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OCTOBER 2020 RESPECT LIFE KEEPINGEDITION MISSION OF THE DIVINE PHYSICIAN FR. TOLTON – AMERICAN M. DANNENFELSER: CRUCIAL SLAVE-TURNED-PRIEST ELECTION SEASON FOR PR O-LIFERS C-SUITE SPIRITUALITY ALBANY CHARTER FR. SIRICO: TRUE ANTIDOTE OPENS UPSTATE NY TO RACIA L DIVIDE R. REILLY: EQUALITY IS I N AMERI CA’S DNA FR. BOQUET: RE-SENSITIZING SOCIETY TO LIFE

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10•20 INSIDE VOL 33 • NO 10 20 C-SUITE SPIRITUALITY – HOW EXECS STAY VIRTUE- STRONG FOR THEIR TEAMS by Jim Graves Four spiritual mentors discuss steps to take for strong workplace leadership 10 16 24 ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/LIFEJOURNEY CARRYING AMERICA’S NEW ALBANY FORWARD THE FIRST BLACK CHAPTER PRIEST MOVES COMMISSION PIONEERS INTO OF THE DIVINE TOWARD UPSTATE SAINTHOOD PHYSICIAN NEW YORK by Gerald Korson by Brian Fraga by John Knowles New pro-family curriculum lets student Venerable Augustus Tolton was On hold since May, charter members docs opt out of abortion training 5October 20b20orn| a slave – to b| e laegsathuse.oprgh(enerdw website!) celebrate their day in August

MORE COVER 08DIRECTOR’S DESK 39 PHOTO Stephen M. Henley: The root of human dignity 39FEEDING THE FOODIE istockphoto.com/ svetikd 09EDITOR’S DESK Joe Micatrotto, Sr.: Ribollita soup PAGE Christine V. Owsik: Respecting life involves sacrifice 47FIVE MINUTES PHOTO 26ETHICS MATTERS Sr. Miriam Heidland – 2021 Summit East speaker Enjoy the old-world, warm delight of Fr. R. Sirico: Antidote to racial divide in Constitution 50 MEET THE CHAPLAIN Italian Ribollita 28CULTURE OF LIFE Monsignor Michael Billian – Genesis Chapter Soup, the vegetable- and-bread ‘meal’ M. Dannenfelser: Critical election season for life which longtime restaurateur Joe 30GUEST VOICE Micatrotto, Sr. brings R. Reilly: Equality, not racism, in America’s DNA back from Il Latini 32 FAITH MATTERS restaurant in Tuscany. Fr. S. Boquet: Re-sensitizing society to life 34ENGAGING THE FAITH Hasson/Farnan: Cultivating activists 37WHAT TO SEE “Pray”: Recalling the rosary priest, Fr. Peyton 38 HEALTH Dr. B. Golder: Clarifying COVID confusion 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 MFA Wealth, LLC Treasurer Archbishop of Los Angeles Vice Chairman Jerry R. Jones Mark R. Scalise President, United States Conference Sean J. Bellew Indianapolis Jupiter/Palm Beach of Catholic Bishops Philadelphia Cannon IV Scalise Industries Corporation LEGATUS MISSION STATEMENT: Bellew, LLC 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 Staff Writer  Judy Roberts PO Box 444 of Catholic presidents and CEOs. Staff 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. MARIA FAUSTINA DESK KOWALSKA Image of God: (1905-1938) The root of human dignity FEAST DAY: OCTOBER 5 CANONIZATION: APRIL 20, 2000 PATRON OF MERCY. THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT any attacks on the human Blessed by visions of Christ we are living in a time of great person. In some ways, perhaps when she was a young nun, moral confusion. In particular, the obvious issues can be the St. Faustina obeyed Him in the value of human life is no easier ones to handle. For launching a new mission – example, we all know that spreading worldwide devotion abortion and euthanasia are to His mercy, particularly to grave violations of human those oppressed in sin. dignity and we must never longer self-evident, as it was support them. Potentially Born in 1905 to our founding fathers, but harder to discern is whether in a small rather is under constant debate the dignity of the human Polish town and attack. As Catholics, we person is affirmed and as Helenka believe in the inherent, infinite protected appropriately within Kowalska, she dignity of every human person. our businesses. Do we treat was one of 10 That dignity is rooted in our each of our employees as children of a creation. In the beginning, “… an individual made in the poor family. God created man in His own image of God and possessing Leaving school image, in the image of God He infinite worth, from our fellow after third created him; male and female executives right on down to the COMMUNION OF grade before He created them” (Gen 1:27). custodians and everyone in SAINTS reading or between? Do we truly see them The Catechism of the Catholic as more than statistics within writing well, Church goes on to explain, our operations budget, but as she longed to be a nun but her “Being in the people created and loved by parents would not approve. image of God “Honoring the God? And is it our goal to help The money she earned as the human dignity of the them get to heaven? housekeeper for neighboring individual families was needed by her possesses the family, so she endured. Then at dignity of a human person is 19, she had a vision from Jesus person, who not a one-time asking her to enter the convent. is not just decision. After being refused by several something, orders, she was accepted by but someone.” Honoring the dignity of the the Servants of Our Lady of (CCC 357) human person is not a one- Mercy, and took the name time decision. It is rather a Maria Faustyna Kowalska Unfortunately, led astray by constant ‘yes’ to the moments of the Blessed Sacrament. our inclination to sin and we face on a daily basis where Working menial tasks, she had enticement by the Evil One, we we can choose life. Let us then continued visions from Jesus. have often used our free will to make this decision in our own In 1931, He asked her to paint tear one another down, instead lives, whenever and wherever His Divine Mercy image, with of building one another up. it greets us, treating all of our the signature “Jesus, I trust in We have created barriers and fellow human beings in just the You.” placed conditions or bestowed same way as we would treat degrees upon the value of Christ Himself. After all, “… he human life. For example, a who does not love his brother She recorded her visions and person has less value if he is whom he has seen, cannot love conversations with Jesus unborn, elderly, poor, mentally God whom he has not seen” (1 in her Diary, even as other challenged, physically Jn. 4:20).  L nuns ridiculed her. After her challenged, terminally ill… death on October 5, 1938, her The list goes on and on. STEPHEN M. Diary went to the Vatican. In HENLEY 2000, Pope St. John Paul II First as Catholics, and second is Legatus’ canonized her, and proclaimed as leaders in our businesses the Sunday after Easter as the and communities, we must executive director. be especially vigilant against Feast of Mercy. L — Brian Fraga 8October 2020 | | legatus.org (new website!)

