This is the first in a series of articles investigating major aspects of Catholic fundamental theology and their significance for…
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Read More »Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! Many of St. Hildegard’s private revelations concern Creation and the Fall. In visions she was shown the fiat creation of all things exactly as Moses had described it in the book of Genesis: By His word God commanded that the waters bring forth reptiles and birds with a living soul,…
Read More »Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! One of the devil’s greatest tricks is to shift the burden of proof from the challenger of God’s Word to its defender. If the Guardians of the Faith had not allowed satan and his agents to do this on a grand scale in the early days of the Evolution Revolution,…
Read More »Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! Faith in the truth of the sacred history of Genesis has declined in proportion to the loss of faith in Scriptural inerrancy. This is not surprising. The popular view that Scripture is only inerrant in matters of faith and morals allows Catholic intellectuals to maintain intellectual respectability in the eyes…
Read More »Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! Depending on the responsibilities of our state in life, some of us may have opportunities to influence public policy in our local communities in regard to origins. One of the most powerful lessons that attendees at our recent leadership retreat learned is that God’s Revelation about Creation and man’s orientation…
Read More »Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Pax Christi! One of the most destructive heresies of the early Church was the heresy of Marcion who denied the divine origin of the Old Testament and set up an opposition between the alleged evil god of the Old Testament and the good God of the New Testament. Although Marcion’s errors were rejected and…
Read More »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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