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08•20 INSIDE VOL 33 • NO 8 Lupine flowering plants in bloom 10 beneath the HEROIC Boulder Flatirons of LEADERSHIP DURING Chautauqua Park CRISIS (Boulder, CO) – the MAKES pristine region where STRONG DIFFERENCE Legatus’ Summit West will be held next by Gerald Korson month. Chautauqua Legate leaders guided by faith Park is part of an iconic safeguard businesses and their people historic landmark dating back to 1898. 16 20 24 5 PLAGUE SAINTS PRODIGAL ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/MATT DIRKSEN EXTEND UNDYING DAUGHTERS PROPRIETARY CONVEY WHAT NETWORKS BRING HELP DURING BROUGHT THEM THOSE OF SPECIAL PANDEMICS AND TO CHRIST INTERESTS PERSECUTIONS by Patti Armstrong TOGETHER by Brian Fraga by Judy Roberts Their uncompromised care for Two former atheists sick and abandoned a great among featured speakers at Private platform for model for today exclusive Legate exchanges 5August 2020 | September’s|Sulemgamtusi.torgWest now has over 29 groups

MORE COVER 08DIRECTOR’S DESK 39 PHOTO ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/ADISA Stephen M. Henley: Mission forward 39FEEDING THE FOODIE istockphoto.com/ Chef Neil Fusco: Fruit-topped Panna Cotta Arseniy45 09EDITOR’S DESK 48FIVE MINUTES Deacon Larry Oney: 2020 Summit West speaker PAGE Christine V. Owsik: Father’s tears for fatherland 50 MEET THE CHAPLAIN PHOTO Monsignor Robert Jaeger: Colorado Springs 26ETHICS MATTERS Chef Neil Fusco’s Italian Panna Cotta Tim Flanigan: Doctor’s thoughts on pandemic makes the perfect fruit-topped cream 28CULTURE OF LIFE dessert for late T. Von Dohlen: Young docs train in faith integrity summer gatherings. 30GUEST VOICE R. Marshall: Supreme Court courts progressives 32 FAITH MATTERS Fr. Pavone: Honor those in uniform with support 34ENGAGING THE FAITH A. Esolen: When one must resist in faith 37WHAT TO SEE “The Field Afar”: ‘Grunt Padre’ gave life for troops 38 HEALTH Dr. Stroud: Helping those grieving pregnancy loss BOARD OF GOVERNORS Thomas S. Monaghan Berni Neal Randall W. Hammond Diana Parent Executive Director Ann Arbor Orange Coast Denver Fort Wayne Stephen M. Henley Legatus Secretary Advent Capital Parke Group International Chaplain Founder, Chairman & CEO Bishop Sam Jacobs Troy L. King S. Craig Henry James P. Sarni Bishop Emeritus of Houma-Thibodaux Christopher S. McMahon Orlando Lafayette-Acadiana Pasadena Ecclesiastical Advisor Pittsburgh Dentistry for Children Bradford Food Group Payden & Rygel Archbishop José H. Gomez McMahon Financial, LLC Treasurer Archbishop of Los Angeles Vice Chairman Sam LaVergne Mark R. Scalise President, United States Conference Sean J. Bellew Houston Jupiter/Palm Beach of Catholic Bishops Philadelphia Hunter Buildings LLC Scalise Industries Corporation LEGATUS MISSION STATEMENT: Bellew LLP To study, live, and spread the Catholic faith in our business, Editor Christine Valentine-Owsik Comments, queries and address changes: Legatus magazine is published 12 times per professional, and personal lives. Design Shawna Kunz, Lime Design Legatus Magazine year by Legatus, a membership organization Sta Writer Judy Roberts PO Box 444 of Catholic presidents and CEOs. Sta Writer Brian Fraga Ann Arbor, MI 48106-0444 © 2020 Legatus Editorial Consultant Gerald Korson [email protected] All rights reserved Contributing Writer Patti Armstrong Phone: 866-534-2887 Copy Editor Nancy Carabio Belanger Advertising Sales Representative Peter Kelly To advertise, contact: [email protected]

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S STEPHEN M. HENLEY ST. DOMINIC DESK (1170-1221) Summit West 2020: Mission Forward FEAST DAY: AUGUST 8 CANONIZATION: JULY 13, 1234 PATRON OF ASTRONOMERS, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, MALTA, FALSELY ACCUSED PEOPLE with an inspiring liturgy celebrated by one of our St. Dominic introduced country’s top clergymen, followed by a themed devotion to the rosary and evening with five-star cuisine and fellowship founded one of the great with members from across North America. Catholic orders of the 13th century, e Order of Preachers, also known as the Dominicans. THE CATECHISM OF THE While this will be a true Summit experience, Born in Catholic Church states that members will certainly notice some necessary Castille, Spain, at its root, the word “Church” adjustments and changes made to prioritize as a schoolboy means a convocation or an the safety of all attendees. e Broadmoor sta Dominic sold assembly(CCC 751). While have all completed stringent employee training his books to this definition certainly does and implemented new health monitoring and feed the poor, not capture the fullness of the PPE protocols. ere will be increased spacing and once Holy Catholic Church, I think between couples or households at general o ered himself it’s reasonable to say that sessions, Masses, and meals. is means to ransom the physical gathering of the fewer people per table and greater spacing COMMUNION OF a slave. He People of God is an essential between rows while maintaining the distinctive SAINTS saw living component of the Church. And ambiance and feel proper to a Summit. Rest simply as key as physical gatherings have assured, this spacing will still allow for great to converting followers of the become so rare over the last fellowship between members while adhering Albigensian heresy – which several months, I believe our to social distancing best practices. All meals taught that all matter is evil, upcoming Summit is more will be individually plated and served to ensure including humanity, and that important and o ers more maximum food safety standards. e meeting Jesus was not human. value than ever. spaces will be thoroughly sanitized after each In many ways, the 2020 event and personal hand sanitizing stations While accompanying his bishop Summit West will be the have been added throughout the resort. And in on a mission, Dominic saw the same first-class experience the unlikely event that a guest would become ill, threat Albigensians posed to that members have come to in-house medical teams, including paramedics Catholicism. He realized the expect from Legatus. We will and physicians, are ready to respond. need for a new religious order to be gathering at the Broadmoor help rebuild the Church, since in Colorado Springs, one of As I’ve watched so many things in life go virtual people were not swayed by the most recognizable and preachers traveling in comfort, celebrated hotels in the world staying at the best inns, and with its distinctive blend of having servants. history, luxury, and genuine hospitality. Begin your this year, it has only increased my conviction Tradition says the Virgin Summit experience with a that there is no real substitute for in-person Mary appeared to Dominic in morning of exquisite golf and interaction. e conversations that are shared, southern France in 1208, while friendly competition on the the bonds that are formed, the lives that are he was praying, giving him Broadmoor’s award-winning changed – it all happens through the Church, the rosary to convert sinners. West Course, complete with the gathering of the People of God. Christ has During famous battles against breathtaking views and chosen us to be leaders in our communities the Albigensians, with rosary demanding hazards. Our and in the Church for this particular time. Let in hand he revived courage of line-up of speakers promises to us embrace our calling and face the unique the Catholic armies, led them to both encourage and challenge challenges of today head-on, full of faith and victory against overwhelming us with some of today’s most trust in the One who has called us. I look forward numbers, and finally subdued well-known Catholic names to being together with many of you in Colorado the heresy. Devotion to the like Jennifer Fulwiler, Dr. Springs next month! L rosary is thus attributed to Ralph Martin, Ana Samuel, Dominic’s teaching. and Deacon Larry Oney. And STEPHEN M. HENLEY of course, each day concludes is Legatus’ Worn out by his labors, Dominic died at 51 on Aug. 6, 1221 in executive director. Bologna, Italy. Pope Gregory IX canonized him in 1234. L 8August 2020 | — Brian Fraga | legatus.org

MARK YOUR EDITOR’S CHRISTINE VALENTINE-OWSIK CALENDARS DESK 2020 SUMMIT WEST A father’s tears for his fatherland SEPTEMBER 17-19, 2020 COLORADO SPRINGS, CO IN THESE TRYING DAYS, GOD newspaper reports on the war’s progress. He was seems to be putting us to already there. MEN’S ENCLAVE twin tests – of individual perseverance, and of allegiance But because of a knee injury su ered in infancy, OCTOBER 14-17, 2020 to our country. the Army rejected him. He took it like a fatal THE RANCH AT ROCK CREEK, Love of country isn’t just a cozy diagnosis. sentiment, it’s required under PHILIPSBURG, MT the Fourth Commandment. “I watched neighbors and friends leave weekly, As our country is our and I wanted to go. I was the only guy my age left WOMEN’S ENCLAVE fatherland, our love, respect in the neighborhood. When the July 1944 telegram and obligations are extended came saying Joe was injured at Utah Beach, OCTOBER 25-28, 2020 to our ‘extended family,’ our France and hospitalized in Paris, my mother had a CALISTOGA RANCH, NAPA VALLEY countrymen. In Catholic school, breakdown. Five months later we got another one we were taught (referencing saying he was wounded again in Germany.” 2021 SUMMIT EAST the Baltimore Catechism) that showing sincere support of With their mother – my grandmother – wracked JANUARY 14-16, 2021 one’s country meant voting with fear and worry, Dad said, “I did as much PALM BEACH, FL honestly, paying just taxes, and as I could to alleviate her stress at home.” Dad defending the country’s honor lightened things up with his incredible humor, EL CAMINO PILGRIMAGE when necessary. and helped with his younger siblings. He would In the early 1940s, my tear up when he recounted it, still lamenting not APRIL 12-20, 2021 grandfather – an immigrant being on the fighting lines. SPAIN from Italy – served on his Pennsylvania town’s draft Almost 60 years later, Dad came to live with us and MEXICO PILGRIMAGE board. He recruited his own I learned still more. He related war events clearer sons who were eligible to fight than any documentary – during movies, film- JUNE 11-14, 2021 in WWII, including my then- shorts, and family gatherings. He pored through MEXICO CITY, MEXICO teenage dad, Victor. Grandpop old photos, pointing out those who never made it was a devout Catholic and back and what he’d remembered about them. DECANTING THE FAITH & proud American patriot, which WINE OF BURGUNDY meant sending his sons to fight Each Memorial Day, our town has a parade against his native Italy, along spotlighting WWII veterans dressed in their AUGUST 31 – SEPTEMBER 7, 2021 with boys of many neighbors. military uniforms, waving to the crowds. As Dad FRANCE Seeing his elder brother, Joe, got more immobile, I’d need to get him there early, go o to Army boot camp in into his wheelchair, and over a few blocks for a 2021 SUMMIT WEST 1941, my dad was raring to good curbside spot. Because he wouldn’t miss it. go. He strolled through the SEPTEMBER 16-18, 2021 neighborhood in his leather As the WWII vets would approach, Dad’s eyes SANTA BARBARA, CA squadron jacket and bomber brimmed with tears as he, well-dressed for the cap, posing for a photo occasion, sat tall and saluted each parade-group MEDJUGORJE PILGRIMAGE whenever possible. He loved from his wheelchair, his lower lip quivering, his pre-matinee film clips of the memories still fresh. He always told us, “ is SEPTEMBER 28-OCTOBER 5, 2021 Glenn Miller Band entertaining great country is worth fighting for, and don’t you BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINIA troops overseas – Dad had even kids forget it.” L started his own big band. He OBERAMMERGAU absorbed each day’s radio and PILGRIMAGES AUGUST 22-30, 2022 BAVARIA & AUSTRIA FOR MORE INFORMATION: [email protected] OR CALL 866-534-2887 CHRISTINE VALENTINE OWSIK is Legatus magazine’s editor. 9August 2020 | | legatus.org

