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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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    Male and Female He Created Them

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! One of most painful experiences of my life has been to watch people in positions of authority use their power and influence to bully truth-seekers into submission to their institutions’ cherished myths.  More often than not, decision-makers have been so thoroughly indoctrinated into myths like “molecules-to-man evolution,” that they sincerely…

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Metaphysical Principles
07:37 March 14, 2016
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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

  • Kevin Heldt

    Dear Mr. Owen, I want to thank you for all your great work with the Kolbe Center and for your clear and helpful writings regarding the Catholic Church and evolution. My wife and I (and our seven children) entered full communion with the Catholic Church last fall.  Lifelong Christians, we were first drawn to the Church when we discovered the beautiful teachings underpinning Her stand against contraception.  God had brought us to a firm personal conviction against contraception early in our marriage.  Years later, when we learned what the Catholic Church taught about marital sexuality, we knew we needed to keep reading and to begin to evaluate these claims we never knew She’d made.  Did Jesus really leave behind a hierarchical Church to guide and teach us?  Is the Church really protected by the Holy Spirit from teaching error? I can say without hesitation that the single biggest hurdle for me in coming to believe these claims was the appearance, from the outside, that the Church accepts evolution.  I’ve known for a long time that the theory of evolution is incompatible with not only Scripture, but with science itself, so it was very unsettling to read so many Catholics making accommodations for it.  I wondered how …

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