VIIAt every launch
A Mass for Each Client
When a client’s website launches, we have a Mass offered for them and for the families, parishioners and donors they serve.
It is part of every launch, and it is never on the invoice.
About
About Clerestory
A Catholic web and marketing studio. Our work lets people see into an institution, the way a clerestory lets light into a church.
IThe name
What a Clerestory Is
A clerestory, said CLEAR-story, is the row of high windows along the upper wall of a church, above the roofs of the side aisles. It is how daylight reaches the nave, where the people are.
Our work does the same for an institution: it lets people see in. The pronunciation is the promise. We help Catholic institutions tell a clear story.
IIThe mark
The Keys of Peter
Tibi dabo claves regni caelorum.
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 16:19
Our mark carries the crossed keys of Peter, gold and silver as in the arms of the Holy See, in a navy roundel with a gold ring, under a small Latin cross. The bows of the keys are quatrefoils taken from the tracery of Gothic rose windows.
The gold ring and the navy field are the lit window in the dark nave.
Inter mirifica
Among the wonderful things
In 1963 the Second Vatican Council opened its decree on the means of social communication by counting them among the wonderful discoveries made with God’s help, and asked the Church to use them well.
More than sixty years on, the website is the front door of most parishes and schools. We think it should be a door worth walking through.
Second Vatican Council, Decree on the Media of Social Communications, December 4, 1963
IIIWhere we are
Why Steubenville
Steubenville, Ohio is known to Catholics around the world for Franciscan University, the Steubenville youth conferences and decades of renewal, catechesis and scholarship.
We are from Steubenville, and it shapes how we work. We know the Church’s language and its calendar, so your staff never have to explain their world to us: pastor and parochial vicar, DRE and parish council, Catholic Schools Week and the Easter Triduum.
IVHow we work
Real Engineering, Quietly Done
One team from first conversation to launch and after. We build fast static sites on Cloudflare, run our own forms and manage the hosting, with the engineering behind more than fifty client websites.
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Discovery
Your mission, your people, your calendar and your staff’s time.
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Design
Your own people and places, and one clear next step.
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Build
Fast static sites on Cloudflare and forms we run ourselves.
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Care
Hosting we manage and a plan for every season.
VHow we do business
Our Principles
In 1891 Pope Leo XIII wrote Rerum novarum on the rights and duties of workers and employers at the start of the industrial age. Pope Leo XIV chose his name with that encyclical in mind, facing a new industrial revolution in artificial intelligence.
The Church’s social teaching is not a slogan for us. It is how we try to run a business: what we build, how we price it, how we treat the people who use it and the people who make it.
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The Dignity of the Person
Every person is made in the image of God. A visitor to your website is a person, not a conversion.
In practice. We build to accessibility guidelines, in plain language, so the grandmother with a screen reader and the parent on an old phone can both use your site.
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The Dignity of Work
Work is for the person, not the person for the work, and the worker deserves a just wage.
In practice. We pay the people who do the work fairly, and we build sites your staff can update in minutes instead of evenings.
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Truth
Honest dealing is the ground of every just exchange.
In practice. No invented reviews, inflated numbers or dark patterns. Every number we publish is real, and our proposals are written and plain.
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Subsidiarity
Decisions belong as close as possible to the people they affect.
In practice. Your site is yours: your staff own the content, and a diocesan standard still leaves each parish and school in charge of its own news.
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Solidarity and the Poor
We are responsible for one another, and the poor come first.
In practice. We design for the person in need: help pages that load on a cheap phone and a slow connection, with the phone number where they can find it.
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Stewardship of Creation
The earth is a gift held in trust, as Pope Francis wrote in Laudato si’.
In practice. Lean static sites that load fast, cost little to host and waste nothing: no heavy page builders and no ad trackers following your visitors.
“Work is for man, and not man for work.”
Further reading: the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church (2004) and The Vocation of the Business Leader (Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, 2012).
VIOur patron
St. Carlo Acutis
A teenager from Milan who taught himself to code and put it to work for the Church. Before he died of leukemia in 2006, at fifteen, he built a website cataloguing the Eucharistic miracles of the world. The exhibition that grew from it has since traveled to parishes on five continents.
Pope Leo XIV canonized him on September 7, 2025. He is often called the patron of the internet, and we work under his patronage. His feast is October 12.
“The Eucharist is my highway to heaven.”
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