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  • Kolbe Report 10/23/21

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Pax Christi! The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will soon declare St. Irenaeus a Doctor of the Church in view of his historical role as a bridge-builder, a second-century Eastern Bishop consecrated to shepherd the Diocese of Lyons in the West.  As defenders of the traditional Catholic doctrine of creation, we welcome this good news, since St. Irenaeus boldly proclaimed and defended the literal historical truth of the sacred history of Genesis and of the six-day creation of all things.  The designation of St. Irenaeus as a Doctor of Unity highlights the fact that the literal historical truth of Genesis constitutes the common foundation of the Faith for all apostolic Christian communities.  Moreover, it offers a great opportunity to clear up a widespread misunderstanding regarding the Fathers’ interpretation of the six days of creation in the sacred history of Genesis. In recent decades, the overwhelming consensus in the natural sciences in favor of the standard billions-of-years evolutionist chronology of the Earth and of the universe has led many Catholic theologians and apologists to seek a basis in the Church Fathers for expanding the age of the universe far beyond the traditional …

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  • Kolbe Report 10/16/21

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Pax Christi! In his masterpiece Pascendi, St. Pius X identified the worst heresy in the history of the Church and foresaw the untold damage that this heresy would inflict upon the Church and the world if it remained unchecked. The heresy was "modernism," "the synthesis of all heresies," and its "principal doctrine," wrote St. Pius X, was "evolution." Other heresies, he noted, had added, subtracted or distorted some part of the Deposit of Faith while leaving most of the Faith intact; but evolution-based modernism conceived of the whole world as in a state of continuous evolution and thus abandoned the very notion of immutable Truth. On every side, he saw Catholic intellectuals rejecting scriptural inerrancy and the sacred history of Genesis on the grounds that "natural science" had proven that the Bible contained historical errors and that advances in geology and biology had proven that man had evolved from a one-celled organism through millions of years of the same kinds of natural processes he observed in the present. Vatican One had already anathematized the proposition that "the progress of the sciences demands that the Catholic doctrine of creation be recast," but St. Pius X …

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  • Kolbe Report 10/9/21

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! I will never forget hearing a prominent Catholic theistic evolutionist express his conviction that the discovery of how life came from non-life through a material process would be one of the greatest scientific discoveries of the twenty-first century.  In reality, sound theology, sound philosophy and sound natural science confirm that life can only come from life and that only God can create life from non-life.  Indeed, it is remarkable to contemplate the fact that life comes from non-life every day, on all the Catholic altars of the world, wherever the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is celebrated; and that this miracle is effected by the words of Christ, “Hoc est enim corpus meum,” or “This is My Body,” when uttered by a Catholic priest in persona Christi.  Down through the centuries, many Eucharistic Miracles have testified to this Truth—including one that took place when Pope Francis was Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1996.  According to one trustworthy account: Pope Francis, when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires, ordered an investigation into a Eucharistic miracle that had taken place in a parish church in 1996 and he later approved …

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  • Kolbe Report 10/2/21

    Download MP3 Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! I have just returned from a three-week road trip that took me to eight different states in the Midwest where I was able to speak to many different groups of Catholics, in several churches, and on the campus of the Franciscan University of Steubenville at the invitation of the Juventutem group on campus. You can see the Steubenville presentation at this link. I would like to thank all of you who prayed for me. Yesterday was the feast of St. Therese of Lisieux whom St. Pius X called “the greatest saint of modern times.” Thanks to the research of one of the members of our leadership team, Chris De Vos, we know that the Little Flower learned her Faith on the firm foundation of the traditional Catholic doctrine of creation through the Catechism of Perseverance by Monsignor Gaume, published in 1853. The Knowledge of God Considered in His Works In the section on “The Knowledge of God Considered in His Works,” the Little Flower learned: Q. What were the first words God spoke in creating the world?” A. The first words God spoke in creating the world were …

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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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