TheoFonsAt the sources of the faithTheoFonsAt the sources of the faithTheoFons is free, needs no account and carries no advertising. What keeps it alive is reaching the people it is useful to. Here is what you need to show it to someone, in one gesture.
The link opens the home page, which is where the site explains itself in ten seconds.
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🕊️ *TheoFons* — _at the sources of the faith_ Scripture and the Magisterium *linked by their own cross-references*. Online, free, no account: https://theofons.net The principle in one line: each paragraph goes back to its sources through its own references, and each paragraph shows who has taken it up since. 📖 *Read* — type “LS 217” or “Mt 5:3” and you are AT the paragraph 🔎 *Search* — by words or by meaning, corpus and footnotes 💬 *Ask* — a question, a sourced answer, every reference one click from its paragraph ¹ 📅 *Lectionary* — the day's readings, with the apparatus of each one 📤 *Share* — a paragraph travels with its text, its reference and its address 🗂️ *Study* — folders: an answer, its quotations, the bibliography it built 🔌 *API* — https://api.theofons.net/mcp in Claude or ChatGPT — no key, nothing to install ¹ The answer is written by an AI; the quotations come from the corpus, word for word, each one a click away to check. Today: 73 biblical books, 180 documents of the Holy See, 426,423 biblical cross-references and 80,222 references drawn from the footnotes. 👉 https://theofons.net
Subject A site for reading Scripture and the Magisterium together
Hello, A site I use, and worth passing on: TheoFons. It is online, free and needs no account: https://theofons.net The principle in one line: each paragraph goes back to its sources through its own references, and each paragraph shows who has taken it up since. 📖 Read — type “LS 217” or “Mt 5:3” and you land ON the paragraph, with its apparatus 🔎 Search — by words or by meaning, across the corpus and inside its footnotes 💬 Ask — ask your question; the engine finds the most relevant texts and writes a sourced answer, each reference one click from the paragraph that carries it 📅 Lectionary — the day's readings with the apparatus of each one, and in one click a synthesis of its sources 📤 Share — a paragraph travels with its text, its reference and its address; pasted into Word it keeps its links 🗂️ Study — your folders: an answer, its quotations and the bibliography it built, and you can ask again WITH the folder as context 🔌 API — paste https://api.theofons.net/mcp into the connectors of Claude or ChatGPT and your assistant fetches the texts instead of recalling them — no key, nothing to install The answer is written by an AI; the quotations are taken from the corpus word for word, and each one opens in a click so you can check before using it. The AI reads and writes, it does not teach: where the texts do not answer, it has to say so instead of filling the gap. The Bible in three translations — AELF, Bible des Peuples, Douay-Rheims (English) — and the texts issued by the Holy See: encyclicals, councils, the Catechism, canon law, and the rank-1 cited texts (Denzinger, Saint Thomas, Saint Augustine, Saint Ambrose). As of today 73 biblical books, 180 documents of the Holy See, 426,423 biblical cross-references and 80,222 references drawn from the footnotes, in French and English. Latest text added: Homily at Mass in the Place de la Concorde, Pope Leo XIV. One question to see what it does — “What does the Church say about the dignity of work?” — offered in one click at https://theofons.net/en/interroger And then, the telling thing is to ask a question you are actually working on, not a question to try it out. https://theofons.net
The Bible in three translations — AELF, Bible des Peuples, Douay-Rheims (English) — and the texts issued by the Holy See: encyclicals, councils, the Catechism, canon law, and the rank-1 cited texts (Denzinger, Saint Thomas, Saint Augustine, Saint Ambrose). As of today 73 biblical books, 180 documents of the Holy See, 426,423 biblical cross-references and 80,222 references drawn from the footnotes, in French and English.
Latest text addedHomily at Mass in the Place de la Concorde, Pope Leo XIV
One click and the engine opens on it, writing a sourced answer, each quotation one click from the paragraph that carries it.
And then the telling thing is a question you are actually working on, not a question to try it out.
Gaudium et spes 24 — “man, the only creature on earth which God willed for itself, cannot fully find himself except through a sincere gift of himself.” Under the paragraph, two rails: “Sources”, where it comes from, and “Taken up by”, who has quoted it since — 34 passages in all, each one a click away.