Is every act of hiring potentially illegal? Yes

Understand American business owner - you do not control your hiring, unelected bureaucrats control it and, thus, the country

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The Catholic Church and The Messias-Deniers

One can not say the Catholic Church has not bent over backwards in accommodating Jewish influence in her crucial aspects; Mr. J. Peter Grace, American shipping magnate and head of the Catholic Biblical Association, at the request of the American Jewish Committee, the Catholic Biblical Association helped start the re-writing of Catholic textbooks to meet the requirements of the Jews and Rabbi Marc H. Tannenbaum, director of the American Jewish Committee was later appointed to supervise the work.

See Mr. John Cotter "A study in syncretism"

Rorate Caeli: ...However, we still heard of some oddities. For example, we learned that the somewhat aggressive Jewish organization B’nai B’rith submitted its own commentary on the proposed Catholic Catechism—and they were, sub secreto, apparently invited to do so. Another aspect of Ecumenism?

Former Father Walter Kasper might have encouraged this submission by B’nai B’rith, given his special interests in non-Christian religions, especially his mercy for the Jews. In any case, we were told that the long-awaited “Modi” from Walter Kasper had finally arrived, one of the last sets to arrive, and all the persons seated with and near Cardinal Ratzinger were “as excited as school girls,” we were told by phone from Rome. (Father Kasper had become a new Bishop—with the approval of John Paul II—only a year before, on 17 June 1989.) When Father Hardon heard of this welcoming expectancy and of the nature of Kasper’s own Commentary (“Modi”), he had some very strong words about Kasper himself and about Kasper’s own personal doctrine “as to the Incarnation.” (However, Kasper was later made a Cardinal by Pope John Paul II, on 21 February 2001.) How are we to understand such things? To include Kasper’s further influential promotions and prestigious positions held under Pope Benedict XVI, as well as his more understandable support and endorsement by the current Pontiff, Francis....

And, amongst other oddities of us collapsing under the weight of objections from the Messias Deniers, there is the changed prayer of Good Friday and the then Pope claiming we should not covert the Jews.

Yes, the Catholic Church is forever, changing to please the Messias-Deniers but where is there any evidence - one iota unum - that The Messias Deniers are changing, say, the Talmud, to suit the One True Faith?

The World Jewish Council has an office inside The Vatican. Does, say, The SSPX have an office inside of any Synagogue in the world, say nothing about The Belz Synagogue in Jerusalem? 

Engineers Mo'Betta than doctors

 It is funny to see the denizens of Twitterland, putatively the intellectual descendants of Diogenes, turning their gimlet eyes upon the bio. of the low T guy filmed by Veritas:

https://twitter.com/search?q=veritas&src=typed_query

Where were they when Pfizer (Like the lifeguard sitting in the kiddie pool pretending to be interested in the youngsters, the P is silent) was pumping out their poison? They were trusting the science because Doctors are worshipped in America because science.

Were you to ask them who was responsible for ending the killer cholera epidemics in England they’d say Doctors.

And they’d be wrong. 

It was James Newlands, an engineer, who built the sewer system in Liverpool that stopped the progenitors of the Fab Four from keeling over before the age of 20 (Average life span in Liverpool prior to Newlands was 19 Y.O.) 

The people of Perfidious Albion were peeing and pooping in The Thames and they also got their drinking water from there. Where we all the doctors striving to identify and correct the problem?

Putting men like Dr. Semmelweis in an insane asylum, in a straight jacket, because he proved the best practices of the doctors, like not washing their hands between surgeries, the doctors were spreading puerperal fever and killing their patients.

Poor Semmelweis, trapped in a straight jacket, was beaten to death by by another patient.

Galileo wasn't killed was he? No, he was "imprisoned" in a palace.

One has to hand it to the doctors of today. Their hands are clean – and so are their consciences – as they kill their patients.

Why do you ALWAYS hear progressives talking about Galileo and NEVER hear them talking about Semmelweis (and many others)? Because science is the one true Church of the Enlightenment.

What is the history of communicable diseases and who is more responsible for curing them and preventing their spread? Doctor or engineers?

Engineers.  They are more trustworthy than doctors.

