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Valuing a worldview

Posted on March 07, 2025 in: Articles

By Fr. Eugene Hemrick Yeshua Institute Fellow “A person’s or group’s fundamental perspective on life, including their beliefs, values and assumptions,” defines the meaning of worldview. A philosophy of life is yet another way to envision it. Values, identities, r...

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Exploring the spirit of combativeness

Posted on February 11, 2025 in: Articles

By Fr. Eugene Hemrick Yeshua Institute Fellow “At times one wonders if a certain combativeness is not prevalent in Catholicism, a compunction to be always right and to prove an adversary wrong. A compulsion which easily leads to witch hunting in which, when turned the wrong way, hunts its ...

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Yeshua Institute helps build new source of hope and service in Uganda

Posted on February 05, 2025 in: Articles

The Beauvais Retreat Center -- named for a priest on the Yeshua Institute’s Board of Directors -- was commissioned and blessed Saturday, Jan. 25, near Kampala, Uganda. Msgr. Charles Kasibante, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Kampala, spoke, celebrated Mass and blessed the center. Constr...

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The elation of Christmas – unpack it by sharing

Posted on December 18, 2024 in: Articles

By Fr. Eugene Hemrick Yeshua Fellow Perhaps it was the gloomy weather, disturbing news or a touch of holiday blues causing me to feel glum. “Time to get out and moving," I told myself. I departed Washington DC and arrived in Lake Oswego, OR, for a Christmas visit with family....

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May you celebrate a marvelous Thanksgiving

Posted on November 26, 2024 in: Articles

By Fr. Eugene Hemrick Yeshua Fellow Traditionally Thanksgiving is an event in which we count our blessings and express our gratitude for all we have received from God. The blessings we list are concrete and visible to the eye: family, food, a roof over our head, friends. In Wal...

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A Catholic way to help Helene victims in North Carolina

Posted on October 09, 2024 in: Articles

By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. Director, Yeshua Institute Some years ago I got an email invitation I wasn’t expecting. It was from an old friend, but one I had seen only once in several years. We had crossed paths at his dad’s funeral Mass. Earlier he had lost his only sibling, a baby br...

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Resisting the curse of violence

Posted on September 26, 2024 in: Articles

By Fr. Eugene Hemrick Yeshua Institute Fellow American writer and biochemist Isaac Asimov observes: “Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in ‘justice’ or in affirmation of ‘rights’ or in defense of ‘peace’ do not end violence. They prep...

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Not the time to lose our heads

Posted on August 19, 2024 in: Articles

By Fr. Eugene Hemrick Yeshua Fellow In Italian we have the word ubriaco, in Spanish loco and in German Verruckt. Idiomatically they translate the craziness we are hearing about today’s dysfunctionality. It is difficult to remain psychologically balanced when brutal violence is erup...

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To be or not to be: yes, that is the question

Posted on July 20, 2024 in: Articles

By Fr. Eugene Hemrick Yeshua Institute Fellow A sigh of relief is ever so comforting whenever news of two opposing parties coming together in unity is experienced. In our divided age, governments, churches and society in general seem to have become matter of fact about the vital role of wor...

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Bashing truth – such a sadness

Posted on June 17, 2024 in: Articles

By Fr. Eugene Hemrick Yeshua Institute Fellow To experience the truth these days is becoming a mammoth task. The smallest things tend to hide it and idiotic people are forever exploiting it. We have entered an age in which it is difficult to know what or who is truthful. When truthfulness g...

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