01 / After hours
The question comes at 6:07.
Someone needs the confession schedule. The office closed at three. A routine question becomes a missed connection.
Now live — Tagaste Front Desk→AI for the
AI for the
parish office.
AI that answers parish calls, keeps websites current, and turns one announcement into every channel.
Tagaste agents run on Catholic Index—the digital infrastructure connecting every Catholic parish in the world.
267,291parishes indexed
8countries
37,000+searchable homilies
4,700livestream channels
Meet the agents
Three agents. One parish record.
Keep parish work moving.
Calls come in after hours. Schedules change. Follow-up accumulates. Tagaste is built to carry the routine work around the systems parishes already use—starting with the phone.
02 / Publication drift
One change. Four places to remember.
A schedule changes once. Staff must find every place it was published—and hope none were missed.
03 / The operational gap
Everything lands on the same desk.
Calls, updates, follow-up, and exceptions arrive through different tools, but they still land on the same small staff.
Front Desk
See Front Desk take a call.
It answers from sources your staff approves and hands off anything outside its rules.
Tagaste Front DeskLive call
Urgent calls reach your priest
Urgent calls go straight to the priest on duty, day or night.
Knows your parish
Answers from your approved schedules, policies, and directory.
Messages to the right person
Routes each message with the caller's details and context.
Routine calls handled
Handles the recurring questions that fill the parish voicemail.
How Front Desk goes live
Parish Data
Synced from Catholic Index
Catholic Index
Before the agents, we mapped the parish.
Catholic Index tracks schedules, staff, sacraments, homilies, and imagery from 267,291 parishes in eight countries. It is the source layer behind every Tagaste agent.
Parish records
The public record of parish life.
Mass and confession times, staff directories, OCIA, holy days, and sacramental policies—structured from diocesan sites and parish bulletins.
Catholic imagery
25,000 churches, painted.
Watercolor portraits of churches across the United States and Canada, alongside photographs and sacred art from museums and archives.
Livestream index
4,700 parish livestreams.
Indexed and monitored for travelers and the homebound.
Homily archive
Homilies, searchable.
Sunday and weekday preaching, captured and transcribed across hundreds of parishes.
AI should return people to people.
Answer the routine call. Hand off the one that needs a person. Then get out of the way.
Approved sources
Answers come from parish material your staff has checked.
Visible handoffs
Staff sees every call and takes over whenever needed.
No imitation ministry
Front Desk answers the phone. It does not act like a priest.
From people who use Catholic Index
“You are doing the Lord's Will. I consider you a saint (still lower case 's') — st. Mike.”
“There are a lot of other catholic websites out there but yours was spot on with mass times and confessions. I watched mass from Erie, PA while working from my hotel in Brussels.”
“I appreciate your professionalism and caring, and I wish Catholic Index an exponential growth worldwide.”
“I posted a link to your website on my personal Facebook — your blog and website are a very useful tool.”
“You are doing the Lord's Will. I consider you a saint (still lower case 's') — st. Mike.”
“There are a lot of other catholic websites out there but yours was spot on with mass times and confessions. I watched mass from Erie, PA while working from my hotel in Brussels.”
“I appreciate your professionalism and caring, and I wish Catholic Index an exponential growth worldwide.”
“I posted a link to your website on my personal Facebook — your blog and website are a very useful tool.”
Bring Front Desk to your parish.
Front Desk
See it handle a parish call
See how Front Desk answers, routes, and hands off calls using real parish data.
Request a demoLimited availability
Find your parish
We’ll start with the record we already have, confirm what’s current, and prepare Front Desk for your office.
If Front Desk is a good fit, we’ll make the budget work. Reduced pricing is always available when needed.
Your front desk, fully staffed—24/7.
See how Front Desk would work with your parish.