“The invisible things of Him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that…
Read More »Introduction Multi-disciplinary evidence suggests that Basal-Hebrew was humanity’s first spoken and written language.[i] The topic of the original language is…
Read More »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, Christ is risen! Alleluia! It is a dogma of the Catholic Faith that God created the world to “show forth His goodness.” One of the ways that God shows forth His goodness is through the beauty of creation, one aspect of which is the exquisite design of created things and the incorporation of harmonious…
Read More »Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Christ is risen! Alleluia! A few years ago, the Archbishop of Madrid called for penance for “sins against the earth,” sounding a note that has been heard more and more frequently in recent years from Church leaders around the globe. Catholic youth all over the world are being taught to think of the…
Read More »Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Christ is risen! Alleluia! Recently a priest friend of mine on the other side of the world wrote to me to say how much he had come to appreciate the link between the traditional liturgy of the Roman Rite and the traditional doctrine of creation. I suggested that he watch the video of the…
Read More »Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! On this Holy Saturday, it is good for us to reflect on the profound connection between the First Saturday of the world, the Saturday of Our Lord’s “rest” in the tomb, and the immaculacy of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Our Blessed Mother. Outside of the Catholic Church and the Orthodox…
Read More »Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center, Glory to Jesus Christ! Two weeks ago, I recalled experiments that were done with weaver birds that demonstrated their remarkable God-given instinct to build complex nests, even when deprived of the example of other birds. Unfortunately, I used information that I had included in a newsletter more than ten years ago which did not…
Read More »Dear Mr. Owen; I left the Catholic Church in my late teens. I was doing things that made me feel guilty and going to Mass made it worse so instead of repenting, seeking God's forgiveness and the Grace to change, I went my own way. (The song we used at my 8th grade Catholic school graduation was Sinatra's "I Did it My Way"!) During my 20+ years away from the Church I became enamored of the Eastern philosophies of Chuang Tzu, Lao Tzu, Buddhism, Baghwan Shree Rashneesh. To recover from a serious compulsive drinking problem I joined a twelve-step program and began to seek God more systematically in 1988. I read a fair amount of Buddhist literature but also attended Unity church services, First Metaphysical Church of Flint services, read all kinds of pop-psych and new age literature, read some Catholic materials sent by my sister Linda, investigated alternative healing methods, trained in a TM offshoot called Silent Sharing, and studied massage therapy. I went to a Church of the Nazarene service once and attended Mass for a few months while dating a Catholic woman. No conversion yet. In 1998, while working with my sister Linda in a network marketing …
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