Updates

One member opens the call each week. Cohort leaders can now put a member down for a short teach-back: three minutes, near the start of the call, on what struck them in that week's passage. It rotates, so over an eight-week study everyone has a turn, and the ask always arrives well ahead — the preparing is the point, and a surprise on the night is not. It is not a lecture and there is nothing to get right; if it isn't for you, "not this week" and "not this study" are one tap each and neither asks why. Nobody else is told you passed.

You can answer a reflection prompt twice. A prompt on the board stays closed until you have written your own answer — you see how many people have replied, never what they said, so what you write is yours. Once others have answered and the thread opens, there is now a second, optional step: having read them, would you add or change anything? Your first answer stays exactly as you wrote it, and the new one sits beside it. Nothing is marked right or wrong, nothing is scored, and skipping it is a perfectly good answer in itself. For now what you add is seen only by you and your cohort leader.

Eighteen new People pages — and with them, the last of them. Every author behind the Haydock Commentary, the Catena Aurea and the works the Catechism cites now has a page in the archive.

• Saint Leo the Great — the pope whose Tome to Flavian helped shape Chalcedon's confession that Christ is one person in two natures
• Saint Maximus the Confessor — tried, mutilated and exiled for holding that Christ has a human will as well as a divine one
• Saint Nicetas of Remesiana — the Balkan bishop and missionary who wrote on the creed, Christian initiation, and the value of singing psalms
• Saint Nicholas of Flüe — Brother Klaus, the Swiss farmer and father who became a hermit, and whose counsel is credited with holding the cantons together
• Origen of Alexandria — the most prolific scholar of the early Church, whose importance and whose contested legacy the page states in the same breath
• Saint Peter Chrysologus — the "golden-worded" bishop of Ravenna, whose short sermons are a window onto fifth-century preaching
• Pseudo-Chrysostom — not a person but a label: the name scholarship gives to ancient works handed down under Saint John Chrysostom's, and the page says so plainly
• Rabanus Maurus — the abbot of Fulda they called the teacher of Germany, who carried the Fathers into the Carolingian schools
• Saint Remigius of Auxerre — the Carolingian schoolmaster whose classroom glosses shaped how the Gospels were taught for centuries
• Richard Challoner — the bishop whose revision of the Douay-Rheims became the basis of most later English Catholic Bibles, Haydock's among them
• Robert Witham — the Douai college president whose 1730 annotated New Testament Haydock reaches for again and again
• Tertullian — the first major theologian to write in Latin, who gave the Western Church much of its vocabulary and is not honored as a saint
• Saint Theophilus of Antioch — the second-century bishop whose To Autolycus holds one of the earliest Christian uses of Trinitarian language
• Theophylact of Ohrid — the Byzantine archbishop whose clear, pastoral Gospel commentaries reached Aquinas in Latin translation
• Saint Thomas Aquinas — the Angelic Doctor, and the compiler of the Catena Aurea itself
• Thomas Worthington — the Douai priest who helped produce and annotate the Douay Old Testament
• Thomas à Kempis — the copyist of Mount Saint Agnes, traditionally named as the author of The Imitation of Christ
• Saint Thérèse of Lisieux — the Carmelite whose "little way" of spiritual childhood made a hidden life at Lisieux a teaching for the whole Church

Four new People pages:

• Saint John of the Cross — the Spanish Carmelite poet who, imprisoned by opponents of his own reform, wrote the poems behind The Ascent of Mount Carmel and Dark Night
• Saint John Vianney — the Curé of Ars, a village priest whose long hours hearing confessions drew pilgrims from across France
• Julian of Norwich — the English anchoress whose Revelations of Divine Love is the earliest substantial English book known to have been written by a woman
• Saint Justin Martyr — the second-century philosopher who defended Christians to the imperial authorities, and left us the earliest full description of Sunday Eucharist

• Saint John Chrysostom — the golden-mouthed archbishop of Constantinople, whose homilies hold together the plain sense of the text and mercy toward Christ in the poor
• Saint John Damascene — the monk of Saint Sabas who defended sacred images from the Incarnation itself, and gathered the Greek Fathers into one clear synthesis
• Saint John Eudes — the French missionary priest who founded two congregations and spread devotion to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary
• Saint John Henry Newman — the Oxford convert and cardinal on conscience, the development of doctrine, and the ordinary path to holiness, named a Doctor of the Church in 2025

• Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel — the French priest and philosopher, first secretary of the Academy of Sciences, whom Haydock cites on the harder passages
• Saint Jerome — the translator of the Vulgate, whose conviction that ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ still shapes how Catholics read the Bible
• Saint Joan of Arc — the peasant girl who followed what she believed God asked of her, condemned at nineteen and canonized in 1920
• Saint John Cassian — the monk who carried the wisdom of the Egyptian desert to the Latin West in his Institutes and Conferences

• Saint Irenaeus of Lyons — the second-century bishop who answered the Gnostics from the Church's public faith, and whom Pope Francis named Doctor of Unity in 2022
• Saint Isaac of Nineveh — the Syriac monk on repentance, tears and the inexhaustible mercy of God, added to the Roman Martyrology in 2024
• Saint Isidore of Seville — archbishop, Doctor of the Church, and the encyclopedist whose Etymologies gathered the ancient world's learning for the Middle Ages
• Jacques Tirin — the Antwerp Jesuit whose commentary Haydock reaches for on dates, places and parallel passages

• Saint Hippolytus of Rome — the early Roman theologian whose surviving corpus may not all be by one hand, which the page says plainly
• Hugh of Saint Victor — the Paris canon whose Didascalicon ordered all learning toward wisdom
• Saint Ignatius of Antioch — the bishop who wrote seven letters on the road to his execution
• Saint Ignatius of Loyola — founder of the Society of Jesus and author of the Spiritual Exercises

• Pope Saint Gregory the Great
• Guigo II the Carthusian — the Carthusian prior whose Ladder of Monks gave lectio divina its four rungs
• Saint Hermas
• Saint Hilary of Poitiers

• Saint Gregory of Nazianzus
• Saint Gregory of Nyssa
• Giovanni Stefano Menochio
• The Glossa Ordinaria — the standard medieval gloss, a school tradition rather than a single author

• Fr. George Leo Haydock
• Saint Francis de Sales
• Saint Francis of Assisi
• Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe

• Saint Epiphanius of Salamis
• Euthymius Zigabenus
• Evagrius Ponticus
• Saint Faustus of Riez

• Saint Cyprian of Carthage
• Saint Cyril of Alexandria
• Saint Cyril of Jerusalem
• Saint Dominic
• Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity
• Saint Ephrem the Syrian
• Didymus the Blind
• Egeria

• Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life (1876 translation, 119 chapters)
• Bernard of Clairvaux, On the Love of God (Patmore 1884, 11 chapters)

• Saint Catherine of Siena
• Saint Clement I of Rome
• Clement of Alexandria
• Cornelius a Lapide