What this is.
Desync Observatory reads what Catholic sources say about technology, and what the technology world says about the Church, as it is published. It translates it into English and links the people, places and organizations in it.
Read
We follow a list of sources, from news sites and feeds to video, podcasts and preprints, and take in each new item.
Sort
Each item is scored for how much it bears on the Church and technology, tagged by topic and translated into English where needed.
Link
We name the people, places, organizations and documents in it, and how they relate.
Find
Search matches exact words and meaning, so it finds an item that says it differently or in another language.
Anyone can read the latest 25 items. A free account searches and reads the whole archive and opens relations, entities and analytics. Code reads it through the API, with a key. AI assistants can use the MCP server, with a key too.
- Items
- 78,164
- 5,532 on topic
- Names
- 171,355
- 1,157 duplicates merged
- Passages
- 325,948
- indexed for meaning
- Topics
- 11
- a fixed list we keep
128 active sources. 4 failing, 64 with nothing new lately.
Newest item on topic: Nov 13, 2026. Last pipeline run: Nov 13, 2026.
Usage analytics, to see what is read and make the site better. Signed out, it is not tied to you. Signed in, it is tied to your account, so we can see who reads the archive and how much. No advertising, no tracking across sites.
Signing in uses a Desync account, which holds your email address.
If you request a source, report a problem or sign up for the newsletter, we keep what you send, with your address where you give it and your IP address, to stop abuse and to follow up.
Forms and sign-in are checked by Cloudflare Turnstile, which looks at your browser to tell people from bots.
Observatory is a Catholic Digital Commons Foundation project, powered by Desync.