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  • Kolbe Report 5/21/22

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Pax Christi! Fr. Teilhard de Chardin probably did as much to justify the liturgical revolution as anyone in the Catholic Church with his “new Christianity” based on evolution.  But did you know that he prayed, "O God, if in my life I have not been wrong, allow me to die on Easter Sunday"? — Read any biography of him and it will tell you that Pierre Teilhard de Chardin died of a heart attack on April 10, 1955, at 6 p.m., after attending Holy Mass on Easter Sunday.  Thus, his disciples conclude that his prayer was answered in the affirmative.   But was it? According to God’s time, according to Liturgical Time, did he die on Easter Sunday? No, he did not. According to God’s time, according to liturgical time, according to the daily rhythm established by God Himself in the Hexameron, Fr. Teilhard de Chardin died on Easter Monday, at the hour of Vespers, when the Church prays as She has done for almost 1500 years: Blest Creator of the light Who mak'st the day with radiance bright. And o'er the forming world didst call The light from chaos first of all; Whose …

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  • Kolbe Report 5/14/22

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Christ is risen!  Alleluia! Twenty years ago, the Kolbe Center helped to organize the first international Catholic symposium in Rome, very much under the leadership of Guy Berthault and his colleagues Peter Wilders and Dominique Tassot.  It represented one of the first times in recent history that Catholic theologians, philosophers and natural scientists gathered in Rome to defend the traditional Catholic doctrine of creation from the perspective of theology, philosophy and natural science and to expose the fatal flaws in the evolutionary account of the origins of man and the universe, in its theistic and atheistic forms. God Created an Hierarchical Universe One of the most memorable presentations at the symposium was a lecture by Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner in which he argued that a fundamental difference between the traditional doctrine of creation and theistic evolution was that according to the traditional apostolic teaching, God created a hierarchical universe, whereas in the theistic evolutionist system, the hierarchical element is deeply distorted if not totally destroyed.  I will always be grateful to Fr. Fehlner for illuminating the importance of this element of the traditional doctrine of creation, because, on reflection, it is not …

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  • Kolbe Report 5/7/22

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Christ is risen!  Alleluia! One of the tragic consequences of the widespread acceptance of theistic evolution is that it is always accompanied by a loss of faith in the inerrancy of the Bible as defined by the First Vatican Council.  According to the Council’s decree on Scriptural inerrancy, the Bible is free from error, not only in regard to matters of faith and morals, but in all that it affirms.   When Dr. Thomas Seiler and I gave a series of seminars in various parts of the United States several years ago, we were twice confronted by the objection that the Bible contains errors in regard to natural science and that the account of the habits of the ostrich in the Book of Job, Chapter 39, offered a clear example of this.  One of the people who raised this objection was actually a retired professor from one of the few Tradition-friendly Catholic universities in the country! Never having heard this objection before, we were not prepared with an immediate response, but we were both quite certain that, rightly understood, God’s description of the ostrich in Job 39 would be proven true.  And so …

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  • Kolbe Report 4/30/22

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Christ is risen!  Alleluia! One of the terrible consequences of living in the evolutionary atmosphere of the modern world is the way that it fosters contempt for the past and for traditional knowledge handed down in the Church or by our ancestors. It is ironic that we continue to place our trust in the Gospel accounts of the life, death and resurrection of Our Lord, handed down over dozens of generations, while treating as myth the history handed down in the sacred history of Genesis over a smaller number of generations, by people who were genetically superior to us.  The smaller number of generations refers to the fact that, especially during the first two thousand years of human history, our ancestors lived to be six, seven, eight or nine hundred years old, and for that reason, as explained by Fr. James Meagher in How Christians Said the First Mass, our first father St. Adam was only separated from St. Moses by five generations: Adam died in the year 930 when Mathuselah was ninety-four years old. The latter lived till Sem, called also Melchisedech, was in his fiftieth year. Sem, or Melchisedech, died on Sion …

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  • Theodore Holthe

    I grew up in a secular and only loosely religious home. I was never taken to church by my parents, and in the first 25 years of my life I only attended a Christian Sunday service three times (and all three were Protestant services). I grew up with the usual obligatory teaching that evolution was a theory but basically true and you were silly to reject it; that the earth was very old and the universe even older; and that science was the grand arbiter of truth, being a disinterested middle man only concerned about facts. I would become a militant atheist in high school, having mostly negative experiences with Christians, and having a very short-sighted mind which was quick to judge. I embraced Communism as a good idea, being ignorant and young and knowing nothing at all about the practical effects of the ideology, nor its bloody history. After a few years of this I would “cool down” a bit, still being very much against religion but less aggressive about it.  It was around this time that God seemed to give me a small grace of insight, as I found myself unknowingly musing on aspects of St. Thomas Aquinas' …

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