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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 4-4-20

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Pax Christi! One of the first articles that appeared on the original Kolbe Center website is entitled “The Difference It Makes: The Importance of the Traditional Doctrine of Creation.” It answers the frequently-asked question: “What difference does it make whether God used six days of fiat creation or billions of years of evolution, as long we believe that He did it?” Reason number five has gained a special relevance in the light of the COVID-19 epidemic. It explains: The traditional understanding offers hope for the future of mankind. Theistic evolutionism fosters either a false hope or a deep despair. The traditional understanding of Genesis confers hope. It gives Christians confidence that the same beautiful harmony that existed throughout the whole universe “in the beginning” will be restored “in the end” through the working of the Holy Spirit. It also strengthens men’s faith in the credibility of the prophecies of numerous canonized saints who have foretold a future flowering of Christianity before the final judgment and the end of the world when many of the characteristics of the first created world will be restored. The Christian who comprehends and believes in the patristic understanding of creation …

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  • Kolbe Report 3-28-20

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! As the world grows increasingly preoccupied with the current viral threat to our physical and economic well-being, this newsletter will focus on a matter of spiritual life and death that hinges on a right understanding of the Word of God in the Holy Gospels as it has been handed down to us in the Catholic Church. Before we dive in to that topic, please note that our webmaster Keith Jones has redesigned the Kolbe website, and an important new article has been posted summarizing more than twenty years of research into Carbon-14 dating of dinosaur bones and other scientific evidence for dinosaur and human co-existence within a Biblical time-frame. (In a future newsletter, we will highlight some of the more significant findings contained in that article.) There are many reasons why the study of Biblical Greek is essential to a correct understanding of the Sacred Scriptures, even in relation to the true doctrine of creation. One of the truths that jumps off the page of the Greek New Testament but lies concealed in the English text of the Bible is the difference between the two kinds of “life” that Jesus speaks of …

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  • Kolbe Report 3-21-19

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! I am writing a message to you that I began in Kampala, Uganda, after an amazingly fruitful whirlwind visit. I will give you a full report in the near future. In this newsletter I would like to comment on one of the ways that Our Lady of Fatima’s warning that – if her requests were not heeded – the “errors of Russia” would “spread throughout the world” is being fulfilled in our time. A number of news outlets recently reported that a biology teacher in the state of New York had “come under fire” for daring to voice skepticism about molecules-to-man evolution: A New York teacher has come under fire for a lesson in which he expressed skepticism over the theory of evolution, the Observer-Dispatch reports. In a letter sent to the Holland Patent Central School District last month, Wisconsin-based nonprofit Freedom from Religion Foundation accused teacher Phil Lucason of questioning the theory during a Jan. 14 lesson. Lucason teaches environmental studies at Holland Patent Central School, where “students are taught biological topics that both satisfy the requirements for the Regents exam and also to prepare them for college coursework,” …

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  • Kolbe Report 3-14-20

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Pax Christi! It is with sorrow mixed with joy for a dear friend that I must announce to you the death of Fr. Tom Hickey, a member of the Kolbe Center’s leadership team, an important presenter in the DVD series “Foundations Restored,” and the chaplain of our annual leadership retreat for many years. Fr. Thomas Hickey spent over twenty-five years of his life as a Baptist minister. “Compelled,” in his words, “by the undeniable witness of history and the inescapable conclusions of Scripture,” Fr. Hickey resigned his ministry and was received into full communion with the Catholic Church in 2002. To his great surprise, he was given an opportunity to study for the priesthood at Holy Apostles Seminary in Cromwell, CT, with the Archdiocese of Hartford. In May of 2010 he was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Henry Mansell. He served many happy years at St. Paul and St. Augustine churches in Glastonbury, CT, and as Pastor of St. Stephen Church and School in Hamden, CT, while teaching Sacred Scripture at Holy Apostles Seminary. He was serving as Pastor of St. Mary Magdalen parish and school in Oakville, CT, at the time of his death a few …

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  • Hannah Holden

    Dear Mr. Owen, I’m a seventeen year old home-schooler, I live in Wichita, Kansas, with my father, mother, brother, and two sisters. My family became Catholic in 1994, and I happily attended our church’s school from kindergarten upward, digesting books on biology and paleontology. On Sundays over lunch I would eagerly listen to my Dad reason aloud on the silliness of animals evolving into other kinds, and the way that all of the differently colored nations could stem from Adam and Eve. These topics were fascinating, so I naturally wanted to discuss them with my teachers, in whose classes I earned good grades, and who were my leaders and friends. The first time I raised my hand and questioned my science teacher, that perhaps archaeopteryx was not a missing link between reptiles and birds (as he was saying), but was a fully formed animal, he looked at me like I was insane and said that the evidence for evolution was obvious, but was too complicated to be discussed in a sixth grade classroom. It was disappointing to have him sidestep my questions, but it was heart-wrenching when I asked my religion teacher how six days of creation could possibly fit …

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