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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Read More »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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Read More »Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! On this First Saturday, as the Church prepares to celebrate the great feast of the Immaculate Conception, we have posted an article on the Kolbe Center website showing the inseparability of the Immaculate Conception from the Immaculate Creation. As explained below and in more detail in that article, the link…
Read More »Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! During the holy season of Advent we see in the liturgical traditions of the Roman Rite a powerful confirmation of the Biblical chronology of the world. In the words of the incorrupt Benedictine monk and expert on the sacred liturgy Dom Prosper Gueranger: With what gratitude ought they not to…
Read More »Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! Thanks to almost a quarter-century of work by our leadership team and by other courageous theologians, philosophers and natural scientists all over the world, there is no longer any doubt: The Emperor of Evolution is not wearing any clothes. This fact has now been established in the realm of theology,…
Read More »Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! One of our strangest experiences in almost 25 years of work with the Kolbe Center has been to observe the contrast between the indifference shown by many highly educated Catholics to blasphemies against the character of God and their outrage at challenges to the consensus view in Catholic academia. Years…
Read More »Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! One of the wonderful things about the Kolbe apostolate has been the way that members of our leadership team have been inspired to research different topics relevant to our mission, resulting in all kinds of fruitful, complementary discoveries. In recent months, the newest member of our advisory council, researcher Christian…
Read More »As a child, I learned about evolution at school and in books. Therefore it had the stamp of authority and I believed it. At age 8, when I started Sunday School, I was given a Bible and first read Genesis. I was deeply impressed. How clever of God, I thought, to have managed to have His creation story written so that, at least in some respects, it matched the evolutionary story I already knew. Over the next 7 years I heard no hint from anyone at church that evolution might not be true. Indeed, as an exam prize I was given a book that promotes belief in theistic evolution. In its first 2 chapters my copy of “More Living Things for Lively Youngsters” describes the origin of the solar system and of life on earth in standard evolutionary terms. Mention of God is restricted to noting that the Bible says man was made from the dust of the earth, as though God used the evolution of life from non-living matter to make man. Two of my high school friends were from strongly atheist families. They argued that evolution proves that God is an unnecessary idea. I could see the logic …
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