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  • Kolbe Report 9/18/21

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Pax Christi! It would seem that in every age the Church faces particular challenges which vary according to the dominant errors of the time.  In one of his works on temptations that afflict the dying and how to overcome them, the great Saint and Doctor of the Church St. Robert Bellarmine indicates that in his day many souls suffered from temptations against the mystery of the Holy Eucharist—and this is not surprising, since St. Robert Bellarmine lived during the protestant revolution whose principal leaders all denied the apostolic teaching on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the Real Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.  What is interesting to note in this connection, however, is that St. Bellarmine indicates that souls who are tempted to doubt God’s Revelation regarding the Holy Eucharist could often be helped to overcome the temptation simply by recalling other dogmas of the faith that they believed without question, even though they had no other ground on which to believe in those dogmas, except for the authority of the Church, “the pillar and foundation of the Truth.”  He writes: Generally the sick who are tempted are to …

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  • Kolbe Report 9/11/21

    Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Pax Christi! One of the main objections to the traditional Catholic reading of Genesis 1-11 concerns the alleged impossibility of a global flood.  In response to this objection, a number of highly qualified scientists have developed Flood Models that can explain much of the evidence that we see in the Earth’s rocks and oceans today.  Two of the models that have demonstrated the greatest explanatory power are the Catastrophic Plate Tectonics (CPT) model of geophysicist Dr. John Baumgardner and the Hydroplate model of mechanical engineer Dr. Walt Brown. After studying the CPT and Hydroplate models for many years, I have concluded that ALL models will fail that do not take into account that the Flood was a SUPERNATURAL divine judgment on the world. St. Peter implies as much in his Second Epistle when he warns that the scoffers who try to explain the origins of man and the universe in terms of the same natural processes that are going on now will have to “ignore the fact” of the fiat creation of all things in the beginning and will also try to ignore the “fact” that God destroyed the first-created world with a global …

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  • Kolbe Report 9/4/21

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Pax Christi! I would like to thank all of you who prayed for the success of our annual leadership retreat.  As of today, the participants who have answered our survey have given the retreat an average score of 9.7 on a scale of 1 to 10!  We will let you know as soon as the retreat talks are posted on the internet so that all of you can benefit from them. One of the essential truths that our speakers rightly emphasized is the importance of understanding the two main frameworks that have been used to approach the study of nature and the origins of man and the universe during the last two thousand years.  The most popular argument used by Catholic theistic evolutionists and progressive creationists against the traditional doctrine of creation hinges on the alleged “overwhelming evidence” that the Earth and the universe are billions of years old.  In this newsletter I would like to invite you to ponder an analogy that has helped many people to see that one's answer to the age question, like one's answer to the evolution question, hinges on the framework within which he views the …

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  • Kolbe Report 8/28/21

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Pax Christi! On this blessed feast of St. Augustine of Hippo, Father and Doctor of the Church, I would like to draw your attention to one of the ways that you can use the DVD series “Foundations Restored” to give your high-school or college-age youth a thorough understanding of the true Catholic doctrine of creation from the perspective of theology, philosophy and natural science.  Thanks to the tireless efforts of our webmaster, Keith Jones, those who purchase the DVD series now have access to a web page where students can be tested on the essential content of each episode of the series through a multiple-choice quiz.  Keith has designed the web page so that it is impossible for the student to continue to the next episode until he or she has achieved  100% on the quiz in three attempts. I have just finished supervising one of my 14-year-old grandsons in viewing the entire DVD series, administering quizzes to him after each episode and making sure that he understood his errors whenever he made a mistake.  When he had finished viewing the entire series, I gave him a final test on the content …

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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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  • Stone Robbins

    Thanks be to God, through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, I converted to the Catholic Church three years ago at the age of 17. Coming from a secular background, I at first felt very at home with evolutionary beliefs going hand in hand with my newly found Catholic faith. It was not until I went to college that I began to recognize the serious inconsistencies with this position. I had tried to maintain a certain confidence that the teachings of the Church and "modern science" were compatible. I even tried to use evolution as a way to reach out to my atheistic professors, who would typically shoot down the notion with statements such as "evolution takes away the need of a creator God." However, I couldn't reconcile the fact that polygenism, an idea widely accepted by modern science, is regarded as heretical according to Catholic teaching. After I came to this realization, everything fell into place.  If Jesus could create enough bread and fish to feed 5,000, why couldn't God create the known universe in 6 days? Why would God allow hundreds of millions of years of death and sickness before opening the annals of salvation history? If …

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