How this record is kept, and how to correct it.

The sources

This record is kept from the public statements of the dioceses and parishes themselves (their own sites, bulletins, and directories) and from the published references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio (Libreria Editrice Vaticana). Nothing in it is privileged, private, or scraped from places it was not offered.

It is a work of the lay faithful. It is not an official publication of the Holy See, of any episcopal conference, or of any diocese, and it binds no one. Where it differs from a diocese’s own statements, the diocese is right.

What is left blank

The rule of this record is that a blank is honest and a guess is not. Where a Mass time, a website, a bishop’s name cannot be established with confidence, the field is left empty rather than filled with a plausible invention. Where a claim is marked verified, the mark rests on a receipt: a source document from the church’s own published statements, checked recently, kept with the record. Where a source has died, and the record has found parish domains lapsed into the hands of strangers, the dead link is retired rather than repeated.

Scale is stated as over a floor, because the visible Church moves faster than any record of her: parishes merge, sees fall vacant, schedules change with the seasons.

Correction in charity

This record is corrected wherever it is wrong. Pastors, diocesan staff, and any of the faithful who find an error are asked to write: [email protected]. A correction from a parish about itself outranks every other source this record has.