MARK YOUR EDITOR’S CHRISTINE VALENTINE-OWSIK CALENDARS DESK 2021 SUMMIT EAST Respecting life involves sacrifice and ceding control JANUARY 14-16, 2021 PALM BEACH, FL THE REAL PROBLEM WITH MANY I’ve been there. people accepting a pro-life EL CAMINO PILGRIMAGE position on various fronts On a crisp October morning over 30 years ago, isn’t with acceptance of life as I was readying for an ad agency presentation, APRIL 12-20, 2021 itself. Their hesitance is with having bought a new suit and heels, and SPAIN embracing the necessary earmarking extra time to arrive early, I learned sacrifices that honoring life I was expecting our first child. We were married MEXICO PILGRIMAGE entails. just five months. I remember my first thought Our country is on the precipice was, “Now? We have so much planned first. Fixing JUNE 11-14, 2021 of another combative Supreme up our house, new furniture on order, a couple of MEXICO CITY, MEXICO Court confirmation battle, trips. I’m up for a promotion.” I lost my appetite for really about the ‘threat’ of breakfast, and stared blankly during the drive DECANTING THE FAITH & losing legalized controls over into the office. My face was virus-white when I WINE OF BURGUNDY life. But the timing and purpose walked in. of each life — no matter its AUGUST 31 – SEPTEMBER 7, 2021 inconvenience or imperfections I stopped into the production department to FRANCE — belong uniquely to God. check on art boards and handouts for the pitch. People are more than “lives” It was then the production manager, a great guy 2021 SUMMIT WEST — they are souls for which with a houseful of rowdy kids (who always tore others must extend love and through the office), noticed my expression. “Sit SEPTEMBER 16-18, 2021 sacrifice, so each may thrive down at my desk,” he said. SANTA BARBARA, CA and learn about his future with God. God treasures all His “So when’s the little guy due?” he asked. “It’s MEDJUGORJE PILGRIMAGE souls — Christ told St. Peter this written all over your face!” But then came the explicitly. When Peter couldn’t twist, when I realized what a decent man he was. SEPTEMBER 28-OCTOBER 5, 2021 understand the reasoning for “Children are the best part of marriage, and a BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINIA Christ’s impending death — great entrustment from God,” he said. I began to that He would ready a place for mull that over. “Your gift came nice and early,” he MEN’S ENCLAVE each person in heaven — He said, “and you’ll never be the same person once said to Peter: In my Father’s that little child graces your lives.” OCTOBER 13-16, 2021 house are many rooms; … I go THE JL BAR RANCH to prepare a place for you … that And I never was the same person. SONORA, TEXAS where I am you may be also (John 14:2-3). My husband and I learned to work together in WOMEN’S ENCLAVE It’s our job to help each soul good times and bad; in abundance and need, — including our own — to get with a partnered vision for deferring to God. I’ve OCTOBER 24-27, 2021 there. hardly been patient or long-suffering. Or even CALISTOGA RANCH, NAPA VALLEY But people see yielding to God frugal. And heck, I still love a good argument. in this realm as messing up 2022 SUMMIT EAST their own plans. And when Our eldest son Andrew is 32 now, married with plans turn inside out, it is three little boys – our “chirplings.” God’s tapestry JANUARY 27-29, 2022 mortifying to realize we really of life is most spectacular. Glad I didn’t have my AMELIA ISLAND, FLORIDA aren’t in control. way – we would have missed so much. L OBERAMMERGAU CHRISTINE VALENTINE-OWSIK PILGRIMAGES is Legatus magazine’s editor. AUGUST 22-30, 2022 BAVARIA & AUSTRIA 2022 SUMMIT WEST SEPTEMBER 1-3, 2022 COLORADO SPRINGS, CO FOR MORE INFORMATION: [email protected] OR CALL 866-534-2887 9October 2020 | | legatus.org (new website!)

KEEPING THE MISSION OF THE DIVINE PHYSICIAN A newly developed family-planning curriculum allows OB-GYN resident physicians to \"opt out\" OF abortion training, learn fertility awareness methods by Gerald Korson Dr. Ashley Womack recalls her unique pathway through her medical residency at a Texas hospital. “When I started my required family-planning rotation in my second year of OB-GYN residency, there were no alternatives presented other than going to Planned Parenthood,” Womack said. “There had been a precedent set that even if you express that you would not like to go to Planned Parenthood, you were still expected to go. There was no ‘opting out’ of going, only ‘opting out’ of performing the abortions at the clinic.” So Womack went to the Planned Parenthood clinic the first day, thinking at first she might be able to do some good there, but “my experience was anything but productive,” she said. October 2020 | 10 | legatus.org (new website!)

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Womack knew she had the Dr. Ashley Stone Womack, disciplines, and so many legal right to opt out of abortion who designed the doctors enter a “family training entirely, so she Vitae Family Planning planning” rotation that refused to return to Planned Curriculum (VFPC), typically includes participating Parenthood and insisted on consults with a patient. in an abortion — part of their an alternate program for the She is now a fellow training required by the rotation. After meeting with in minimally invasive Accreditation Council for her program director and gynecologic surgery at Graduate Medical Education department chair, she was Banner-University Medical (ACGME), the body authorized told she could design her own Center in Phoenix. by Congress to set standards for alternative family-planning medical residents nationwide. curriculum. This year, four years after Womack’s rotation experience and a That presents a moral dilemma That’s when she got together year after the VFPC was implemented, the Vitae Clinic welcomed for physicians who understand with administrators and its first participating resident, Dr. Kelsey Williamson. that abortion takes the life of doctors from the St. John Paul an innocent unborn child. II Life Center, Vitae Clinic, CLINICAL TRIALS “If the resident is pro-life and the University of Texas Dell brave enough, she or he can Medical School, and Ascension “People have no idea what young physicians in their medical opt out of participating in an Seton Medical Center, all in residency program are required to do,” said attorney Tim Von Dohlen, abortion,” Von Dohlen said. Austin. Through their efforts, a Legatus member, and board president and co-founder of the St. John “All the residents, except those the Vitae Family Planning Paul II Life Center, which offers pregnancy help services to women. opting out, are expected to Curriculum (VFPC) was After completing medical school, a physician enters a residency perform an abortion.” developed to provide a pro- of three to seven years, depending on their specialty, before they Often, he said, a pro-life life, pro-fertility-awareness can see patients on their own, explained Von Dohlen, a Legate resident who opts out of education for OB-GYN resident of the Austin Chapter. Residents rotate among departments or performing an abortion is physicians who wished to opt berated or intimidated for that out of abortion training. choice. “Being in the same conference “This is happening all over room as pro-life physicians America,” said Von Dohlen. and ‘pro-choice’ abortion “The discrimination is real and providers was quite the can still result in the resident experience,” said Womack, now who opts out of performing an a fellow in minimally invasive abortion giving tacit support gynecologic surgery at Banner- to abortion against one’s University Medical Center in conscience.” Phoenix. ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/WAVEBREAK \"… a pro-life, pro-fertility- awareness education for OB-GYN resident physicians who wish to opt out OF abortion training 12October 2020 | | legatus.org (new website!)