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Evolution, Theistic Evolution or Creation? (5)

 Pascendi

Faith Subject to Science

17. Yet, it would be a great mistake to suppose that, given these theories, one is authorised to believe that faith and science are independent of one another. On the side of science the independence is indeed complete, but it is quite different with regard to faith, which is subject to science not on one but on three grounds. For in the first place it must be observed that in every religious fact, when you take away the divine reality and the experience of it which the believer possesses, everything else, and especially the religious formulas of it, belongs to the sphere of phenomena and therefore falls under the control of science. Let the believer leave the world if he will, but so long as he remains in it he must continue, whether he like it or not, to be subject to the laws, the observation, the judgments of science and of history. Further, when it is said that God is the object of faith alone, the statement refers only to the divine reality not to the idea of God. The latter also is subject to science which while it philosophises in what is called the logical order soars also to the absolute and the ideal. It is therefore the right of philosophy and of science to form conclusions concerning the idea of God, to direct it in its evolution and to purify it of any extraneous elements which may become confused with it. Finally, man does not suffer a dualism to exist in him, and the believer therefore feels within him an impelling need so to harmonise faith with science, that it may never oppose the general conception which science sets forth concerning the universe.

Thus it is evident that science is to be entirely independent of faith, while on the other hand, and notwithstanding that they are supposed to be strangers to each other, faith is made subject to science. All this, Venerable Brothers, is in formal opposition with the teachings of Our Predecessor, Pius IX, where he lays it down that: In matters of religion it is the duty of philosophy not to command but to serve, but not to prescribe what is to be believed but to embrace what is to be believed with reasonable obedience, not to scrutinise the depths of the mysteries of God but to venerate them devoutly and humbly.

The Modernists completely invert the parts, and to them may be applied the words of another Predecessor of Ours, Gregory IX., addressed to some theologians of his time: Some among you, inflated like bladders with the spirit of vanity strive by profane novelties to cross the boundaries fixed by the Fathers, twisting the sense of the heavenly pages . . .to the philosophical teaching of the rationals, not for the profit of their hearer but to make a show of science . . . these, seduced by strange and eccentric doctrines, make the head of the tail and force the queen to serve the servant.

http://www.todayscatholicworld.com/catechism-on-modernism.pdf

Friday Fun

Vatican authorities today excitedly stated that Our Pontiff has tested negative for Tradition and they cited The Pontifical Academy of Sciences which stipulated, We are quite certain he developed sufficient protestant antibodies to Tradition during his Jebbie education and so was spared the scourge of Tradition which our Pontiff calls Pharisaical.

 

Why of course Trump was trustworthy

 

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Is he really doing it without dirty money?

When asked to describe what they like most about Donald Trump, supporters usually say “He’s been doing it all without dirty money.”  They mean his campaign is self-funded, and takes no money from lobbyists, special interests, and Republican Party kingmakers.

But what if Trump’s own money is dirty? Could a sizable chunk of Trump’s net worth come from selling real estate to drug lords, mobsters, and international financial criminals?

The answer is: There’s no way to tell. Secrecy hides the identity of the crooked, violent and corrupt who invest cash in U.S. real estate through shell companies registered in Delaware, managed by a bank in the Grand Caymans for a trust in Guernsey. And its all perfectly legal.

Even Swiss banks these days have to know who their customers are. Not American real estate developers. There’s no legal requirement whatsoever that U.S. real-estate developer Donald Trump know who his clients are. Probably, he couldn’t care less. Or even worse, he’d rather not know.

 

“The Great Circle of Life,” Trump-Style

A closer look at Trump reveals names which recur with his—and with each other—in odd and unexpected places. It’s as if Trump belongs to the “Great Circle of Life” from a “Lion King” movie shot in an alternative Universe.

From Palm Beach, winter home to well-known and well-heeled scammers from around the world, here’s a thumbnail sketch of “The Great Circle of Life,” Trump-Style.

Donald Trump has repeatedly taken advantage of this huge loophole in American law, never more blatantly than when he made a cool $90 million dollar profit on a Palm Beach mansion he sold to a man who someone must have worked really hard to convince the American mainstream media to identify as a “Russian businessman,” or “Russian fertilizer oligarch.”

He wasn’t. Dmitry Rybolovlev is a Russian Mobster, who was indicted for rubbing out his chief business rival in what Russian news agency TASS called a “contract hit.”  

