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✓ Reviewed by Fr. John How this site is made
Why this site exists
The Woman & the Dragon is Fr. John's own site, part of The Ephesus Challenge, a family of websites on the Book of Revelation and Christian hope that he founded and directs. Here he sets out a reading of Revelation 12 and 13 that he finds compelling, tests it openly against the marks Scripture gives, and helps readers prepare to stand firm in a time of trial. Its pages are written by Fr. John with the help of Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic.
Fr. John's vision for the project
The project began from a simple hope. For millennia humanity has contemplated God's plan of creation and salvation, from Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning…”, to the first promise in Genesis 3:15, to the vision of “The New Heaven and the New Earth” (Revelation 21) and the proclamation “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end” (Revelation 22:13). That inheritance is vast and often hard to reach. An AI model can help gather it together through research and organization, making it accessible, and presenting this knowledge to help us better comprehend the big picture.
The project also takes its cue from Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence, presented at the Vatican on May 25, 2026, where Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah spoke. Many people fear what AI may do. This project tries to show, openly and page by page, what AI can do in the service of the truth when it works within clear rules and under human direction.
The name of the project comes from Christ's letter to the church at Ephesus, which he praised for its labor and its testing of false teachers, and then warned: “you have lost the love you had at first” (Revelation 2:4). His challenge to them is ours too: “Repent, and do the works you did at first” (Revelation 2:5). Knowledge of Scripture is essential, but it cannot take the place of love for God and neighbor. Every page here is written to lead readers to Christ, not merely to inform them.
Who does what
| What they do | |
|---|---|
| Fr. John | Writes this site and speaks in it in his own voice. The reading of Revelation set out here is his, and so are its grades of confidence. He decides what is published and reviews pages. He is a Catholic diocesan priest, not an academic scholar of Scripture. |
| Claude (Anthropic) | Researches and checks sources, drafts pages from Fr. John's writing and direction, gathers the evidence on the scorecard, states the case against each claim as fairly as the case for it, and builds and publishes the site. Claude works within the rules below and under Fr. John's direction. Claude does not name anyone as the Antichrist; that reading is Fr. John's own. |
| The Church | Neither Fr. John nor Claude is the authority here. That belongs to Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition and the Magisterium of the Catholic Church. The Church has not taught what this site proposes, and the site never says she has. |
Every page says who made it. Most carry the line Written by Fr. John, with research and drafting by Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic. Pages compiled by Claude, like this one and the scorecard, say Researched and written with Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic. Directed by Fr. John. A page he has read and approved also carries the mark ✓ Reviewed by Fr. John.
How evidence is tested
Every piece of evidence on this site is tested the same way. It states the claim, gives its source and how reliable that source is, names the mark of Scripture it bears on, and says whether it strengthens or weakens the case. Evidence against is recorded as faithfully as evidence for. Fringe sources appear only as low-weight “claims circulating,” never as evidence. What would weaken the proposal is written down in advance, so that readers can hold it to account.
The years given on this site are for events that have already happened, as a test of the reading against history. The site never counts forward and never names a date.
The rules Claude works within
Fr. John set seven rules for the whole project. Claude follows them on every page, and they are the guardrails this project is meant to show at work.
- Love first (Revelation 2:4). Knowledge serves charity. No page is written to win an argument or to stir fear.
- With the Church. Scripture is read with Tradition and the Magisterium. Every claim is labeled by its level of authority, and private revelation is kept in its place (Catechism 67).
- No date-setting. “Of that day and hour no one knows” (Matthew 24:36; Catechism 673).
- Persons treated justly. Living persons discussed as possible fulfillments of prophecy appear only as Fr. John's attributed proposal, graded possible or probable and never settled, with the case against and the Church's caution visible. Verdicts are on arguments, never on souls (Catechism 1861), and nothing on this site invites hostility toward anyone.
- Checkable sources. Every quotation is cited to a source you can check. Nothing is invented.
- Hope. “Do not be afraid” (Luke 12:7).
- Truthful about who did what. Every page says who researched, wrote, directed and reviewed it.
How sources are checked and pages reviewed
Sources. Scripture is quoted briefly from the New American Bible, Revised Edition, and linked to the full text on the USCCB's Bible site, bible.usccb.org/bible. Church documents link to the Vatican's own copies wherever they exist. Quotations from the Fathers, saints and other writers name a book, edition and page, or a document someone can look up.
Review. Substantial new pages come to Fr. John as drafts first. The mark ✓ Reviewed by Fr. John appears only on pages he has actually read and approved.
What AI can get wrong, and how to tell us
Claude is capable, but it can make mistakes. It can misread a source, cite the wrong verse or page, or present a debated point with more confidence than it deserves. The rules above and Fr. John's review are there to catch such errors, but no review catches everything.
If you find a mistake, please write to frjohn@apocalypse12.org with the page and what you found. Corrections are made openly: a corrected page carries a short note saying what changed and when. A page is never quietly altered to hide an error.
Independence
The Ephesus Challenge is an independent project. Fr. John is a Catholic diocesan priest, but this project is his own and is not affiliated with or endorsed by his diocese, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Anthropic, or any other organization. Anthropic makes Claude, the AI model used to write these pages, and has no role in the project's content. Nothing here speaks for the Church; for that, the Catechism and the documents linked on each page are the place to go.