There’s an adage in medical \"… many [new ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/FANGXIANUO training that says, “First you residency] see one, then you do one, and doctors enter a then you teach one.” Some \"family planning\" pro-life physicians who once rotation that performed abortions say that typically observing and then assisting includes at abortions during their participating residencies had the effect not in an abortion only of dehumanizing the — part OF THEir child, but also of desensitizing [required] the young physicians training themselves to what abortion truly is. And whereas physicians once used to swear to uphold the traditional Hippocratic Oath, which pledged to “keep [patients] from harm” and to “not give to a woman an abortive remedy,” most U.S. medical schools today use modern oaths that exclude such language. PEER PRESSURE “He literally yelled at me,” Kalamarides recalled. “He Dr. Jeremy Kalamarides, Dr. Jeremy Kalamarides, a medical director of the thought it was anti-women’s medical director at the Vitae Clinic, conducts an ultrasound on a patient. rights and that the Catholic Vitae Clinic, trained as an for the kind of practice I had in mind,” Kalamarides said. The Church had an agenda,” even osteopathic medical student hospital performed no abortions or sterilizations and did not though he had not proselytized and fulfilled his OB-GYN or even mentioned Church residency at a Catholic hospital promote contraceptives. In order teaching during his lecture. that lived by the Ethical to receive ACGME accreditation, Kalamarides said the young and Religious Directives for residents who desired doctor had not received any Catholic Health Care Services traditional family planning training in Fertility Awareness (ERDs) first promulgated by training that would include Based Methods (FABMs) of the U.S. Conference of Catholic contraception and abortion had family planning. “He revealed Bishops in 2009. to seek it elsewhere. he had some bias against “I purposely avoided programs learning about FABMs,” he that would pressure residents said. “He and other physicians into doing abortions and would probably miss out on instead had good role models meeting the needs of patients who seek care while using Gathering after a meeting to discuss the Vitae Family Planning Curriculum are, from left: Still, he said, at times he “felt FABM methods of family Dr. Ashley Stone Womack, Dr. Jeremy Kalamarides, Dr. Bri Tristan (of the University of uncomfortable” for expressing planning.” Texas Dell Medical School), Dr. Blake Weidaw, and Tim Von Dohlen.  his pro-life views on abortion Dr. Blake Weidaw, OB-GYN and family planning. During and natural family planning his internship year, for example, medical consultant at the Vitae he gave a class presentation on Clinic, joined nearly her entire natural family planning that class in opting out of abortion elicited spirited objections from training during her residency a third-year family practice 18 years ago at the University resident who was “deeply of Texas in San Antonio. Today, offended” by it. she feels stigmatized by many colleagues for not providing contraceptives or sterilization services in her practice. “I feel judged for sure,” Weidaw said. “It doesn’t bother me, but 13October 2020 | | legatus.org (new website!)

Dr. Blake Weidaw of the Vitae ClinicISTOCKPHOTO.COM/ALEKSANDERNAKIC holds a baby she had delivered. ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/STOCKCE I know that our colleagues available to the residents that educate on the medical science of Kalamarides, a former don’t understand our route of Natural Procreative Technology (NaProTechnology), that treats research assistant under Dr. treating women since it is so a woman holistically and individually, actually curing problems Thomas Hilgers, developer different from what we are with her reproductive health,” he said. of NaProTechnology, said the taught in our training.” This alternative curriculum also is important, he added, “to VFPC emphasizes FABM family provide an ethical framework to put forth the sanctity of life and to planning and alternatives to CURRICULUM offset the advancing efforts to allow assisted suicide, euthanasia, abortion. PRO VITAE and gender reassignment, each of which demeans the life of the “Residents will be responsible human person.” for readings and testing of Von Dohlen said the VFPC is knowledge of traditional the first of its kind. \"Although contraception-based family “Until now, there are no planning and abortion — but alternative education programs [VFPC] is not without any requirement an exclusively of active participation in prescribing contraception, Catholic placing contraceptive implants, curriculum, … performing sterilizations, or it looks to THE performing induced abortions,” he explained. Residents will U.S. bishops’ gain knowledge of the scientific ERDs as a foundation, methods, and effectiveness of FABMs and resource for how to integrate them into an its principles OB-GYN practice. Although it is not an exclusively OF natural- Catholic curriculum, he said, law ethics … it looks to the U.S. bishops’ ERDs as a resource for its principles of natural-law ethics, “especially regarding beginning of life, autonomy, and end of life issues because they are so consistent.” The VFPC curriculum begins with lectures, readings, and activities on basic anatomy, physiology, and an introduction to various methods of natural family planning. Rotation begins in the second year, where the resident physician October 2020 | 14 | legatus.org (new website!)