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leadership in a Guided by faith and experience, Legates pri ritize taking care time f f business and pe ple amid a crisislanguishing pandemic. By Gerald K rs n Crises are times f r her es, and during the C VID-19 pandemic it is ften requiring her ic leadership n the part f executives t keep their businesses afl at and their empl yees secure while c ntinuing t serve the public g d. Manny M ntanez, Dr. Rud lph “Rudy” M ise, and T ny Sarsam are three Legates wh have resp nded with judici us c urage. M ntanez and M ise drew in part fr m their military experience, while Sarsam c ntinued t revitalize a c mpany that was struggling financially even bef re the c r navirus struck. August 2020 | Here are their st ries. 11 | legatus.org

C MBAT READY timely adjustments to keep his projects progressing while safeguarding the Manny Montanez well-being of his told his story of employees. faith and combat in the July 2015 ere was initial ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/LAMONTAK590623issue of Legatusdisruption, as they ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/MOTORTIONMagazine, fromwere nearing the final his devout stages of a project upbringing to the in San Bernardino serious leg injuries and anticipating a he su ered in new project in Los the Vietnam War Manny Montanez Angeles. e San courtesy of a Bernardino project strike from a rocket-propelled continued with some tweaks grenade. to the timetable, while the Los how this pandemic is a ecting for all, but there is no time for Angeles job was delayed due everyone, and give peace of ‘woe be me’ attitudes.” “My faith has always been to directives from the mayor’s mind to all our sta and their Instead, Montanez emphasizes a major part of my life,” said o ce. “In the construction families that we will be all that “we are all there for each the Orange Coast Legate business, schedules are critical right, God willing,” Montanez other.” and former Legatus West and sometimes di cult to said. regional director. “Sometimes balance,” said Montanez, “but Employees experienced e guiding principles of his I’d wander, but I was always in this instance, everyone was the expected uncertainties company are faith, family, rooted in my faith.” a ected and understanding of — about their own health community, and career. e the need to reassess.” and that of their families, fact career comes last “doesn’t His war injuries left him with as well as job security. But imply we don’t work hard, but grim reminders in the form e key to working through with communication and it is to remind us what is most of constant pain and a limp the pandemic, he said, is to understanding, Montanez important,” he said. these past 51 years. But his communicate well and to believes everyone has risen to And faith is at the top of the list. ability to work and succeed ensure that “everyone involved, the occasion. “I make sure early on in despite di culties no doubt directly and indirectly, is well “You realize early on when any business and working empowered him to handle versed and on the same page you hire, work, and interact relationship, that I am unanticipated obstacles to as it relates to the project, with someone their level of grounded in my faith and a running a business — like in a personnel, and communities maturity and calmness during true believer. Every day is a pandemic. where we have exposure.” challenging times,” he said. “As gift,” Montanez said. “I call it a seasoned CEO, you always ‘Faith Under Fire’ — stay calm, As CEO and president of at’s where faith and war want to be prepared … [It’s] a and pray earnestly.” his Irvine, California-based experience kick in. challenging time personally, general contracting business, “As a combat-wounded veteran, emotionally, and professionally EG Montanez Construction, my first instinct is to stress Inc., Montanez made some “…there is n time f r ‘w e be me’ attitudes. 12August 2020 | | legatus.org

EASING PANDEMIC PAIN Dr. Rudy Moise, an osteopathic physician who specializes in general practice and pain management, is president of Comprehensive Health Center, a full-service primary care practice in North Miami, Florida. With a pre- pandemic ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/NATTANONKANCHAK load of 100 patients a day, decisive steps had to be taken for the safety of Dr. Rudy Moise both patients and sta . “To avoid our 45 employees, and establish safety rules Moise plenty of crisis training physicians and bioscientists and patients, from being including full-body protection. — including the investigation that advised the Haitian infected, we are starting to After Florida’s governor of the crash of a fighter jet, government on how best to use telemedicine, contacting issued a stay-at-home order, which required collecting the prepare for the pandemic our patients via video call,” daily patient flow dropped to pilot’s remains and breaking before it struck their nation. said Moise, a Miami Legate. the single digits, and some the news to his family. He also And in a generous outreach “For the walk-in patients, we employees feared they might received extensive training for to the local community, screen them outside, checking lose their jobs. “But I kept every dealing with mass casualties Moise used his professional their temperatures to see if single employee, though it with chemical or biological connections to donate they have any symptoms. If was very challenging for the warfare. “I utilized some of this 12,000 N-95 respirators to they do and they are stable, we company,” Moise said. “With a knowledge for my own o ce Miami’s Jackson Memorial send them home for 14 days. If lot of prayers, we survived, and as well as for giving advice to Hospital, 1,500 to Miami unstable, we refer them to the all employees were extremely community organizations,” he Dade Ambulance, and 2,000 local hospitals.” grateful.” said. to the Orange County Fire His experience as a U.S. Air As a Haitian American, he Department in Orlando. at protocol was preceded Force flight surgeon gave also was part of a panel of by in-house meetings to educate sta about COVID-19 “His experience as a U.S. Air F rce flight surge n gave [him] plenty f crisis training ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/RONSTIK 13August 2020 | | legatus.org

PE PLE FIRST restaurant business, When Tony Sarsam took which is one- over as CEO in March 2018, third of our Borden Dairy was staggering revenue.” in debt, largely due to the Sarsam favors lingering impact of aggressive a “people first” acquisitions made three management decades before. Already style, so it was sporting an impressive track natural that record as a C-suite executive in he’d take care the food industry, he set to work of his Borden rebuilding family first. “saw [ ur] w rk as a the Borden “Once we were matter f v cati n — brand and satisfied that business, we had a plan from to keep our renegotiating employees t keep America fed with lenders as safe as to giving a possible, we face-lift to were faced with adjusting our honestly with our team went keep America fed,” Sarsam the iconic business to meet the realities of a long way toward ensuring said. “We are proud of the fact “Elsie the this incremental profit loss,” he a quick transition to this ‘new that we never missed a beat Tony Sarsam Cow” logo. explained. normal.’” during this di cult time.” But with raw milk prices rising Furloughs were issued only It was a leap of faith. e e company still needed and thousands of dairy farms to those who lost all their pandemic was going to force saving, however. Sarsam sought going out of business, the work, such as school-route Borden Dairy to burn cash even a merger with Dean Foods, Dallas-based company filed delivery drivers — around 100 in the midst of bankruptcy. “We a rival that also was going for debt reorganization under workers. Others were invited simply had to have faith that through bankruptcy, but Dean Chapter 11 bankruptcy in to volunteer for time o , and a the other side of ‘new normal’ was bought by another interest. January 2020. “significant number” accepted would come in time to right the that option. ship,” said Sarsam. en Sarsam and Borden found en along came COVID-19 On the bright side, as a food a lifeline: a major contract and the lockdown. en came adjustments to producer, Borden Dairy is with the U.S. Department of “ e pandemic brought an manufacturing schedules to considered an essential Agriculture to provide 700 immediate and serious threat match reduced product demand. business and could remain million servings of milk over 30 to Borden,” said Sarsam, a “When we presented the idea open without interruption. But it weeks to nonprofits throughout Dallas Legate. “In addition of adjusting factory schedules was something more than that. much of the nation. to the concern for ensuring to our employees, they readily “ e Borden team, like most in “When the USDA program was the safety of our 3,300 team understood the need and flexed the food industry, saw its work announced, we saw this as a members, we instantly to accommodate,” Sarsam as a matter of vocation — to great opportunity,” he said. “Our lost most of our school and said. “I believe the work we did team went right to work on the to communicate openly and extensive application process.” Borden’s contract was the largest of any dairy, he added. Following the sale of Borden Dairy in a June bankruptcy auction, the company enters its next phase of recovery — but you can bet Sarsam will continue to let faith be his guide. “My faith provides critical foundational principles that inform the way I lead at work and have allowed me to ‘act on ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/FIZKES instinct’ during this two-fold crisis,” he said. “I believe it has made a big di erence.” L GERALD KORSON is a Legatus magazine editorial consultant. 14August 2020 | | legatus.org

a servant’s heart ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/IMAGINEGOLF B rden Dairy CE T ny Sarsam summarizes his guiding faith principles f r leading his c mpany: L ve y ur neighb r as y urself. H w w uld I want t be treated in this crisis? My c ncerns and fears are n t much different than th se I serve. Jesus is the ultimate m del f servant leadership. My r le as a leader is t perfect my service t the rganizati n — and t m del the “servant’s heart” I expect fr m thers. Speak truth. I try t c mmunicate directly, penly, and ackn wledge my mistakes and ign rance. It is ften a challenge t remain ever-charitable, but that ch ice has never let me d wn. Expressing p sitive expectati ns. Seek t d m re. We gave instructi n t ur team t n t nly pr vide flawless service t ur cust mers, but t l k f r m re pp rtunities t serve in the c mmunity. 15August 2020 | | legatus.org

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By early July, the coronavirus pandemic ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/KEITHLANCE claimed more than 507,000 people worldwide, with almost a quarter of the global fatalities occurring in the United States, where more than 125,000 people had died since February. Pandemics are nothing new; humanity has been ravaged by them throughout history. In Christian Europe, the clergy, religious, and laity often responded to pandemic outbreaks with heartfelt prayer and acts of penance. Five canonized saints are spotlighted here for their care of the sick and dying during plague times, at the risk of their own lives. Their responses, rooted in Jesus’ commands to care ‘for the least of these,’ show how they were willing to lay down their lives for their neighbors. by Brian Fraga 17August 2020 | | legatus.org

