Have you ever had a question about Catholic faith or teachings and felt like you were swimming upstream in alligator infested waters trying to find the answers? Only the waters are the Google algorithm and the alligators are (usually very anti-Catholic) Protestant, anti-theistic, or even new age websites? Then you know the struggle that has led to the creation of this website.

I love and respect New Advent, but it looks just like it did when I first accessed it from a computer lab at my Catholic grade school back in 1999. And I’ve always had some difficulty navigating the site. And Catholic Answers is good for getting answers to direct questions with limited scope but if you have graduated from the phase of simple enquiry and are into diving deeper, there’s really little to go on. I’ve especially heard of there being massive pay and language barriers to getting to some important early church documents and works of the Saints. I hope to gradually do away with some of those limitations.

Of course this is a big task that I’m attempting to undertake… alone at the moment, so I can’t promise miracles over night. Especially since it seems a bit unethical to just go on a copy paste spree over any website I can find. And since I want to make sure my pages are transformative so that I’m never accused of plagiarism, you will find my own thoughts and connecting ideas threaded throughout. I’ll make certain to not pass them off as anything other than my own musings.

If you can think of any digital libraries I can scour or have anything you’d like to contribute, please feel free to let me know. We’re never going to take full advantage of this internet medium if we are all doing it alone.

About the Author

My name is Sarah Dailey, I’m 33 as of March 2024, and I am a cradle Catholic. I’ve always had a fervent love for the faith and it has always been a defining part of my identity, and often the only part that I’m certain of. I was blessed to be able to attend a local parochial school until the second half of 5th grade. I finished my schooling though high school in the Elizabeth Ann Seaton homeschooling program, and after a failed attempt at attending Steubenville and needing financial breaks from the local Ivy Tech, I finally have an Associate Degree in General Studies. Yeah, it’s not much in the way of the accolades you normally see. I’m not a degree holding biblical scholar, I can barely learn living languages let alone the dead ones, and the majority of my study has been self-directed. And that, I hope, means I have a little more in common with you, dear reader, than the average website builder or YouTuber.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to have the time and financial resources to continue my education and learn even more that I can share with others, but as I don’t have either of those things at the moment, self-study it is. Perhaps it’s the jaded millennial in me but I’m a little tired of everyone pretending achedemics are the only ones allowed to the debate table anyway, kind of like it may have been the jaded millennial in my younger self who was tired of every female saint being a nun or a dead child. (Yes, I’ve grown up since then, but I decided a long time ago I wanted to prove a woman could make strides in holiness after puberty and outside of the convent.)

Overall, the most important things to know about me that will effect this blog are as follows: I’m not the best of keeping my own thoughts out of information sharing, I can slip into stylistic forms of writing especially if I’m working late at night, and somehow I’ve managed to be very scatterbrained as well as a perfectionist. So get ready for the edit icon to be used and abused as time goes by. 😉