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  • NewsletterSt. Christina the Astonishing (c. 1150-1224)

    Genesis 38 and the Need for Reparation

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! From time to time, we like to recall that virtually every major doctrine of the Catholic Faith makes its appearance in the sacred history of Genesis, so whenever a question comes up about a fundamental doctrine of the Faith, at least part of the answer can almost always be found…

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    Blessed Anna Maria Taigi and the Conversion of Russia

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! We are going to launch our annual Give, Send, Go campaign on September 8, the Feast of Our Lady’s Nativity. Beginning on August 31, I would like to begin a novena to Our Lady of Sorrows, asking Her to obtain the support that we need to carry out the mission…

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    Tribute to Joseph A. Strada

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! On July 28, one of the first scientists to join the Kolbe Center’s advisory council, Dr. Joseph A. Strada, went to his eternal reward. The Kolbe Center has arranged for Gregorian Masses to be offered for Joe, beginning yesterday, August 21, but please remember him and his family in your…

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    Vaccination and Abortion

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, A Blessed Feast of the Glorious Assumption of Our Lady! In previous newsletters, we have commented on the similarity between the current crisis of faith and morals and the situation that existed in Jerusalem prior to the destruction of Solomon’s Temple and the Babylonian Captivity.  As we have documented elsewhere, “collective amnesia” in regard…

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    The Pelican as a Type of Christ

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! Recently one of the members of our leadership team asked me to comment on criticism by enemies of the Church who fault Her for incorporating into her sacred iconography the ancient motif of a pelican mother who cuts her own breast to feed her children.  According to the critics, natural…

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Metaphysical Principles
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Creation Providence
09:16 March 14, 2016
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Character of God
06:42 March 14, 2016
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Almighty God or Mad Scientist
05:39 June 13, 2016
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Which is More Scientific?
18:51 May 15, 2016
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The Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation Interviews
08:07 June 9, 2015

  • Stone Robbins

    Thanks be to God, through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, I converted to the Catholic Church three years ago at the age of 17. Coming from a secular background, I at first felt very at home with evolutionary beliefs going hand in hand with my newly found Catholic faith. It was not until I went to college that I began to recognize the serious inconsistencies with this position. I had tried to maintain a certain confidence that the teachings of the Church and “modern science” were compatible. I even tried to use evolution as a way to reach out to my atheistic professors, who would typically shoot down the notion with statements such as “evolution takes away the need of a creator God.” However, I couldn’t reconcile the fact that polygenism, an idea widely accepted by modern science, is regarded as heretical according to Catholic teaching. After I came to this realization, everything fell into place.  If Jesus could create enough bread and fish to feed 5,000, why couldn’t God create the known universe in 6 days? Why would God allow hundreds of millions of years of death and sickness before opening the annals of salvation history? If …

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