29 July 2026
Summa Contra Gentiles, Book II: XXXVII Solution to the Fallacy of an Eternal World by Creationism II
From Contemplating History
Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 7 March 1274), was a Doctor of the Church, Philosopher, Theologian, Jurist, Dominican Friar, and Priest. Known as Doctor Angelicus "Angelic Doctor," and the Doctor Communis "Universal Doctor" his writings serve as a defense and proof of the validity of Christ's authority over all. The Summa contra Gentiles (also known as Liber de veritate catholicae fidei contra errores infidelium, "Book on the truth of the Catholic faith against the errors of the unbelievers"). The Summa contra Gentiles consists of four books. The structure of Saint Thomas's work is designed to proceed from general philosophical arguments for monotheism, to which Muslims and Jews are likely to consent even within their own respective religious traditions, before progressing to the discussion of specifically Christian doctrine.
Book II is dedicated to the Creation (in other words, the physical universe, everything which exists).
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What Does the Catholic Church Say About AI? | Cardinal Tagle | On the Spot
Speaking to Shalom World News, Cardinal Antonio Tagle shares his thoughts on artificial intelligence and the role of faith in today’s digital world. He thanks God for the gift of human intelligence and creativity, saying AI can promote equality, connection and evangelization. At the same time, he stresses responsibility. Technology must serve truth, peace and the Gospel. He warns Catholics not to lose emotional and relational intelligence in the digital age. Cardinal Tagle also urges Catholic influencers to examine their motives and ensure they are guided by Jesus, not fame.
Discover the Secrets of Anne Boleyn’s Only Authentic Image | What Is the Moost Happi Medal of 1534?
From History Calling
DISCOVER THE SECRETS of the Moost Happi medal; a rare 1534 artefact that reveals how Anne Boleyn wanted the world to see her at the height of her power. It is the only image we have of the real Anne Boleyn created during her lifetime and is named after the inscription around the edge.
In this Anne Boleyn documentary from History Calling I take a deep dive into the history of this famous Tudor artefact to look at why the medal of Anne Boleyn was created, what it had to do with Anne’s failed pregnancy of 1534, how useful it was as a piece of Tudor propaganda to try to solidify her position as Queen of England (especially while her predecessor, Catherine of Aragon, was still alive), why only one copy of it survives and is now kept in the British Museum in London and what we can learn about Anne Boleyn from looking at her picture on this medal. I’ll analyse the AR text, meaning Anna Regina, written next to her, explain why she is wearing an English gable hood despite being famous for her love of French hoods and discuss the significance of the Tudor consort necklace which appears around the necks of so many of Henry VIII’s wives. I’ll also show you reconstructions of the Moost Happi medal, discuss the damage on it and how this might have occurred and why its history has so often been misunderstood.
Whether you’re a Tudor history enthusiast or discovering this for the first time, this is a story of power, image, and one queen’s attempt to control her narrative, shortly before it all came crashing down. This is the real Anne Boleyn.
š„ Watch now to uncover the hidden meaning behind Anne Boleyn’s most personal piece of royal propaganda.
Have You Been Neglecting Half of Your Health?
Recent research has shown that regular Mass attendance is linked to better mental health among young adults aged 18 to 35, something the Church has known for centuries.
From Aleteia
By Daniel Esparza
We are more focused on mental health than ever — and mental health is getting worse. A research psychologist and a 15-century tradition both point toward the same remedy.There comes a point — usually sometime in your 40s, sometimes earlier, sometimes later — when the body stops being forgiving. The diet that worked at 30 stops working. Sleep becomes a discipline rather than a default. Exercise moves from optional to necessary. Most people accept this without much argument. The body’s needs are visible and undeniable, and our current culture has enough language for them.
The mind’s needs, most of the time, are less visible and much easier to defer. Mental health care still carries, in many circles, a faint suggestion of either weakness or indulgence — something for the anxious, the fragile, the people who have not learned to manage. Stoicism gets misread as virtue. Endurance gets confused with health. And so the interior life accumulates pain and distress in the same way the body does, until at some point the invoice arrives and it is larger than expected.
The Catholic tradition has always insisted this framing is wrong — not because it is insufficiently compassionate, but because it is philosophically incoherent. The Catechism is direct on the point: “Man, though made of body and soul, is a unity” (CCC 364). The human person is not a soul driving a body, or a body occasionally troubled by a soul. Body and mind and spirit are one thing, and what damages one damages all. Neglecting your mental health is not virtue or strength. It is poor stewardship of the person God made.
But there is a twist. However, before we get into it, one point needs to be clearly made. Mental health is a health issue and just as diabetes and high blood pressure don't get "prayed away," mental health issues must be addressed not as spiritual maladies but as health issues. If you are experiencing mental health issues, please see a professional.
Now for the twist. Writing in the New York Times this week, research psychologist Clay Routledge makes a provocative argument: Our preoccupation with mental health may itself be part of the problem. Americans are more focused on mental health than at any other point in history — and yet, by multiple measures, mental health is getting worse. Over the past several decades, the percentage of Americans reporting poor mental health has risen steadily. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. But the ever-expanding clinical vocabulary, the self-diagnosis culture, the social media posts normalizing anxiety disorders — these may be inadvertently making people more vulnerable to psychological distress, not less. “The more fixated we are on mental health,” Routledge writes, “the more sensitive we become to anything that might qualify as a symptom and the more we use clinical language to describe normal emotional experiences.”
His remedy is striking for how closely it mirrors what the Catholic tradition has always proposed. For many, he notes, exercise does as good a job reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression as psychotherapy or medication — and in some cases better. Acts of kindness toward others proved more effective than cognitive-behavioral exercises in one study: people who focused on someone else’s problems improved more than those who focused on their own. And meaning — the sense that one matters, that one plays an important role in other people’s lives — is among the strongest predictors of resilience against depression, anxiety, and despair.