St. Charles Borromeo and assisting the poor, sick, elderly, and abandoned in Genoa. Milan cardinal perdured with his stricken, When her mother-in-law died in 1625, abandoned flock Virginia turned her home into a refuge for the poor, founding the Cento Signore In 1576, St. Charles Borromeo (1538-1584), a della Misericordia Protettrici dei Poveri di leading figure of the Counter-Reformation, Gesù Cristo ( e Hundred Ladies of Mercy, was serving as cardinal- archbishop of Protectors of the Poor of Jesus Christ). Milan when famine, and later a plague broke out. e house was overrun when plague and famine struck Genoa in 1629. To house the In stunning similarity to recent events, WIKIMEDIA sick, Virginia rented the vacant convent the city’s economy collapsed and health of Monte Calvario and had extra housing conditions deteriorated; the local governor constructed. By 1635, Virginia was caring and many nobility even fled Milan. But not for 300 patients. e local government Archbishop Borromeo, who stayed behind o cially recognized her institution as a to care for the a ected and minister to the hospital. dying. Virginia cared for the spiritual and temporal needs of the women in her “I have sought outside priests, and not in St. Charles Cares for the Plague Victims of Milan c. 1655 houses, teaching them religion and how vain, but we need still more,” Archbishop Painter: Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) – in St. James Church to earn a living. She had a church built Borromeo said in a sermon wherein he (Antwerp, Belgium) in honor of Our Lady of Refuge, where asked for assistance from the religious the women who worked with her formed superiors of monasteries and religious two congregations: the Sisters of Our congregations in his diocese. Lady of Refuge in Mount Calvary, and the Daughters of Our Lady on Mount Calvary. With civic o cials abandoning their posts, Borromeo issued critical guidelines ough the plague in Genoa eventually to control the plague’s outbreak and ended, Virginia’s hospital continued caring organized makeshift hospitals. He donated for the sick. Virginia devoted her later his clothes and tapestries, and spent his years to serving the poor, mediating peace own money, even going into debt, to feed as between noble families and working to many as 70,000 people daily. reconcile civic and ecclesial authorities. e saintly archbishop also organized e most well-known quote attributed to processions. ough he shuttered churches Virginia is: “When God is the only goal, to prevent the plague from spreading all disagreements are smoothed out, all in enclosed spaces, Borromeo ordered di culties overcome.” She was canonized outdoor altar spaces to be built outside in 2003. Her remains are still mostly each church or chapel for the faithful’s incorrupt. spiritual needs. St. Jose Brochero Having never contracted the plague, WIKIPEDIA St. Virginia Centurione Bracelli the archbishop credited his good health 20th-century Argentinian priest to fasting and prayer. In his sermon to befriended lepers, became one religious superiors, Archbishop Borromeo vowed to care for any of them if they A ectionately known during his lifetime as became ill. “the Gaucho priest” and the “cowboy priest,” St. Jose Gabriel del Rosario Brochero (1840- He was canonized in 1610. 1914) could often be found riding through Argentina on a donkey, with a poncho over SCte.nVtuirrigoinneiaBracelli his shoulders, a sombrero, and a cigar in his mouth. Widowed mother created hospital- Father Jose, who traveled long distances in refuges for sick, underprivileged, and Argentina to serve the spiritual needs of destitute his flock with his Mass kit, prayer book, and an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was A widow and mother of two young children WIKIPEDIA well-known for his motto: “Woe if the Devil by the time she was 20, St. Virginia is going to rob a soul from me.” Centurione Bracelli (1587-1651) spent most of her adult life doing charitable works St. José Gabriel Brochero riding his mule, c.1870–1880. 18August 2020 | | legatus.org

He was particularly devoted to the poor Christian response to the pagan deity and sick people of his huge parish. He Apollo, the archer-god who sometimes shot cared for the ill during a cholera epidemic his enemies with plague-infested arrows. in 1867. He befriended a parishioner with In 680 AD, Sebastian was credited with leprosy, an a iction that Father Jose would defending Rome from a pestilence. As a himself contract. patron of soldiers whose intercession was sought during plagues, Sebastian was e leprosy eventually caused Father Jose a popular saint during the Middle Ages, to lose his sight and hearing in later years, and a favorite subject for Late Gothic and and forced him to relinquish pastoral Renaissance artists. He is buried along the duties. He spent his last three frail years Appian Way in Rome. living with his sisters in Cordoba. Before taking his last breath on Jan. 26, St. Roch 1914, Father Jose’s last words were, “Now I have everything ready for the journey.” Divested riches and adopted poverty, to be Christ-presence to poor and sick A few days after his death, a Catholic newspaper in Cordoba wrote: “It is known WIKIMEDIA Saint Roch (1295 – 1327) was a ird Order that Father Brochero contracted the Franciscan who, having lost both parents sickness that took him to his tomb, because Saint Sebastian, by Guido Reni (1575-1642), c. 1615 (Strada when he was 20, inherited a sizeable he visited at length and embraced an Nuova Museums, Genoa, Italy) fortune. But he chose to divest of his worldly abandoned leper of the area.” He was possessions when he visited Italy as a canonized in 2016. mendicant pilgrim in the early 14th century. St. Sebastian During his Italian journey, a plague struck the northern Italian town of 3rd-Century Roman army captain’s Acquapendente. Roch did not hurry away intercession still sought during plagues to preserve his life as others did, but o ered himself in the service of his brethren in e common image many have of St. Christ. He tended to the sick in several Sebastian (AD 256 – 288) is of a young hospitals throughout Italy, curing many man tied to a post or tree, his body “full people with the sign of the cross and the of arrows as an urchin” for his fidelity to touch of his hand. Christ. In Rome, according to tradition, he healed According to tradition, Sebastian was born a cardinal by blessing the prelate’s in Gaul, went to Rome, and joined the army forehead; the sign of the cross miraculously of the emperor Marcus Aurelius Carinus. remained. An excellent soldier, he became an army captain and a member of the Praetorian Roch was ministering to plague victims Guard to protect the emperor Diocletian, in Piacenza when he himself finally fell who was persecuting Christians. ill. He was expelled from the Italian town and sought refuge in the woods, where he It is said that Sebastian, a Christian, joined recovered and is said to have performed the Roman army to protect Christians several miraculous healings. from the emperor’s persecutions. However, Diocletian ordered Sebastian to be Upon returning to his French homeland, executed after learning he was a Christian he was thrown into prison, where he who had converted Roman soldiers. spent five years. As he lay dying there, a tablet appeared upon the wall on which Tradition says Sebastian survived being an angelic hand wrote in golden letters shot with arrows and nursed back the name of Roch, and the prediction that to health, only to later be clubbed to all who invoke his intercession would be death upon returning to Diocletian and delivered from the plague. chastising him. Shortly after his death, miracles were In medieval Europe, Sebastian’s reported through his intercession. He is intercession was often sought during still invoked against plague. He was later outbreaks of the plague. e image of the WIKIPEDIA canonized by Pope Urban VIII. L martyr shot with arrows, and surviving, may have been seen as a symbolic Saint Roch, by Francesco Ribalta, c. 1625 (Museo de Bellas BRIAN FRAGA Artes - Valencia, Spain). is a Legatus magazine sta writer. 19August 2020 | | legatus.org

lleaaddieinsg Jen Fulwiler and Alana Newman are former atheists who will share their stories at this year’s 2020 Summit West. One will make you laugh and the other will give you pause. Jen, author of Your Blue Flame, will perform her standup comedy routine, and Alana will answer questions following a special preview of the documentary, Sexual Revolution: 50 Years since Humanae Vitae which she helped produce. by Patti Armstrong August 2020 | 20 | legatus.org

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Every life a nod divorced, and she never again saw the man she Bishop Robert Barron and Alana Newman at a from God had called ‘Dad.’ “He was my father when my Rome restaurant, October 14, 2018, following mom wanted him to be, but after the divorce I the canonization of Pope Saint Paul VI that day. Alana Newman is a single was told, ‘He’s not even your real father,’” Alana Alana was invited to speak on a panel about mother of three, a singer, explained. “I’m grateful that my mother loved me donor-conception before an audience of potential musician, and founder of e and gave me every gift she could, but as a teen I customers. “When I shared some of the problems, Anonymous Us Project, a forum became a statistic of fatherlessness.” they ripped the microphone out of my hand and with personal testimonies Alana went down self-destructive paths, feeling would not allow me to speak anymore,” she said. about failures inherent a deep lack of identity. “My biological father “I had been taught this is good, this is why you in assisted reproductive sold me for $75,” she said. “You can paint it as exist, but in the end, I realized it created far more technology, which includes altruistic and giving the gift of life, but the gist of problems than it solved.” sperm and egg donors, in vitro the transaction is the money. A biological parent e new “Sexual Revolution” documentary fertilization, and surrogacy. receives money and gives up all rights to the which she helped produce explains how child. I felt unlovable and like no man would contraception increases the infertility e documentary, directed and ever love me.” problem, destroys romance and trust, and produced by Daniel DiSilva, While living in San Francisco as an atheist, causes spiritual harm. It also reports on the reveals the e ects of the sexual she supported contraception, abortion, and exciting science of NaProTechnology (Natural revolution and contrasts it third-party conception. Learning about Natural Procreative Technology) that enhances women’s with the truth and beauty of Family Planning, it led to her conversion. “When reproductive health. Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical, I discovered the evil surrounding contraception “ e film brings back romance and highlights Humanae Vitae. It examines and that the Catholic Church is the only one that the work of the saints that gave us the gift of the developments of the Pill got this issue right, I wanted to know what else NFP” Alana said. “It restores the beauty of what and modern Natural Family they were right about,” she said. ( e Catholic marriage and human sexuality should be like.” Planning (NFP). One path leads Church opposes interference with the marital According to her, the movie is ideal for parishes, to union with God and spouses act and turning children into commodities. See schools, and especially engagement retreats. during procreation. e other Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2373-2379.) It is available to stream on VIMEO and on DVD had begun initially by testing Alana left for Brooklyn, NY to record and through https://www.sexualrevolutionmovie.com. contraception on women in perform music and became connected with film insane asylums, and ends now maker Michael Galinsky of Rumur Productions in places like petri dishes and who was making documentaries. She also rented wombs. began writing for the Institute for American Alana was donor-conceived Values, which is a think tank focused on family and her biological father was a policy and marriage. ey helped her found sperm donor she will probably AnonymousUs.org for people to write openly never meet. When she was and privately about their experiences. “ e eight years old, her parents fertility industry does not want to hear about the problems,” Alana said. “ eir livelihood depends on the acceptance of third-party reproduction.” “When I discovered … that the Catholic Church is the only one that got this issue right, I wanted to know what else they were right about Alana Newman with her dog, Buddy, a rescued Rhodesian Ridgeback. 22 | legatus.org August 2020 |

