22 July 2026
5 Ways Transhumanism is Directed to Your Kids
Dr Taylor Marshall discusses the dangers of transhumanism and the 5 ways it is directed at your children.
Who’s Buried With the Tudors at Westminster Abbey? | The Room Where 16 Kings and Queen Are Buried
From History Calling
Welcome to the incredible room where 16 Kings and Queens are buried in Westminster Abbey. This is the Henry VII Chapel, and in it lie royals drawn from four dynasties: the Plantagenets, the Tudors, the Stuarts and the Hanoverians. There are 11 monarchs and 4 queen consorts crammed together in this one space and in this video from History Calling we look at who they are and at who is buried with the Tudors. Furthermore, I’ll explain why there is a monarch of another country buried here, rather than just English Kings and Queens and which monarch is buried in the Henry VII Chapel who died before it was even built. The stories behind royal burials in this incredible space cover the rise and fall of royal dynasties and they range from heartbreak, to murder, to execution, to throne stealers to the most famous monarch in English history. They also span hundreds of years of English history.
The monarchs looked at in today’s video are Edward V, Henry VII, Edward VI, Mary I, Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, James I, Charles II, Mary II, William III, Queen Anne and George II. The Queen consorts buried in the Henry VII Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey are Elizabeth of York, Anne of Denmark (wife of James VI and I), Queen Caroline of Ansbach (wife of George II) and Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, daughter of James I of England. Each of them, to one degree or another, shaped English history to help form the United Kingdom as we know it today.
Have You Ever Heard of St Simeon the Holy Fool?
Both he and a companion, St. John of Edessa, were celebrated yesterday, the 21st.
From Aleteia
By Philip Kosloski
St. Simeon was a "fool for Christ," a holy hermit who was "foolish" in the eyes of the world.
While the Church often gives illustrious titles to various saints, such as naming them Doctors of the Church, there are certain saints who are given very unique titles that appear, well, foolish.
In fact, there is a whole category of saints who are called "holy fools," such as St. Simeon the Holy Fool.
It may seem like a strange title, but when comparing their lives to the ways of the world, it makes complete sense why a saint would be named a, "fool."
Holy Fool
The Roman Martyrology provides a brief presentation of St. Simeon and his unique title on his feast day of July 21:
Near Homs in Syria, Saint Simeon the Holy Fool, who, moved by the Holy Spirit, wished to be considered foolish for Christ and despised among men.
Generally speaking to be named a fool is something negative, as Jesus speaks often about the foolishness of living a lifestyle in line with the world's values.
Yet, on the flip side, what is foolish in the eyes of the world is often just what we are called to do -- living a life according to the Gospel.
St. Paul writes about this in his Letter to the Corinthians:
For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. (1 Corinthians 4:9-11)
This perfectly summarizes the life of St. Simeon, who was very "foolish," living a radical life in union with Jesus Christ.
St. Simeon abandoned the world to live as a hermit in the desert, and was often the laughing-stock of those who saw him in the city. He did not make excuses for himself or try to put on a good face for everyone. He was simply himself, sharing the Gospel with anyone who would listen.
St. Simeon also did some very odd and strange things when sharing the Gospel, using unconventional methods that would likely shock our modern ears.
In many ways he was similar to St. Francis of Assisi, who was not wise in the ways of the world, but was a "fool for Christ's sake," giving-up everything and leading a life of complete poverty.
Sometimes the key to knowing if we are living a Christian life is if the world would label us as a fool.
The Vatican Unleashes the Theology of Migration
It was inevitable that accepting endless hordes of strangers of military age from hostile religions into your homelands was going to become a religious duty.
How Medieval Builders Built Watermills That Ran 600 Years Without Electricity
From Medieval Way
In a Somerset valley, one mill still turns. It has been grinding grain on the same spot for more than six hundred years. Kings came and went. The wheel kept turning.
The machine that does the work has no motor, no wiring, no fuel bill. It runs on falling water and a set of wooden gears a carpenter could have cut with a chisel. By every rule of modern engineering, a machine like that should have worn out and been scrapped generations ago. It didn't. And the reason it didn't is the part nobody tells you about medieval water power. Most of what you picture when you hear the word watermill is wrong. It was not a quaint wooden wheel. It was the most complex machine in the medieval world, and the villagers were often forbidden to build their own.
