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  • Kolbe Report 3/25/23

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, A blessed Feast of the Holy Annunciation! I am writing to ask for your prayers as my wife and I embark for the Republic of Georgia to visit one of our children who is working there.  Georgia has an amazing Christian culture which has survived all kinds of atrocities and persecutions for 1700 years.  It was also the birthplace of Josef Stalin who attended an Orthodox seminary there. One of his future communist seminary classmates recalled the role that evolutionism played in the destruction of their faith under the influence of the youthful Stalin: We youngsters had a passionate thirst for knowledge.  Thus in order to disabuse the minds of our seminary students of the myth that the world was created in six days, we had to acquaint ourselves with the geological origin and age of the earth, and be able to prove them in argument; we had to familiarize ourselves with Darwin's teachings. We were aided in this by books on Galileo and Copernicus and by the fascinating works of Camille Flammarion.  I recall that we read Lyell's "Antiquity of Man" and Darwin's "Descent of Man," the latter in a translation edited by …

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  • Kolbe Report 3/18/23

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! I want to thank all of you once again who watched and prayed for Dr. Kevin Mark in his recent debate with Dr. Douglas Darnowski on the Crisis Magazine podcast.  The outpouring of congratulations we have received for Dr. Mark testify to the effect of your prayers and to the splendid defense that he offered for the traditional Catholic doctrine of creation.  In this newsletter, I would like to offer a few reflections on some of the topics raised during the debate since it was impossible for Dr. Kevin to respond to every point that was raised in the time available to him. Dr. Darnowski dismissed the Paluxy evidence for dinosaur and human co-existence, clearly without having examined the evidence for himself.  He suggested that the tracks were carved, but that claim has been thoroughly debunked, as explained by Ademar Rakowsky in the article at this link.  The best proof that the tracks were not carved is the C-scan that was done of the Delk print which proves that the tracks were made naturally and were not carved.  The material beneath the tracks was shown to be compressed--which …

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  • Kolbe Report 3/11/23

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Pax Christi! In this newsletter I would like to invite you to watch the newly-posted video of “Wife, Mother and Mystic,” a play produced and directed by my wife Maria during last year’s Kolbe Center leadership retreat in Bloomingdale, Ohio.  The children and adults who participated in the play did an absolutely amazing job and gave great glory to God by bringing to life the splendid character of Blessed Anna Maria Taigi and her heroic response to an earlier stage of the revolution against the Church that we are witnessing today. Blessed Anna Maria Taigi: “Wife, Mother and Mystic” My wife was very careful to remain faithful to the facts of history in writing and directing the play, and I believe you will be able to draw many edifying lessons from the life of Blessed Anna Maria.  I will just mention a few.  In the first place, Blessed Anna Maria Taigi exemplifies the ideal that inspired our Creator to create our first mother, St. Eve, to be a “help-mate” to St. Adam.  From the time of her conversion early in her marriage, she never failed to be a faithful “help-mate” to her …

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  • Kolbe Report 3/4/23

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! Proverbs 27:17 teaches that “Iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend” and we have certainly found that to be true within the Kolbe Family.   After our last newsletter highlighted the work of Dr. Steven Collins and his identification of Tall-el- Hammam as the site of Biblical Sodom, a number of our readers pointed out some serious contradictions to the Tall-el-Hammam hypothesis.  Those contradictions are very well summarized in an article on the Answers in Genesis website which arrives at the following conclusion: The identity of the site of biblical Sodom has been and will continue to be debated. This paper has given several reasons why identifying Sodom at the north-eastern side of the Dead Sea at Tall el-Hammam is not an option for those who believe in the in the inerrancy of Scripture. The first two reasons show that there is a major chronological problem for identifying Tall el-Hammam as biblical Sodom, as its destruction dates around 1750–1650 BC (MB II). The only way for proponents of Tall el-Hammam to synchronize it with biblical Sodom is to revise the biblical date of the …

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  • Marya Tipton

    Mr. Hugh Owen, Director The Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation To whom it may concern, As a Byzantine Catholic, catechist and chastity educator, I would like to express the sincerest gratitude to Hugh Owen for his presentation on the Church’s teaching on special creation and would recommend him to speak for any other parish or group. His expertise on the teachings received from the Apostles through the Early Church Fathers is a gift to the people of faith the world over. As a Byzantine Catholic, I belong to a community that most feels the pain of the separation between the Eastern and Western “lungs” of our Church, as John Paul II called them. If we are to answer the call to Christian unity and the New Evangelization, it is imperative to approach our efforts with a mind toward ressourcement, a return to earlier sources, traditions and symbols of the early Church. The work that Hugh Owen is doing through the Kolbe Center for the Study on Creation is exactly what the Church Universal needs to answer our Lord’s prayer “that they may be one.” In the early liturgy, iconography, Holy Scriptures, and writings of the Church Fathers, we …

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