“The invisible things of Him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that…
Read More »Introduction Multi-disciplinary evidence suggests that Basal-Hebrew was humanity’s first spoken and written language.[i] The topic of the original language is…
Read More »This is the first in a series of articles investigating major aspects of Catholic fundamental theology and their significance for…
Read More »And the temple of God was opened in heaven and the ark of his testament was seen in his temple…
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Read More »Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! The foundation of our holy Catholic Faith is the dogma of creation, summarized in the First Article of the Apostles Creed. When a man tries to build his life on any other foundation, he will inevitably experience instability, even if his efforts lead to fame and fortune. In his book…
Read More »Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! Just a few years ago, news outlets here in the U.S. 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…
Read More »Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! In this newsletter, we will conclude our reflections on Augustus Pugin’s prophetic insights into the crisis of Christian culture in relation to the evolution revolution that erupted after his death. Before we do, I would like to remind you that beginning in June, Ellen Finnegan who runs the Catholic educational…
Read More »Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! In our last newsletter I promised to elaborate on the insights of the great Catholic convert and architect Augustus Pugin whose study of medieval Catholic cathedrals played an essential part in his conversion from Anglicanism to the Catholic Faith in the early nineteenth century. He wrote: With what delight did…
Read More »Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Christ is ascended into Heaven! A few days ago I returned from a whirlwind Kolbe seminar tour with my friend and colleague Greg Clovis, the head of Family Life International in the UK. We thank God for the growing receptivity among priests and laity that we observed, and I would like to share a…
Read More »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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