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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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  • Kolbe Report 10-17-20

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! I would like to dedicate this newsletter to Dr. Alma Von Stockhausen, a great scholar and a good friend of the Kolbe Center, who died earlier this year of cancer, on May 4, at the age of 92.  Alma von Stockhausen was the daughter of an extraordinary woman who grew up in a Lutheran part of Germany but who through her study of mathematics and philosophy became convinced that the true religion must have the orderliness characteristic of mathematics.  Alma’s mother did not find this orderliness in the theology of Martin Luther, for reasons that we will explain in more detail below, but she did find it beautifully exemplified in the writings of the Angelic Doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas.  The beauty of the Angelic Doctor’s exposition of the Catholic Faith convinced Alma’s mother that his must be the true form of the Christian religion, and so she informed her husband of her intention to convert to the Catholic Faith.  Her husband’s initial response was to say that he would have no choice but to divorce his wife if she persisted in this folly.  But as time went on, he, too, …

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  • Kolbe Report 10-10-20

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! One of the great rewards of working in this apostolate is to receive the testimonies of people from all over the world whose lives have been transformed by the Truths that we are striving to promote and defend. As an active member of the Legion of Mary, for many years my Legion brothers and I would go into our county jail where, by the grace of God, the lieutenant in charge locked us back with the male inmates so that we could go to all of the cell blocks and speak to anyone who was willing to speak with us. One of the pieces of literature that we often handed out was the pamphlet “Eternal Life and Common Sense” which has the imprimatur of my former archbishop, Archbishop Cyril Bustros, and which is available on the Kolbe website. In the course of the last ten years my wife and I have probably handed out more than a thousand of them all over the world, especially on airplanes and buses, and at gas stations. It is extremely edifying to hear from Kolbe supporters all over the world who are using our materials to evangelize …

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  • Kolbe Report 10-3-20

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! Here in the Shenandoah Valley we are beginning to experience fall colors – an explosion of yellow, pink, and red leaves of all shapes and sizes. For the student of the traditional interpretation of Genesis this time of year has a special significance, since the most ancient tradition of interpretation tells us that the world was created in Eden’s autumn. In his Chronology of the Old Testament, Floyd Nolen Jones explains: Shenandoah National Park by daveynin / CC BY 2.0 Until God told the Jews to change their calendar at the time of the Exodus, the beginning of their year had been in the autumn (Exo. 12:2; 13:4; cp. 9:31; and 23:15). The month which they designate “Tishri” (September-October) had been their first month whereas “Abib” (Hebrew meaning “first ear of ripe grain,” March-April) had been their seventh month. The current arrangement of the Jewish calendar, with its civil year beginning in Tishri and its religious calendar beginning in Nisan, is a vestigial reminder finding its root in this God-given decree. As many of the Old Testament books were written while the Jews were in Babylonian captivity, these latter books used the Babylonian (word …

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  • Kolbe Report 9-26-20

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! All of the Apostles, Fathers, Doctors, Popes and Council Fathers in their authoritative teaching held that God created everything for us in our first parents. Indeed, God created everything in six days to give us the pattern and rhythm of a happy, healthy, holy life, and He had no interest in creating stars, planets, plants or animals apart from us. All of the Fathers and Doctors knew this and would have considered the whole idea of long ages in which stars, planets, plants and animals existed without mankind totally bizarre. In the sacred history of Genesis Moses makes clear that stars, planets, plants and animals were created for man’s sake, and while man is expected to be a good steward of God’s creation, he is not subordinated to the Earth, to the cosmos, or to any other creature – only to God. This understanding of creation has profound implications for our understanding of the Kingdom of God and of our role in extending God’s Kingdom in our every-day lives.   When we understand that God created everything for us – in view of the Incarnation and the Immaculate Conception – and that through the Original …

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  • Edward Razz

    Dear Hugh; I wanted to take this opportunity to share with you the importance of believing the book of Genesis for faith in a personal God. I was born and raised a Catholic, but later in my teen years began to drift away from the faith. I had gradually lost faith in the personal God of the Bible – but never considered myself an atheist. I generally tied evolution and God together in my personal faith journey. After marriage and children – I began to critically re-think the faith. I visited my brother and his family in California and witnessed their strong faith in a personal God. I thought that perhaps I had missed something in my Catholic education that needed revisiting. Upon my return, two close friends offered to come to my house to teach a Bible study on the book of John. I accepted their invitation and just loved it. I was so impressed by the words of Jesus and the message he taught. Having said this – I still did not accept Jesus or the events of the Bible as true. I knew that the Bible recorded many supernatural events – things that just could not be …

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