learns advanced topics such a health record invaluable for as NaProTechnology to her reproductive lifetime.” evaluate, treat, and manage various gynecological issues in Von Dohlen hopes the VFPC conjunction with FABMs. can be made available Such methods make the woman nationwide. Working in concert patient a full partner in her own with the Philadelphia-based health care, he indicated. National Catholic Bioethics FABMs “create a dialogue Center, the next objective is between the woman and to “take this program first to partner, and the woman and Catholic medical schools and ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/FATCAMERA her physician,” Kalamarides Catholic hospital residency said. “In this way the proactive programs, and then to secular charting she does, that residency programs across documents the presence or America,” he said.  L absence of her fertility, becomes GERALD KORSON, editorial consultant for Legatus magazine, is based in Indiana. A voice in THE wilderness ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/DANEFROMSPAIN Deacon Mark gynecology The city government Nevertheless, there are Fair is the chief services including “constantly seeks ways to strong pro-life figures and executive officer routine exams, circumvent pro-life Gov. Greg organizations also active in of the St. John bioidentical Abbott’s legislation to prohibit the Austin area and statewide. Paul II Center hormone (BioTE) funding abortion services,” The new Vitae Family Planning and the Vitae replacement he said, and recently voted to Curriculum (VFPC) for resident Clinic as well therapy, subsidize transportation for physicians enhances the city’s as a permanent NaProTechnology, abortion services. pro-life portfolio. deacon at St. Creighton Model “In our school system, they “The Ascension Seton Medical Vincent de Paul training, pre- consulted with Planned Residency Program and UT Parish in Austin. Deacon Mark Fair, chief executive conception care, Parenthood to build and Dell Medical School admit officer of the St. John Paul II Life routine and high- implement a curriculum a total of five residents per The St. John Center, speaks at the 2019 Gala, risk prenatal care, promoting homosexuality, oral year, and we believe we could Paul II Life an annual fundraising event. and abortion-pill sex, all forms of contraceptives, accommodate up to four and abortion,” Fair said. Not residents at any given time,” Center combines reversal. surprisingly, “We often later Fair said. “We are working to pregnancy help services, see these young adults in better promote our program natural integrated OB-GYN Fair said that one of the key our center as they face an within the medical school as health care, and life-affirming challenges he faces in Austin, unexpected pregnancy.” the interview and selection educational programs at no perhaps the most liberal city in processes are initiated.” cost to clients. Vitae Clinic Texas, is the education of young is a private practice offering people on human sexuality. 15October 2020 | | legatus.org (new website!)

SCHELKUN STUDIO ARTS “Servant of God Father Augustus Tolton,” painting, 2017. Artist: Patrice Schelkun. Original 30” x 40” oil on canvas residing at St. Athanasius Church (Phila, PA), specially commissioned by the pastor and parishioners. See Patrice Schelkun’s work at www.patriceschelkun.com. October 2020 | 16 | legatus.org (new website!)

Born a slave, to be a shepherd Venerable Father Augustus Tolton — first American-born black priest – heading to sainthood By Brian Fraga BLACKKUDOS.TUMBLR.COM 17October 2020 | | legatus.org (new website!)

Harold Burke-Sivers was in seventh grade, preparing for his Confirmation, when he went to a library to look for anything he could find about Black Catholic saints. “I thought, ‘There have filmmaker who wrote and to be some black saints directed “Across,” a short film somewhere.’ My mother about the Tolton family’s told me, ‘Well, go find escape from slavery, to be out,’” said Burke-Sivers, released in December. whose family was one of Foley, who hopes to produce the few black households “Across” into a full-length in his Hillside, New Jersey feature film, said he “fell in love parish. right away” with Father Tolton’s story. Deacon Harold Burke- With help from the “He didn’t return hatred for Sivers, author of Father hatred. He returned love Augustus Tolton: The Slave library’s card catalogue, against hatred,” Foley said. Christopher Foley, writer and director of the soon-to-be-released Who Became the First the future deacon came “Even though he stood up “Across” film, on the life of Fr. Augustus Tolton. Foley, pictured African-American Priest. across a book, From Slave for himself, he had a great (right) on the “Across” movie set with producer Matt Cameron. to Priest, a biography of humility about him. To him, it Father Augustus Tolton was much more important to Jaylon Gordon, written by the late Sister Caroline Hemesath. The reach the souls of those people the young cover photo was of Father Tolton, the first black than anything else.” Catholic priest in the United States. grade-school A life illustrating boy from Georgia “I thought, ‘Who is this guy?’” Burke-Sivers said. great lessons who plays “Gus” “He wasn’t canonized, so obviously I couldn’t use him as a saint. But it at least introduced me to Father Tolton’s life contains Tolton in the him.” many important lessons upcoming film about Christian nonviolence, on the life of Fr. Overcoming early obstacles overcoming evil with good, and Augustus Tolton ACROSSMOVIE.COM choosing love over hate. His (December 2020 In recent years, more people in the United example and personal holiness release), “Across.” States and across the world have discovered the are quite timely amid the racial dramatic life story of Father Tolton. Born a slave unrest that has convulsed the “He tried to open doors of dialogue and on a Missouri farm in 1854, he then escaped with United States this year since understanding,” Deacon Burke-Sivers said. “After his family across the Mississippi River to Illinois, a white Minneapolis police he became a priest, he actually tried to sit down where he experienced intense racism that made officer was filmed kneeling on with those priests who were badmouthing him it difficult for him to pursue a vocation to the the neck of George Floyd back behind his back. He wanted to understand why priesthood. in May. they were treating him like that.” “He didn’t respond with anger Said Deacon Burke-Sivers, “He worked hard to “In those days, the Church or animosity, like we’re seeing break down those walls and those barriers that ran parallel with the today with all the rioting and were standing between his ability to effectively institutions of society the looting,” said Deacon minister to his people and to still have love and that would not receive Burke-Sivers, the author of fraternity for his brother priests.” blacks,” said Auxiliary Father Augustus Tolton: The Bishop Joseph Perry of Slave Who Became the First Civil War years Chicago, the postulator of African-American Priest. In Father Tolton’s cause for the book, Deacon Burke-Sivers Born into slavery on Aug. 1, 1854, Father Tolton canonization. reflects on Father Tolton’s life and his two siblings were baptized as infants. through the themes of prayer, The Tolton family were the chattel property of a Bishop Joseph Perry of Father Tolton overcame joy, God’s mercy, forgiveness, Catholic slave-owning family that had moved Chicago, postulator for the obstacles and was fortitude, and family. from Kentucky to Brush Creek, Missouri in the sainthood of Father ordained a priest in Rome 1849. National tensions related to slavery grew Tolton. on Holy Saturday, April to a fever pitch in the years before the Civil War erupted in 1861. 24, 1886. Throughout his “For our young nation, that was the pivotal life and his 11 years of priesthood until his death moment when we had to rid our original at age 43, Father Tolton confronted the racial sin, which was slavery, in order to become a prejudice of his day with Christian charity. complete nation,” said Foley, whose “Baptism in “He was a fighter and a hero. But he wasn’t a fighter in the sense that the world thinks of it. He was a fighter in the sense of how a Catholic saint would be,” said Chris Foley, a Nashville October 2020 | 18 | legatus.org (new website!)

