Zac Johnson · June 29, 2026
We just received a message from a Catholic wife and mother.
It begins: "I have been using Truthly for a little over two months now and my life has been significantly changed."
She used Truthly to work through real things, questions about parenting, her children's homeschool curriculum, difficult conversations with loved ones. She said the app had given her "the confidence to speak truth with genuine love," and that it was "genuinely changing lives, including mine."
Then she put her finger on why:
Your interface is wonderful because it naturally draws a close to conversations. Questions are asked by Truthly until it senses the user has reached an actionable step, then it literally tells you "now go do [the thing]." And then it stops.
It is apparent that you have tried to create a tool that is useful only insofar as it is able to help the user do something in the real world and in relationships with real people. To have the technology tell me to turn it off was very refreshing.
Your intention behind it is clearly to make its users more human. God has given you a gift, and we as the Body of Christ are so much better for it.
That is the entire reason Truthly exists.
In Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo teaches that technology is never neutral. It takes on the character of the people who build it. Most of what's being built right now is designed to keep us on screens, to keep us scrolling. We set out to build the opposite: a tool designed to make life better off the screen. To make you more human, not less.
She closed her note by telling us she'd pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet for our team that day. So this evening I'll do the same for you.