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  • Kolbe Report 11/19/22

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Pax Christi! A friend of mine recently sent me a deeply moving video of a prison interview with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and his father shortly before Dahmer’s death at the hands of a fellow inmate.  In the MSNBC interview, Dahmer is asked when he first came to believe that he was accountable for his actions.  He turns to his father and says (at about minute 1:00 in the video). Thanks to you for sending that creation science material. Because I always believed the lie that evolution is truth, the theory of evolution is truth, that we all just came from the slime, and when we died, you know, that was it, there was nothing-so the whole theory cheapens life. I started reading books that show how evolution is just a complete lie. There’s no basis in science to uphold it. And I’ve since come to believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is the true Creator of the heavens and the earth, that it didn’t just happen. I’ve accepted him as my Lord and Savior, and I believe that I, as well as everyone else will be accountable to him. . . . If …

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  • Kolbe Report 11/12/22

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! Among people of European descent, the easiest way to trace one’s ancestry back to St. Adam is to identify an ancestor among one of the royal families of Europe.  This is because the members of the royal families of many (if not most or all) of the tribes of Europe wanted to be able to trace their ancestry, and were able to show their descent to Japheth, the son of Noah, and, through him, all the way back to St. Adam and St. Eve, just as the Miao people are able to do to this very day.  The following genealogy traces the ancestry of my wife through certain high kings of Ireland all the way back to Japheth and, through him, to Adam: Maria Owen (nee Mitchell) to Adam Compiled by Owen D. McClain Marie Mitchell (m. Hugh Owen), was the daughter of John Howell Mitchell (m. Lois Marilyn Peck), who was the son of Nelson Howell Mitchell (m. Margaret Howard Hanway), who was the son of John James Mitchell (m. Elizabeth Howell), who was the son of John Nelson Mitchell (m. Mary Smith Howell), who was the son of …

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  • Kolbe Report 11/5/22

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! In this newsletter, I will conclude my argument that Fr. Teilhard de Chardin’s prayer to God to confirm the truth of his evolution-based “new Christianity” by having him die on Easter Sunday was answered in the negative, in spite of the fact that he is reported to have died at 6 p.m. on Easter Sunday, April 10, 1955. On the contrary, I will show that in God’s time, in liturgical time, Fr. Teilhard died after the Sunday liturgy had ended, when the Vespers prayers for Easter Monday were being (or had already been) completed. The Liturgical Beginning and Ending of the Day in the Catholic Church The 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia article on “Vespers” demonstrates that the Biblical timing of day’s end coincides with the Church’s liturgical timing, for the fifteen-hundred-year period from the time of St. Benedict up to and including the year of Fr. Teilhard’s death. In the sixth century the Office of Vespers in the Latin Church was almost the same as it has been throughout the Middle Ages and up to the present day. In a document of unquestionable authority of that period the Office is described …

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  • Kolbe Report 10/29/22

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! In previous newsletters I have mentioned Fr. Teilhard de Chardin’s prayer that he would die on Easter Sunday as a confirmation that he was correct in his theistic evolutionary beliefs.  Although his biographers state that he died at 6 p.m. on Easter Sunday in 1955 and that sunset did not occur officially until 6:30 p.m., I have argued that, liturgically speaking, Fr. Teilhard did not die on Easter Sunday but after Sunday Vespers and therefore on Easter Monday according to God’s time, that is, according to liturgical time.  I want to return to this topic one more time because of additional evidence that has come to light in support of my thesis, and because we owe it to the numerous disciples of Fr. Teilhard to disabuse them of the notion that the teaching of their false prophet was divinely confirmed by the time of his death.  If, as is possible, Fr. Teilhard even repented at the last moment of his grave errors, the most charitable thing that we can do for him is to expose his errors and to motivate his former followers to pray for him. I will divide …

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  • Kevin Heldt

    Dear Mr. Owen, I want to thank you for all your great work with the Kolbe Center and for your clear and helpful writings regarding the Catholic Church and evolution. My wife and I (and our seven children) entered full communion with the Catholic Church last fall.  Lifelong Christians, we were first drawn to the Church when we discovered the beautiful teachings underpinning Her stand against contraception.  God had brought us to a firm personal conviction against contraception early in our marriage.  Years later, when we learned what the Catholic Church taught about marital sexuality, we knew we needed to keep reading and to begin to evaluate these claims we never knew She'd made.  Did Jesus really leave behind a hierarchical Church to guide and teach us?  Is the Church really protected by the Holy Spirit from teaching error? I can say without hesitation that the single biggest hurdle for me in coming to believe these claims was the appearance, from the outside, that the Church accepts evolution.  I've known for a long time that the theory of evolution is incompatible with not only Scripture, but with science itself, so it was very unsettling to read so many Catholics making accommodations for it.  I wondered how …

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