born a slave on a Missouri adding that enthusiastic white Catholics were farm in 1854, then escaped attending his Masses. with his family … to Illinois, where he experienced intense Spurned by clergy – loved by flock racism that made it difficult … to pursue a vocation to His early success led to resentment among the the priesthood. white Protestant and Catholic clergy, which resulted in Father Tolton being transferred to Chicago, where he spearheaded the building of St. Monica Church, a parish for black Catholics. Father Tolton worked tirelessly for his flock. In 1897, while ministering to parishioners, he died of complications from a heat stroke. He was only 43. More than 120 years since his death, devotion to Father Tolton has grown among black Catholics and many others. In June 2019, Pope Francis declared him Venerable. Bishop Perry said the Vatican is examining a potential miracle for his beatification. If canonized, Father Tolton would be the first American-born black saint. WIKIPEDIABlood” thesis at Christendom College focused on “But even back then he had WIKIPEDIAhow slavery led to the Civil War.a very strong devotion to the Eucharist,” Deacon Burke- “Just seeing this heroic man who suffered under Sivers said. “He had a love slavery, escaped from it during the Civil War, and for Christ’s presence in the then just learning more about his personality, Eucharist. In fact, it was just really caught my imagination,” Foley said. actually before the Blessed Sacrament that he first thought “What made him a saint, I think, was the In 1862, Tolton was seven, his brother, Charley, of becoming a priest.” Christian way in which he somehow navigated eight years old and their sister, Anne, only 20 the choppy waters of racial acceptance in our months old when their mother, Martha, risked it Franciscan priests in Quincy country and in the Church,” Bishop Perry said. all. She and the children escaped the plantation encouraged young Augustus to “Somehow, he came out the other end of it with and traveled more than 40 miles, day and night. discern the priesthood, but no his faith, hope, and love intact when he could They were nearly captured, but Union soldiers seminary in the United States have given up.” L in Hannibal, Missouri prevented Confederate would accept him. He went on officials from apprehending them. to study for the priesthood in BRIAN FRAGA Rome, where he was ordained is a Legatus magazine staff writer. Martha rowed her children in a small boat across on Easter Sunday, 1866. the Mississippi River to the free state of Illinois, where they settled in Quincy. In “Across,” Foley “His experience in Rome filmed near the spot along the Mississippi River turned out to be dramatically where Martha different from Tolton and her anything he children would experienced here have crossed He didn’t return hatred in the United into Illinois. for hatred. He returned States,” Bishop “Just bringing love against hatred Perry said. his story to Father Tolton light, I think, had hoped to be has inspired sent to a mission a lot of people field in Africa, because everybody has these crosses in their but he was told the day before life,” Foley said. “People love his perseverance, his ordination that he would be and they love his happy energy and his sent back to Quincy, where he gentleness.” was immediately “a breath of fresh air.” Finding his way – from Illinois to Rome “People gravitated towards him because of his preaching ability, his gentle pastoral Growing up in Quincy, Illinois, young Augustus touch, and his welcoming spirit Tolton did not have the same educational that somehow neutralized the and religious formation opportunities as his barriers that were set up in white peers. He did not receive his First Holy those days,” Bishop Perry said, Communion until he was a teenager. Fr. Tolton in 1887. October 2020 | 19 | legatus.org (new website!)

Strong spiritual leaders at work – noBle emulators of Christ ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/COKADA By Jim Graves October 2020 | 20 | legatus.org (new website!)

C-SUITE SPIRITUALITY A holy life is the fruit of a vibrant spiritual life, to which every Catholic is called. The observant Catholic leader, however, might Be confused regarding steps to take for growing deeper in his relationship with the Lord, and how to Become an effective spiritual model in the workplace. Legatus Magazine spoke to four guides who devote their lives to helping others grow spiritually, on what these steps should Be. 21October 2020 | | legatus.org (new website!)

Do the right thing, He also encourages Catholics to at the right time employ the five bodily senses and the four powers of the soul (intellect, will, memory, and Father Wade imagination), as they make L. J. Menezes, the myriad of choices which CPM is present each day: “Should I assistant watch this particular movie, ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/MICHAELBLANN general of should I heal the rift with my the Fathers brother-in-law, should I have of Mercy this second piece of pie?” and host of EWTN Perseverance is also key.  Fr. Wade Menezes Global Referencing the Stations of Catholic the Cross, Fr. Wade said, “look Radio’s Open Line Tuesday.  at those stations in which He stresses that growth in Our Lord falls and gets back the spiritual life begins with up.  For us, they are symbolic EmBody virtue to Jesus—feel the faithfulness to one’s daily of moral falls –for Jesus, they pain, let the pain duties, whether it be running were physical falls caused by … puBlicly tell you what you’re a business or attending to real fatigue; nevertheless, we Monsignor Dan believing, and then home life.  He also pointed to must, like Him, get up and keep ask Jesus to bring the “staples” of lay Catholic moving forward and become Trapp is spiritual His truth.” spirituality, including weekly holy.” director at Eucharist, monthly Confession, Sacred Heart A spiritual leader and a morning offering Spiritual leadership in the Major Seminary in the workplace (preferably with one’s spouse).  workplace can take a variety in Detroit.  He Monsignor Dan Trapp is focused on the of forms, including avoiding recommends daily practice of virtue.  Other daily practices he gossip about others, not using self-examination in the He explained, “For example, recommends are the rosary bad language or taking God’s morning, afternoon, and at justice is ‘to render each their (ideally name in vain, bedtime, asking oneself, “‘What due.’  Am I speaking the truth prayed with and leading am I grateful the family) A spiritual leader a workplace for?’  On days and reading in the workplace prayer group.  when someone a chapter of [focuses] on the He added might not feel Scripture.  further, “And grateful, take These practice of virtue do what the next step and other you’re and ask, ‘Okay, practices supposed to what should I be he includes in his “Fourteen do, when you’re supposed to do grateful for?’” Spiritual Exercises to Help it, in the way it’s supposed to Strengthen One’s Spiritual be done.  Again, faithfulness to “If we express Life,” which may be found with daily duty.   Lead by example.  our gratitude to an abundance of other spiritual Others will take note.” God each day, it ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/MANU1174 advice on the Fathers of Mercy changes the kind blog: https://fathersofmercy. of people we are.  com/fathers-mercy-blog/. Then, look at your faults. But start with God and what He is doing.” When negative Lead By to the people emotions come, we example.  in my office?  must recall they are Am I treating given to us by God to Others will each person signal when we believe take note with respect? ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/RIDOFRANZ we are in situations of … Do a quick danger, injustice, and study on hopelessness.  Monsignor each virtue to get a hold on it.  Trapp said, “We need to bring Lean into it at your workplace.  to the Lord those beliefs and Ask for the needed gift.  ask Him to bring His truth Depend on Jesus and do what into those situations.  Don’t He tells you to do.” avoid them, but open them up October 2020 | 22 | legatus.org (new website!)

