Don’t Panic!
Triptych uses AI to assemble carefully sourced studies of Catholic faith, worship, and law.
AI is a tool, not an authority. These studies do not replace Scripture and Tradition, the Magisterium, the Church's liturgical books, canon law, or competent advice. Polished prose is not proof: follow the citations and check important claims against the authorities themselves.
Every publication is issued in parallel AI editions, one by GPT and one by Claude. Each catalog row links every available edition, so the two can be read against each other.
If something is wrong, unclear, incomplete, or unbalanced, send a short note. A useful note can be one sentence. See How to Contribute.
How these texts work
Editing this material turned up problems older and stranger than the project: the psalms are numbered twice over, two printings of the same Vulgate disagree about where seventeen chapters end, and a citation can resolve successfully and wrongly with nothing to report it. These are written up at length, and every figure in them was counted from the sources rather than recalled.
| Study | Question it answers |
|---|---|
| The Bibles | Why a citation is a three-part address of which only two parts are ever written down. |
| The Mass | What a proper is, why two missals answer the same day differently, and where the calendar stops being arithmetic. |
| Reading and Commentary | How the abridged cycle was chosen and what it leaves out; what the commentary harvest can and cannot establish. |
Each begins at the level of someone meeting the subject for the first time and goes as deep as the evidence allows.
Source and contact
Everything here is built in the open at github.com/spincyc/triptych — the sources, the tools that typeset them, and the checks that gate a release. Corrections and questions are welcome as an issue or by writing to 71109625+spincyc@users.noreply.github.com.
Reuse
Project-created content is licensed under CC BY 4.0; software and the listed reusable typesetting tools under MIT. Project licenses cover only project-created material — see Licensing and Third-Party Material for the boundaries.
Why “Triptych”?
A triptych joins three distinct images whose meaning deepens through their relationship. This project joins faith, worship, and law in the same way, tracing the deep connections among their scriptural, theological, liturgical, historical, devotional, canonical, and symbolic threads.