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  • Kolbe Report 11-14-20

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Pax Christi! I would like to devote this newsletter to the memory of Mr. Peter Wilders who died on Wednesday, November 11, the Feast of St. Martin of Tours. Mr. Wilders was one of the most courageous and persistent champions of the traditional Catholic doctrine of creation in the entire world and a leader in the fight to defend the true doctrine of creation for many years before the founding of the Kolbe Center twenty years ago. Peter Wilders (February 21, 1931 – November 11, 2020) I met Peter for the first time in the late 1990’s at an International Conference on Creationism (ICC) conference in the Pittsburgh area, where he had been invited to present Guy Berthault’s research in sedimentology which exposed the fatal flaws in the Lyellian geochronology that had been virtually unchallenged since the late nineteenth century. For a number of years, I had been seeking out Catholic priests and laymen who had rejected theistic evolution and who wanted to defend the traditional doctrine of creation. I had communicated with Gerry Keane, the author of the TAN book Creation Rediscovered, with Fr. Peter Damien Fehlner, author of the theological masterpiece In the Beginning, and, having …

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  • Kolbe Report 11-7-20

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! In every age, God has raised up prophets to bear witness to the truth – especially to those parts of the truth that are most neglected or opposed in that particular age.  From the beginning of human history, the truth about fiat Creation, the Fall, and the Flood has required prophetic confirmation, since these events have no analog in man’s every-day experience.  According to St. John Chrysostom, it was for this reason that God made Moses the “prophet of the past,” spoke with him face to face, and showed him the work of creation.  Under God’s inspiration, Moses then instituted the Sabbath as the central ritual of the Jewish people, a perpetual memorial of God’s finished work of creation, and an everlasting reminder of the radical difference between the order of creation and the natural order of providence which only began after the creation of Adam and Eve. In spite of all of the miracles and fulfillments of Biblical prophecy, culminating in the life, death and resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ, skepticism about the truth of the sacred history of Genesis has existed from the beginning of the Church.  …

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  • Kolbe Report 10-31-20

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, A blessed Feast of All Saints! As we work, watch and pray for the election of God-fearing men and women to public office on the United States of America’s Election Day, I would like to re-send the essential contents of the Kolbe newsletter that I send out every year on or close to the Feast of the Poor Souls. I do this for several reasons. One is that the prayers of the Poor Souls are a largely untapped powerhouse of prayer that we should draw upon, not only to obtain the election and appointment of Godly ecclesiastical leaders and public servants, but also for the restoration of the Catholic doctrine of creation as the foundation of our Holy Faith. Every year at this time, I recall receiving a letter from a Kolbe supporter who told me of a memorable experience. A short time before, a friend of his had received a telephone call from a priest who told him, “I need your help” and hung up. When his friend attempted to return the call to the priest, the care-giver who answered the phone told him that it was impossible for the priest to have …

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  • Kolbe Report 10-24-20

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! In our previous letter we honored the wonderful life of Dr. Alma Von Stockhausen, the Catholic philosopher and foundress of Gustav Siewerth Akademie, one of the few Catholic universities in modern times to defend the traditional Catholic doctrine of creation from the perspective of theology, philosophy and natural science.  In this newsletter, we would like to pay our respects to A.E. Wilder-Smith, the natural scientist who had such a decisive influence on the faculty at Gustav Siewerth Akademie.  I will draw extensively from an excellent article by David Coppedge at his website Creation Evolution Headlines, and I encourage all of our readers to go to the link at the end of the excerpt to read the entire article. The Intelligent Design Movement is big news today, but did you know much of the scientific reasoning behind it came from a European organic chemist? William Dembski, author of several key books in the ID movement, credits Dr. A. E. Wilder-Smith for the inspiration to make the study of origins his life’s work. Dean Kenyon, the evolutionary origin of life researcher turned creationist, called Dr. Wilder-Smith one of the two or three …

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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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  • Keith Scott

    Dear. Mr. Owen, Thank you for your website. I stumbled across it at just the right time in my life. You see, I have been an ordained youth pastor in two mainline Protestant denominations for the past decade. When I was encouraged by my local church to pursue a Master of Divinity degree, I began my studies and fell in love with the Church Fathers. While I began to see the truth of the Catholic Faith through my study of Patristics, and then by reading modern Catholic apologists, I knew that the only right course for me was to enter the Catholic Church in full fellowship. As you can imagine, it has been a hard and painful road for someone with a young family, walking away from a career with a family to support. My wife and I met our real test of faith when we began our RCIA class this past fall. We found what we perceived to be a low view of Scripture and Tradition. Scripture was interpreted with what I would call a “hyper-allegorical” hermeneutical approach. The teachings of the Fathers were also reduced to a subjective experience for their time not ours. Within this framework, the …

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