Realize Who When challenges come and is in charge we encounter difficulties in our spiritual lives, the deacon said, we would do well to Deacon Steve remember the words of Peter Greco of the to Christ: “Lord, to whom shall Diocese of we go?  You have the words of Orange in eternal life” (John 6:68). ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/RONTECH2000California ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/FATCAMERAis a LegatusPeople give up too easily on member and prayer, he explained. When speaker, and their prayers of petition aren’t is president answered, they become Deacon Steve Greco of a ministry discouraged and abandon it.  which They may opt to try to make promotes evangelization and things happen on their own spirituality, Spirit Filled Hearts or even turn to the occult or Ministry (www.spiritfilledhearts. addictive practices.  However, things in our org).  He has released two books “This is not of the Lord; they are Stay near Christ lives that need on spirituality, Miracles Through going down the wrong path.” through mental to change Prayer and a second themed prayer so that we to the pandemic and times of It is important we view such Dan Burke is founder become better unrest, Be Not Afraid. challenges as “critical in disciples.”  helping us get and president of the Avila When closer to God and Institute for Spiritual Despite our approaching Mention God recognize that He Formation (www. difficult times, spirituality, and Jesus in is molding and avila-institute.org) and Dan Burke a follower Deacon Greco refining you to has written more than of Christ believes, it is conversation. grow in holiness.” 15 books on authentic should have first important Let people The mark of the Catholic spirituality.  In his “peace and joy,” and if not, to realize know what you ministry, Burke stresses the “there is some healing that “that God is Believe and why true Catholic importance of every Catholic needs to occur through deeper in charge, business leader engaging in daily mental immersion in the sacraments and you are in the workplace, prayer.  He said, “St. Alphonsus and the Catholic mystical not, and whatever success we he continued, is that he should Liguori, a Doctor of the Church, tradition.” have had, God has allowed it “treat people with compassion, said that we cannot have a to happen.”  He continued, “We kindness, and always be hope of salvation if we do not Spiritual leaders, he said, must surrender ourselves to truthful.  Mention God and practice mental prayer.” are those who are “deeply Him, let Him into our lives and Jesus in conversation.  Let grounded” in their relationship allow Him to be captain of our people know what you believe Quoting St. with God.  ship.”  Prayer, discernment, and and why.  You are the ‘fifth Teresa of Avila, Burke talking to “godly people” can be gospel!’” he describes … a follower explained, crucial to giving us insight as to mental prayer of Christ “Many what God wants from us. as “two friends ‘devout’ meeting and should have Catholics conversing,” with peace and joy don’t practice the most common mental prayer approach Lectio and fail to Divina, “a conversation based see the spiritual life as one of on the reading of the Gospels in constant growth and learning.  order to get to know the person In contrast, those who have a and work of Jesus.”  His 2017 healthy view of what it means book, Into the Deep: Finding to be in relationship to God Peace through Prayer, details are constantly growing.  They the method. devote themselves to daily mental prayer – getting to Perseverance in mental prayer know Jesus in Scripture.” L is crucial, he continued, “as it keeps us nearer to Christ, JIM GRAVES is a Catholic writer in Newport on the narrow way following Beach, California. him.  We will come to know Him, and He will reveal to us October 2020 | 23 | legatus.org (new website!)

LEGAITNUTSO PUIPOSNTEAETRESNEW YORKBY JOHN KNOWLES ON August 27, the newest observed throughout the evening, and it was a tremendous the founding Chapter president. Chapter in the Legatus success. Over the course of the coming family – Albany – officially year, monthly chapter chartered at the spectacular EARLY, MEMORABLE GET-TOGETHERS meetings rotated among four Saratoga National Golf Club in Saratoga Springs, The Albany Chapter is the realization of the vision of Bishop spectacular sites – the historic NY. It was a remarkable feat Fort Orange Club behind New during a time when so many Edward Scharfenberger, Chapter chaplain and bishop of Albany. York’s State Capitol Building, substantial gatherings of In 2018, His Excellency hosted a dinner attended by diocesan 677 Prime – Albany’s finest people nationwide have been lay leaders who were potential members of Legatus, Julie downtown restaurant and a canceled. Baaki and her husband, Bill (Julie would eventually serve as Catholic-owned enterprise, Indeed, the Albany chartering Chapter administrator), and Legatus staff. There he outlined his the serene and gorgeous was scheduled originally for appreciation for the Legatus Schuyler Meadows May 28 but could not take Mission and strong desire Club in suburban place under State of New York to host a new chapter in Loudonville, and COVID-19 restrictions. The his diocese – to be the first … A REMARKABLE Saratoga National in August chartering was made in upstate New York. Mike FEAT DURING A TIME Saratoga Springs – the possible due to its outdoor Costello was there, eventually 20-year-old upstate setup with social distancing a charter member of the WHEN SO MANY … New York crown Chapter, as was Dr. Bill Cromie, GATHERINGS … HAVE jewel acclaimed as who would eventually serve as BEEN CANCELED one of the best public Albany Chapter charter members gathered along with Bishop Scharfenberger, Albany vicar general and Legatus assistant chaplain Fr. David LeFort, and Legatus founder and chairman Tom Monaghan at the Chapter’s Chartering Mass and Banquet, August 27 at Saratoga National (Saratoga Springs, NY). October 2020 | 24 | legatus.org (new website!)

