· Version 123
When a visitor uses one of the six non-English interfaces, Today now gives a translated notice immediately before the deeper discovery and source-map sections that remain in English. The notice reuses the site’s existing reviewed language-boundary copy; navigation, source text, religious content, saved regional choices and access controls are unchanged.
Release check: 242 automated checks passed at release.
Open Today· Version 122
Every foundation reading now explains beside its question field that the existing journey storage choice applies, warns against entering details a visitor would not want visible on a shared device, and links directly to the journey’s storage controls. Question saving, limits, visit-only behavior, remembered journey behavior, encrypted transfer, religious content and access controls are unchanged.
Release check: 241 automated checks passed at release.
Open a foundation reading· Version 121
All 15 official Compendium topic links now show a visible arrow and announce the new-tab behavior in the visitor’s selected interface language. The seven existing interface languages, official Vatican editions, topic labels, question ranges, source boundaries, rights limits, religious content and privacy behavior are unchanged.
Release check: 240 automated checks passed at release.
Explore Compendium topics in your language· Version 120
The question-number result and all 26 Compendium subject groups now show a visible arrow and announce before opening the official Vatican edition in another browser tab. Question ranges, chapter destinations, search behavior, official-source boundaries, rights limits and religious content are unchanged.
Release check: 239 automated checks passed at release.
Explore questions and the Compendium· Version 119
The local facsimile fallback, source-library record and copyright-term evidence links now show a visible arrow and announce before opening another browser tab. Hosted files, historical editions, approval records, rights evidence, destinations, religious content and download behavior are unchanged.
Release check: 238 automated checks passed at release.
Open the hosted historical edition· Version 118
Prayer-source, approval-evidence and copyright-term links now use the same visible arrow and spoken warning before opening another browser tab. Exact prayer texts, editions, approvals, evidence, destinations, rights rules, religious content and access controls are unchanged.
Release check: 237 automated checks passed at release.
Open the Rosary companion· Version 117
Parish-directory, Church-authority, official language-edition and source-verification links now use the same visible arrow and spoken warning before opening another browser tab. Exact destinations, country coverage, review dates, source purpose, privacy guidance, religious content, rights rules and access controls are unchanged.
Release check: 236 automated checks passed at release.
Find a parish or local Church· Version 116
The children and teenagers, urgent-clergy, Church-hurt and difficult-medical-question source pages now fail closed instead of turning broad title keywords into automatic audio or video recommendations. Their exact Church sources, correction paths and the separate reviewed media catalogue remain available. No substitute religious explanation, age claim, medical guidance or pastoral judgment was added.
Release check: 235 automated checks passed at release.
Open the children and teenagers source· Version 115
The safeguarding page now shows a visible arrow and gives assistive technology an explicit warning before its international crisis-helpline link opens another browser tab. The helpline destination, emergency guidance, 988 information, safeguarding boundaries, privacy behavior and religious content are unchanged.
Release check: 234 automated checks passed at release.
Open safety and support information· Version 114
The exact-date 10 Minutes with Jesus card now keeps a direct publisher link visible beside the embedded-player control, so a blocked widget does not require finding recovery inside a collapsed help panel. The daily companion also links to the existing reviewed meditation library for other audio and video choices. The publisher player, episode selection, exact-date rule, privacy disclosure, rights limits and religious content are unchanged.
Release check: 233 automated checks passed at release.
Open today’s meditation choices· Version 113
The Prayer hub’s “Prayer feels dry” action now opens the existing source-only resource instead of a missing route. The destination continues to identify its Catholic source, withhold unreviewed original commentary and offer the existing correction path. No new religious explanation, pastoral judgment, source, media selection, tracking or personal-data collection was added.
Release check: 232 automated checks passed at release.
Open the prayer difficulty source· Version 112
Publisher, USCCB, AELF, offline-reader, permissions and device-silencing links in the daily readings workspace now show a visible arrow and announce the new-tab behavior in the selected interface language where that control is localized. Exact dates, editions, calendars, source URLs, embedded-reader behavior, rights limits and religious content are unchanged.
Release check: 231 automated checks passed at release.
