Editorial standards

AngelGuard is a Catholic prayer app for iPhone and Android, and this website. Both are made and operated by CCC Impact B.V., a company based in the Netherlands.

We are not a parish, a diocese or a religious order. Nothing on this site carries an imprimatur or any formal endorsement from the Church, and nothing here stands in for a priest, the sacraments, spiritual direction or medical care.

Articles are published under the name AngelGuard rather than under a person’s name, because no person on this site is presented as a priest, an exorcist, a confessor or an expert with a ministry of their own.

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We write from the Church’s own texts and say which ones, so that anything on a page can be checked.

• •Scripture is quoted from AngelGuard’s English text based on the public-domain World English Bible, Catholic Edition, with key terms revised to the Latin Vulgate; that base includes the deuterocanonical books. Some pages also give the Douay-Rheims, labelled as such. Verses are copied from the published text by a script, never typed from memory.
• •The Catechism of the Catholic Church is cited by paragraph number (for example, CCC 1673), and the Code of Canon Law by canon number, so you can look the passage up yourself.
• •Traditional prayers are given in their received wording. Where a prayer is a modern composition, its page says so.
• •Dates in the liturgical calendar are computed, not typed. Easter is worked out from the Gregorian computus, and every movable feast and season is counted from it, so a page is correct for whichever year you read it in. Local practice can differ: a bishops’ conference may move a feast or a holy day, so check your own diocese.
• •Where a page identifies a saint to search engines, the identifier is looked up in Wikidata, not written from memory.
• •Where we compare Catholic apps, including our own, every fact comes from that app’s own store listing, is dated, and is re-checked before it is four months old.

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The prayers we publish for lay people ask God for help, or ask Our Lady, the angels and the saints to pray for us. They do not address the devil or evil spirits.

A lay person does not command spirits, and no page on this site gives you a formula that does: no “I command”, no “I bind”, no “leave in Jesus’ name”. We ask God to restrain evil; we do not claim authority over it ourselves. An automated test fails if phrasing like that appears in prayer, guide or course content.

Exorcism belongs to the Church. Solemn exorcism is performed only by a priest, and only with the express permission of his bishop (Catechism of the Catholic Church 1673; Code of Canon Law, can. 1172). If you believe you are facing something beyond ordinary temptation, speak with your parish priest.

The St. Michael Prayer and prayers like it are petitions to God for protection. They need no special permission and are not exorcisms.

A prayer is not a crisis, and our prayer pages do not presume one: praying for grief, illness or a child in trouble does not put a hotline next to the prayer. Crisis lines appear only where the reader signals distress themselves: in the app’s Ask conversation, on the Spiritual SOS screen, on our page of Bible verses for anxiety, in the guide for an emergency spiritual attack and in the course’s emergency plan. Their wording puts local emergency services first and U.S. crisis lines second. One other exception is about safety, not distress: the prayers for a husband or a wife include a section for a spouse who is being hurt, and that section gives the domestic violence hotline next to its first step, getting to safety.

Medical care comes first. Anxiety, intrusive thoughts, trouble sleeping and the after-effects of trauma can have medical and psychological causes, and our rule is that nothing on this site should lead anyone to treat an illness as a spiritual attack. Sin belongs in confession, discernment with a priest or spiritual director, and illness with a doctor. The Church does not set these against each other, and neither do we.

Every proposed change to this site runs the automated checks below, and the site’s build fails outright if the audit of the built pages does.

• •A doctrine test that fails when a lay command to spirits appears in prayer, guide or course content.
• •A test that fails when a page claims a credential or a caseload for anyone, or names a person as an article’s author.
• •Date tests that pin the computed date of Easter against known years, and fail if a fixed year is written into a season’s text.
• •A test that holds Ask on this website to ending its answers with a source.
• •An audit of every built page: titles, descriptions, canonical addresses, structured data (authorship must be the organisation), and that no page in the sitemap is hidden from search.

They catch patterns and structure. They cannot tell whether an explanation is theologically right, or pastorally wise. That is why we cite the Church’s texts so you can check us, why we do not present ourselves as an authority, and why corrections matter.

If something on this site is wrong — a date, a quotation, a paragraph number, a point of doctrine, or anything that could mislead someone who is struggling — please email hello@angelguardprayers.com with the page address and what is wrong.

We correct errors on the page itself. Errors of doctrine or pastoral safety are fixed first. Our articles show the date they last changed, and that date comes from our revision history rather than being typed by hand, so a corrected page shows a new date.