In an interview with RSI, a Swiss radio-television network broadcasting in Italian, Pope Francis marked his recent 10th anniversary as pontiff by emphasizing that the church is inclusive and he criticized those who make others feel unwelcome. Reporting for Catholic News Service, Carol Glatz  ...

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It may not be a pressing issue in the U.S., where about 6% of all Catholics in the world call home, but it is making huge and sometimes hot headlines in other parts of the world. We’re talking about the TV special broadcast and a book published in Poland that say Archbishop Karol Wojtyla, t...

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By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. Director, Yeshua Institute Some time ago I came across 10 wonderful suggestions for “little behaviors” that would be great to focus on during Lent. But they can also bring us great benefits all year long. I found them in a marvelous book called Armchair Mys...

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Welcome to the revived Catholic Leader. We are back – and we are better! Or at least we intend and hope to be. We’ve been anticipating this revival on Ash Wednesday for several weeks. For some time it has seemed an appropriate day to get back into life’s fray. One of the things ...

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The Yeshua Catholic International Leadership Institute has suspended its operations on Twitter and removed its Twitter feed from its website’s homepage. “We have taken this action because we don’t want to be hypocrites,” said Dr. Owen Phelps, CEO of the Yeshua Institute. &...

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By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. Director, Yeshua Institute In The Catholic Vision for Leading Like Jesus, we say that “leadership begins on the inside.” By that we mean it begins in our hearts, with what really matters to each of us. And in our heads, too, with how we decide to live out o...

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By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. Director, Yeshua Institute We’ve got a little suggestion for an Easter gift for yourself. We hope you will consider it. Our suggestion is that sometime during Holy Week next week you set 15 minutes aside for contemplative prayer. It doesn’t require much....

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By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. Director, Yeshua Institute We’ve got a little suggestion for an Easter gift for yourself. We hope you will consider it. Our suggestion is that sometime during Holy Week next week you set 15 minutes aside for contemplative prayer. It doesn’t require much....

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By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. Director, Yeshua Institute If we all don’t make Steward Leadership a huge priority going forward, I expect God will nevertheless forgive us. But our grandchildren may not. And who can blame them – especially in view of the Feb. 28 report from the Intergo...

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By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. Director, Yeshua Institute On the way home from a trip four days ago, my wife Jane and I discussed what we might do or do without during Lent. Neither of us claimed to have any good ideas. But sometimes “all of us are smarter than any of us,” and after a bi...

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