Yet the Donald was pocketing $90 million of dirty cash from the Russian Mob at the same time a minor politician in California was taking tons of heat for accepting—from that same Russian Mobster—a $400 pen.

For his part, Rybolovlev liked the U.S. media’s characterization of him as a Russian “businessman” so much that four years ago he splurged on the most expensive condominium ever sold in Manhattan ($88 million).

As for Trump, there’s no way of knowing if he’s used any dirty money from the Russian Mob to fund his campaign. In fact, there’s no way of knowing so much about Donald Trump’s business career that the best way to get a clearer picture of who he is may be to check out who he does business with.

 

How Donald Trump became Donald Trump

For anyone lucky enough to have never seen an episode of “Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous,” here’s a quick reminder of how Donald Trump became Donald Trump.

Long before becoming a Presidential candidate, Trump was a famous icon from an especially questionable time in America, the “go-go” ‘80’s,” when robber barons walked the earth unafraid, while on TV a British twit named Robin Leach rhapsodized about them between commercials.

It was a time when things—at least law enforcement-wise—were clearly well out of hand. The enormous amount of cocaine money sloshing around the banking system in Miami made some banks there seem to bulge outwards over the sidewalk and drive-through window.

In the American economy in the 1980’s, drug money was as visible as an alligator in the Everglades sliding down the throat of a Burmese python.
Trump and Ivana were the first couple of the Greed Decade.  Trump was Gatsby with weird hair. His Daisy was a former Czech Olympian skier. A blond girl from the South with a syrupy smile waited in the wings. Gold fixtures everywhere. Everything was “real class.”

“In a decade of glitz, they were the glitziest; in a decade of greed, they were the greediest,” reported People magazine, laying it on a little thick. “The scrappy investor wheeling and dealing his way to a fortune… And an outsider charming and clawing her way into New York’s most refined social circles.”

Being a big-time real estate developer was never more fun. Romantic three-day weekends in your many-splendored mansion by the sea in Palm Beach. Dancing in the disco in your designer art deco hotel in South Beach.

 

That was then, this is now. See any difference?

In “Stash Pad” in New York Magazine, Andrew Rice reported, “The New York real-estate market is now the premier destination for wealthy foreigners with rubles, yuan, and dollars to hide.”

Imagine what Florida must be like…  Today in Miami, rising  above miles of strip malls,  convenience stores, pawn shops, and gas stations,  is a row of skyscrapers so baroque that they conjure up only one man: Donald Trump.

Three Trump Towers, and three other Trump-branded properties in Sunny Isles, including the Trump International Beach Resort, loom over beachfront Collins Avenue, where they are a favorite home away from home for Russian Mobsters.

Sunny Isles has numerous real estate agencies owned by Russians that cater heavily to Eastern European clients, among them Exclusively Baranoff Realty, which operates from an office in the lobby of the Trump International Beach Resort. Thanks to its heavy Russian presence, Sunny Isles has acquired the nickname “Little Moscow.”

In a profile in The Nation magazine called “Miami: Where Luxury Real Estate Meets Dirty Money” Ken Silverstein writes:

“One night I had dinner and felt like I’d been transported into a Russian version of Goodfellas. A Russian singer performed on a stage with disco lights while customers ordered skewered sturgeon, and clinked forks on glasses to announce toasts before downing shots of vodka. A man who looked 70 spoke in Russian to his wife, who appeared at least 40 years younger. At another table,  a man about the same age was seated with a young woman in blue jean shorts, a halter top and cowboy boots.”

Trump welcome mat out for international grifters

Just how easy does Donald Trump make it for foreign representatives of organized crime to buy real estate from him? Silverstein writes:

“She took me to see a unit on the thirty-eighth floor of Trump Palace, which looked out on the turquoise waters of the Atlantic and was on the market for $2.3 million. “Living in a Trump property is like living in a hotel,” she told me, as we stood on a balcony. The unit was attractively priced, she said cheerfully, and all the more so as the owner, a Russian looking to buy a bigger condo elsewhere in the area, had spent at least $350,000 on improvements.

Later that day, I obtained the property records for the condo. The legal owner is a company registered in Belize, an offshore haven where, according to a government website, there “is no requirement to file annual returns or public disclosure of directors, shareholders, charges, loans or agreements.”

