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Missionary Spirit: Pope Leo's inspiring life

Posted on May 13, 2025 in: Articles

By Fr. Eugene Hemrick Yeshua Fellow Viewing the missionary pictures of Pope Leo in Peru, my heart jumped bringing back memories of my desire to be a missionary. A movie of a missionary priest in action was my first inspiration to be a priest. In him there was somethin...

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Be grateful: Peaceful, orderly conclave not an ancient tradition

Posted on May 07, 2025 in: Articles

By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. Director, Yeshua Institute As the world’s Catholic cardinals gather in Rome today, May 7, to elect a new pope, the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics can be grateful the church has such an orderly and civilized process for picking its next leader. It wasn’t alw...

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Pope Francis remembered: The Gift of Divine Inspiration

Posted on April 23, 2025 in: Articles

By Fr. Gene Hemrick Yeshua Fellow Compassionate, sympathetic, warm hearted, and tender describe Pope Francis’s gift of humanness. Translated into action, it is the desire to treat all people equal, deserving justice and love. It is embracing the desire we were made for our-God-giv...

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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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