Open daily readings· Version 111
Publisher handoffs from the media library, exact-date Mass and meditation cards, playback recovery and media verification notes now include a visible arrow and an assistive-technology announcement before opening another browser tab. On-page YouTube and Spreaker players, source selection, rights limits, privacy disclosures, religious content and playback behavior are unchanged.
Release check: 230 automated checks passed at release.
Browse accessible media choices· Version 110
The lightweight visible-session sync runtime is now separate from the device-transfer panel, and resource-catalogue validation loads only when a visitor explicitly unlocks synchronization. This removes the 340 KB catalogue chunk from the runtime’s static dependency path on ordinary pages. The sync engine remains under the persistent root layout; recovery codes stay memory-only; encryption, synchronized fields, conflict handling, religious content and access controls are unchanged.
Release check: 229 automated checks passed at release.
Manage device transfer· Version 109
The ordinary same-site links from recommended media to the full media library and from safeguarding guidance to local Church help now use in-app navigation. This avoids a full-page reload that could discard the intentionally memory-only recovery key and lock an active synchronization session. Downloads, sign-out, operational JSON and standalone offline pages still use full-document navigation. Encryption, stored data, safety guidance, religious content and access controls are unchanged.
Release check: 228 automated checks passed at release.
Browse media choices· Version 108
Links from Settings, Privacy and Status to device transfer—and the related Settings links to offline and multilingual resources—now use in-app navigation. This avoids an unnecessary full-page reload that could discard the intentionally memory-only recovery key and lock an active synchronization session. Closing or deliberately reloading still locks the session; encryption, stored data, automatic-sync scope, conflict handling, religious content and access controls are unchanged.
Release check: 227 automated checks passed at release.
Open preferences· Version 107
The service-status page now tells assistive technology when automated access to one or more publishers is restricted and explicitly says that this is not a website outage. The same truthful wording and singular or plural count appear visually. Application, database, maintenance, source-check and retry behavior are unchanged; a publisher restriction still remains distinct from an application failure.
Release check: 226 automated checks passed at release.
View current service status· Version 106
A recovered maintenance interruption revealed that the previous Worker event recorded only a generic failure. Future failures now identify whether the shared lease, expired-copy cleanup or source-maintenance stage did not complete, while unexpected failures use an unknown category. Exception text, database details, source responses, credentials and visitor information remain excluded. This release does not claim that the earlier interruption's cause is known or that independent uptime monitoring exists.
Release check: 225 automated checks passed at release.
View current service status· Version 105
The readings workspace no longer labels “Another Catholic use or tradition” as Eastern Catholic. It gives that selection a neutral limitation while keeping Roman resources behind a visitor action. The regional resolver also withholds automatic Roman AELF or CNBB destinations after any explicit non-Roman selection, retaining the honest coverage gap and diocese or eparchy recovery. Roman and not-yet-chosen traditions retain existing country links. No calendar, observance, obligation, religious text or location was inferred or added.
Release check: 224 automated checks passed at release.
Open daily readings· Version 104
If an embedded iBreviary or Universalis reader does not confirm loading within twelve seconds, the page now stops claiming that it is still loading and announces one concise recovery message. A late successful load removes that warning, an immediate frame error shows it, and Reload starts a clean loading attempt. Publisher links, sandboxing, no-referrer behavior, edition limits and religious content are unchanged.
Release check: 222 automated checks passed at release.
Open daily readings· Version 103
Before a visitor forgets a saved Plan of Life, the confirmation now states that only that plan is removed. Regional and reading preferences, the separate reading list, browser history, downloaded files and exports remain unchanged. The removal behavior, encrypted plan synchronization, storage model and religious content did not change; the wording now matches the existing privacy boundary.
Release check: 221 automated checks passed at release.
Manage my plan· Version 102
When a French-reading visitor changes country while the daily reader remains open, any calendar selection or permission to reveal a broader Roman reference now resets with that jurisdiction. A choice made for one unsupported country can no longer expose the broader reference for another. The service-status page also announces only a concise result to assistive technology while keeping detailed evidence and controls visible outside the live announcement. No calendar, observance, obligation, religious text or location was inferred or added.
Release check: 220 automated checks passed at release.