In other words, the true owner of the Trump Palace unit is untraceable.

Even the New York Post, which could be excused for being sensitive to talk about lax immigration letting in the world’s richest undesirables, chimed in.” New York’s swankiest skyscrapers have become the new Swiss banks for the world’s richest undesirables.”

“Today, Switzerland has cleaned up its act and the “filthy” rich have turned to New York City, turning it into a secrecy haven to stash their cash through the use of shell companies.”

 

Donald Trump called him “The Legend.”

Instead of one of the many famous names in Trump’s “Great Circle,”  let’s begin with someone who’s no longer well-known. Louis Lesser was once as big a name in real estate development as Donald Trump’s, but by the time he died he had become a forgotten man.

Lesser (third from right in pic) was once the biggest developer in the history of the western U.S., developing housing  for military personnel during World War II, then grew wealthy developing, owning and leasing properties to the U.S. military during the Cold War, locking up numerous contracts under Kennedy and Johnson for developments for military industrial complex clients.

Louis Lesser was a partner with Syndicate legend Meyer Lansky and Kirk Kerkorian in buying up Las Vegas hotels and casinos. He had extensive ties with Howard Hughes. He developed, owned, and leased many properties to Hughes’ Aircraft, including a massive project in Newport Beach.

Lesser helped Hughes buy up hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. When Lesser sold his Frontier Hotel and Casino to Hughes, it was the beginning of Hughes’ take-over there. In an example of Trump’s synergistic Great Chain of Life, years later, Donald Trump erected the Trump Hotel Las Vegas on a portion of the property.

Louis Lesser, when he resigned as chairman of Louis Lesser Enterprises in 1967, was replaced by an associate of Henry Salvatori, who the L.A. Times called a “GOP Kingmaker.”

In 1964, Salvatori chaired Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign in California. He convinced Goldwater to allow Ronald Reagan to give a televised fundraising speech entitled “A Time for Choosing,” which launched Reagan’s political career. Salvatori became a prominent member of Ronald Reagan’s “kitchen cabinet.”

 

Trump’s “Great Circle” buddy Louis Lesser (cont.)

Louis Lesser sold his Taj Mahal Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City to Donald Trump.

Later, when the casino went bankrupt, a court filing in the bankruptcy proceedings revealed Trump’s Taj Mahal Casino listed Fincen (The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) as an unsecured creditor, meaning it hadn’t paid the record $10 million penalty (the largest the agency ever levied on a casino) for what FINCEN called  “money laundering failures.”

What follows is  an example of how Trump associates blend into each other, and manage to stay just a step or two in front of the law.

In the late 1980’s Louis Lesser’s son Craig became partners in real estate with Imelda Marcos, fronting for the real principals, Louis Lesser and Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos. On an outing with Imelda and a military contingent, Craig Lesser  helped uncover part of the fabled cache of gold buried by the Japanese in the Philippines at the end of Word War II.

In Gold Warriors (2002), Sterling and Peggy Seagrave detail a “great fortune discovered by U.S. intelligence services in 1946 … $13-billion in war loot amassed by underworld godfather Kodama Yoshio who, as a rear admiral in the Imperial Navy working with Golden Lily in China and Southeast Asia, was in charge of plundering the Asian underworld and racketeers. He was also in charge of Japan’s wartime drug trade throughout Asia

Craig Lesser sent back a solid gold antique vase to his father, which took several men to lift, and which was displayed on the mantle at Louis Lesser’s mansion, once the largest private residence in Beverly Hills.

Until TV producer Aaron Spelling built “The Manor,” a home that rivals a mid-sized hotel in square footage, Louis Lesser lived in the largest house in Beverly Hills. In fact, his house at 1156 Shadow Hill Way was used extensively during production of Beverly Hills 90210.

Its current occupant, Pearlasia Gamboa, is a Filipino-American business woman who’s been involved in massive fraud, and was the president of a “micro-nation” called the Dominion of Melchizedek, an atoll in the South Pacific which lies underwater at high tide,  used as a front for fraudulent criminal activity.

Bank of England officials raided the London premises of a company which offered get-rich-quick investment schemes backed by a phony bank ”registered” in Melchizedek. ”It appears to exist mainly so that money can be whisked through shell banks,”reported the Washington Post.

