Editorial policy
What this site publishes, what it refuses to publish, and what happens when we get something wrong.
This page describes commitments, not intentions. Every one of them can be checked by opening any piece of content on the site: if a page fails to do what is written here, the page is what is wrong.
Every piece has a named author and a named reviewer
No doctrinal content on this site goes out without two identified people: the one who wrote it and the one who reviewed it. The roles alternate between pieces — on one, Raphael Navarro Schmitt signs and Maria Luisa Navarro Schmitt reviews; on the next, the other way round — and they are never the same person in both slots, which would defeat the purpose of review. The alternation is not typed by hand into each file: it is derived from the position of the piece, which makes it impossible to forget.
See who writesWhere the biblical text comes from
No piece on this site types out the wording of a verse from memory. Content declares the reference, and the text is pulled from the Bible edition this site publishes in that language at the moment the page is generated. That way the verse you read inside a commentary is exactly the one on the chapter page — and it is always a translation we have the right to publish.
The translations published in this language
Catholic Public Domain Version
Catholic traditionLicense: Public Domain
King James Version
Protestant traditionLicense: Public Domain
No ecclesiastical approval — and why we say so
The Catholic Public Domain Version, which this site publishes as its Catholic edition in English, carries no imprimatur and has not been submitted to any ecclesiastical authority. It is a reading and study edition assembled from freely licensed texts. This site describes what the Christian traditions teach; it authorizes nothing. You will not find the phrase "approved by the Church" here, because it would not be true — for official liturgical or catechetical use, seek an edition approved by your diocese.
We do not arbitrate between traditions
Faith Flame speaks to Catholics and Protestants at the same time, and no piece decides which reading is right. Where a real disagreement exists, the content opens with what both traditions affirm together, presents the readings side by side with equal visual weight, and closes by saying explicitly that the page does not choose between them. That notice is fixed and is not rewritten piece by piece — text each author reformulates ends up firmer on one page and looser on another.
This site does not replace a church, a priest or a pastor
That is the line the whole app follows. We publish and explain biblical texts, prayers and frequently asked questions; we do not give individual spiritual direction, we do not rule on anyone’s situation, and we do not place ourselves between you and your faith community. Where the subject calls for it, the page says so in plain sight, not in small print at the bottom.
Mental suffering has treatment
Content about anxiety, depression or addiction carries a mandatory notice that faith and treatment are not in competition: this has treatment, no verse on the page replaces assessment, diagnosis or professional care, and anyone whose sleep, work or relationships are being affected is pointed to a health professional. A faith site that talks about psychological suffering without saying so is being negligent, whatever the law requires.
What we do not publish
- The wording of a verse written from memory or copied from a translation we have not licensed.
- Promises of healing, prosperity or material outcomes as a consequence of reading, praying or subscribing.
- Content that presents one tradition’s reading as if it were everyone’s.
- Prophetic readings of current events, or dates for future ones.
- Ratings, scores or testimonials with no real origin — including in structured data, where no page on this site emits a rating at all.
- Anything published without human review of that specific piece.
How a mistake gets corrected
Translation and editing are human work, and human work contains errors. When someone reports a problem — a translation error, a wrong reference, a typo, or a claim the biblical text does not support — the path is always the same, and it does not depend on who reported it.
- We check the reference against the Bible edition this site publishes in that language, and we read the text the page actually displays.
- If the error is confirmed, the fix goes into the piece and the page’s update date changes with it — it appears in the signature, beside the name of whoever reviewed it.
- When the error changed what the page claimed, and not merely how it read, the correction is stated on the page itself rather than made silently.
- We reply to whoever reported it, including when the conclusion is that there was no error.
Older content
A published piece is not a closed piece. When a page is revised, the update date replaces the publication date in the signature and in the structured data. We do not republish content with a fresh date unless it actually changed — moving a date to look recent misleads the reader and the search engine at once.