The lighter side “It [your blue flame] is something you do and “I knew I was ready to go on tour when I started were destined to do, that fills you with energy making audiences laugh,” she said. Jen often was Jen Fulwiler is a mom of six and adds love to the world,” she explained. Jen the only female performer and the only one with children (born within eight identified her blue flame as communicating, clean humor. “Keeping it clean requires growing years), an author, and a stand- which she has done through writing, speaking, as a comic,” she explained. up comic. She hosted a daily and now comedy. talk show on SiriusXM for After being told that there was not an audience five years and was recently She and her husband Joe, a lawyer/CPA/MBA, for a standup, minivan-driving mom from the interviewed on NBC’s Today were both only-children and atheists. “We read suburbs, Jen arranged her own tour, dubbed show about her latest book and researched our way into Catholicism,” the Naughty Corner Tour. Using a credit card, Your Blue Flame: Drop the Guilt she explained. “After our first child was born, she rented theaters on Mondays, Tuesdays, and and Do What Makes You Come atheism did not seem accurate anymore.” Her Wednesdays to get the lowest prices despite Alive. Jen used her own (often first book, Something Other an God, tells her those being di cult nights to attract audiences. hilarious) transformation conversion story. from harried to happy to share e theaters, which held between 400 and 1,000, serious principles. As a comic, Jen addresses a secular audience. filled up. Most were sell-out crowds, including “My background is so well established, I don’t two shows in Manhattan. “In Chicago, people Jen Fulwiler, author, radio show host, feel a need to publicly label myself as a Catholic in the industry were floored that I sold out on and stand-up comic, is a former atheist. or to work God into routines,” she said. “My life is a Wednesday, and in Columbus 600 people a witness to Catholicism.” showed up on a Monday.” Doing comedy actually seemed to be God’s idea, Jen handled most of the details including according to Jen. “I had been thinking about advertising and sales. In September of last year, comedy and did not see our perspective [Catholic in the middle of the tour, just before going on mom with children] represented,” she said. “I stage, Jen learned that her dad had suddenly prayed about it and felt God calling me to this.” died. “It was hard,” she said. “He was at my house She began practicing at a comedy club in Austin, every day. I had to do my own sound and light Texas where she lives. Although she bombed a check that night and then do an hour of standup lot at first, Jen would analyze her performances, comedy.” then try again. e tour was a family a air. “We’d let two of the “After our first kids come to each show and Joe often came,” child was born, she said. e whole family joined Jen on stage in atheism did not seem Chicago, which was filmed for a future special. accurate anymore eir children, ages 7 to 15, are homeschooled, with Joe handling most of it. e tour ended right before COVID shut things down. You can follow Jen on Facebook and on Instagram at @JenniferFulwiler. L PATTI ARMSTRONG is a Legatus magazine contributing writer. With her comedy tour beginning as a family a air, Jen Fulwiler’s whole family, here, is seen typically joining her on stage. August 2020 | 23 | legatus.org

Networks – linking like-minded Legates by judy roberts When Legatus launched its digital Networks platform last September, no one could have ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/FRANCKREPORTER ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/FANIKURTI envisioned how timely it would be. As executives and ‘‘… chance for Legates to Summit, there was little educators nationwide broaden and expand their opportunity to connect adapted to doing business circle of friends based with fellow Legates outside and teaching virtually on common interests their own chapter setting. during the coronavirus shutdown, Legates already Now, through Networks, were well-positioned to in addition to accessing connect with each other programs, announcements, online in their local archived speaker chapters and nationally. recordings and special “It’s always been events, Legates can join one something we’ve aspired or more of 29 groups based to because in this day of on such interests as wine, social media, we wanted business deals, parenting, to create a platform and books. for private, exclusive exchanges among “ at is where we really see members that would not the connections coming only cross chapter but together,” Sacha said. regional lines,” said Laura Sacha, Legatus director of Like a fine wine development. Previously, Sacha said, Jason Elk, who runs the if members attended a Networks wine group, Legatus Summit they said the 30-plus members would meet people from meet on Zoom every other chapters. But if Friday at 4 p.m. Central they didn’t attend the Time for 45 minutes to taste and discuss wine. “ e wine is a common August 2020 | 24 | legatus.org

ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/SCYTHER5 When he was approached by John Knowles, Legatus passion,” he said, “but it’s really received.” Elk said some members have told him the meeting was Northeast regional director, special to get on there with the highlight of their week. “All we did was drink a glass of wine about Networks groups and other Legatus members.” So together, but maybe in this dark time, it’s been a nice little highlight specifically starting one for far, members have chosen to be able to be together while doing something very relaxed.” business deals, Raymond said a wine and described the he saw it as a great opportunity selection for others in the Navigating time of tricky business for Legates to engage with group, ordered wine from a members in other chapters. “To club and shared their reactions Steve Raymond, who runs another popular Networks group – one me, that’s one of the untapped to it and tasted wine from focused on business deals – said it also has done well amid the powers of Legatus. We have Legate Judy Barrett’s Chateau coronavirus restrictions. e group meets on Zoom twice a month chapters all over the country, Montelana and Trinitas Cellars, and has about 25 members from California, Florida, the Midwest, but with the exception of the founded by Legate Tim Busch. and Northeast. Members recently were able to o er advice to another Summit, there aren’t a lot of Occasionally, a winemaker has member who had to completely shut down his business because opportunities for members to joined the group to o er his or of the coronavirus restrictions. “A couple of people on the call had get to know each other across her knowledge and expertise. experience in distressed-business consulting and Chapter 11 chapters. Legatus Networks is a When the wine group formed bankruptcy and turnaround work and they were a valuable resource great way to do that.” before the coronavirus for him.” Similarly, he said, other members of the group were able to shutdown, members had been get advice about Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans. More robust Legatus planning a dinner in Chicago experience in May that had to be canceled. Raymond said the business deals group meeting typically lasts an As the country starts to reopen, hour and starts and ends with a prayer. Because the group is still new, Elk believes Networks groups Elk hopes the members can he has been asking several members to talk about who they are and will make the experience meet in person, perhaps during what their businesses do so that everyone can get to know each other. of Legatus more robust for a cocktail party or dinner at the members as they recognize the next Legatus Summit or at a benefits. He sees the groups regional dinner. as a chance for Legates to broaden and expand their circle of friends based on common interests in contrast to the Legatus Forum groups, in which members go deeper with a smaller number of people. Sacha urged Legates to explore the Networks site to find out more about the groups and to access resources like Summit speaker presentations, chapter events listings, and a map showing where members are located. L JUDY ROBERTS is a Legatus magazine sta writer. In some ways, he said, the ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/TONKTITI shutdown was beneficial for the group’s initial growth. “People were more open to taking time to connect because they were stuck at home and more used to the technology as a way to connect across the country. I kind of knew that when it kicked o , but I’ve been surprised by how well it’s been August 2020 | 25 | legatus.org

ETHICS DR. TIMOTHY FLANIGAN MATTERS Doctor o ers thoughts from the bedside amid the pandemic AS AN INFECTIOUS DISEASE patients did very well with doctor who specializes in very high flow supplemental HIV, I never imagined that my oxygen and thereby often could entire medical world would avoid intubation. Randomized be turned upside down. Due trials now indicate that the to the coincidence of being on use of the antiviral medication call the last week of February, Remdesivir and the use of anti- I took care of the first patient inflammatory steroids can be in our state with pneumonia beneficial. caused by SARS-CoV-2. During the next eight weeks, e most painful aspect of standard medical care came this epidemic has been that to a halt as our entire group patients and those that are focused on caring for patients most vulnerable are forced to admitted to the hospital with be alone. Families cannot sit COVID-19 pneumonia. (Note: with their loved ones in the e novel coronavirus is named hospital; chaplains often have SARS-CoV-2, while COVID-19 very limited access; our elderly refers to the disease the novel in our nursing homes are often coronavirus causes.) deprived of family visits. As Christians, we are ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/SUZE777 For our patients, first and foremost the key to good “The most painful aspect a people of hope medical care of this epidemic has been because Jesus is the depended on the light that overcame extraordinary that patients and those the darkness, Who dedication of that are most vulnerable conquered death our nurses. ey and never leaves su ered the are forced to be alone us alone. But it is another as we venture into the unknown. Finger- pointing, “blame-gaming,” and politicization of same shortage easy for us to forget. this epidemic is understandable, but often it is of personal By calling on the more destructive than constructive. protective name of Jesus and equipment by praying with our Poorer communities where many families often (PPE) as the patients, we can live closely together (without back yards) are doctors, but they went in to rekindle that hope. ere is no being hit much harder. Many of our churches provide care at the bedside day contradiction inherent in being and inner-city Catholic schools that were in and day out. e care they both a doctor and a deacon. struggling in the best of times will not be able to provided was heroic. I’ve told Both allow us to participate in stay open without our help. Instead of retreating many of my colleagues that I the healing power of grace. into our “safe bubble,” we need to reach out and thought heaven would be full o er assistance. Kindness and mutual support in of nurses, and they “might” let Anxiety and outright fear is a the midst of this challenge is what we need. L the occasional doctor in as well. commonality in the midst of any new epidemic, whether it’s DEACON TIMOTHY FLANIGAN, M.D., We’ve learned a tremendous HIV in the 1980s, Ebola in West Boston Chapter Legate, is professor of medicine and amount in the last few months. Africa, or this global pandemic. We did make mistakes Caution and prudence is infectious diseases at the Alpert Medical School early on. Initial guidelines always warranted. But above of Brown University in Providence, RI. He also is a recommended early intubation and beyond that, anxiety and permanent deacon in the parishes of St. Theresa with the use of a ventilator fear should be acknowledged, and St. Christopher in Tiverton, RI. until clinicians observed that and we need to support one August 2020 | 26 | legatus.org