Is it oddly telling, or mere happenstance, or just another illustration of Trump’s “Great Circle of Life,” that Trump business associate Louis Lesser, who had much to do with providing entree into the world of casino gambling, owns a home (he’s dead, his son Craig is still associated with the property) that’s a nexus for international financial swindlers?

 

Time out for a little comic relief 

When Imelda Marcos went on trial in New York in 1990 for laundering tens of millions of dollars belonging to the people of the Philippines, her co-defendant was another close Trump associate, Adnan Khashoggi.  (Both Marcos and Khashoggi were acquitted.)

The first time I saw Donald Trump’s name linked with Adnan Khashoggi’s was in a wickedly funny article from the early 90’s in Spy Magazine called  ”Who is America’s cheapest zillionaire?”

Spy magazine— cruel, brilliant, beautifully-written, and feared by all—incorporated a company called the National Refund Clearinghouse, gave it its own checking account, and zipped out refund checks to 58 “well-known, well-heeled Americans” for $1.11 apiece.

Chortling, the magazine’s editors settled back to see who cashed them.

26 frugal people—“The Bargain-Basement 26,” including Cher, Harry Helmsley, Michael Douglas, Shirley MacLaine, Kurt Vonnegut, and Donald Trump and Adnan Khashoggi, who partied together in swank Palm Beach Florida—cashed their $1.11 checks.

Each then receive a second “National Refund Clearinghouse” check,  for 64 cents,  half the amount of the first check as compensation said a cover letter,  for ”a computer error.’  Trump, Khashoggi, and 11 other extraordinarily cheap people each cashed checks for 64 cents apiece.

“The Chintzy 13” then each received a final check for 13 cents.

Donald Trump & Adnan Khashoggi were the last men standing. Trump, who the magazine called a “short-fingered-vulgarian,” and Khashoggi, who personally endorsed his on the back, each cashed checks totaling one dime and three pennies.

Whether by accident, coincidence, or cosmic design, over the next two decades Trump and Khashoggi’s names will be inextricably linked.

Is the earth billions of years old or thousands of years old?

Traditional Proclamation of the Birth of Christ

The twenty-fifth day of December.
In the five thousand one hundred and ninety-ninth year of the creation of the world
from the time when God in the beginning created the heavens and the earth;
the two thousand nine hundred and fifty-seventh year after the flood;
the two thousand and fifteenth year from the birth of Abraham;
the one thousand five hundred and tenth year from Moses
and the going forth of the people of Israel from Egypt;
the one thousand and thirty-second year from David's being anointed king;
in the sixty-fifth week according to the prophecy of Daniel;
in the one hundred and ninety-fourth Olympiad;
the seven hundred and fifty-second year from the foundation of the city of Rome;
the forty second year of the reign of Octavian Augustus;
the whole world being at peace,
in the sixth age of the world,
Jesus Christ the eternal God and Son of the eternal Father,
desiring to sanctify the world by his most merciful coming,
being conceived by the Holy Spirit,
and nine months having passed since his conception,
was born in Bethlehem of Judea of the Virgin Mary,
being made flesh.
The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ according to the flesh.

City of God St Augustine Book XII Chapter XII

As to those who are always asking why man was not created during these countless ages of the infinitely extended past, and came into being so lately that, according to Scripture, less than 6000 years have elapsed since He began to be, 

https://www.kolbecenter.org/the-character-of-god-refutes-theistic-evolution/

The Replies of the Pontifical Biblical Commission

On questions of Sacred Scripture

Concerning the Historical Character of the First Three Chapters of Genesis

June 30, 1909 (AAS 1 [1909] 567ff; EB 332ff; Dz 2121ff)

I: Do the various exegetical systems excogitated and defended under the guise of science to exclude the literal historical sense of the first three chapters of Genesis rest on a solid foundation?

Answer: In the negative. 