Traditional Catholic Morning Prayers in English | July
Ask This One Question — Sola Scriptura Collapses Instantly
From Totus Catholica
There is one question you can ask any Bible-only Christian that sola scriptura itself cannot answer: using Scripture alone, how do you know which books belong in Scripture? Search Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find the list. No verse anywhere names the canon. The Bible is not one book; it is a library written across more than a thousand years, and a library needs someone to decide what sits on the shelf.
The only answer history gives was written by Catholic bishops at a council in Africa in the year 393, more than a thousand years before Protestants existed. A book cannot bind its own cover. When God gives his word to a people, it is that people, guided by his Spirit, who recognise it, guard it, and hand it on. That pattern begins in the Old Testament, with the scroll of the law kept beside the ark, and it is fulfilled at the altar of every Mass, where the book of the Gospels is still carried in procession and proclaimed to the assembly.
In this video:
• Why no verse in the Bible lists the books of the Bible
• What the bishops at the Council of Hippo actually decided in 393 AD
• Why the same 73 books run from Hippo to Carthage to Florence to Trent
• How the assembly at Sinai (kahal) prefigures the church (ecclesia) that received the canon
• Why the Protestant New Testament quietly accepts the very council it rejects
⏱ CHAPTERS
0:00 The One Question Sola Scriptura Cannot Answer
0:29 The Council of Hippo in Africa, 393 AD
2:55 What May Be Read as Divine Scripture
3:18 The 73 Books and the Lost Minutes
5:08 Deuteronomy 31 and the Scroll by the Ark
6:49 Augustine, CCC 120, and Apostolic Tradition
7:52 The Protestant Bible's Hidden Concession
📖 SCRIPTURE REFERENCED
• Deuteronomy 31;24-26: Moses commands that the scroll of the law be placed beside the ark of the covenant, in the care of the covenant community.
• Nehemiah 8: Ezra reads the law aloud to the assembly while the Levites explain it so the people understand.
• Matthew 16:18: "On this rock I will build my ecclesia, my church," the assembly that receives and guards the canon.
⛪ FROM THE CHURCH FATHERS & THE CATECHISM
• St. Augustine of Hippo (4th to 5th century): present at Hippo, and in Against the Fundamental Letter of Mani, chapter 5, he wrote, "I would not believe the gospel unless the authority of the Catholic Church moved me."
• St. Athanasius (4th century): his Easter letter of 367 lists the 27 New Testament books exactly, yet his Old Testament omits Esther and includes Baruch, matching neither the Catholic nor the Protestant Bible.
• St. Jerome (4th to 5th century): he doubted the seven books, yet translated Tobit and Judith at the request of the bishops, kept the disputed books in his Bible, and submitted to the judgment of the churches.
• CCC 120: it was by apostolic tradition that the Church discerned which writings belong in the canon.
📜 SOURCES & FURTHER READING
• The Breviarium Hipponense, the surviving summary of the Council of Hippo's rule: beyond the canonical scriptures, nothing should be read in church under the name of the divine scriptures.
• The Councils of Carthage (397 and 419), Florence (1442), and Trent (1546), each reaffirming the same 73-book list, with the African bishops referring their decision to the church across the sea, that is Rome.
• The Muratorian Fragment (c. 170 AD), which lists only about 22 of the 27 New Testament books and includes the Wisdom of Solomon and the Apocalypse of Peter.
• R.C. Sproul's honest admission that the canon is "a fallible collection of infallible books."
• The Dead Sea Scrolls, showing books like Tobit and Sirach circulating in Hebrew and Aramaic before Christ.
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Mary Magdalene and 7 Signs of True Repentance
The Church believes that Mary Magdalene is Mary the Sinner, who had seven devils cast out of her by Jesus, and is the same as Mary of Bethany who was the sister of Martha and of Lazarus, whom Jesus raised from the dead.
From Aleteia
By Tom Hoopes
We need some training to be more like her.
