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  • Kolbe Report 5/18/23

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! On many occasions over the years, the Kolbe Center has linked the so-called “brain death” criterion for determining human death with the abandonment of the traditional Catholic doctrine of creation and its handmaiden, Aristotelian philosophy.   As long as the traditional doctrine and its accompanying philosophy were upheld, it would have been unthinkable for any Catholic doctor to declare a person dead whose circulatory and respiratory systems had not completely shut down and begun to deteriorate.  With the widespread acceptance of human evolution, however, the majority of Catholic intellectuals have embraced the idea that it was some marvelous mutations in the brain of our sub-human primate ancestors that distinguished them from the apes and disposed them to receive a human soul.  This idea in turn has reinforced the erroneous notion that it is the brain that makes a person human, and that if the brain ceases to function normally, it is appropriate to declare the person dead, so that his organs can be removed for the benefit of other human beings in need of transplants. By the grace of God, there has always been a minority among Catholic Bishops, priests, and …

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  • Kolbe Report 5/13/23

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! In this newsletter I am going to share an insight that I believe could help all of us to reach out more effectively to Catholics who have left the Church.  While, in our experience, Catholics who leave the Church do so in most cases because of some degree of evolution-based modernist influence, the insight that I am going to share could help even in cases where a Catholic has left the Church for some other reason.  I gained this insight when I was recently invited to have a series of on-line meetings with a Catholic who was raised evangelical, converted to the Catholic Faith as a young adult, and then became an atheist under the influence of prominent internet atheists.  As I will now explain, as I have thought and prayed about how to reach out to him, Our Lord and Our Blessed Mother have shown me that my normal way of reaching out to Catholics who have left the Church as young (or old) adults was fundamentally flawed, and that I needed to take a different approach—an approach that I will try to explain in this newsletter. Heroic Individualism …

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  • Kolbe Report 5/6/23

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! Last weekend, Fr. Chad Riperger and I gave a seminar at a parish in the Milwaukee area, and in his second talk Fr. Ripperger addressed a topic that I have never heard addressed head-on with such clarity since the founding of the Kolbe Center almost 25 years ago.  In his second presentation Fr. Ripperger explained why, in his judgment, so few priests, even in traditional congregations, are willing to defend the traditional Catholic doctrine of creation. You can watch the entire seminar at these links: Friday's link, Saturday's link. In the light of Fr. Ripperger’s insightful analysis of this problem, I would like to invite you to join with us in an important prayer initiative, an initiative that will definitely contribute to the restoration of the true Catholic doctrine of creation as the foundation of our Faith.  Before I explain the initiative, I would like to recall the three main elements that explain how our Catholic ancestors in the first millennium succeeded in transforming a pagan world into a vibrant Christian civilization. The Three Keys to the Successful Evangelization of a Pagan World When one reflects on the way that …

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  • Kolbe Report 4/22/23

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Christ is risen!  Alleluia! One of the most common errors being propagated in Catholic apologetics in regard to the origins of man and the universe is the error of polygenism—the idea that human beings are not descended from St. Adam and St. Eve, but from a large number of human ancestors.  By the grace of God, Dr. Kevin Mark has taken the time to write a definitive refutation of this false teaching.  In this newsletter I will summarize some of the main points of Dr. Mark’s article, but I encourage you to read the entire essay at this link on the Kolbe website. The first point that Dr. Mark drives home is that the origin of the human race from Adam and Eve is a theological truth contained in Divine Revelation and that the Holy Catholic Church has understood Scripture to teach that all humans are descended from St. Adam and St. Eve from the time of the Apostles.  He demonstrates that the descent of all humans from our first parents St. Adam and St. Eve is not only clearly taught in Sacred Scripture but is also an infallible teaching of the …

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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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  • Ed Taraba

    Dear Kolbe Center, The theory of evolution is a topic of great concern to me because it figured highly in my return to Christianity about sixteen years ago and helped solidify my eventual conversion to Roman Catholicism about six years ago. I was taught as a child in the Lutheran church that the story of Adam and Eve was a myth used to teach about morality and the relationship between man and God. The word "Adam," I was told, means "mankind". This never made sense to me since the bible itself does not portray it that way. Adam is a person and there is an unbroken time line in biblical history. If Adam and Eve were myths where do you draw the line between the myth and the real history? That always bothered me. I left the church at about age 17. Many years later as an adult when I began learning of the mounting scientific data opposing the theory of evolution, it opened the door to the scriptures for me and I began reading the Bible daily. Eventually I converted to Roman Catholicism. During my RCIA classes the true teaching of the Church on this subject was not offered. …

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