Credits & Sources

Every text, translation, and image here comes from somewhere. This page names those sources plainly, in the way each owner requires — and says clearly which paintings are ours, made with AI.

Scripture

Most Scripture quoted in this app and on this site is the Douay-Rheims Bible (Bishop Richard Challoner's 18th-century revision), which is in the public domain.

Where a Sed Contra page quotes a Protestant or Latter-day Saint objector's own argument in that objector's own words, the quotation is from the King James Version — public domain outside the United Kingdom. Inside the United Kingdom, where the Crown holds the rights through Cambridge University Press, those quotations appear only as brief quotation for criticism and review — we have not sought or received the publisher's permission for them.

A small number of Old Testament verses, quoted where a Jewish source is specifically discussed, use the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation (public domain). Greek New Testament quotations are from the Westcott–Hort text of 1881 (public domain).

The Catechism of the Catholic Church

Quotations from the Catechism use the official English translation published by the United States Catholic Conference and the Libreria Editrice Vaticana, kept within the publisher's own free-use terms. Their required notice:

Liturgical texts

Prayers and rites in this app are traditional public-domain translations (for example, the Douay-Rheims psalms and canticles, the traditional Act of Contrition, and texts first published before 1931), or the Latin typical text of the Roman liturgy with a plain English gloss. Short spoken responses of the current English-language Mass (for example, "And with your spirit") appear only as brief quotation, naming the Roman Missal. Excerpts from the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

The public-domain books these prayers are taken from, each printed before 1931:

• Bishop Richard Challoner, The Garden of the Soul (1812 printing; also the 1871 and 1880 editions).
• The Roman Missal for the Use of the Laity (London: Keating, Brown, 1806).
• The Roman Missal, translated into the English language for the use of the laity (1843).
• The Golden Manual (London: Burns, 1850).
• Rituale Romanum (1852 printing), for the Latin of the Apostolic Pardon.
• A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity (Baltimore, 1888).
• The Roman Breviary, translated by John, Marquess of Bute (1908 edition).
• A Catechism of Christian Doctrine (the Baltimore Catechism, 1885), for the traditional Act of Contrition.

The Latin form of absolution is quoted as printed in the Latin edition of the Catechism, no. 1449 (vatican.va).

Other sources quoted

• The Qur'an is quoted from Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall's translation, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930, first edition).
• The Talmud is cited by tractate and page. Its passages are summarized in our own words (now and then with a short phrase in quotation marks) and linked to the text on Sefaria.
• Hadith are cited by collection and number (for example, Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim), with short quotations for commentary.
• Church documents (conciliar texts, papal documents, the Code of Canon Law) are quoted briefly, for commentary, from the Holy See's own English texts at vatican.va, with a citation or link.
• Two older conciliar texts, the Council of Florence's Cantate Domino (1442) and a canon of the Synod of Constantinople (543), are quoted briefly, for commentary, in the English of Norman P. Tanner's Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils (1990) and Roy J. Deferrari's The Sources of Catholic Dogma (1955/57).
• Some older Church texts are quoted in public-domain translations: the Council of Trent in J. Waterworth's translation (1848); the Second Council of Nicaea in H. R. Percival's translation; St Augustine's Confessions in E. B. Pusey's translation.

Paintings

• Madonna of the Rosary — Caravaggio, c. 1607. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
• St. Michael the Archangel — Guido Reni, 1635. Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini, Rome.
• The Battle of Lepanto — 16th-century painting, artist unknown.

Other paintings were made by 1765 Sanctum with AI image tools; they are artistic interpretations, not historical records.

One background photograph (behind the Dispatch pages) shows a devotional image in a raised gilt frame. Unlike the paintings above, it is a real photograph, not an AI image — and we have not yet confirmed where it came from. We are working to document its source or replace it.

Fonts

Cinzel, Cormorant Garamond, and EB Garamond, each under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (scripts.sil.org/OFL), loaded from Google Fonts.