Open daily readings· Version 101
The exact-date 10 Minutes with Jesus meditation now uses the publisher’s documented single-episode player after a visitor explicitly loads it, keeps the load control and truthful loading state available, and never autoplays. The media library adds official Opus Dei and St. Josemaria Institute destinations while distinguishing written or mixed collections from individual recordings and keeping broad collections out of exact point-of-use recommendations. A visitor’s chosen Plan of Life now opens on Today by default, remains collapsible across routine page updates, and still records no prayer completion or inferred devotion.
Release check: 219 automated checks passed at release.
Browse meditation choices· Version 100
The homepage and starting-point index now name the existing adult-mediated path for supporting a child or teenager, instead of hiding it behind generic family wording. The destination still directs adults to local age-appropriate preparation and safeguarding arrangements, preserves the young person’s privacy and pace, and states that it does not create a child profile or replace local family preparation. No child-directed account, intake, catechesis, safeguarding approval or religious content was added.
Release check: 218 automated checks passed at release.
Support a child, teenager or family member· Version 99
Country, language, time-zone, tradition and reading choices that a visitor does not ask to remember now remain available within that browser tab after a full page navigation, while closing the tab still discards them. Remembered choices remain device-local and reset clears both scopes. The French broader-reference control now remains in place with an expanded-state relationship and a polite announcement, and the public capability statement matches the verified-local versus broader-reference boundary. No location is inferred or transmitted, and no calendar or religious content was added.
Release check: 218 automated checks passed at release.
Choose regional preferences· Version 98
When a visitor chooses French publications for a country without a mapped AELF calendar, the daily reader now states that no local AELF calendar is verified and withholds the generic Roman links. The visitor can deliberately open that broader Roman reference or continue to local-source recovery. Countries with an exact mapped AELF calendar continue directly. No local observance, obligation, diocesan proper or religious text was inferred or added.
Release check: 218 automated checks passed at release.
Open daily readings· Version 97
A country’s daily-liturgy panel now lists only sources already reviewed and classified as liturgical publishers. Parish directories, bishops’ conference homepages and formation resources no longer appear under “Mass readings and the Divine Office.” Brazil keeps its CNBB daily-liturgy destination; unsupported countries keep the visible local-coverage gap and parish-contact recovery. No calendar, observance, obligation or religious text was inferred or added.
Release check: 217 automated checks passed at release.
Choose region and language· Version 96
Offline setup now writes and checks a complete new reference-library generation before switching the active copy. A failed fetch, storage write, worker activation or pointer update leaves the previous complete copy in place; an interrupted first save is not presented as ready. Save and removal operations are serialized across tabs, incomplete staging is reconciled on return, removal is verified, and progress is announced without changing plan or bookmark storage.
Release check: 215 automated checks passed at release.
Manage offline access· Version 95
Generic Pray actions in the primary navigation, Today page, personal journey and daily readings now open the full prayer hub instead of one focused mental-prayer source. The hub keeps locally readable prayers and distinct paths for the Rosary, Marian prayer, Scripture prayer, recollection, prayer formation and difficulties in prayer. The explicitly labelled Mental prayer action still opens its focused source page; no prayer text or teaching changed.
Release check: 206 automated checks passed at release.
Open the prayer hub· Version 94
The daily companion now distinguishes a publisher listing that could not be checked from a confirmed absence. When CatholicTV cannot be verified, visitors can open its official catalogue with an explicit instruction to confirm the date there; Catechumens does not present that handoff as an exact-date result. Older recordings remain excluded, and nothing is copied, embedded or auto-played.
Release check: 206 automated checks passed at release.
Open today’s readings and media· Version 93
Production verification showed that CatholicTV’s current catalogue is reachable in a normal browser but returns a publisher-side error to the deployed daily-media service. The source therefore remains visibly unavailable: Catechumens does not substitute an older Mass, claim recovery, or proxy the video. The official CatholicTV catalogue remains available as a direct publisher link while a permitted server-readable source is sought.
Release check: 205 automated checks passed at release.
