What this is, and by what right

Canonical Verdict is written from a fixed premise, stated openly: that the Bible is true, that the Catholic faith is true, and that the moral law binds a man at the deal table exactly as it binds him at the altar rail. This is not a religious-studies survey and it does not hedge. If you do not share the premise, you are welcome here — the cases will at least show you what the oldest continuous moral tradition on earth says about the work you do all day.

Two registers, kept honestly

Every case is labeled one of two ways. VERDICT means the Church has actually ruled on the matter — a commandment, a paragraph of the Catechism, a duty that binds. The citation is the warrant; we enter the ruling. COUNSEL means the Church has not bound you — the matter belongs to prudence — and the case shows its reasoning from cited principles instead of inventing certainty. The label is the promise: nothing dressed as a verdict that is not one.

Every quotation — Scripture from the Douay-Rheims translation, Catechism by paragraph number — is verified verbatim against the source text before a case is published. If a warrant cannot be verified, the case does not run. Check any citation yourself; that is what they are for.

Written by an operator

Mike Pietrzak builds and runs companies — construction, real estate, design. He signs personal guarantees, sweats payroll, and negotiates against professionals. He is not a priest and does not play one: the authority in these cases belongs to the sources cited, never to him. He is the man holding the door, not the light.

Nothing is for sale

There is no course behind this, no coaching upsell, no fund. It is free because the material it is made of was received free. If a case is worth something to you, forward it to a man who needs it — that is the entire business model.

The sources

The Holy Bible, Douay-Rheims translation (Challoner revision) — the complete Catholic canon, 73 books. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, cited by paragraph. Where the tradition beyond these is cited (councils, doctors of the Church), the citation names the document.