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CULTURE OF TIM VON DOHLEN LIFE Where young doctors can train in good conscience POPE ST. JOHN PAUL II’S told by her instructor that she would guidance from the Holy Spirit be going to a Planned Parenthood allowed him to accomplish clinic where they perform abortions. miraculous feats. His dynamic She was fearful because she knew she leadership for life inspired would never participate in any aspect the formation of the amazing of abortion, yet she wanted to respect St. John Paul II Life Center in her instructor. She thought maybe she Austin, Texas. could do some good by going, but it ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/NASTASIC became clear that her participation in During the coronavirus their biased counseling and their pre- pandemic, the center’s abortion ultrasounds would leave no physicians, nurses, opportunity for change. Rather, she sonographers, and sta have would be informally cooperating with been among the “heroes in abortions. Even though she would uniform” across America not verbally assent, her actions would sacrificing to help expectant speak otherwise. mothers receive necessary program requires training and hands-on medical care. Her heart started to race as questions began experience on performing abortions. A student flying through her mind. How could she live with can opt out, but there are often minimal e orts Pope John Paul II said that herself and her conscience if she did participate? to advise the residents of their rights. “freedom consists not in What would happen to her for refusing? doing what we like, Could she be To help young doctors like Ashley, the St. John but in having the “[she] boldly told the removed from Paul II Life Center, in cooperation with the right to do what we instructor that she knew the residency Dell Medical School at the University of Texas ought.” At any stage program? at Austin and Ascension Seton Hospital, has of gestation, an What would be developed an alternative multiyear curriculum unborn child has his she could opt out of the her rights as of instruction on women’s natural reproductive or her own DNA and abortion training and an American science. ese residents are taught at the center unique fingerprints; citizen and the by the center’s physicians who are adjunct therefore, saving the … must be provided an Constitutional professors. is alternative program commenced baby’s life correctly alternative curriculum protection of in July 2020, and one of the five incoming exercises one’s freedom of residents is participating. freedom. religion and freedom of e St. John Paul II Life Center plans to o er this Meet Dr. Ashley Stone, conscience? alternative curriculum for the family-planning a wonderful young woman, rotation to residency programs across America. If intelligent, hard-working, and ankfully, Ashley knew her rights. e there is ever to be a way for future generations of dedicated to the future she has instructor was insistent that she participate. physicians to bring back respect and dignity for chosen — to be a physician, an Ashley pushed back despite worries about future human life in the womb, this is it! e center will obstetrician. She loves children attempts at intimidation. Ashley boldly told the proceed by the words of St. John Paul II, “Be not and wants to help bring babies instructor that she knew she could opt out of afraid!” Please pray for the program’s success. L into the world. She graduated the abortion training and that she also must be from medical school and was provided an alternative curriculum. e medical TIM VON DOHLEN is a past president of accepted at a matched top- school and hospital told Ashley that these are not Legatus’ Austin Chapter as well as an attorney, choice location for her four-year their requirements but those of the Accreditation pharmacist, businessman, and former legislator. ob-gyn residency. Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) — a nationwide, non-governmental He and his wife, Pat, are co-founders of the Ashley started her second year organization (NGO) that sets the standards for St. John Paul II Life Center in Austin, Texas, where and was in the family-planning residency programs and administers licensing rotation. One morning, she was certification programs for physicians. eir they reside. Their new book, In Life the Journey Is Everything, is available at www.jpiilifecenter.org or on Amazon. August 2020 | 28 | legatus.org

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GUEST ROBERT MARSHALL VOICE Supreme Court decision plays into sexual progressives’ hands THE U.S. SUPREME Court Of course, “discrimination” or “di ering ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/MONKEYBUSINESSIMAGES recently ruled in Bostock treatment” is widespread. A school board would v. Clayton County that the not hire a legally blind person or alcoholic to 1964 Civil Rights Act, which drive a school bus. Such di erent treatment prohibited job discrimination occurs regularly in hiring practices. because of sex, also meant to outlaw discrimination based Bostock has been hailed by LGBTQ zealots, who on sexual orientation and obviously want same-sex “married” teachers in gender identity. every Catholic school and closure of those that don’t comply. Incredibly, the majority claimed their decision was No definition of homosexuality was provided based on “the ordinary public in the decision. Is it mere impulse to same-sex meaning of its terms at the behavior, the actual behavior, or both? Nor constitution can arm the “representatives of the time of its enactment” and does “sodomy” appear in the majority decision, people, for obtaining a redress of every grievance.” stated that “we proceed on the although Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence assumption that ‘sex’ signified omas mention sodomy in their dissent. Roberts pointed out that Congress can condition [only] biological distinctions or abolish the appellate jurisdiction of federal between male and female.” is plays to LGBTQ strategy for public courts to hear certain cases, noting that for 125 acceptance of their agenda. In their 1989 book years the Court could not review certain state Yet, sexual progressives had After the Ball: How America Will Conquer its Fear court actions. previously failed to and Hatred pass amendments “Bostock has been hailed of Gays in the An amendment to the Judiciary Appropriations to the 1964 Civil by LGBTQ zealots, who 90s, authors Act would prevent federal courts from hearing Rights Act for Marshall Kirk cases dealing with LGBT assaults on religious sexual orientation and Hunter institutions under the guise of anti-discrimination. “protections” 16 times obviously want same- Madsen wrote and gender identity sex ‘married’ teachers in that “the public An even broader “discrimination ploy” “protections” seven should not be comes from HR 5, the Equality Act, which times, even during the every Catholic school shocked and would threaten the existence of Christian schools, hospitals, adoption agencies, youth many years Democrats repelled by organizations, and churches themselves with controlled Congress premature bankruptcy, end their tax-exempt status, and and the presidency. exposure decertify schools unless these religious entities to homosexual behavior itself.” ey instead rejected traditional moral teachings about e Court’s assertion that the wanted “the issue of gay rights reduced” to “an homosexual acts. 1964 law originally applied to abstract social question” in order “to emphasize sexual orientation and gender the civil rights/discrimination side of things.” identity does not make sense HR 5 passed the U.S. House in 2019. All 228 in light of the fact that some (To understand the behavior the Court wants Democrats present and eight Republicans voted in Congress tried but failed to protect but fails to acknowledge, search yes. In the Senate, Democrats overwhelmingly for 56 years to pass these the internet for “Cara Rice, Journal of Sexual support HR 5. If Democrats win control of the “protections” into law. Medicine, 2016” for a candid article.) Senate, the Equality Act will pass. e Court further said that the One way to address the consequences of Bostock Every Christian should vote against candidates L term “discriminate” means was suggested by founding father James who support HR 5! what it did in 1964, citing Madison, as well as by John Roberts before he Webster’s Dictionary: “To make became chief justice. ROBERT MARSHALL served in the a di erence in treatment or Madison noted that control of the purse is Virginia General Assembly for 26 years. He is the favor (of one as compared with “the most … e ectual weapon” by which any author of Reclaiming the Republic: How Christians others).” and Other Conservatives Can Win Back America. August 2020 | 30 | legatus.org

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FAITH FR. FRANK PAVONE MATTERS To honor those in uniform, vote for principles they defend “GOD IS OUR REFUGE AND OUR braved physical danger and insults to keep us Holding that Bible summed up all he has done, strength, an ever-present help safe. through his executive authority, to protect our in distress. us we do not fear, freedom to believe, teach, preach, and live our though earth be shaken and As we were living through all this, American faith. mountains quake to the depths astronauts went into space from American soil, of the sea” (Ps. 46:2). using American equipment, for the first time He likewise made a previously scheduled visit to in years, to continue to exert the unquenchable the Shrine of Pope John Paul II in Washington, e year 2020 has brought human spirit of discovery and conquest. honoring that great advocate of life and religious many opportunities to say this liberty, and signing an executive order further prayer, whether because of the And our president continued to strengthen protecting that fundamental right. chaos caused by a pandemic or and expand our military, keeping its focus the deliberate actions of those not on endless wars in other countries but on e Founders of our great nation understood that who want to destabilize our protecting our own. He called on governors and unless we and our elected leaders acknowledged way of life through riots they mayors to do their utmost to protect people from God’s law above all, our e orts to craft human tried to justify by hijacking a a novel virus and laws that are just man’s tragic death. from violent mobs. would fail. ey knew God is our help, and he He also defended “ …The Founders … understood that that unless the people sends help in leaders who our constitutional unless we and our elected leaders were guided by acknowledge His Word, and in liberties in the face of religion and morality, servants who give themselves various Democratic acknowledged God’s law above their attempt to to protect His people. govern themselves While most of us took governors who went all, our e orts to craft human laws would also fail. unprecedented steps to keep too far in suspending our distance from others, first the exercise of that are just would fail. responders and health care professionals put themselves basic freedoms — We have reached a on the front lines, going directly including freedom of moment of historic to those who needed their help. religion — during the significance. It’s time In the midst of riots, police pandemic. to honor all those in uniform – many uniforms – that embody the is kind of leadership manifests a balance kind of self-sacrificing service at the heart of the central to Catholic social teaching: the need Gospel and the pro-life message. for law and order, one that does not dominate but rather stimulates human freedom and And it’s time to exercise our citizenship in an advancement, faith, and family. unprecedented way, as informed and active voters in this year’s elections, influencing as Two gestures of President many other voters as we can. e Lord calls us Trump in the midst of this to recognize that politics can indeed serve the should have the attention and vision the Gospel lays out for us: a people taking gratitude of every believer. refuge in God while sacrificing themselves to protect the vulnerable; a people using all the Undeterred by the threats of tools a strong nation provides to protect all the violent mobs, he walked to St. rights and liberties our human dignity already John’s Episcopal Church, across possesses. L the street from the White House, FATHER FRANK PAVONE is national ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/YOBRO10 and held up the Word of God for all to see. e historic church director of Priests for Life and worldwide pastoral was boarded up after rioters set director of Rachel’s Vineyard and Silent No More. fires there the day before, in an act that made even many on the Left incredulous. August 2020 | 32 | legatus.org