golf courses in America. The replaced actually coming region’s extraordinary venues together in person as a chapter, provided perfect settings they kept the Legatus fire lit. for these formative chapter meetings. ENCHANTED EVENING … AND NEW BEGINNING …AND THEY TOLD THEIR FRIENDS Considering all the headwinds and obstacles that 2020 At the very first chapter presented, anticipation for the meeting in mid-2018, Tom August 27 Chartering Mass and AnnMarie Marusak and Banquet was particularly became the first members Albany Chapter charter members Tom and AnnMarie Marusak receive the Legatus AMBY – strong. Held on the patio off the to officially join Legatus Chapter Founders Award from Legatus founder and chairman Tom Monaghan and Bishop southeast corner of Saratoga in Albany. The Marusaks, Scharfenberger at the Chartering Mass and Banquet. National’s immense clubhouse overlooking Owl Pond, the respected Loudonville- KEEPING FAITH AFLAME Albany Legates gathered for based entrepreneurs rosary and Reconciliation who founded the thriving At the beginning of 2020, Albany had completed Legatus’ under the tent. A beautiful decorative window-covering requirements to charter the Mass was celebrated by Bishop manufacturer Comfortex Chapter and was anticipating Scharfenberger and Fr. David Corporation, were essential to the chartering Mass and LeFort, the vicar general of Legatus’ expansion in Albany. Banquet for late May with Albany. After the bishop’s Tom and AnnMarie introduced several fantastic speakers memorable homily, all charter many of their friends to and evenings planned before members were recognized and Legatus and displayed genuine that. Then in mid-March the received their Legatus lapel enthusiasm for the nascent State of New York effectively pins and pendants. Chapter chapter. Recognizing that the locked down all nonessential officers were installed led by chartering would likely not activities in response to the Dr. Bill Cromie as president, have been successful without COVID-19 pandemic. Albany Tom Marusak as vice president, the Marusaks, Legatus founder Chapter had just hosted Rick Hannmann as treasurer, and chairman Tom Monaghan George Weigel at 677 Prime and Eileen Wood as program presented them with the for a fantastic chapter meeting chair. prestigious Legatus AMBY and was literally on a roll. Chapter Founders Award at The pandemic and reactive Albany Chapter chaplain Edward As a COVID precaution the the chartering banquet to restrictions could not have Scharfenberger prepares to celebrate Mass group skipped the cocktail recognize their leadership. come at a worse time. at the Chapter’s chartering on August 27 at reception, but enjoyed a This came on the heels of Saratoga National in Saratoga Springs, NY. fantastic dinner and service from Saratoga National’s Bishop Scharfenberger himself The state restrictions outstanding staff. The program being named the Legatus remained very strict into summer, and in-person chapter meetings highlight was a “Fireside Defender were impossible. Despite these challenges, the Chat” interview between of the Faith Chapter sustained itself with virtual online chapter Tom Monaghan and Dr. Bill honoree at the LEGATUS meetings, officer meetings to plan for when activity Cromie, where Mr. Monaghan shared stories from his 2020 Legatus BRINGS could resume, and sending commemorative statues remarkable life as one of the Summit in IT TO THE from the National Shrine of the North American most prolific entrepreneurs of Naples, Florida. NEXT LEVEL Martyrs and birthplace of St. Kateri Tekakwitha to his generation. The evening all Chapter members. While none of these methods concluded with a closing prayer from Bishop Scharfenberger, and a sense of accomplishment shared by all. Chapter program chair Eileen Wood, when asked at the chartering how Legatus membership has affected her faith life, said “[Legatus] brings it to the next level,” a sentiment broadly held by Eileen’s fellow charter members in Albany.  L (l. to r): Albany charter members Jim and Cindy Lagios, Chapter administrator Julie Baaki, Northeast director BY JOHN KNOWLES, John Knowles, charter members Alicia and David Smith, and Albany vicar general and Legatus assistant chaplain Northeast Regional Director Fr. David LeFort enjoy dinner together during chartering evening at Saratoga National (Saratoga Springs, NY). October 2020 | 25 | legatus.org (new website!)

ETHICS FATHER ROBERT SIRICO MATTERS True antidote to racial divide found in Constitution TALK OF RACIAL TENSION AND anger rather than resolves it. Speaking the calls for national conversations truth regarding the reality of race prejudice sometimes seem hopelessly in our society does not commit us to disorder. abstract and ineffectual. Confronting this harsh reality is necessary not Protests, riots, and policing only to heal racial tension, but also to realize reform initiatives across the the universal call to holiness and to renew and ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/MIKOLETTE country today are merely the strengthen our institutions. latest manifestation in an ever- churning news cycle. How can At the American founding, there was a we break it? To ask the timeliest contradiction: a society founded on claims to question, “Why do black lives human liberty on the basis of inalienable rights matter?” simultaneously tolerated human bondage. It makes no moral difference that slavery was To answer, we must examine a ubiquitous practice then. The American certain unalienable rights, that among these the historical context of our founding precisely sought to be different in its are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” country’s troubled racial recognition of freedom. eventually was enlisted to root out institutional history in light slavery. The Founders’ philosophy of protection of our robust Chattel slavery of private property and limited government, anthropology, “The Founders’ philosophy not only led to the rooted in a religious culture that holds its which offers degradation of the institutions together, was not a mistake or a an account of of protection of private slaves themselves, cynical profession to sustain the power of the elites, but a promise, never fully realized, that why human property and limited but also to the deserves to be kept. life matters. government … was not moral degradation Only when our of its participants. social action a mistake or a cynical It corroded the Christians have a unique opportunity to keep in response profession to sustain the institutions and the and extend this promise to all people. We are to injustice is very foundation of called to defend human dignity and to have rooted in a true justice by forcing a special love and care for the poor and the understanding power of the elites … but a positive law into powerless, regardless of race, color, or creed. of ourselves promise never fully realized service of slavery. We also know that the reality of sin requires and our Yet, while it set loose skepticism of all utopian “solutions.” While circumstances a poison throughout we cannot forget, ignore, or erase our history, can we expect society, its antidote we must be careful that our call for justice be worthwhile is to be found in the grounded in a clear understanding of the human change. Constitution itself. person. The first and most obvious fact Pagan philosophies justified slavery, arguing The inspiration of the abolitionist movement – diluted, ignored, or denied by that some peoples were incapable of freedom right on through to the civil rights era was some — is that racial prejudice — a notion directly at odds with the Christian that religious people, particularly Christians, and animus is real. Some of this understanding that all persons are created were grounded in a biblical anthropology that ignorance is just that; others in the image and likeness of God. The fact inspired not only their movement for human fear that acknowledging racial that the Church, from her inception, baptized freedom, but also the founding philosophy of prejudice risks unleashing people regardless of race and legal status (thus America. This same inspiration can animate us corrosive resentments and recognizing they had souls) destabilized this again today. L anger throughout society, or philosophical foundation of slavery, even if it that conceding the problem would take centuries to come to fruition. FATHER ROBERT A. SIRICO is president renounces the legitimacy of The great promise of the Declaration of and co-founder of the Acton Institute and pastor of the American founding. Yet, Independence, itself derived from Natural Law, denying this truth of American that people are “endowed by their Creator with Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish and Academy, both in experience only suppresses Grand Rapids, Mich. October 2020 | 26 | legatus.org (new website!)

