Cathopic is a Catholic stock-media library for parishes, ministries, and organizations that need photos, videos, vectors, artwork, and AI-generated images for bulletins, social posts, and other communications.^1 The homepage describes the catalog as royalty-free and puts it at 57,300+ visuals.^1
Subscriptions unlock monthly downloads on an Only Photos track or an All-in-One track. The pricing page lists 50,800+ Catholic images, artworks, and AI images on the first track, and adds 1,000+ graphics, illustrations, and vectors and 5,400+ videos on the second; unused downloads roll over, and plans carry a 14-day money-back guarantee.^2 Beside the licensed stock sits a public-domain collection of historical Christian art, free to use, with works by artists including Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Fra Angelico, and El Greco.^3 Dimconex Media, S.L. also publishes an API license for integrating Cathopic content into other digital products in web and email, and that license expressly forbids using the content to train AI or machine-learning models.^4
Dimitri Conejo Sanz, a UX/UI designer and frontend developer, founded Cathopic in 2017 after seeing a lack of authentically Catholic visual resources.^5 In a published interview with Omnes, he recalled sensing a call at World Youth Day in Krakow in 2016: "the Lord touched my heart and told me clearly 'I want you to renew my Church on the Internet.'"^6 He started small, in his words: "I started Cathopic with about 400 royalty-free photographs that I was able to gather from various image banks and that had a Catholic background".^6 Cathopic is an extension of Dimconex Media, a company dedicated to digital evangelization.^5 Sister projects include Holydemia, an online Catholic academy; Mater Coeli, a Marian consecration platform following St. Louis de Montfort; and Tolkian, a digital magazine on beauty in the tradition of Tolkien and Chesterton.^5 Catholic World Report reported that Christicons, a free Christian icon library from the same founder, had joined that Dimconex ecosystem.^7
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