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ENGAGING THE DR. ANTHONY ESOLEN FAITH When one must resist, firm in the Faith IT IS JULY 25, 1934. THE SCENE Europe against the ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/OKEYPHOTOS Martyrdom is CATECHISM is the chancellery of Austria. madness of Nazism the supreme A man whom historians have and the inhumanity of witness 101 not done justice lay on the floor, collectivism. When he bleeding to death, while his Nazi became chancellor in given to executioners looked on in cold 1932, Austria bristled the truth of the faith: it means delight. He asked for a doctor. with socialist and bearing witness even unto nationalist parties, death. e martyr … bears ey refused. He asked for a armed with militias witness to the truth of the faith priest, for the Last Rites. ey and eager for violent and of Christian doctrine. He refused. Two of the captured revolution to get their endures death through an act guards came to him and tried way. Dollfuss saw that of fortitude. to stanch his bleeding with a the ordinary machinery of democracy would bandage. He thanked them, and prove worse than useless: the Nazis wanted Catechism of the said, “I never wanted anything disarray in Austria. So in 1933 he dissolved Catholic Church, #2473 other than peace. We were never parliament and established the Patriotic Front, the aggressors. We were always to unite all who sought first the independence of forced to defend ourselves. May their nation and resistance against the Nazis. God forgive them.” e man was the Catholic He and Austria would be almost alone: the SCRIPTURE Stand chancellor of Austria, Engelbert League of Nations tried to mollify the Nazis, 101 therefore, Dollfuss. His words are recorded and radicals of all stripes cried out against his having in the memoirs of the great policies. Dollfuss knew that Mussolini in Italy girded your Dietrich von Hildebrand, a part favored an independent Austria and (at that time) loins with of which has now been published considered Hitler a disgrace. Dollfuss enlisted truth, and having put on the as My Battle Against Hitler. il Duce’s support, though he knew that fascism breastplate of righteousness, But Dollfuss is characterized was another form of the evil of the collective. as “controversial” and Historians will not forgive him for that, either. “authoritarian” – a martyr at the hands of the Nazis! Yet von Hildebrand says that Dollfuss stood like and having shod your feet with […] Some Catholics sought to David against Goliath. … [Dollfuss] saw that the equipment of the gospel influence Nazism from within, politics had to address fundamental questions of peace; above all taking the believing that its nationalism about the human person, his orientation towards shield of faith, with which you could be respected in part; but community, and his destiny before God. can quench all the flaming von Hildebrand saw through darts of the evil one. it. Nor had he any patience with puerile contempt for the … Dollfuss was hated because he was noble and Ephesians 6:14-16 Chosen People, the Jews. Where kind. […] His life of prayer and submission to the were the Western statesmen Church earned him no favor, just as a similar life and intellectuals during the 12 now earns you little more than loathing from years it took for Hitler to come secular reporters, politicians, and educators – to power? … and many of those now, as their counterparts Engelbert Dollfuss was not an then, will have subordinated their Catholic faith ambitious man. He jested that to the spirit of the age. L his growing deafness was a gift of God, because then he could Excerpt taken from How the Church Has Changed the World – Volume II, retire sooner. He was a devout by Anthony Esolen (Magnificat, 2020), pp. 141-144. www.magnificat.com Catholic who wanted to see Catholic Austria standing free, DR. ANTHONY ESOLEN is a professor independent, the voice of old and writer-in-residence at Magdalen College of Liberal Arts in Warner, NH. He is author and translator of more than 20 books, publishing on a broad range of topics from literature, to theology, to education and culture, ancient to modern. August 2020 | 34 | legatus.org

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WHAT TO READ Brick by Brick: Building a tells their stories of how they contribute chapters to this Budapest Strong Family that Won’t Lose got that way, what worked work and collaborated on the and primate Their Faith in a Secular Culture for them — and what others introduction and conclusion of Hungary, The Regnier Family can do to help their growing to the book. Together they but after Sophia Institute Press, 192 pages families turn out equally well. provide a succinct catechesis reading this on the Catholic priesthood far-reaching We hear so From the Depths of Our and a masterful defense of the interview much of how Hearts: Priesthood, Celibacy, discipline of priestly celibacy. readers will the family and the Crisis of the Catholic Amid the sexual abuse crisis become home is a Church and the push in some quarters thoroughly familiar with his “domestic Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and for optional celibacy, this book early life, his experiences church.” Brick Cardinal Robert Sarah serves as an urgent reminder as a priest and bishop, the by Brick o ers Ignatius Press, 148 pages of the true character and Church in Hungary during a solid set of necessity of the priesthood of and after Communist rule, blueprints Here’s the Christ. and his perspective on the for making that happen. book that Catholic faith and its place André and Angelè Regnier stirred up no Guarding the Flame: the in today’s world. Not every raised five children into small amount Challenges Facing the Church topic will strike each reader adulthood who not only of controversy in the Twenty-First Century, as something of great interest, kept the Catholic faith, but in January a Conversation with Cardinal but there is much good to also became missionaries of when, just Péter Erdo be gleaned here from both Catholic Christian Outreach, prior to the Robert Moynihan historical and theological an apostolate the Regniers book’s release, and Viktoria Somogyi perspectives. Faithful founded. We hear of so many the pope emeritus asked TAN Books, 301 pages Catholics will surely benefit good Catholic parents whose that his name be removed from getting to know Cardinal children go astray, but here’s as co-author. Whatever the Many may not have heard Erdő a bit better. L some good news: a strongly concern is, Benedict XVI of Cardinal Péter Erdő, the Catholic extended family and Cardinal Sarah each archbishop of Esztergom- August 2020 | 36 | legatus.org

WHAT TO SEE Remembering the ‘Grunt Padre’ – who gave his life for his comrades IN THE RELATIVELY FEW IMAGES Field Afar provides a striking about an active ambush The Field Afar of Fr. Vincent Capodanno portrait of Capodanno, whose zone tending to wounded Tim Moriarty (narrator), Al Lambert, among the Marines serving cause for canonization has and dying soldiers, he pulled Jim Hamfeldt, Dr. Thomas Rzeznik, Dr. in the Vietnam War, he looks been introduced by the U.S. several men to safety before Vincent Maligno, George Phillips, Leo like one of them, or perhaps Archdiocese for the Military being riddled by machine- like an older o cer among Services. Born into an gun fire while administering Roseta, Henry Hernandez the mostly 18- and 19-year-old Italian-American family in Last Rites. 52 min. • Unrated infantrymen. He insisted on Staten Island, NY, Capodanno Forty-plus years later, the serving alongside them, sharing worked for six years as a men who served alongside man lay down his life for his L the dangers and drudgeries Maryknoll missionary in him still well up with friends” (John 15:13). they faced, advancing with the rural China before requesting emotion when speaking first wave into any conflict so permission to serve as a about his bravery and his GERALD KORSON as to tend immediately to the U.S. Navy chaplain. Once impact on their lives. is a Legatus magazine sta writer. spiritual needs of soldiers who commissioned, he asked and Clocking in at under an hour, would fall on the battlefield’s was assigned to serve among front lines. the Fleet Marine Force in e Field Afar is not a film Vietnam, where he quickly that requires a massive time at’s how he wanted it. at’s earned a dual reputation for investment along the lines of why they called him “ e Grunt fearlessness and holiness. PBS documentaries, but it’s Padre.” And that’s how he died. When his year in the country enough to obtain a compelling was up, he volunteered for a picture of a chaplain who rough interviews with six-month extension and was exemplified the meaning of family members, soldiers, reassigned to a new battalion. Christ’s words: “Greater love and priests who knew him has no man than this, that a along with historians, e ree months in, while moving August 2020 | 37 | legatus.org

HEALTH CHRISTOPHER STROUD, MD MATTERS OB-GYN o ers tips on supporting those grieving pregnancy loss PREGNANCY LOSS IS A PAINFUL Planned Parenthood and ordeal that poses unique their allies portray that a dilemmas for all involved: woman loses only a clump of spouses, family, friends, even cells, so why be upset? Yet, a employers. woman’s heart knows better. Everything inside of her Approximately 20 percent screams that she lost a child. of pregnancies end in Anyone who doesn’t think loss, typically before the a nine-week fetus is a child 12th week. Causes include should sit with a woman and ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/SDI PRODUCTIONS abnormal chromosomes explain that her nine-week that form at conception and fetus is no longer alive. She maternal problems such as a is su ering the pain of losing dysfunctional immune system, a child. inherited blood-clotting abnormalities, and inadequate How can we comfort those progesterone production. who su er pregnancy loss? First, call it what it is: the ankfully, most causes of loss of a child. is helps the recurrent pregnancy loss woman and her husband can be treated to reduce the understand the myriad feelings they are Later guilt over those feelings often leads to probability of additional losses. experiencing. confusion, frustration, and despair. Remind Sadly, finding a physician who couples that they are not alone, that God has appreciates this and is willing Second, acknowledge and a rm their pain — not and will not forsake them, that one day the to get involved can be very and that it will not go away quickly — by saying, pain will make sense, but that day is later. At challenging. “I know you have the same time, be cautious and avoid conveying to be hurting over — even unintentionally — that feeling grief is Finding support “As a Catholic leader, the loss of your inappropriate if they have faith. Grieving isn’t a for the emotional baby; I’m sorry and sign of faith’s absence, but a natural part of loss. and spiritual rise to the occasion and I wish I knew more turmoil that comfort him or her… to say.” Someone you know has or will experience pregnancy loss pregnancy loss. As a Catholic leader, rise to the causes can seem ird, don’t occasion and comfort him or her in a way that insurmountable. overlook husbands. only a follower of Christ can — with unyielding e secular Pregnancy loss compassion, honesty, and love. L world, often including the can create a significant emotional conflict for woman’s physician, tells men, who are designed to protect and to solve CHRISTOPHER STROUD, M.D., her, “You’re young, you’ll be problems. As one husband remarked, “I’m is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist pregnant again, don’t worry, designed to neutralize a threat; but this threat is and a certified medical consultant in Creighton this is just a normal part of too powerful. I’m failing.” Model FertilityCare System/NaProTechology in Fort life,” or “at least you have other Wayne, IN, and a co-host of “Doctor Doctor,” a radio children.” Couples may be angry at God because they show dealing with all things medical from a Catholic feel that He is betraying or neglecting them. perspective heard nationally on EWTN Radio. Listen to engaging CMA doctors discuss important health The Catholic Medical Association is a national, physician- matters on Doctor, Doctor – on 350+ stations on EWTN led community of over 2,400 health care professionals Radio Network & EWTN SiriusXM Channel 130. Also online consisting of 103 local guilds. CMA’s mission is to inform, at www.redeemerradio.com/doctor; iTunes podcasts at bit.ly/DoctorDoctorShow; and Google Podcasts at bit.ly/ organize, and inspire its members, in steadfast fidelity to the ShowDoctorDoctor. Airs Saturdays 11 a.m. Eastern, 8 a.m. Pacific. teachings of the Catholic Church, to uphold the principles of the Catholic faith in the science and practice of medicine. August 2020 | 38 | legatus.org

