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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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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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By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. Director, Yeshua Institute Looks like I have given up bars and restaurants for Lent. Hmm. Pretty radical, huh? I think so. I have never tried this before. At the moment I am giving myself a big gold star for this bold -- some would say audacious -- expression of per...

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By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. Director, Yeshua Institute Our nominee for Leader of the Year – maybe Leader of the Decade – is Anthony Fauci, M.D. He is Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). a post he has...

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By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. Director, Yeshua Institute There are two exceptionally high stakes sectors in life: aviation and medical care. When people mess up in these sectors, other people often die. That’s why it’s good to learn as much from them whenever we can. Here’s one...

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By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. Director, Yeshua Institute Maybe you recently hired a new person to fill either a new slot or an old one. But now that they’re on the job they don’t seem to be performing up to the expectations you set for them when you decided they were right for the job. ...

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There’s no better time than Lent to begin taking better care of our common home – the Earth. Certainly there’s no more basic pro-life initiative than doing all that we can to make sure the planet is capable of sustaining human life. Or as Pope Francis puts it in his encyclica...

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By Owen Phelps, Ph.D. Director, Yeshua Institute Over the many seasons of my life I have entertained a wide range of attitudes regarding Lent. I can recall my earliest elementary school years when it was an incredible opportunity to draw praise from parents and teachers alike. Those were th...

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