July 22 is the feast of Mary Magdalene, who is one of the single most important saints in the Church today, because repentance is one of the single most important needs of our day.
Of course, repentance is needed on the part of the clergy and hierarchy for enabling and covering up sexual abuse.
But repentance is also needed by lay people for our own sexual scandal. As Pope Benedict XVI told U.S. bishops, “What does it mean to speak of child protection when pornography and violence can be viewed in so many homes through media widely available today?”
What does it mean to protect children when their parents have themselves accepted so many sexual anomalies and excesses?
Mary Magdalene shows the way to the repentance that the Church – meaning us – needs.
First: The truly repentant break with Satan.
Talking about Satan’s role in sin can sound like avoiding personal responsibility. But in the ultimate act of repentance Catholics make, when we are baptized, we reject Satan, his empty promises, and his works.
There is no denying it: Satan’s role in sin is immense. Much of what is wrong with the world today is that it conforms more to his empty promises than Christ’s plan.
Mary Magdalene is referred to twice in the Gospels as the disciple of Jesus “from whom seven demons had gone out.” Many of us reject Satan theoretically, but still flirt with him, by keeping a hand in the things he likes. Mary Magdalene broke with him for good.
Second: The truly repentant don’t just “follow” … they change their trajectory.
When many of us repent and follow Jesus, we may be subconsciously planning to actually lead Jesus more than follow him. We continue to do the kind of things we would do anyway, but tell ourselves that Jesus is with us.
Mary Magdalene is listed among the women who traveled with Jesus. In other words, she got off one path and got on another — Jesus’ path.
Third: True repentance shows up in your wallet.
Mary Magdalene is also listed (in Luke 8:2-3) as one of the women who provided for the disciples “out of their means.”
That is another aspect of following Jesus: It means your bank account looks different. It means that instead of considering your money your own, you consider it Christ’s, and use it to alleviate the needs of others.
Fourth: The truly repentant embrace the suffering Christ.
We hear twice about Mary Magdalene in the accounts of the crucifixion. In Mark (15:40) she is “looking on from afar.” In John (19:25) she is “standing by the cross.”
The best way to explain the discrepancy is that Magdalene moved closer to the cross.
She modeled the movement every Catholic needs to make. The crucifix looms large in our churches. But we need to make a move toward it. The Church in fact provides ways to do that: the Friday sacrifice, the weekly Stations of the Cross, the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary.
Fifth: True repentance means never using Christ’s “absence” as an excuse.
True repentance turns away from sin and stays away. It accepts that sin is bad for me and has no more to do with it, and turns to Christ and sticks with him.
False repentance isn’t that straightforward. We turn away from sin but look back. We turn toward Christ but when his connection to us feels weak, sin’s pull overwhelms us. We are stuck to sin, not Jesus.
Mary Magdalene didn’t just stick with Jesus when he was crucified, she came closer. And she didn’t just stick with him by the cross, she saw where he was lain and, when the world felt full of his absence, made the trip to do all she could, and anoint him.
Sixth: The truly repentant evangelize.
The presence of Jesus’ grace in her life is so significant that Mary Magdalene can’t keep it to herself.
For her this is because she literally witnessed the resurrection — via the angel, the earthquake, the empty tomb and meeting Jesus himself.
Her response was to tell other people about it. She rushed back to the Apostles to tell them what she had seen. She insisted on it, even as others considered what she said an “idle tale.”
Seventh: True repentance looks not for the minimum but for the most.
Many of us do the bare minimum. We confess mortal sins, and we sort of try to fight against temptation. We learn what we absolutely must do — the Sunday obligation, the precepts of the Church — and we do that.
Mary does the opposite. She inserts herself into Jesus’ path, grabs at him, and never wants to let go.
Ironically, this “excessive” attitude toward Jesus is part of the minimal requirement of the Church.
When we go to confession, we promise to avoid not just sin, but to avoid the near occasion of sin. When we repent at Mass, we confess sins “in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do.”
Yet we sin “through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault.”
The fact that we do this so often shows that we are not all as good at repentance as Mary Magdalene. Or maybe it’s training to be more like her.
Mary Magdalene, pray for us!
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