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Metaphysical Principles

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Creation Providence

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Character of God

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Almighty God or Mad Scientist

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Which is More Scientific?

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Kolbe Center Interviews

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Latest Newsletters

  • Kolbe Report 9-12-20

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Pax Christi! I recently received an email from a convert to the Catholic Faith in another country who lamented the fact that we had not posted a new article on the Kolbe website since “Is the Catholic Rejection of Theistic Evolution a “Conspiracy Theory”? I wrote back to him and explained that we have a weekly newsletter to keep our members up to date on our activities, but that we are more concerned with quality than with quantity when it comes to posting articles on the website. Indeed, a good case could be made that the relentless pressure to change, update, and add new content flows out of an evolutionary mentality which holds that constant change is a sign of progress, even when objectively speaking the new thing is no better and perhaps not even as good as the thing that it replaces.  The articles on the Kolbe website have been carefully crafted over a period of almost twenty years, and anyone who takes the time to work his way through them systematically will not fail to be impressed by the depth of the treatment accorded to a whole range of topics in the …

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  • Kolbe Report 9-5-20

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Pax Christi! We have just returned from our annual Kolbe Center leadership retreat at Our Sorrowful Mother’s Ministry Retreat Center in Vandalia, Illinois. The retreat was a great success and most edifying for young and old. After a series of fascinating presentations on theological, philosophical, historical and natural science topics related to creation, children and adults collaborated in presenting an inspiring play on the life and times of Venerable Maria of Agreda, “The Blue Nun,” a play which wove together many of the main themes of the retreat in a dramatic format. The audio and video of the retreat presentations and the video of the play will be edited during the next few weeks and made available on a dedicated website as soon as the editing is completed. COVID-19 and the Kolbe Leadership Retreat Throughout the world billions of people have been forced to submit to draconian regulations on spurious scientific grounds by various “authorities” in science and medicine. Here in the United States, most of our Bishops have meekly submitted to excessive government restrictions on worship and the administration of the sacraments and have encouraged the faithful to submit to these restrictions without …

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  • Kolbe Report 8-22-20

    Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Tomorrow we will begin our annual leadership retreat. Please pray that through the prayers of the Immaculate Heart of Mary God will bless all our endeavors! In this newsletter I would like to draw your attention once again to the work of Mrs. Bai Macfarlane at Mary’s Advocates, as I am convinced that it is intimately linked to the mission of the Kolbe Center. Bai has worked tirelessly to defend the permanence and indissolubility of Holy Marriage, but she has run up against a wall of opposition from Catholic Church leaders and canon lawyers who perpetuate the practice of sending married couples experiencing normal marital difficulties to a civil divorce court with the assurance that the diocesan marriage tribunal will decide the validity of the sacramental marriage after the divorce has been granted! As Bai explains on her website, this practice ignores the traditional interpretation of the canon law on Holy Marriage which requires a Bishop’s permission before one spouse can even separate from another and which provides various safeguards to protect the marriage bond. In effect, the current practice of sending Catholic couples to divorce court only exacerbates their …

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  • Kolbe Report 8-15-20

    Feast of the Glorious Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! Genesis is rightly called the “book of beginnings,” because every important institution originates in Genesis.  Moreover, when God reveals the origin of an institution, like Holy Marriage, before the Original Sin, He also reveals that institution to us in its ideal form, so that we can know how it is supposed to function in the “restoration of all things in Christ” that His grace makes possible.  In this newsletter, I would like to focus on an aspect of Holy Marriage that God revealed at the very beginning of the sacred history of Genesis, before the Original Sin, thus indicating that it is an essential and fundamental aspect of His ideal plan. No Contradiction Between Genesis One and Genesis Two Contrary to the vast majority of contemporary Biblical scholars who are sure that they know better than the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, there are not two contradictory accounts of creation in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 and 3.  Many scholars today argue that the simultaneous creation of man as male and female in Genesis 1 contradicts the account of …

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  • Edward Razz

    Dear Hugh; I wanted to take this opportunity to share with you the importance of believing the book of Genesis for faith in a personal God. I was born and raised a Catholic, but later in my teen years began to drift away from the faith. I had gradually lost faith in the personal God of the Bible – but never considered myself an atheist. I generally tied evolution and God together in my personal faith journey. After marriage and children – I began to critically re-think the faith. I visited my brother and his family in California and witnessed their strong faith in a personal God. I thought that perhaps I had missed something in my Catholic education that needed revisiting. Upon my return, two close friends offered to come to my house to teach a Bible study on the book of John. I accepted their invitation and just loved it. I was so impressed by the words of Jesus and the message he taught. Having said this – I still did not accept Jesus or the events of the Bible as true. I knew that the Bible recorded many supernatural events – things that just could not be …

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