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  • Kolbe Report 12/4/21

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! On Wednesday, Catholics of the Roman Rite will celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, the patronal feast of the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation.  On that day, exactly twenty-one years ago, bureaucrats at the State Corporation Commission in Richmond, Virginia, did God’s Will by incorporating the Kolbe Center on the feast of our principal patroness in the last days of the Jubilee Year 2000.  On behalf of the whole Kolbe Center leadership team, I would like thank all of you who have prayed, sacrificed, and worked with us over the years to help restore the traditional doctrine of creation, the foundation of our Holy Faith. On Thursday, Catholics of the Byzantine tradition will celebrate the great Feast of the Immaculate Conception under the title of “the Conception of Saint Ann”; and, in a few days, Catholics of the Latin Rite will celebrate the related feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, who appeared to the people of the Americas as the Immaculate Conception on the Feast of the Conception of St. Ann, December 9, 1531.  There is a close connection between the doctrine of the Immaculate …

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  • Kolbe Report 11/27/21

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! In our previous newsletter, I quoted Blessed Cardinal Newman from his Idea of a University as follows: Holy Scripture, it is perfectly true, does declare a few momentous facts, so few that they may be counted, of a physical character. It speaks of a process of formation out of chaos which occupied six days; it speaks of the firmament; of the sun and moon being created for the sake of the earth; of the earth being immovable; of a great deluge; and of several other similar facts and events. My purpose in quoting him was to show that as late as the end of the nineteenth century an intellectual of the stature of Cardinal Newman still recognized that these “facts” were presented as such by the sacred authors, whether or not he personally believed them to be true.  However, one of our readers rightly corrected me for giving the impression that Cardinal Newman himself believed in the truth of these facts, as if I were trying to cite him as a modern authority in defense of the traditional Catholic interpretation of Genesis.  I am grateful for the fraternal …

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  • Kolbe Report 11/20/21

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! For the past 150 years, there has been a great deal of theological discussion in regard to “development of doctrine” as a way to justify various changes in the way that doctrines of faith and morals are explained and understood within the Church.  As our beloved former chaplain, Fr. Thomas Hickey, liked to point out, however, in a true development of doctrine “there should be no inconsistency between first and last.” Quoting from Vincent of Lerins at our symposium in Rome in 2015, Fr. Tom reminded us that: The religion of souls should follow the law of development of bodies. Though bodies develop and unfold their component parts with the passing of the years, they always remain what they were. There is a great difference between the flower of childhood and the maturity of age, but those who become old are the very same people who were once young. Though the condition and appearance of one and the same individual may change, it is one and the same nature, one and the same person… If, however, the human form were to turn into some shape that did not …

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  • Kolbe Report 11/13/21

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Pax Christi! Today, Saturday, November 13, at 4 p.m., at Providence College, in Rhode Island, by the grace of God I will defend the very truth that St. Dominic founded his order to defend against one of his own sons, Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, O.P. That is not to say that Fr. Austriaco and his colleagues agree with the Albigensians in what they affirm; but they do most certainly agree with the Albigensians in what they deny—namely, the special creation by God of Adam and Eve and of all of the different kinds of plants and animals for mankind at the beginning of time. In this newsletter I would like to highlight a few points covered in depth in the article on the Kolbe Center website at this link to underscore the urgent need for prayers and sacrifices to bring the Dominican Order back to the Faith of its founder. St. Dominic’s Order and the Defense of the True Doctrine of Creation We often have occasion to remark that the tell-tale sign of the diabolical is not a mere distortion of the good, the beautiful and the true—but a total inversion.  The fact …

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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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