A Riddle of England

[A Riddle of England @RiddleofEngland]

I suspect American Catholicism's big problem is the Irish takeover in the 19th and 20th centuries - Irish Catholicism itself having been so negatively influenced by English Puritanism!

[Anthony @Catholicizm1]

American Catholicism is largely just intellectual Catholicism. Heavily influenced by Protestant converts and the American Protestant culture they converted from. It’s why the videos of Holy Week in Spain get so much traction on this site. The American convert looks on and says look how beautiful Catholicism is while failing to produce our own unique Catholic culture. Im not knocking converts. Just making an observation. I think outfits like Catholic Answers are great for answering Protestant objections to Catholicism, but they’ve also created a Protestant ethos where Catholicism becomes something like faith alone plus the sacraments. It’s still mainly based on what you believe rather than how the faith is embodied. It’s quote mining certain scriptures to combat the quote mining of other scriptures. The closest thing we get to a genuine Catholic culture is at ethnic parishes that have a remnant preserved from their European heritage. A polish parish, or Italian parish will still do processions but there’s nothing that is unique to America. We should work towards changing this.

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

The Sutton Hoo helmet was discovered today in 1939!

Having belonged to King Rædwald of East Anglia, its an iconic Anglo-Saxon archeological find.

[Wylfċen @wylfcen]

Scribes were always whining about this. There’s a thousand-year-old Anglo-Saxon manuscript that ends, “The writing is finally over. God help my hands” (Sy þeos gesetnys þus her geendod. God helpe minum handum)↓

[Tom Rowsell @Tom_Rowsell]

@bronzeagemantis The red pill here is that transgenderism is genuinely an inheritance from a deeply ingrained western (and also eastern due to buddhism etc too) conception of the body-soul dichotomy. The idea that there is an I entirely other to the body, has a polluting influence

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

A message from St Lawrence, Bradwell that seems fitting for today 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Lee Chapman 🇬🇧 @Lee_MJ_Chapman]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Happy Birthday, England. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

On 12 July 927, King Æthelstan united the English kingdoms, creating what is widely regarded as the birth of England as one nation.

Nearly 1,100 years later, England still has no officially recognised national birthday.
Perhaps it is time we changed that.

A nation with this much history, heritage and identity deserves a day to celebrate its story.

Happy birthday, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'Happy 1,099th birthday England!'

Michael Portillo speaks with historian Martyn Whittock about the anniversary of when King Æthelstan brought the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings together in 927 AD.

[Fr Gary Dench @garydench]

On 27th of July, I'll be following in the footsteps of the pilgrims of Mediaeval Christendom, with two friends, one of whom is another priest, by walking a part (the vast majority in fact) of the Pilgrims' Way from London to Canterbury. (1/10)
https://t.co/oGELIqpIEF

[paul bindweed the sequal 🌳 @paul_bindweed]

All things by immortal power,
Near or far, to each other linked are,
That thou canst not stir a flower Without troubling of a star.

Francis Thompson

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

Absolutely appalling news about Ann Widdecombe - her politics didn’t always chime with my own but she was an unashamed woman of faith who stood against the tide of secularism in politics. Fidelium animae defunctorum, per misericordiam Dei, requiescant in pace.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Notwithstanding obvious political differences my wife and I were deeply shocked at the terrible end to the life of #AnnWiddicombe with whom I served in parliament for many years and both of us frequently met in television studios. She was a unique political figure who believed strongly in her political views and expressed them most eloquently. May she rest in peace.

[The English Remnant @Englishremnant]

Today, 8th July, we remember St Withburga, an Anglo-Saxon princess of East Anglia who chose a life of prayer, humility and service over wealth and status.

She founded a Christian community at Dereham and, according to tradition, God miraculously provided for those in her care through two wild hinds, which came each day to provide milk for the builders. Because of this, St Withburga is often depicted with a deer.

Long before the Norman Conquest, England produced men and women of deep faith whose quiet lives helped lay the spiritual foundations of this nation.

St Withburga, pray for England. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

Norway is experiencing a remarkable growth in Catholicism. The number of registered Catholics has increased from about 46,000 in 2009 to 168,000 in 2025, making the Catholic Church the country's second-largest Christian denomination.

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

America is 250 years old.

This pub is 1,466 years old.

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

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[Anglo-Celtic Warrior @Anglo_Warrior]

Recently I visited St Leonard’s Church in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, featuring walls, windows, and a blocked triangular opening from the original Anglo-Saxon church. It also contains late Saxo-Norman arches, all dating from the 11th Century 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Ulfcytel @ulfcytel]

The first book you should read to become an Evolian.

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

In medieval calendars the month of July is often illustrated by scenes of labourers working hard in a meadow, getting in the hay harvest. My latest piece for @HistoryToday is all about meads and meadows, their language and their poetry... https://t.co/mdmVajslay

[Wylfċen @wylfcen]

More parents should name their kids after Anglo-Saxon kings. Even this guy’s middle name, Oslac, is Old English for ‘gift from the gods’.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Tolkien once revealed that the Shire wasn’t pure fantasy.

In a letter from 1955 he described it as:

“more or less a Warwickshire village of about the period of the Diamond Jubilee.”

The most beloved world in fantasy was built from ordinary English countryside memories.