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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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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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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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Community: yesterday and today

Posted on February 11, 2025 in: Articles

By Fr. Eugene Hemrick Yeshua Institute Fellow “And this is what we ask you to do, give courage to those who are apprehensive, care for the weak and be patient with everyone, make sure that people do not try to take revenge, you must all think of what is best for each other and for the comm...

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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
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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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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“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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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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