Dear Friends of the Kolbe Center,
Pax Christi!
Our Lord Jesus Christ warned us to "judge a tree by its fruits." Unfortunately, the rotten fruits of belief in theistic evolution are rarely traced back to their source, with the result that the symptoms of the evolution-based anti-culture of death are attacked but the underlying evolutionary mentality is generally ignored. A good example of this phenomenon is being played out right now at a putatively Catholic college in Rhode Island where a Resident Advisor has been threatened and harassed by fellow students and employees of the college for putting up a bulletin board in defense of authentic marriage. According to LifeSiteNews:
Catholic college students are threatening, harassing, and targeting a Resident Advisor (RA), including with a cartoon depicting him being anally raped, for posting a bulletin board affirming Catholic teaching on marriage.
"I couldn't even go brush my teeth for several nights without facing a mob in my hallway," the RA, Michael Smalanskas, told LifeSiteNews.
Providence College, where this is taking place, is run by the Dominican order's Province of St. Joseph - well-known in most places for its orthodoxy. However, in response to repeated vandalism of the bulletin board and other student employees threateningly congregating outside the Catholic RA's door - requiring campus security to move Smalanskas to a safe, undisclosed location - the college's president, a Dominican priest, said "it belongs to a Catholic college to consider the views of those who disagree with the Church's teaching."
Another administrator, Vice President of Student Affairs Kristine Goodwin, sent an email to student leaders on March 14 encouraging them to attend a protest "against homophobia and transphobia," quoting Pope Francis' now-infamous claim that the Church should apologize to gays, and quoting Father Timothy Radcliffe, a Dominican priest who has suggested sodomy can be "eucharistic."
Smalanskas is a 22-year-old senior and former seminarian from Holden, Massachusetts. He's double majoring in philosophy and theology.
What is the "offense" Smalanskas committed that infuriated his fellow students so much they've called for him to be fired and raped? He posted a bulletin board articulating what the Catholic Church teaches about "Marriage: The Way God Intended It."
The bulletin board includes a quote from Pope Francis, "We must affirm the right of children to grow up in a family with a mother and a father." It shows a bride and groom inside a church.
"Traditional marriage: God ordained it. Nature reveals it. Science affirms it," another part of the bulletin board says. "Marriage should be reinforced. Not redefined!"
The article goes on to describe how Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, the leading "Thomistic evolutionist" at Providence College, publicly chastised Smalankas for defending natural marriage.
Dominican Father Nicanor Austriaco, one of Smalanskas' professors who has a good reputation and is thought of as orthodox, "sat me down in the middle of the library in full view of everybody and lectured me for an hour," Smalanskas said.
That meeting, which Smalanskas thought would be private, "was on full display in the full library."
"He lectured me about how much hurt I had caused and how I harmed people," Smalanskas recalled. "I didn't even have an opportunity to fill him in on the facts because he wouldn't let me."
Austriaco expressed "no concern for the fact that I had been threatened or my safety was in jeopardy."
Another priest urged Smalanskas to march with the pro-LGBT student group against "homophobia" but then rescinded that advice.
"When things start to get big or the heat starts to turn up," the Dominicans at Providence College "just don't wanna end up on 'the wrong side of history,'" said Smalanskas. "When it was behind closed doors in the middle of the night, they practically begged me to stop" defending marriage.
In our article Clergy Abuse: Cause and Cure we make the case that widespread theological abuse-in the form of indoctrination of seminarians into evolution-based modernism-preceded and precipitated the modern epidemic of clergy abuse. Moreover, we show that the champions of mandatory sex education in Catholic schools, like Bishop James McHugh, and the seminary administrators who cited evolution-based Kinsey-inspired "empirical research" to trivialize the harmfulness of sexual perversion, like Fr. Anthony Kosnick, rationalized their revolutionary ideas with appeals to the scientific "fact" of evolution.
Thus, it is no surprise to find the leader of the "Thomistic evolutionists" publicly humiliating a courageous student for defending the traditional teaching of the Church on Holy Marriage, as if the "offense" offered to them were a greater evil than the offense offered to almighty God by sins against nature--or separation from God as a result of those sins. The theistic evolutionist who believes that the human body evolved through millions of years of mutation and natural selection from the bodies of sub-human primates easily believes Kinsey's myth that the first human beings were conceived in the wombs of sub-human primates and that what is "natural" for our primate cousins, like the bonobos and the chimpanzees, is also "natural" for us.
With this in mind, a simple thought experiment will suffice to vindicate the prophetic warning of Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical Arcanum divinae on Holy Marriage in 1880. In that encyclical Pope Leo told the Bishops of the whole world to defend Holy Marriage on this foundation:
We record what is to all known, and cannot be doubted by any, that God, on the sixth day of creation, having made man from the slime of the earth, and having breathed into his face the breath of life, gave him a companion, whom He miraculously took from the side of Adam when he was locked in sleep. God thus, in His most far-reaching foresight, decreed that this husband and wife should be the natural beginning of the human race, from whom it might be propagated and preserved by an unfailing fruitfulness throughout all futurity of time. And this union of man and woman, that it might answer more fittingly to the infinite wise counsels of God, even from the beginning manifested chiefly two most excellent properties--deeply sealed, as it were, and signed upon it--namely, unity and perpetuity.
Simply imagine that every Catholic Bishop, pastor, teacher and parent in the whole world taught this fundamental truth about the special creation of Adam and Eve and the origins of Holy Marriage to the children entrusted to their care--and then ask yourself whether it would be possible for most of the students and staff of most contemporary Catholic colleges to embrace every kind of sexual perversion and to defiantly and shamelessly silence the authentic Catholic teaching on Holy Marriage.
The answer is obvious.
Until the ax is laid to the root of the tree of evolution-based modernism, abominations like those aided and abetted by the leader of the Thomistic evolutionists at Providence College will continue to multiply. Until then, the principal "error of Russia" which Our Lady of Fatima warned us against--the error of molecules-to-man evolution--will continue to spread throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church, by destroying in men's minds the very foundations of the natural law and the knowledge of their true origin as sons and daughters of God.
Through the prayers of the Mother of God, may the Holy Spirit deliver us from every error and lead us into all the Truth!
Yours in Christ through the Immaculata,
Hugh Owen
P.S. We are investigating the possibility of initiating a canonical complaint against a Catholic school that teaches evolution and that denies special creation, the historical reality of Adam and Eve, and the doctrine of Original Sin as defined by the Council of Trent. If you or anyone you know has a student in a Catholic high school who is being taught these things and who would be willing to bring a complaint against the school authorities, please let me know. The purpose of the litigation would be to gain the opportunity to prove in the context of a canonical process that the authoritative teaching of the Church excludes theistic evolution and requires that students in Catholic schools be taught the fiat creation of all of the different kinds of creatures, the special creation of Adam and Eve, and the doctrine of Original Sin as defined by the Council of Trent.
P. P.S. Our annual regional leaders retreat will be held at Conception Seminary in Conception, Missouri, from June 10-16. The retreat equips attendees to be regional leaders who can advance the mission of the Kolbe Center in their local areas. The retreat is open to adults, to teenagers 16 years of age or older with their parents' permission, and to families with children. Activities will be organized for the children every morning except Sunday throughout the retreat. If you are interested in attending the retreat, please contact me at howen@shentel.net as soon as possible.