FEEDING THE CHEF NEIL FUSCO FOODIE Rejuvenate family life together – in the kitchen THIS SUMMER WILL be one to today’s family a redefining moment, food is important for remember. e coronavirus a chance to uncover the depths and our bodies from a pandemic has changed the opportunities for creating new, lasting, nutritional perspective, way we live, work, and play. and meaningful family traditions. for many it has become e family life we once knew more about sharing and pre-COVID-19 has been Food and family meals are at the heart nurturing relationships reintroduced in the most of many family traditions. During with each family positive way. e mandatory the lockdown, when restaurants and member. lockdown imposed on most eateries unfortunately were forced of us due to COVID-19 led to to close their doors or limit their How do we create family shelter-in-place orders that operations, many families did a lot more traditions? We need to o ered opportunities for cooking at home. e kitchen became come together, to be a family togetherness and the place for the family, where members present to one another, bonding capable of birthing a congregated to teach and to learn to and to interact with one rediscovery of the true essence prepare meals. Baking bread at home another. is makes it of family life. suddenly became the possible to share and hottest shared experience create ideas, thoughts, laughter, and love for one Today’s family lives “Food and family in some families. Others another that eventually converge to create those a life of busyness. meals are at the were making homemade cherished generational family traditions. It seems as though pasta, pizza, soups, and our to-do lists heart of many other dishes together. All In his apostolic exhortation Familiaris Consortio, never end. e family traditions kinds of new dishes and Pope St. John Paul II exclaimed, “ e family has family goes from recipes were being tested the mission to become more and more what it one activity to and experimented with in is, that is to say, a community of life and love.” another and then planning the evening’s meal. Yes, this is when families create everlasting another. Coupled traditions, when food transcends the bodily with our texting and social- Something more was happening than new needs and enters into the spiritual realm for the media obsessions, there’s menu items. Although prepping the evening’s love of the family. L seemingly no time or space for meal involved work, it also created opportunities true family unity. Togetherness to collaborate and share in the preparation of CHEF NEIL FUSCO is founder of Cucina Antica Foods, Corp., and in-person interactions can homemade meals. At this stage of the pandemic, a specialty Italian food-products company. Raised on a farm in appear nonexistent. is global some, if not most, are still cooking nearly all pandemic has brought social meals at home. is ongoing experience of San Marzano in southern Italy, he learned his family’s production and and economic challenges, but collaboration in the kitchen has brought many cooking with the renowned San Marzano tomatoes they’d grown there at the same time it has given families to a deeper unity and closeness. ough since the 1800s. His 2017 cookbook, May Love Be the Main Ingredient at Your Table, presents amusing and heartfelt stories about faith, family, and recipes from his Old World childhood. PANNA COTTA • Serves 6-8 Ingredients: Preparation: 4. Divide panna cotta mixture into 6 to 2 tbsp. unflavored gelatin 1. In a small saucepan, combine gelatin 8 ramekins and allow to cool. Once at (about 2 envelopes and cold water. Let stand about 1 room temperature, cover and chill for 4 packaged gelatin) minute, then place over low heat until to 8 hours, until panna cotta is set. 2 cups heavy cream gelatin is dissolved. Remove from heat. 1 cup half-and-half 5. To serve easily, dip the sides of each 1/3 cup sugar 2. Combine cream, half-and-half, and ramekin into warm water for 3 to 4 2 tbsp. cold water sugar in a large saucepan and bring to a seconds. Then, using a thin-bladed knife, 1-1/2 tsp. vanilla extract boil over high heat, stirring constantly. loosen the panna cotta from the sides of Fresh fruit the ramekin, and then turn it over onto a 3. As soon as the cream mixture comes small plate. to a boil, remove from heat and add the gelatin water and the vanilla. Stir well. 6. Serve with fresh fruit. August 2020 | 39 | legatus.org

U.S. BRIEFS INDIANA PRIEST SUSPENDED called it “a joy and a privilege AFTER WARNING OF DANGERS OF to be called to serve as the 10th BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT archbishop of St. Louis.” CARMEL, Indiana — A Catholic priest who was due to take over as of racism and police brutality in SCHOOLS OUT? CATHOLIC pastor of a neighboring parish in our country has been hijacked by INSTITUTIONS CLOSE DUE TO Carmel, Indiana was suspended in some into a movement of violence, PANDEMIC, RECESSION early July following comments he looting, and vandalism.” CLEVELAND — More than 100 published as pastor of St. Elizabeth Demonstrators in a number of U.S. Catholic elementary and secondary Seton Catholic Church in its Sunday cities recently have toppled statues schools nationwide are expected bulletin, about the Black Lives they consider monuments to “white to close before the new school Matter movement and its danger to supremacy.” year begins, largely because of Christianity. financial challenges resulting from BISHOP ROZANSKI OF the coronavirus pandemic and Bishop Timothy Doherty of the SPRINGFIELD, MA, TO BE the resulting economic recession, Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana then INSTALLED AS ST. LOUIS according to Mary Pat Donoghue, took the action against Fr. Theodore ARCHBISHOP executive director of the Secretariat Rothrock. Though Fr. Rothrock ST. LOUIS — Bishop Mitchell T. of Catholic Education at the U.S. issued an apology to parishioners Rozanski of Springfield, MA, will be Conference of Catholic Bishops. a few days later, saying it wasn’t his installed as the new archbishop of St. intention to offend anyone, he didn’t Louis on August 25 in the Cathedral “Nearly every diocese probably is retract his statements. A mid-July Basilica of St. Louis. He succeeds facing a closure,” she said in mid- petition in favor of Father Rothrock Archbishop Robert J. Carlson, who June. “While we don’t have it in has already garnered over 40,000 submitted his resignation at the age stone, we think the closures as we signatures. of 75 as required by canon law. speak are 100 to 150 schools.” ABP. CORDILEONE: RACIAL Pope Francis has accepted Margaret Kaplow, public relations INJUSTICE PROTESTS ‘HIJACKED’ Carlson’s resignation and made manager at National Catholic BY VIOLENCE the appointment in June before the Educational Association, said that SAN FRANCISCO — Archbishop archbishop’s 76th birthday. Carlson as of June the association had Salvatore J. Cordileone of San had led the archdiocese since 2009. compiled information showing that Francisco said the “toppling and Rozanski, 61, who had been at least 97 schools are closing. L defacing” of a statue of St. Junipero Springfield’s bishop since 2014, SOURCES: Catholic News Agency, Catholic News Serra and other statues by some 100 protesters in the city’s Golden Service, Crux Gate Park in mid-June is the latest example of some people using the current movement against racial injustice as a reason for violence, looting, and vandalism. “What is happening to our society?” asked Archbishop Cordileone. “A renewed national movement to heal memories and correct the injustices August 2020 | 40 | legatus.org

WORLD BRIEFS NIGERIAN CHRISTIANS Father Andrzej Ziombra of St. Vatican officials questioned the INCREASINGLY BRUTALIZED, Hyacinth Parish in Legnica planned parish size and structure KILLED BY ISLAMIC TERRORISTS reported that “there are miraculous and questioned whether it would WASHINGTON, D.C. — Since the start conversions, there are miraculous be permitted under canon law, the of this year, over 1,200 Christians healings, there is also a large Trier diocese said. Under the plan, in Nigeria have been terrorized, pilgrimage movement” to the some parishes would have had up to kidnapped, and killed by Islamic church, where on Christmas 100,000 members, and some rural terrorists – specifically Boko Haram, Day 2013 a dropped consecrated Catholics would have to travel more the Islamic State’s West Africa Host subsequently bled and was than 50 miles to the nearest church. Province (ISWAP), and Fulani reportedly found to contain a herdsmen. Though Western media fragment of a heart muscle. POPE ADDS THREE MARIAN TITLES outlets have routinely associated The Host underwent rigorous study, TO THE LITANY OF LORETO the killings with climate change, and the Vatican Congregation for VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Robert local feuds, or internal religious the Doctrine of Faith approved its Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for wars, Lela Gilbert, senior fellow for veneration in 2016. The Church Divine Worship and the Sacraments, international religious freedom at continues to monitor studies and sent a letter on behalf of Pope Francis the Family Research Council (FRC), examine whether the alleged to the presidents of all bishops’ says what is actually occurring in miracle will bear spiritual fruit. conferences asking that the titles Nigeria now is genocide. She fears “Mother of Mercy,” “Mother of Hope”, the actual number of victims is much and “Comfort of Migrants” be inserted higher. into the “Litany of the Blessed Virgin Thus, Gilbert’s new report from Mary,” more commonly known as the the FRC, “The Crisis of Christian “Litany of Loreto.” Persecution in Nigeria,” calls the U.S. government to VATICAN NIXES GERMAN DIOCESE The litany, which traces its origins to implement tough PLAN TO MERGE 887 CHURCHES the 16th century, begins by invoking sanctions against INTO 35 God’s mercy, then turns to Mary, Nigerian President TRIER, Germany — The Diocese asking for her prayers. It already had Muhammadu of Trier must change its plan for close to 50 titles for Mary with verses Buhari, who reform after Vatican officials like “Holy Mother of God, pray for us” maintains his objected to some of its aspects. and “Queen of All Saints, pray for us.” membership in the In early June, Trier Bishop Stephan Fulani Tribe. Gilbert Ackermann outlined his position to The letter said “Mother of Mercy” also said, “The two Vatican congregations based should follow “Mother of the jihadis come in in in part on financial concerns and Church” in the litany, while “Mother the night ... they clergy numbers. The plan was to of Hope” should follow “Mother of sweep through communities…kill merge its 887 parishes into 35 large Divine Grace.” “Comfort of Migrants” randomly… kill women … slaughter ones led by a team of one priest and then follows “Refuge of Sinners.”  L and mutilate people … then burn the two laypeople as equal members of villages. …It’s extremely violent and a leadership team. SOURCES: Catholic News Agency, Catholic News extremely terrible.” Service IN POLAND, MANY CONVERSIONS REPORTED AFTER 2013 ALLEGED EUCHARISTIC MIRACLE LEGNICA, Poland — As the Vatican continues to evaluate a reported Eucharistic miracle in Poland, the priest of the parish where it occurred says that the extraordinary event has led to conversions. 41August 2020 | | legatus.org

CHAPTER NEWS SANTA BARBARA The Santa Barbara Chapter met in person on June 16, beginning the evening with Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, then enjoying a great meal together at Lucky’s Steakhouse. MIAMI SANTA BARBARA. Outside Lucky’s Steakhouse on June 16, the Santa Barbara Chapter members were enthused to once again have The Miami Chapter gathered on an in-person get-together for their monthly event. Pictured (l. to r.): Gerry Frigon, Michael Aberle, Karen Frigon, Margaret O’Reilly, Paul June 16 for a safe return to its O’Reilly, Andy Fetyko, Susan Aberle, Miny Willmon, Maureen Beccari, Antonio Beccari, Roger Willmon, Father Lawrence Seyer. in-person gatherings. Chapter LINCOLN. Lincoln Chapter members finally had the chance to gather in person on June 16, beginning with Mass at Blessed chaplain, Fr. Richard Vigoa, Sacrament Church which included induction of the Chapter’s newest members, Bob and Sarah Jurgensmeier. presided at Confession, rosary, and Mass at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Coral Gables. The well-attended event also featured a virtual presentation on the “Consistent Ethic of Life” by Mary Hallan FioRito. Members were delighted to be together and were indeed smiling, even if hidden by their masks! MIAMI. LINCOLN. A dine-around option was offered to Lincoln Chapter members for their June 16 meeting, MIAMI. wherein members met at host homes in groups of six to 10. Those more comfortable attending virtually from home were likewise given the option to pick up a meal at Lincoln Country Club to enjoy as well. Guest speakers Dr. Andrew and Sarah Swafford presented via Zoom on “Freedom and Sanity: Finding Peace and Strength in a Shaken World,” discussing the Ignatian discernment process and how it helps in times of desolation. Dr. Swafford is an associate professor of theology at Benedictine College, and his wife Sarah is a national speaker and author of Emotional Virtue: A Guide to Drama-Free Relationships. June 2020 | 42 | legatus.org

