“No one can be poor who has enough, nor rich who covets more.” Seneca By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. Director, Yeshua Institute Gratitude is good for us. A couple decades of extensive research has established that as scientific fact. People who are grateful are also healthier and happie...

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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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By Fr. Eugene Hemrick​ Yeshua Institute Fellow As I practiced for a triathlon at Lake Michigan on a beautiful sunny day, I thought this weather would be perfect for the next day’s event. Next morning as the gun sounded, I hit...

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By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. Director, Yeshua Institute I will praise you, Lord, with all my heart; I will declare all your wondrous deeds. I will delight and rejoice in you. Psalm 9:2-3b * * * If you are struggling with the notion of being grateful – really filled with gratitude – ...

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Presented by: Wendie Libert, Marywood Franciscan Spirituality Center & Owen Phelps, Yeshua Catholic International Leadership Center WENDIE: Greetings! It is such a pleasure to welcome you all today to this conversation about the upcoming synod. My name is Wendie Libert, and I am the ...

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Sept. 1 has a double significance for Catholics around the world: It’s World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation; and It’s the first day of a month-long observance of Season of Creation. Bishops eye ‘ecological conversion’ “Pope Francis invites us to ...

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Principals of Catholic schools in the Los Angeles Archdiocese, the largest Catholic school system in the U.S., are learning how to be Jesus-like Leaders – practicing S3 Leadership as servants, stewards and shepherds. Erick Rubalcava, Chief of Mission and Catholic Identity for the Archdioces...

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By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. Director I was sitting in a bar talking with a friend – as I am wont to do – when his cell phone rang. It was his wife. He took the call and put it on speaker. But he didn’t wait for her to speak. “Honey, I’m with Owen having a beer,&rdquo...

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By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. Director, Yeshua Institute It looks like Catholics are getting the message about the dangers of climate change. The Jesuit magazine America reported on a recent Pew Survey about climate change in its April 2023 edition (p. 14). The good news is that when asked to...

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By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. Director, Yeshua Institute When on April 22, 1970, I headed from my home at the time near Green Bay to address high school students in central Wisconsin about the importance of that first Earth Day – “E Day” in common parlance – I had no idea of th...

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