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- The Church Chronicle now shows one year at a time, the latest first; press another year to read it.
- Send feedback about the site from the button beside the settings, even offline: it is sent once there is a connection.
- The Church Chronicle and these site updates can now be followed in a feed reader, from the RSS link under each heading.
- The Library can now be arranged: Edit page removes, moves and adds widgets, among them the day’s readings and recent bookmarks.
- Bible chapters and the day’s readings now show Tissot’s watercolor or Schnorr’s woodcut of a scene Doré did not engrave.
- Stories on the Stories page now show a picture under the passage: Doré’s engraving, Tissot’s watercolor or Schnorr’s woodcut.
- Celebrations can now be grouped by the month each day falls in this year.
- Each entry on the Heresies page links its Wikipedia article, where Wikipedia has one of its own.
- Each story on the Stories page links its Wikipedia article, where Wikipedia has one of its own.
- The Magisterium now lists the documents in your reading language, and a switch in its filters shows every one.
- The Magisterium no longer has a Subject filter or subject tags; its search box reads every document’s description.
- The reading bar and its language picker are now on nearly every page, which says when its text is not in the site’s language.
- A page’s edition, copyright and Wikipedia lines now start folded under the + beside its title.
- The Formulas are now in the library and in Russian, and the search box finds each list by name.
- In the Formulas, each precept of the Church now opens its canon, and each list from Scripture cites its passage.
- In Portuguese, the psalm in The day’s liturgy and each psalm’s chapter can now be heard sung.
- Some prayers can now be heard sung in Gregorian chant, from the headphones on the reading bar.
- New Stories page lists the narratives, parables, miracles and sermons of both Testaments, each with every passage that tells it.
- Documents now name their pope, council or office in the language they are read in.
- Links you copy or share from a text now preview in the language of the edition you are reading.
- Terms in the Formulas now open their glossary entries, and each commandment its article in the Catechism.
- Bookmarks can now hold glossary entries, days of the calendar, celebrations and saints.
- The Heresies page now lists other errors the Church rejects, from deism and liberalism to transhumanism, each marked as an error.
- New Glossary page explains Church terms that are often misread, each in the Church’s own words.
- The Way of the Cross now lists its fourteen stations, each under a painting by Gebhard Fugel.
- The menu can now be rearranged by dragging, with a finger on a phone.
- The day’s liturgy now shows the prayers proper to the day, days of penance and indulgences, and a tab for each Mass.
- New full-text search finds words inside the texts, and opens each result at the match.
- Questions can now be read in Spanish and French.
- New Chronicle lists the documents by date, with papal elections, beatifications and canonizations.
- New formulas page: the commandments, the Beatitudes, the capital sins and more.
- Saints can now be searched, filtered and browsed as portraits, or by century, continent and pope.
- Prayers are now grouped as in a prayer book, each linked to its indulgence.
- Reminders can now be added to the calendar on your phone or computer.
- New Heresies page lists the errors the Church condemned and where each was answered.
- New celebration pages give each feast’s dates, readings and the countries that keep it differently.
- New reminders for holy days of obligation, fasting days, novenas and feasts, turned on in Settings.
- Each saint now has a page, and the calendar shows the day’s entries in the Roman Martyrology.
- Questions on suicide and domestic abuse now show a help line for your country.
- New Fathers of the Church shelf, starting with St. Augustine in Latin and English.
- Bookmarks can now hold notes, and bookmarks, notes and settings can be backed up to a file.
- Select words in a text to bookmark them, copy them with their citation, or share a link to them.
- New Questions section answers common questions from the Catechism and the Church’s documents.
- New census counts what the library holds by shelf and language, and what it cites most.
- Each day of the calendar now lists its Mass readings, opened as one page.
- New Where to begin guide for newcomers: what each book is, how citations work, and what the Church is.
- New liturgical calendar, for the whole Church or for your country.
- The Our Father, the Hail Mary and the Creeds in Prayers now carry the Catechism’s comment on each phrase.
- New: the Code of Canon Law, by book, title and canon.
- New: the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church.
- Choose which shelves to download for reading offline, and see the size of each first.
- Haydock’s commentary can now be read alongside the Douay-Rheims Bible.
- Church documents can now be searched and filtered by author, type and subject.
- Gustave Doré’s engravings now appear in the Bible, beside the verses they depict.
- Menus and labels now come in more languages.
- New: St. Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae, by part, question and article.
- Bookmark any numbered passage, and find them all on the Bookmarks page.
- New dark and sepia themes, and a choice of text size.
- The site can now be installed as an app, and works offline.
- Each Bible verse lists the texts here that cite it.
- Citations are links, and hovering or tapping one previews the passage.
- Read two editions or languages side by side, paragraph by paragraph.
- Type a reference such as John 3:16 or CCC 1234, or a title, to go straight to it.
- First release: the Bible, the Catechism and its Compendium, the popes’ encyclicals and the common prayers.