View current service status· Version 92
An attempted recovery raised only CatholicTV’s known catalogue ceiling to a bounded 2.5 MB and requested HTML explicitly while retaining exact identity, date, player-host, delivery-host, count and no-substitution checks. Live production verification then showed a separate publisher-side server error, documented in the following release; this change alone did not restore the daily-media source.
Release check: 205 automated checks passed at release.
Open today’s companion· Version 91
The action under the CatholicTV catalogue release note now opens the working daily companion at the homepage instead of a nonexistent route. The catalogue repair, exact-date safeguards, publisher-only links and all other navigation remain unchanged.
Release check: 204 automated checks passed at release.
Open today’s companion· Version 90
The daily-media service now reads CatholicTV’s current official Mass catalogue after its former JSON listing was removed. It accepts only exact dates and direct episode links whose player and underlying stream references remain on the publisher’s known first-party delivery surfaces. Older Masses are still never relabeled as today’s, and no video is copied or auto-played here.
Release check: 204 automated checks passed at release.
Open today’s companion· Version 89
The install page now reveals browser-storage controls only after the device confirms the required capabilities. Its initial and unsupported-browser view gives a truthful limitation and keeps the reference reader, offline plan and separate HTML download available. Existing privacy warnings, approved source scope and removal controls are unchanged; this is not an accessibility-conformance claim.
Release check: 204 automated checks passed at release.
Set up this device· Version 88
The language, disability and access-needs card now opens the existing parish and local Church contact path instead of unrelated general sacramental reading. The destination preserves country-specific coverage states, direct-confirmation guidance, privacy boundaries and no-response recovery. No parish accessibility claim, accommodation promise, locality expansion or religious content was added.
Release check: 204 automated checks passed at release.
Choose the help you need· Version 87
Generic parish-finding guidance now distinguishes verified directories from Church-authority starting points and says when either is available, matching the country-level coverage states already shown on the site. Existing country classifications, official links, review dates, privacy guidance and no-response recovery are unchanged. No new locality claim or religious content was added.
Release check: 203 automated checks passed at release.
Find a parish or local Church· Version 86
Ordinary pathway pages and the returning guide now open the existing journey with the visitor's chosen context selected instead of resetting to the generic starting point. The choice remains changeable and visit-only unless explicitly saved; the sensitive help route, privacy boundaries, parish tools and source content are unchanged. No religious status or sacramental judgment is inferred.
Release check: 202 automated checks passed at release.
Continue from the returning guide· Version 85
Operational status now reports both retained exhausted maintenance jobs and the distinct monitored source destinations behind them. Repeated cycles remain visible without looking like separate broken publishers, while current destination availability, degradation rules, retry history and privacy boundaries remain unchanged.
Release check: 201 automated checks passed at release.
View service status· Version 84
Both handoffs from the recently initiated guide now open the existing journey in its post-initiation context instead of falling back to a generic or previously saved starting point. The visitor can still change that choice, and the existing visit-only storage, privacy boundaries, parish follow-up tools and source content are unchanged. No sacramental status is inferred or verified.
Release check: 201 automated checks passed at release.
Continue after initiation· Version 83
Country selection now distinguishes a verified directory from a bishops’ conference authority handoff and from a documented coverage gap. Seven conference-only countries are no longer summarized as having parish directories, while exact official links, purpose labels, review dates, privacy guidance and recovery steps remain unchanged. No new locality claim or religious content was added.
Release check: 200 automated checks passed at release.
Find a parish or local Church· Version 82
The service-status page now says when its live check has not yet run instead of showing a permanent checking message to visitors without JavaScript. A normal link to current public operational data remains usable before hydration, while the existing live check, timeout, validation, retry and privacy boundaries are preserved.
Release check: 200 automated checks passed at release.
Open service status· Version 81
The “I need space, or have been hurt” guide no longer sends its contact-oriented next step to the ordinary parish-initiation page. Every operational handoff now preserves the visitor’s choice among safety, reporting, pastoral care and private learning, while ordinary guides retain parish preparation. No report intake, personal-story collection, provider endorsement or pastoral judgment was added.
Release check: 199 automated checks passed at release.
Open the taking-space guide· Version 80
The “I need space, or have been hurt” guide no longer opens the generic parish-meeting planner from its conversation card. Its contextual action now opens the safer private journey at purpose-based help options, while ordinary guides retain their meeting-question planner. No report intake, personal-story collection, provider endorsement or pastoral judgment was added.
