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  • Kolbe Report 5/28/22

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Pax Christi! The leadership team at the Kolbe Center has always tried to abide by the principle of St. Augustine: “In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.”  Some of what we defend, like the supernatural creation of all things by God at the beginning of time, is certainly necessary for all Catholics to believe and defend, but some of the ideas set forth in this newsletter definitely fall into the category of “doubtful things,” in the sense that the Church has not taken a definite position on the matter and/or it is impossible to be certain about it, leaving it an open question about which Catholics are free to hold different opinions. Into the category of “doubtful things” I would have to place my thesis that Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin did not die on “the first day of the week,” on Easter Sunday, as he had prayed to do, but at the beginning of “Monday,” the second day of the week, according to the Mosaic account of creation in Genesis One.  To give you an alternative interpretation of the facts surrounding Fr. Teilhard de Chardin’s death, I would …

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  • Kolbe Report 5/21/22

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Pax Christi! Fr. Teilhard de Chardin probably did as much to justify the liturgical revolution as anyone in the Catholic Church with his “new Christianity” based on evolution.  But did you know that he prayed, "O God, if in my life I have not been wrong, allow me to die on Easter Sunday"? — Read any biography of him and it will tell you that Pierre Teilhard de Chardin died of a heart attack on April 10, 1955, at 6 p.m., after attending Holy Mass on Easter Sunday.  Thus, his disciples conclude that his prayer was answered in the affirmative.   But was it? According to God’s time, according to Liturgical Time, did he die on Easter Sunday? No, he did not. According to God’s time, according to liturgical time, according to the daily rhythm established by God Himself in the Hexameron, Fr. Teilhard de Chardin died on Easter Monday, at the hour of Vespers, when the Church prays as She has done for almost 1500 years: Blest Creator of the light Who mak'st the day with radiance bright. And o'er the forming world didst call The light from chaos first of all; Whose …

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  • Kolbe Report 5/14/22

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Christ is risen!  Alleluia! Twenty years ago, the Kolbe Center helped to organize the first international Catholic symposium in Rome, very much under the leadership of Guy Berthault and his colleagues Peter Wilders and Dominique Tassot.  It represented one of the first times in recent history that Catholic theologians, philosophers and natural scientists gathered in Rome to defend the traditional Catholic doctrine of creation from the perspective of theology, philosophy and natural science and to expose the fatal flaws in the evolutionary account of the origins of man and the universe, in its theistic and atheistic forms. God Created an Hierarchical Universe One of the most memorable presentations at the symposium was a lecture by Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner in which he argued that a fundamental difference between the traditional doctrine of creation and theistic evolution was that according to the traditional apostolic teaching, God created a hierarchical universe, whereas in the theistic evolutionist system, the hierarchical element is deeply distorted if not totally destroyed.  I will always be grateful to Fr. Fehlner for illuminating the importance of this element of the traditional doctrine of creation, because, on reflection, it is not …

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  • Kolbe Report 5/7/22

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Christ is risen!  Alleluia! One of the tragic consequences of the widespread acceptance of theistic evolution is that it is always accompanied by a loss of faith in the inerrancy of the Bible as defined by the First Vatican Council.  According to the Council’s decree on Scriptural inerrancy, the Bible is free from error, not only in regard to matters of faith and morals, but in all that it affirms.   When Dr. Thomas Seiler and I gave a series of seminars in various parts of the United States several years ago, we were twice confronted by the objection that the Bible contains errors in regard to natural science and that the account of the habits of the ostrich in the Book of Job, Chapter 39, offered a clear example of this.  One of the people who raised this objection was actually a retired professor from one of the few Tradition-friendly Catholic universities in the country! Never having heard this objection before, we were not prepared with an immediate response, but we were both quite certain that, rightly understood, God’s description of the ostrich in Job 39 would be proven true.  And so …

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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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  • Chris Knight

    Dear Mr. Owen, Thank you for all your work with the Kolbe Center.  My wife and I are recent converts to the Catholic Church and we both believe strongly in the Traditional Catholic Doctrine of Creation, the inerrancy and inspiration of the Bible, and the true literal meaning of Scripture.   Please allow me to share my testimony with you. I was raised in a very secular home, with very practical and down-to-earth parents.  However, I always had a feeling that there was more to life than the mundane.  Because my parents didn't believe in any one organized religion, they allowed me to look into almost any religion, as long as it wasn't "weird" or "occult." I remember that one time my stepmother took my sister and me to a Sunday school class at an evangelical covenant church.  Since I had already, by the age of ten become so indoctrinated with the old age of the earth and how the dinosaurs lived millions of years before man, I dismissed Christianity as a whole as superstitious myth. In seventh grade biology, I learned about the various species depicted on one of the infamous "tree of life" illustrations in my science textbook.   It …

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