II: Notwithstanding the historical character and form of Genesis, the special connection of the first three chapters with one another and with the following chapters, the manifold testimonies of the Scriptures both of the Old and of the New Testaments, the almost unanimous opinion of the holy Fathers and the traditional view which the people of Israel also has handed on and the Church has always held, may it be taught that: the aforesaid three chapters of Genesis Contain not accounts of actual events, accounts, that is, which correspond to objective reality and historical truth, but, either fables derived from the mythologies and cosmogonies of ancient peoples and accommodated by the sacred writer to monotheistic doctrine after the expurgation of any polytheistic error; or allegories and symbols without any foundation in objective reality proposed under the form of history to inculcate religious and philosophical truths; or finally legends in part historical and in part fictitious freely composed with a view to instruction and edification? 

Answer: In the negative to both parts.

III: In particular may the literal historical sense be called in doubt in the case of facts narrated in the same chapters which touch the foundations of the Christian religion: as are, among others, the creation of all things by God in the beginning of time; the special creation of man; the formation of the first woman from the first man; the unity of the human race; the original felicity of our first parents in the state of justice, integrity, and immortality; the command given by God to man to test his obedience; the transgression of the divine command at the instigation of the devil under the form of a serpent; the degradation of our first parents from that primeval state of innocence; and the promise of a future Redeemer? 

Answer: In the negative. 

IV: In the interpretation of those passages in these chapters which the Fathers and Doctors understood in different manners without proposing anything certain and definite, is it lawful, without prejudice to the judgement of the Church and with attention to the analogy of faith, to follow and defend the opinion that commends itself to each one? 

Answer: In the affirmative. 

V: Must each and every word and phrase occurring in the aforesaid chapters always and necessarily be understood in its literal sense, so that it is never lawful to deviate from it, even when it appears obvious that the diction is employed in an applied sense, either metaphorical or anthropomorphical, and either reason forbids the retention or necessity imposes the abandonment of the literal sense? 

Answer: In the negative. 

VI: Provided that the literal and historical sense is presupposed, may certain passages in the same chapters, in the light of the example of the holy Fathers and of the Church itself, be wisely and profitably interpreted in an allegorical and prophetic sense? 

Answer: In the affirmative. 

VII: As it was not the mind of the sacred author in the composition of the first chapter of Genesis to give scientific teaching about the internal Constitution of visible things and the entire order of creation, but rather to communicate to his people a popular notion in accord with the current speech of the time and suited to the understanding and capacity of men, must the exactness of scientific language be always meticulously sought for in the interpretation of these matters? 

Answer: In the negative. 

VIII : In the designation and distinction of the six days mentioned in the first chapter of Genesis may the word Yom (day) be taken either in the literal sense for the natural day or in an applied sense for a certain space of time, and may this question be the subject of free discussion among exegetes? 

Answer: In the affirmative.

Evolution, Theistic Evolution or Creation? (4)

Humani Generis

37. When, however, there is question of another conjectural opinion, namely polygenism, the children of the Church by no means enjoy such liberty. For the faithful cannot embrace that opinion which maintains either that after Adam there existed on this earth true men who did not take their origin through natural generation from him as from the first parent of all or that Adam represents a certain number of first parents. Now it is in no way apparent how such an opinion can be reconciled with that which the sources of revealed truth and the documents of the Teaching Authority of the Church propose with regard to original sin, which proceeds from a sin actually committed by an individual Adam and which through generation is passed on to all and is in everyone as his own.[12]

38. Just as in the biological and anthropological sciences, so also in the historical sciences there are those who boldly transgress the limits and safeguards established by the Church. In a particular way must be deplored a certain too free interpretation of the historical books of the Old Testament. Those who favor this system, in order to defend their cause, wrongly refer to the Letter which was sent not long ago to the Archbishop of Paris by the Pontifical Commission on Biblical Studies.[13] This Letter, in fact, clearly points out that the first eleven chapters of Genesis, although properly speaking not conforming to the historical method used by the best Greek and Latin writers or by competent authors of our time, do nevertheless pertain to history in a true sense, which however must be further studied and determined by exegetes; the same chapters, (the Letter points out), in simple and metaphorical language adapted to the mentality of a people but little cultured, both state the principal truths which are fundamental for our salvation, and also give a popular description of the origin of the human race and the chosen people. If, however, the ancient sacred writers have taken anything from popular narrations (and this may be conceded), it must never be forgotten that they did so with the help of divine inspiration, through which they were rendered immune from any error in selecting and evaluating those documents.

