Articles & Essays
- Natural Science
The Myth of the Natural Origin of Life
Arguments that are given for evolution include theological as well as scientific arguments. The arguments I shall present against evolution,…
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The Immaculate Conception and the Immaculate Creation
In 1858, on the eve of the publication of Charles Darwin’s book Origin of Species, the Queen of Prophets appeared…
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Blessed Nicolas Steno: A Patron Saint for Flood Geology
December 5 is the feast of Blessed Nicolas Steno (born Niels Steensen), who is known as one of the fathers…
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Pope Pius XI and the Special Creation of St. Adam
One of the wonderful things about the Kolbe apostolate has been the way that members of our leadership team have…
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A Future Pope Warns Against Scientism in the Eighteenth Century
In 1749, the popular naturalist author Georges-Louis Leclerc, Count de Buffon, began publishing volumes of what was later collected together in his L'Histoire…
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Latest Newsletters
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Venerable Leo Dupont & The Holy Face
Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! The first Marian apparition of modern times with a public message approved by the Church took place in La Salette, in France, in 1846, and featured a stern warning from the Mother of God against two principal sins—blasphemy and the desecration of the Lord’s Day. It is no coincidence that…
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Holy Face Novena
Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! In this newsletter I would like to encourage you to participate in the Novena to the Holy Face of Jesus which will begin on February 23, by revisiting some of the reasons why the Devotion to the Holy Face and the discovery of the photographic image of the Holy Face…
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Latina Ecclesiae Per Genesim Data
Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! Having been involved in the struggle to hold fast what was handed down, especially in regard to the sacred history of Genesis and the true Catholic doctrine of creation, for more than 25 years, I can say confidently that the decline in knowledge—especially expert knowledge—of Latin has contributed greatly to…
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Is Character What You Are in the Dark?
Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! According to Psalm One: Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence. But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on His law he shall meditate day…
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Ed Taraba
Dear Kolbe Center, The theory of evolution is a topic of great concern to me because it figured highly in my return to Christianity about sixteen years ago and helped solidify my eventual conversion to Roman Catholicism about six years ago. I was taught as a child in the Lutheran church that the story of Adam and Eve was a myth used to teach about morality and the relationship between man and God. The word "Adam," I was told, means "mankind". This never made sense to me since the bible itself does not portray it that way. Adam is a person and there is an unbroken time line in biblical history. If Adam and Eve were myths where do you draw the line between the myth and the real history? That always bothered me. I left the church at about age 17. Many years later as an adult when I began learning of the mounting scientific data opposing the theory of evolution, it opened the door to the scriptures for me and I began reading the Bible daily. Eventually I converted to Roman Catholicism. During my RCIA classes the true teaching of the Church on this subject was not offered. …
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