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  • Kolbe Report 6/3/23

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! In previous newsletters we have argued that most of the confusion and diabolical disorientation in the Catholic world has resulted from collective amnesia in regard to the sacred history of Genesis and the misunderstanding of our relationship to God and of our true position in time and space that rests upon that foundation.  In the current, unprecedented crisis of faith, it is easy to become discouraged, but if we study the history of God’s dealings with His people, we will be able to have a much better understanding of the current confusion, how it can affect even good and well-intentioned leaders, and how we can protect ourselves and others within our sphere of influence from the sources of that confusion. One of the most difficult things for faithful Catholics to understand now and in the recent past is how even good and holy leaders could fail to recognize and eradicate certain errors that flourish whenever the sacred history of Genesis is forgotten, mythologized or called into question.  We will see that once collective amnesia in regard to Genesis takes hold, even good leaders can fail to remove the rot that …

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  • Kolbe Report 5/26/23

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! In our last newsletter, we recalled that the Catholics of the age of the Apostles and Church Fathers transformed a pagan world into a vibrant Catholic civilization primarily in three ways: Through their supernatural Faith, through their Supernatural Charity, and through the miracles God worked through them.  It is no coincidence, then, that at almost the same time that our last newsletter appeared, we received word that Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, OSB, the foundress of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, who died four years ago, was recently found to be incorrupt.  According to a recent report by the Catholic News Agency: Known for her devotion to the Traditional Latin Mass and her faithfulness to Benedictine contemplation and the Liturgy of the Hours, she died at age 95 on May 29, 2019, on the vigil of the solemnity of the Ascension. Roughly four years later, on the solemnity of the Ascension in the Latin rite, the abbess and sisters decided to move her body to a final resting place inside their monastery chapel, a long-standing custom for founders and foundresses. Expecting to find bones, the Benedictine Sisters instead unearthed a …

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  • Kolbe Report 5/18/23

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! On many occasions over the years, the Kolbe Center has linked the so-called “brain death” criterion for determining human death with the abandonment of the traditional Catholic doctrine of creation and its handmaiden, Aristotelian philosophy.   As long as the traditional doctrine and its accompanying philosophy were upheld, it would have been unthinkable for any Catholic doctor to declare a person dead whose circulatory and respiratory systems had not completely shut down and begun to deteriorate.  With the widespread acceptance of human evolution, however, the majority of Catholic intellectuals have embraced the idea that it was some marvelous mutations in the brain of our sub-human primate ancestors that distinguished them from the apes and disposed them to receive a human soul.  This idea in turn has reinforced the erroneous notion that it is the brain that makes a person human, and that if the brain ceases to function normally, it is appropriate to declare the person dead, so that his organs can be removed for the benefit of other human beings in need of transplants. By the grace of God, there has always been a minority among Catholic Bishops, priests, and …

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  • Kolbe Report 5/13/23

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! In this newsletter I am going to share an insight that I believe could help all of us to reach out more effectively to Catholics who have left the Church.  While, in our experience, Catholics who leave the Church do so in most cases because of some degree of evolution-based modernist influence, the insight that I am going to share could help even in cases where a Catholic has left the Church for some other reason.  I gained this insight when I was recently invited to have a series of on-line meetings with a Catholic who was raised evangelical, converted to the Catholic Faith as a young adult, and then became an atheist under the influence of prominent internet atheists.  As I will now explain, as I have thought and prayed about how to reach out to him, Our Lord and Our Blessed Mother have shown me that my normal way of reaching out to Catholics who have left the Church as young (or old) adults was fundamentally flawed, and that I needed to take a different approach—an approach that I will try to explain in this newsletter. Heroic Individualism …

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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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  • | May we place your testimony here? |

      Are you a former evolutionist, who has come to believe in the traditional Catholic doctrine of creation? If so, would you be willing to share an account of your conversion, in 600 words or less? Please explain briefly what you used to believe about origins, what changed your mind, and how that change has affected your life — especially your relationship with God. Please use the contact information on the web site to obtain an e-mail address for your testimony.  

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