CHAPTER NEWS BISMARCK The Bismarck Chapter met in person on July 9, beginning with Mass together at Christ the King Church, followed by dinner at the Harvest Brazilian Grille. BISMARCK. Kathy BISMARCK. Bismarck Chapter vice president, Vern Dosch, is seen here addressing the Chapter Neset, member of the group at its first in-person meeting in months, which its members enjoyed on July 9 at the Bismarck Chapter, was Harvest Brazilian Grille. the featured speaker at its July 9 in-person meeting. Owner and president of Neset – which has provided engineering, geologic, and geo-steering services for the oil industry since 1980 – Kathy is one of the foremost world experts in fracking, and presents every year to the U.S. War College on Energy and National Security. PITTSBURGH. The Pittsburgh Chapter members enjoyed a very successful “re- opening” event on the evening of June 18, beginning at Holy Child Church in Bridgeville, PA – their first in-person gathering since February due to COVID-19 restrictions. PITTSBURGH. Pittsburgh Chapter Legates likewise enjoyed a much-anticipated dinner together on June 18 under an outdoor tent at Holy Child Church in Bridgeville, PA. August 2020 | 43 | legatus.org

CHAPTER NEWS FORT WORTH guest speaker, Fr. John Riccardo, On June 11, the Chapter held an in- March began with a very successful, the executive director of ACTS person Mass and modified meeting well-attended joint meeting of the XXIX.  Then the COVID pandemic at the Fort Worth Club; some Fort Worth and Dallas chapters with became a significant reality and the who preferred to attend virtually Fort Worth Chapter participated via Facebook LIVE for held its first virtual Mass and the enlightening guest event in April -- presentation by John Schlageter on with meetings via “Creating Peace in the Holy Land.” Zoom in April and LAKE CHARLES May, both receiving The Lake Charles Chapter hosted high marks from its annual crawfish boil on May 28, members. The where members this year gathered two months’ guest at the beautiful home of Dr. Bruce speakers – David Thompson and Cathy Thompson. Bereit and Jeff Schiefelbein FORT WORTH . Fort Worth Chapter’s May guest speaker, Jeff Schiefelbein, seen here – were very addressing members via Zoom on the subject of “Undivided Attention – Living Our Faith at accommodating. Work, at Home, and the Spaces in Between.” FORT WORTH . At the Fort Worth Chapter’s June in-person LAKE CHARLES. meeting at the Fort Worth Club, guest speaker John Schlageter, executive director of the Bethlehem University Foundation, gave an inspiring talk on “Creating Peace in the Holy Land.” LAKE CHARLES . (l. to r., front to back): Fr Ruben Villarreal (Chapter chaplain), 44 | legatus.org Elizabeth Thompson, Tricia and Beau Flavin, and Dr. Bruce Thompson. August 2020 |

CHAPTER NEWS NEW YORK CITY In June, New York City Chapter member Robert J. O’Hara was elected a fellow of The College NEW YORK CITY. of Labor and Employment Lawyers, a fellowship of the most accomplished members of the labor and employment law community. Mr. O’Hara is a member of the Epstein Becker Green firm in the employment, labor & workforce management practice focusing on employment law, counseling, and litigation as well as human resources counseling, compliance, and training. LONG ISLAND LONG ISLAND. LOUISVILLE. Members of the Louisville Chapter attend Mass at the home of Dan On July 8, the Long and Anne Cristiani, where the Chapter’s summer social gathering was held on July 9. Island Chapter held its first in-person LOUISVILLE. meeting since March at the Hempstead Golf and Country Club (Hempstead, NY). No speaker was scheduled, as members enjoyed the chance to reconnect after three months of cancellations due to COVID restrictions. L LOUISVILLE. The Louisville Chapter enjoyed their summer social on July 9 at fellow members Dan and Anne Cristiani’s home/farm. Here, Dan Cristiani takes Chapter comrades for a hayride on his farm. August 2020 | 45 | legatus.org

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2020 SUMMIT WEST SPEAKER 5 MINUTES BRIAN FRAGA WITH “God is speaking to the U.S. right now – are we listening?” AT LEGATUS SUMMIT WEST, DEACON LARRY ONEY TO OFFER BLACK CATHOLIC VIEW OF RACIAL PROTESTS AMID RACIAL UNREST AND What will you speak about at the know your purpose until you have a relationship protests in the streets, Deacon Summit? with the object of your hope, and the object of Larry Oney has appeared on our hope is the person of Jesus Christ. Once you several radio and television Principally I’m going to be talking about how to belong to God, once you dedicate your life to Him programs in recent weeks have hope in the midst of all the things going and realize He’s the object of your hope, then He to offer a Black Catholic on. I may also speak about some of the issues allows you, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to leader’s perspective on racial of the day with race that we’re dealing with. discover your purpose. reconciliation. “I’m just trying to Specifically, I’m going to What led you to the Catholic Church? preach the Gospel look at the command in and make sure 1 Peter 3:15 to “always I’m Catholic because of the Eucharist, not the Scriptures, the be ready to give an because we have more rhythm than the Word of God, and explanation for the hope Pentecostals and not because our music is better. our teachings on that we have within It’s because we have Jesus, the Christ, the Son of social justice are you.” That’s our duty, the Living God, for real, on our altar every time in the mix of the particularly as Legates. we celebrate the sacred mysteries. Sadly, only conversation with 30 percent of Catholics now believe that. If our all that’s going on How important is people really believed in the Real Presence, we’d in our country,” said that message of have packed houses. Deacon Oney, 63, a Legate of the New hope this year? What do you make of our country’s Orleans Chapter. Deacon Oney and his Even with the pandemic and the recent racial unrest? wife, Andi, founded Hope racial strife, it’s an opportunity and Purpose Ministries, for a new birth for our nation, “It’s like we have This is a time of visitation which carries out the New for us to look at the health care this big boil, and it for us as a nation. When Evangelization call to proclaim infrastructure, for us to look at needs to be lanced. you look at the Scriptures, the Gospel. Deacon Oney is our relationships among people We can no longer God is always dealing with also the chairman and CEO in order to deal with some of ignore it. Israel as a nation. Well, He’s of HGI Global, a third-party the issues that are still present, dealing with us now as a administration and project including the psychological nation, as the United States management firm. residue from slavery and Jim Crow. of America. Deacon Oney, who grew up “unchurched” before entering What led you to launch This is an opportunity for the Catholic Church in his Hope and Purpose us to right some wrongs. young adult years, will be a Ministries? I’m not talking about crazy featured speaker at the Legatus stuff like reparations, but it’s an opportunity for Summit West next month Many of the people my wife and I had met who us to heal some wounds. It’s like we have this big in Colorado Springs, CO. He were really struggling in their lives had lost hope. boil, and it needs to be lanced. We can no longer spoke recently with Legatus Everybody wants to know his purpose. You can’t ignore it. We need to have hard conversations. magazine. And it’s time to listen and to reflect on what this is all about, and that’s human dignity. L August 2020 | 48 | legatus.org

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MEET THE BRIAN FRAGA CHAPLAIN From probation officer to priest, chaplain was ‘a late vocation’ MONSIGNOR ROBERT JAEGER OF COLORADO SPRINGS MEETS MINISTRY CHALLENGES DURING PANDEMIC WHEN MONSIGNOR ROBERT July, we do a picnic of some sort What’s one thing people are surprised Jaeger is not at St. Paul Church or go somewhere for a social to learn about you? in Colorado Springs, CO, where engagement. We have one he is pastor, he can be found planned now at a local country I’m a late vocation. I was ordained when I was downtown in the chancery as club with big rooms where 39. I worked in parole and probation in Illinois vicar general for the for five years and then I did the same thing in Diocese of Colorado food will be catered and Las Vegas for 10 years. I enjoyed the work, and Springs. everyone will be at a I enjoyed the people I worked with. Basically, safe distance from one you’re a social worker in that role, sometimes a Monsignor Jaeger, 69, another. babysitter. Everybody needs somebody to talk to, has also been chaplain sometimes a shoulder to cry on. of the Colorado Springs We had our last meeting Chapter, sponsor for at St. Paul’s, in the parish How did you transition from probation Legatus Summit West hall. We scattered the officer to priest? next month, since it tables around, each at a chartered 10 years ago. safe distance, and had a My older brother is a priest. He went to the He recently spoke with meal catered. We had our seminary right out of high school, and I had Legatus magazine. speaker via Zoom. It all given it some thought many other times. I worked out pretty well. dabbled in seminary two or three previous times, How is the Colorado There were 34 people but it didn’t take then. But I kept close to the Springs Chapter doing? in the room, and we had Mass Church. I had priest-friends, and I was close to and Confession beforehand. the bishop, who urged me to pursue a vocation. We’re in pretty good shape. We also had about 10 members After 10 years in Las Vegas, I decided I should We’ve maintained consistent watching via Skype. really take a look at the priesthood. If you feel the membership. We have a good Lord calls you, you need to give it an honest shot. community of people to be How has the pandemic with, from all walks of life, from affected your role as a Is there anything else you’d like to different businesses and lines pastor? emphasize to Legates? of work. The thing we share in common is our Catholic faith, Since the beginning of the Our basic premise is to be ambassadors for with the members living it out pandemic, I’ve said Mass every Christ. Are you witnessing Christ in your family, in their own lives and in their day. We stream it online so in your place of business, and everywhere else, own businesses. people can watch live at home so that the faith is fully connected and integrated and later when they want. We into your whole life wherever you are? L How has the coronavirus called everyone in the parish at pandemic impacted the least once a month to check in chapter? with them, and I do other taped messages on a regular basis to We weren’t able to meet keep some kind of contact on a for a couple of months. The regular basis with everybody. I coronavirus curtailed some of think that’s important to bring our socializing. Normally in some stability and confidence, to let people know the Church is still here for them. August 2020 | 50 | legatus.org