The Catholic tradition has been saying all of this, in a slightly different language, for 15 centuries or more. The examination of conscience — systematized by Ignatius of Loyola as a daily discipline of interior attention — is structured self-awareness, not obsessive self-scrutiny. The difference is the direction of travel: the examination ends in gratitude, in resolution, in encounter with God — not in a deeper spiral inward. Spiritual direction provides what Routledge would call accountability and outward orientation. The corporal and spiritual works of mercy — feeding the hungry, visiting the sick, instructing the ignorant — are, among other things, a prescription for getting out of your own head and into someone else’s life.
A recent study of Catholic diocesan approaches to mental health found that the most effective frameworks were those that integrated spiritual and communal dimensions alongside clinical ones — precisely because the Catholic understanding of the person refuses to reduce the interior life to brain chemistry alone. The soul is not a metaphor. It is the form of the body, as Aristotle (and then Aquinas) put it, and its health is not separable from the health of the whole.
As we get older, the case for taking all of this seriously becomes more urgent. The distractions that allowed us to avoid ourselves — the busyness, the noise, the accumulated momentum of a life in motion — begin to thin. What was background becomes foreground. This is not only a psychological phenomenon but a spiritual one: the tradition has always understood the second half of life as a particular kind of invitation, a season when the interior life demands the attention it has always deserved.
Caring for your mental health is not self-indulgence. It is a response to what you are. The Church has been saying this — in the language of soul and spirit and interior life — since long before the vocabulary of psychology existed. And what the best of that tradition understood, and what Routledge’s research now confirms, is that the path to interior health tends to run outward: through the body, through the neighbor, through a life oriented toward something larger than its own maintenance.
Synod Overlord Calls For The Conversion Of Catholicism
Why does THE CHURCH need to convert to anything? The people of the Church? Sure, we all must convert, but the only conversion they ever talk about is a conversion of the institution itself. Cardinal Mario Grech, one of the two heads of the Synod on Synodality, gave the game away in a recent interview about the need for the Church to convert to synodality.
The Truth About King Alfred’s "Car Park" Discovery
From
Has King Alfred the Great FINALLY been found?
Recent headlines have exploded with claims that England’s famous Saxon king has been discovered buried beneath a car park — mirroring the incredible story of Richard III.
But Is there actual truth behind the viral headlines, or is this just another case of media hype?
In this investigation, I travel to Winchester to retrace the story for myself. Drawing on historical records, an intriguing 18th-century account, and discoveries made by archaeologists in more recent times, we uncover a fascinating story of royal burials, lost remains, and the challenges of separating historical fact from speculation.
Could the final resting place of one of England’s greatest kings still be waiting to be found?
Join me as I dig into the evidence behind the headlines and explore what really happened to Alfred the Great.
Traditional Catholic Morning Prayers in English | July
The Catholic Apologist Protestants Fear Most
From Catholic Christian
Who is the one Catholic apologist who puts more fear into non-Catholics than anyone else online? I will introduce and provide evidence as to why these are the best of the best and why no one wants to step up to them, and if they somehow do, they almost instantly regret it. Watch the entire video to see who is the most feared Catholic online!
Did You Know St Martha Became a Dragon-Slayer?
Today is the Feast of St Martha, sister of Ss Lazarus and Mary Magdalene. According to legend, she slew a dragon in the Rhone River.
From Aleteia
By Philip Kosloski
Sweet Martha, who ministered to Jesus' needs, turned out to be one tough woman!During his three years of earthly ministry Jesus often stayed at the home of Mary, Martha and Lazarus. They were some of his most intimate friends and were also his devoted disciples.
Martha is typically known for her "busyness," while Mary is revered for her ability to simply "be" with Jesus.
Nothing is mentioned about them in the Bible after Jesus' ascension into heaven, but local legends reveal some interesting stories.
While the Eastern Orthodox claim that Martha and Lazarus ended up in Cyprus, Latin traditions claim they went to France with Mary Magdalene.
Did Martha wrestle a crocodile?
Once there, Martha was immediately sought after for her association with Jesus. According to local tradition, she performed many miraculous feats, including the slaying of a dragon along the Rhone river. The Golden Legend provides all the details.
At that time, in the forest along the Rhone between Aries and Avignon, there was a dragon that was half animal and half fish, larger than an ox, longer than a horse, with teeth as sharp as horns and a pair of bucklers on either side of his body. This beast lurked in the river, killing all those who tried to sail by and sinking their vessels ... The people asked Martha for help, and she went after the dragon. She found him in the forest in the act of devouring a man, sprinkled him with blessed water, and had a cross held up in front of him. The brute was subdued at once and stood still like a sheep while Martha tied him up with her girdle, and the people killed him then and there with stones and lances.
While this may seem like a bizarre story that is the product of medieval mythology, there is a distinct possibility that St. Martha (or some other saint) did in fact discover a stray crocodile. The description of a scaly beast that lives both in the water and on land appears to fit the description perfectly. It's possible that someone was transporting a crocodile to a Roman amphitheatre and it somehow escaped the boat, finding refuge in the marshland around the Rhone river.
Whenever a saint (such as St. George) is credited with slaying a dragon, crocodiles appear to be the most likely candidate (or an ancient dinosaur, whichever one you prefer).
With this in mind, imagine sweet Martha, who ministered to Jesus, wrestling a crocodile and tying it up with her girdle!
It certainly gives you a new perspective on this biblical character if any of the stories are true!
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