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  • Kolbe Report 10/23/21

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Pax Christi! The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will soon declare St. Irenaeus a Doctor of the Church in view of his historical role as a bridge-builder, a second-century Eastern Bishop consecrated to shepherd the Diocese of Lyons in the West.  As defenders of the traditional Catholic doctrine of creation, we welcome this good news, since St. Irenaeus boldly proclaimed and defended the literal historical truth of the sacred history of Genesis and of the six-day creation of all things.  The designation of St. Irenaeus as a Doctor of Unity highlights the fact that the literal historical truth of Genesis constitutes the common foundation of the Faith for all apostolic Christian communities.  Moreover, it offers a great opportunity to clear up a widespread misunderstanding regarding the Fathers’ interpretation of the six days of creation in the sacred history of Genesis. In recent decades, the overwhelming consensus in the natural sciences in favor of the standard billions-of-years evolutionist chronology of the Earth and of the universe has led many Catholic theologians and apologists to seek a basis in the Church Fathers for expanding the age of the universe far beyond the traditional …

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  • Kolbe Report 10/16/21

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Pax Christi! In his masterpiece Pascendi, St. Pius X identified the worst heresy in the history of the Church and foresaw the untold damage that this heresy would inflict upon the Church and the world if it remained unchecked. The heresy was "modernism," "the synthesis of all heresies," and its "principal doctrine," wrote St. Pius X, was "evolution." Other heresies, he noted, had added, subtracted or distorted some part of the Deposit of Faith while leaving most of the Faith intact; but evolution-based modernism conceived of the whole world as in a state of continuous evolution and thus abandoned the very notion of immutable Truth. On every side, he saw Catholic intellectuals rejecting scriptural inerrancy and the sacred history of Genesis on the grounds that "natural science" had proven that the Bible contained historical errors and that advances in geology and biology had proven that man had evolved from a one-celled organism through millions of years of the same kinds of natural processes he observed in the present. Vatican One had already anathematized the proposition that "the progress of the sciences demands that the Catholic doctrine of creation be recast," but St. Pius X …

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  • Kolbe Report 10/9/21

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! I will never forget hearing a prominent Catholic theistic evolutionist express his conviction that the discovery of how life came from non-life through a material process would be one of the greatest scientific discoveries of the twenty-first century.  In reality, sound theology, sound philosophy and sound natural science confirm that life can only come from life and that only God can create life from non-life.  Indeed, it is remarkable to contemplate the fact that life comes from non-life every day, on all the Catholic altars of the world, wherever the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is celebrated; and that this miracle is effected by the words of Christ, “Hoc est enim corpus meum,” or “This is My Body,” when uttered by a Catholic priest in persona Christi.  Down through the centuries, many Eucharistic Miracles have testified to this Truth—including one that took place when Pope Francis was Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1996.  According to one trustworthy account: Pope Francis, when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires, ordered an investigation into a Eucharistic miracle that had taken place in a parish church in 1996 and he later approved …

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  • Kolbe Report 10/2/21

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! I have just returned from a three-week road trip that took me to eight different states in the Midwest where I was able to speak to many different groups of Catholics, in several churches, and on the campus of the Franciscan University of Steubenville at the invitation of the Juventutem group on campus. You can see the Steubenville presentation at this link. I would like to thank all of you who prayed for me. Yesterday was the feast of St. Therese of Lisieux whom St. Pius X called “the greatest saint of modern times.” Thanks to the research of one of the members of our leadership team, Chris De Vos, we know that the Little Flower learned her Faith on the firm foundation of the traditional Catholic doctrine of creation through the Catechism of Perseverance by Monsignor Gaume, published in 1853. The Knowledge of God Considered in His Works In the section on “The Knowledge of God Considered in His Works,” the Little Flower learned: Q. What were the first words God spoke in creating the world?” A. The first words God spoke in creating the world were …

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  • 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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