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12/11/2025

Dr. “K” and Edson Rafferty are responsible for the BioPump (still sold by Medtronic even today) that makes this protocol possible!

Toxic shock syndrome nearly killed Charlotte Vinson. Now she's hoping to help Indiana advance at the NCAA tournament.

11/02/2025

All Souls Day

Great day today!! We celebrate Jesus the Christ’s victory over sin and death for ALL souls. Whoa! Let that sink in…

Holy Week and Easter show what actually happened in the fullness of time - the truth and reality of Jesus’ suffering, brutal death and glorious resurrection from the dead - body and soul.

“Jesus said to the crowds:
“Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and I will not reject anyone who comes to me, because I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.
And this is the will of the one who sent me,
that I should not lose anything of what he gave me, but that I should raise it on the last day.
For this is the will of my Father,
that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise him on the last day.””

Today, God reminds me that my body will physically die and my soul will be separated from my dead body. I will live eternally (despite this violent separation of soul from body). At some future moment, my eternal soul will actually be reunited with my resurrected body.

That this is true for everyone - not just me - means that eternity will be the shared existence for all the faithful members of my family and .

Each of us needs to make the decision to love and serve Him and accept the free gift of sanctifying grace He offers.

11/02/2025

St. Maximillian Kolbe was an inspiration for the Most Holy Trinity art project.

10/23/2025

Thanks to Dr. Harold D. Kletschka and Edson Rafferty, inventors of the Kletschka Rafferty Artificial Heart Blood Pump this story can be told…
In the winter of 1999, Swedish skier Anna Bågenholm slipped on a patch of ice and vanished beneath a frozen stream in northern Norway. For eighty long minutes, she fought for breath in the black water below, trapped beneath the surface as her body temperature plunged. When rescuers pulled her out, her skin was gray, her heart silent, and the thermometer read 13.7 °C — colder than life should allow.

At Tromsø University Hospital, a small team refused to surrender her to the ice. They placed her on a heart-lung bypass machine and began to rewarm her — millimeter by millimeter, cell by cell, hour by hour. Nearly four hours passed before a flicker appeared on the monitor: one beat, then another.

Against all reason, Anna’s heart came back.
Weeks later, so did her mind.
Months later, her laughter returned.

Today, she works as a radiologist in the same hospital that refused to give up on her, walking past the ward where she once lay still as snow. Her life remains a living testament to what science, teamwork, and stubborn human hope can thaw — even from the edge of death itself.

08/26/2024

Harold Kletschka would be 100 years old today, August 26. His beloved sister and the last surviving member of his immediate family, Barbara Kletschka is with Bob Conroy offering her mass for him and asking Harold’s intercession for the efficacious results and reception of The Holy Trinity Artwork and Symposium project. https://www.christendom.edu/2024/04/19/cardinal-burke-and-fellow-theologians-deepen-understanding-of-the-trinity-at-christendom-graduate-school-symposium/

Kletschka Publishing promotes the life, values and work of Harold D. Kletschka, M.D. his biography,

08/14/2024

St Maximilian Kolbe’s writings inspired an original work on an artistic representation of The Holy Trinity.

04/24/2024

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04/23/2024

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03/17/2024

Kletschka Publishing now also posts as The Kletschka Foundation.

02/27/2024

Front Royal Virginia art exhibit Theology of the Most Holy Trinity In Oil on Canvas.

02/13/2024

As Lent approaches...
There was a moment when Moses mustered up the courage to ask God what his name is. God was gracious enough to answer, and the name Moses received from God is recorded in the original Hebrew as YHWH.
Over time an “a” and an “e” have been added in there to get YaHWeH.
But some scholars and Rabi’s have noted that the letters YHWH represent the sound of breathing, or aspirated consonants. When pronounced without intervening vowels, it actually sounds like breathing.
YH (inhale): WH (exhale).
So a baby’s first cry, his first breath, speaks the name of God.
A deep sigh calls His name – or a groan or gasp that is too heavy for mere words.
Even an atheist unknowingly speaks His name, unaware that their very breath gives lifelong acknowledgment to God.
Likewise, when a person leaves this earth her last breath remains on this Earth, when God’s name no longer fills their lungs.
So when I can’t utter anything else, is my cry calling out His name?
Being alive means I speak His name constantly.
So, is it heard the loudest when I’m the quietest?
In sadness, we breathe heavy sighs.
In joy, our lungs feel almost like they will burst.
In fear we hold our breath and have to be told to breathe slowly to help us calm down.
When we’re about to do something hard, we take a deep breath to find our courage.
When I think about it, breathing is giving him praise. Even in the hardest moments!
This is so beautiful and fills me with emotion every time I grasp the thought. God chose to give himself a name that we can’t help but speak every moment we’re alive.
All of us, always, everywhere.
Waking, sleeping, breathing, with the name of God on our lips.

01/07/2024

Harold Kletschka, inventor of the completely implantable Artificial Heart (that he patented but was not able to bring to market prior to his own death) was a 'Wise Man' of his day. The Three Wise Men who followed the star and shared their search and progress with King Herod were the scientists of their day. They were not of the Jewish faith but were Gentiles. Yet the astronomical realities they observed each in his own perspective saw the phenomenon as an invitation to follow the science - an actual star - and be led to the most extraordinary event of their lives and in all of human history.

There are similarities between Harold's quest for the fully implantable artificial heart and the Three Wise Men's quest to find the one to whom the star pointed. Harold and his dutiful and loyal associate and the co-inventor of the BioPump, Edson Rafferty came across those desiring to subvert their mission. Harold had to eventually return to his Artificial Heart project via a different route because an evil one in power took his company from him. But Harold was not deterred.

The BioPump made safer open heart surgery possible and to this day is the key component in Medtronic's heart lung machine that has been used in nearly 70 million live altering surgeries around the world. To Change the Heart of Man is the book that chronicles the details of his sojourn.