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  • Kolbe Report 7/17/21

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! Seven years ago to the day, on July 20, 2014, Major Archbishop Shevchuk declared Blessed Archbishop Vasyl Velikovsky the patron saint of prison ministry for the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.  As more and more faithful Catholics face persecution and imprisonment around the world for their fidelity to the teachings of the Church and to the natural law, it will become more and more important to invoke Blessed Vasyl’s intercession. In this newsletter, I would like to recall the archbishop’s heroic witness under communist persecution, as a contemporary successor of the Apostles who always believed and proclaimed the literal historical truth of the sacred history of Genesis. As North American governments grow increasingly totalitarian, it seems quite providential that one of the great champions of the Faith under communism should have been exiled to Canada and laid to rest in a shrine in Winnipeg, Manitoba.   The shrine website offers this brief account of his life which began in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk where Dr. Thomas Seiler and I have had the privilege of giving two Kolbe seminars at the largest Catholic seminary in Ukraine: Blessed Vasyl was born into a priestly …

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  • Kolbe Report 7/10/21

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! In three days, we will observe the anniversary of the third apparition of Our Lady of Fatima, on July 13, 1917, when our Blessed Mother first spoke to the three shepherd children of the Consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart and showed the children a vision of hell.  Significantly, She did this after giving the children an experience of the indwelling grace of God, of the reality of their life in God and of God’s living presence within them. This was significant because only those who are united to God by grace with living faith—like the three children of Fatima—can effectively pray and sacrifice for others. “Zoe” and “Psyche” There are many reasons why the study of Biblical Greek is essential to a correct understanding of the Sacred Scriptures, even in relation to the true doctrine of creation.  One of the truths that jumps off the page of the Greek New Testament but lies concealed in the English text of the Bible is the difference between the two kinds of “life” that Jesus speaks of in the Gospel—the natural “life” of man, or “psyche,” and the supernatural …

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  • Kolbe Report 7/3/21

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! This will be the last in a series of four newsletters in which we will have meditated on the importance of the physical connection that links every human being on Earth to God our Creator through our first parents St. Adam and St. Eve and their descendants, as recorded in the sacred history of Genesis. To begin this final reflection, it may be helpful to make an analogy between the ways that people lose physical trails and become lost and the ways that souls lose the spiritual pathways marked out for them by Catholic Tradition.  It may then be helpful to make another analogy between those who find their way back to a trail in the wilderness and those who regain the spiritual pathway that connects them to God and their first parents in the past, and to Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary our Mother, the New Adam and the New Eve, at the end of the road to Heaven. Lost and Found We saw last time that most of those who lose a trail in the wilderness follow a “false trail” because they …

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  • Kolbe Report 6/26/21

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! In this newsletter we will continue to reflect on the importance of tradition in the broad sense,  to understand how the common traditions of mankind confirm the truth of the sacred history of Genesis, and to show how these traditions hold a key to explaining the collective amnesia of mankind regarding the true history of mankind from creation. Mythical “Evolution of Religion” Debunked Long Ago When I was a student in the 1960’s at what were considered the best schools in New York City, I was taught the conventional wisdom in mainstream anthropology, that “primitive man” had a “primitive” religion based on spiritism, which evolved over hundreds of thousands of years into monotheism. According to this view, Moses “invented” a particularly sophisticated form of monotheism for which he took elements of the pagan myths circulating in his Near Eastern environment and fashioned them into the Creation and Flood accounts in the Book of Genesis. I do not remember anyone in any of my classes, teacher or student, ever calling into question this secular dogma on the evolution of religion, but it is funny to realize that this “accepted …

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  • Theodore Holthe

    I grew up in a secular and only loosely religious home. I was never taken to church by my parents, and in the first 25 years of my life I only attended a Christian Sunday service three times (and all three were Protestant services). I grew up with the usual obligatory teaching that evolution was a theory but basically true and you were silly to reject it; that the earth was very old and the universe even older; and that science was the grand arbiter of truth, being a disinterested middle man only concerned about facts. I would become a militant atheist in high school, having mostly negative experiences with Christians, and having a very short-sighted mind which was quick to judge. I embraced Communism as a good idea, being ignorant and young and knowing nothing at all about the practical effects of the ideology, nor its bloody history. After a few years of this I would “cool down” a bit, still being very much against religion but less aggressive about it.  It was around this time that God seemed to give me a small grace of insight, as I found myself unknowingly musing on aspects of St. Thomas Aquinas' …

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