A record of meaningful improvements to Catechumens, newest first. We publish changes that affect what visitors can understand or do—not internal maintenance noise.
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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.
Release history
· Version 88
Practical access questions now lead to local confirmation
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.
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.
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.
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.
Post-initiation context continues into the journey
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.
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.
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.
A complete purpose-based handoff from the taking-space guide
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.
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.
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.
Safer first-screen guidance after harm in the Church
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.
A direct contact path for urgent sacramental needs
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.
A complete safety handoff after harm in the Church
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Public release notes and optional nonprofit support
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.
A clearer route from accessibility questions to local help
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.