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 Divini Redemptorist, March 1937

9. The doctrine of modern Communism, which is often concealed under the most seductive trappings, is in substance based on the principles of dialectical and historical materialism previously advocated by Marx, of which the theoricians of bolshevism claim to possess the only genuine interpretation. According to this doctrine there is in the world only one reality, matter, the blind forces of which evolve into plant, animal and man. Even human society is nothing but a phenomenon and form of matter, evolving in the same way. By a law of inexorable necessity and through a perpetual conflict of forces, matter moves towards the final synthesis of a classless society. In such a doctrine, as is evident, there is no room for the idea of God; there is no difference between matter and spirit, between soul and body; there is neither survival of the soul after death nor any hope in a future life. Insisting on the dialectical aspect of their materialism, the Communists claim that the conflict which carries the world towards its final synthesis can be accelerated by man. Hence they endeavor to sharpen the antagonisms which arise between the various classes of society. Thus the class struggle with its consequent violent hate and destruction takes on the aspects of a crusade for the progress of humanity. On the other hand, all other forces whatever, as long as they resist such systematic violence, must be annihilated as hostile to the human race.

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 Vatican 1

1. On God the creator of all things

• 1. If anyone denies the one true God, creator and lord of things visible and invisible: let him be anathema.
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• 2. If anyone is so bold as to assert that
  • there exists nothing besides matter:

  let him be anathema.

• 3. If anyone says that
  • the substance or essence of God and that of all things are one and the same:

  let him be anathema.

• 4. If anyone says
  • that finite things, both corporal and spiritual, or at any rate, spiritual, emanated from the divine substance; or that the divine essence, by the manifestation and evolution of itself becomes all things or, finally, God is a universal or indefinite being which by self determination establishes the totality of things distinct in genera, species and individuals:

  let him be anathema.

• 5. If anyone does not confess that the world and all things which are contained in it, both spiritual and material, were produced, according to their whole substance, out of nothing by God; or
  • holds that God did not create by his will free from all necessity, but as necessarily as he necessarily loves himself; or denies that the world was created for the glory of God:

  let him be anathema.

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Evolution, Theistic Evolution or Creation?

On Saturday January 14, 2023 I went to hear a presentation of the facts by Mr. Hugh Owen of the Kolbe Center for the study of Creation.

If you get a chance to hear any of his talks, don't miss one. He is an evangelist for the Faith.

Here is what he has to say about Creation and The Immaculate Conception.

In God’s Providence, the Kolbe Center was incorporated on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, December 8, in the Jubilee Year 2000.  This date—selected by government workers in Richmond, Virginia—could not have been more appropriate for several reasons.

It has long been a principle of traditional Catholic philosophy, with its roots in the philosophy of Aristotle, that what is “first in the order of intention is last in the order of execution.”  Thus, the form of the completed Pieta existed in Michelangelo’s mind form the moment he began to work, but that completed form was the last thing that he actually produced through his labor. In the same way, man, made in the perfect image and likeness of the Incarnate Word, was the culmination of the entire work of Creation, but the last kind of creature that God actually created.   Since Eve was created from Adam’s side, we could say that in a special way God summed up in her the beauty and perfection of the entire universe. So good and beautiful were Adam and Eve when they came forth from God’s hands that He rested in them, and “His delight was to be with the children of men.”

But what shall we say of the Immaculate Conception?  If the “first Eve” was perfectly good and beautiful in body and soul at the moment of her creation, how much more was the “New Eve” perfectly good and beautiful from the moment of her Immaculate Conception?  When we contemplate the beauty of the Blessed Virgin Mary our Mother as She is revealed, for example, in the tilma of Guadalupe, we see a reflection of the beauty and goodness of the entire universe when it came forth from God’s hands.  

Indeed, it would be blasphemous to suppose that the Son of God took His Flesh and Blood from a tainted vessel, just as it would be blasphemous to hold that God evolved the body of Adam through a process of hundreds of millions of years of death, deformity and disease.  

It is fitting that Saturday has long been observed as a special day in honor of our Blessed Mother, because every Saturday commemorates the first Sabbath rest of the Lord, when God rested in His perfectly good, harmonious, and beautiful creation.  This rest was brought to perfection with the Immaculate Conception when Jesus came to rest in Mary’s womb, and it continued throughout Our Lady’s life, until her Assumption into Heaven, body and soul, where it will last forever.