Release check: 199 automated checks passed at release.
Open the taking-space guide· Version 79
The “take things slowly” journey no longer exposes parish-meeting preparation, contact tracking or meeting-packet controls. It now offers purpose-based help and private reading, while ordinary initiation journeys retain their parish-planning workspace. No report intake, personal-story collection, provider endorsement or pastoral judgment was added.
Release check: 198 automated checks passed at release.
Open the safer private journey· Version 78
The Church-hurt pathway no longer tells visitors to prepare a parish conversation in its opening guidance. It now offers a personal starting point, purpose-based help or private reading, while ordinary initiation pathways keep their parish-conversation guidance. No report intake, provider endorsement, location collection or pastoral judgment was added.
Release check: 197 automated checks passed at release.
Open the safer pathway· Version 77
The urgent illness and sacramental-help card now opens the existing parish-contact route directly instead of requiring visitors to infer that an earlier card applies. Emergency-services and hospital-chaplain guidance are unchanged. The link reuses official directory starting points and adds no form, location collection, provider promise or sacramental judgment.
Release check: 197 automated checks passed at release.
Choose the help you need· Version 76
The Church-hurt pathway no longer sends its secondary next step into parish-meeting preparation. All three operational handoffs now open the existing purpose-based help triage, while ordinary pathways keep their parish-planning route. This repair adds no reporting form, personal-data collection, provider endorsement or religious teaching.
Release check: 196 automated checks passed at release.
Open the safer pathway· Version 75
Two hosted historical editions are now identified as page-image PDFs before opening, with a clear notice that no verified accessible full-book transcription is available. The editions, files, sources, approvals and rights evidence are unchanged, and no generated OCR or transcription was added.
Release check: 196 automated checks passed at release.
Browse resources by format· Version 74
The sitewide footer now opens the contact gateway before an email client. The gateway distinguishes organizational support from personal spiritual or sacramental help and keeps the organizational email available there. This routing change adds no form, tracking, storage or promised response.
Release check: 195 automated checks passed at release.
Choose the right contact path· Version 73
The Church-hurt pathway now opens the existing help triage instead of directing every visitor straight to a parish. Other pathways retain their parish contact route. This operational repair does not assess danger, receive reports, or publish new pastoral teaching.
Release check: 194 automated checks passed at release.
Open the safer pathway· Version 72
Parish-finding guidance now distinguishes verified directory sources from conference, formation and liturgy links. If a selected country has no verified directory starting point, the page says so plainly and offers a safe search method instead of silently substituting unrelated regional resources. Every listed source also carries its own review date.
Release check: 193 automated checks passed at release.
Find a parish or local Church· Version 71
A public changelog now records meaningful improvements and their release-time checks. A quiet footer link also lets willing visitors ask the nonprofit about current ways to donate; it never interrupts the primary experience or collects payment details on this site.
Release check: 190 automated checks passed at release.
Optional nonprofit support· Version 70
Questions about disability access now lead to the parish-confirmation path while preserving the existing source-based answer. This keeps practical access needs distinct from doctrinal questions and does not claim that a parish is accessible.
Release check: 187 automated checks passed at release.
Confirm access with a parish· Version 69
The library now begins with 24 distinct destinations, supports gradual expansion, reports result counts, restores focus after loading more, and keeps useful server-rendered links when scripts are unavailable.
Release check: 186 automated checks passed at release.
Open My Library· Version 68
The Journey now presents its primary actions in the initial page response while private, device-local state loads. Visitors on slow connections or with scripts unavailable can still reach the essential next steps.
Release check: 186 automated checks passed at release.
Open the Journey· Version 67
A question about an unanswered parish inquiry now leads to the parish recovery route, where visitors can verify contact details and try another local contact without the site implying a response or outcome.
Release check: 185 automated checks passed at release.
Find parish contact options· Version 66
Resource pages can now open the issue form with the affected item already selected. This reduces re-entry while keeping reports under the visitor's control and avoiding private pastoral details.
Release check: 183 automated checks passed at release.
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