St. Maximilian Kolbe was one of the great champions of Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception, and the Kolbe Center adopted him as our secondary patron (after the Immaculate Conception) for this and for several other reasons:

1) He was an expert in theology, philosophy, and natural science, the three branches of knowledge that we bring to bear on the origins debate.

2) He upheld the centrality of mankind in creation, as when he wrote: "For me you made the sky scattered with stars . . . and all the beautiful things on the earth."

3) He recognized the evil of freemasonry, communism, and Nazism, all ideologies that depend on evolutionary ideas.

4) He recognized that the theological and philosophical errors of modern times could only be exposed and overcome by a spiritual awakening--and that this could only come about through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

5) Through his proclamation of the Immaculate Conception, the Second Eve, St. Maximilian restored to the faithful an awareness of the exalted holiness of the first Eve, and, so, recalled the original holiness of the first created world--a doctrine which is quite incompatible with theistic evolutionism. St. Maximilian also recognized that the Blessed Virgin Mary could only be the Immaculate Conception because Adam and Eve were special creations—and that the title the Immaculate Conception refuted theistic evolutionism which holds that Adam and Eve were immaculately conceived in the womb of an evolved chimpanzee or that their bodies evolved through a process of hundreds of millions of years of death, deformity and disease.

If Adam and Eve had been the end result of a process that took billions or millions of years and God had them "ascend" via evolution from one cell to an eventual ape and then into a humanoid form when God created their souls, then that would mean (because Adam and Eve were created possessing Sanctifying Grace) Adam and Eve were also Immaculate Conceptions whereas Mary, appearing to St Bernadette on March 25, 1858. said I am the Immaculate Conception fewer than nine months before the pitiable fool Darwin appeared on earth as Satan's servant.

March 25 is said to have been the date for the Creation

On the Origin of Species (or, more completely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life), published on 24 November 1859,)

http://www.catholicpilgrims.com/lourdes/bg_lourdes_conception.htm

6) While St. Maximilian seems to have been open to long ages in the development of stars, galaxies and the solar system, he did not subscribe to theistic evolutionism or to long ages of biological evolution.  He wrote:

 I do not believe that the universe was formed by chance, out of just any sort of material, because up to now no machine has ever been able to put itself together by pure chance, not even a simple watch; still less is any machine capable of producing another like itself, while living beings have been reproducing themselves for thousands of years. 

I do not believe that chimpanzees or Darwin’s other little pets will ever rival us in building airplanes or producing other inventions, because among them we find no progress.  After so many centuries they have not even succeeded in writing the modest history of monkeydom’s progress. (emphasis added) (St. Maximilian Kolbe, O.F.M.  Conv. Mugenzai no Seibo no Kishi (October 1933, pp. 313-315).

I cannot believe that man is only a perfect monkey.  This is the question of evolution . . .   A mountain of acute criticisms has been published on this subject; but the more books they write the more complicated the problems grow.  This theory not only does not agree with the results of today’s experimental science, which is in constant progress, but in reality it contradicts these findings, as has been carefully documented (St. Maximilian Kolbe, O.F.M.  Conv. Mugenzai no Seibo no Kishi (July 1934, pp. 194-197).

7) St. Maximilian believed in using the latest technology for evangelization while living a life of extreme simplicity and poverty.  This is also our ideal.

8) Adolf Hitler testified that the real motive behind the National Socialist (NAZI) movement was evolution. In his Table Talk of October 24, 1941, he stated:

There have been humans at the rank at least of a baboon in any case for 300,000 years at least. The ape is distinguished from the lowest human less than such a human is from a thinker like, for example, Schopenhauer (https://www.csustan.edu/history/was-hitler-influenced-darwinism ).

Hitler’s concentration camps served as convenient centers for the liquidation of “inferior races.” At Auschwitz, St. Maximilian offered his life in place of a Polish husband and father who had been condemned to death. Thus, St. Maximilian Kolbe died in a starvation bunker, a victim of applied evolutionary theory.

In short, these are the main reasons why we have adopted St. Maximilian Kolbe as our principal patron, after the Immaculate Conception herself.