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CULTURE OF MARJORIE DANNENFELSER LIFE A critical election year for pro-life voters RESPECT LIFE MONTH THIS taxpayers to pay for abortions, year coincides with the final and make the Little Sisters weeks of the most crucial of the Poor provide abortion- ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/MONKEYBUSINESSIMAGES election yet for the pro-life inducing drugs in their health cause. For Catholics, the ballot plans. decisions involve not only life or death, but also the integrity Add Biden’s running mate, of our faith. Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), and you have the most In 2016, voters rejected Hillary pro-abortion presidential ticket Clinton’s radical abortion in history. agenda along with her hostility toward religious freedom in Harris’s record is even worse general and Catholicism in than Hillary Clinton’s. As a particular. prosecutor in California, she pursued criminal State legislators have taken note, enacting more charges against David Daleiden, the brave and stronger pro-life laws each year. This time, the Democratic citizen journalist whose undercover videos Party nominee, Joe Biden, calls revealed Planned Parenthood’s trafficking in Our choice is clear. Abortion is never merely one himself a devout Catholic. baby body parts — even going as far as to raid issue among many. It is a direct attack on the Mainstream and some Catholic his home. In the Senate, she consistently voted God-given dignity of the human person. We have media have in favor of late- a duty to oppose it — as Pope Francis says, “even played up images term abortion and if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps of Biden with “President Trump’s infanticide. for you, take you to court, or kill you.” Thankfully, every pro-life American has recourse to the head bowed, opportunity to fill a third Harris brings strong ballot box to take a stand. holding rosary anti-Catholic bias beads, or meeting Supreme Court vacancy with Pope now raises the stakes to the ticket. She Susan B. Anthony List is working to reach Francis. refused to support seven million voters across all parties and even higher the nomination of demographics to educate them about the stark differences between the candidates on abortion. But pro-life Brian Buescher, We know from field experience and data that advocates of all who now serves the life issue is a potent motivator. The days stripes learned a as a U.S. district when politicians could get by on camera-friendly long time ago that one’s lapel judge in Nebraska, suggesting that Buescher’s displays of piety, without policies and actions to sticker means nothing without Catholic faith and membership in the Knights back them up, are over. action. Policy positions matter of Columbus rendered him unqualified. Her — and on life, the influence of interrogation was reminiscent of anti-Catholic Biden’s Catholicism is sadly movements of the 19th century: “Were you President Trump’s opportunity to fill a third lacking. A “devout Catholic” aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed Supreme Court vacancy now raises the stakes endorsing the expansion of a woman’s right to choose when you joined even higher. Pro-abortion Democrats promise abortion on demand simply the organization?…Have you ever, in any way, revenge if they regain the White House and does not compute. assisted with or contributed to advocacy against Senate. With the fate of countless unborn women’s reproductive rights?” children in the balance, faithful Catholics mustn’t Biden crossed a Rubicon in fail to make our voices heard. L turning against the Hyde Why would Biden pick a blatantly anti-Catholic Amendment, which has saved running mate? Because Roe v. Wade is in MARJORIE DANNENFELSER more than 2.4 million lives by trouble. Under President Trump, life is winning is president of the national pro-life group Susan preventing taxpayer funding of in America. He has done everything in his B. Anthony List. She serves as national co-chair abortion. Now he promises to power to stop taxpayer-funded abortion and of the Pro-Life Voices for Trump Coalition and is stack the Supreme Court with protect conscience rights, and his 200 judicial the author of Life Is Winning: Inside the Fight for pro-abortion justices, force appointees fill one quarter of the federal bench. Unborn Children and Their Mothers, published by Humanix Books. October 2020 | 28 | legatus.org (new website!)

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GUEST ROBERT REILLY VOICE Equality, not racism, is in America’s DNA AMERICA IS UNDER SIEGE FROM The Declaration of all sides. That’s why I wrote Independence provided the America on Trial: A Defense of moral principle of human the Founding. Today, the most equality for the ultimate often-repeated charge is that extirpation of slavery in the United States was rooted the United States. With the in racism from the beginning. background in revelation The New York Times Magazine’s that “man is made in the “The 1619 Project” stated that image and likeness of God,” it’s in our DNA. Is this true? that principle was stated ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/MATHIEUKOR with the force of natural The 1619 date was chosen reason’s apprehension of the because that’s when the Dutch “laws of nature and nature’s brought African slaves to God.” Virginia to sell to the English colonists. This was supposedly “All men are created equal” “the beginning of American does not bear out the DNA slavery.” It wasn’t, though. theory of racism at America’s Here’s the missing context: for origin. Of course, it was only as this principle Jefferson applauded the approaching measure all recorded history there was suffused society and the political order that the “to withdraw the citizens of the United States slavery. Slavery was the norm, elimination of the great evil of slavery became from all further participation in those violations not the exception. The 1619 possible. Regarding slavery, Thomas Jefferson of human rights which have been so long Project could more accurately wrote: “I tremble for my country when I reflect continued on the unoffending inhabitants of have said that slavery was in that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep Africa, and which the morality, the reputation, the world’s DNA rather than forever…” Although he was a slaveholder, and the best interests of our country have long ours. Remarkably, it Jefferson, like all been eager to proscribe.” Why, in 1820, did says nothing about major founding Congress make it a capital crime? the slavery the “[S]lavery was not the figures, considered Native Americans slavery evil. Like And why was a Civil War fought in which some practiced for puzzle. The real puzzle many others, he didn’t 400,000 Union soldiers lost their lives to preserve centuries, well was its elimination. quite know what to do the Union and to end slavery? before the English about it. Many hoped arrived and for long slavery would die out If racism was in America’s DNA, how could any afterward. That peacefully over time. of these things have happened? No one can would not have change their DNA. Yet the United States, to its suited its purpose, however, of The accusation comes quickly: didn’t the everlasting credit, eliminated slavery – because “refram[ing] American history” Declaration mean equality only for white in its actual DNA was the great moral principle around imported African people? If so, then why, in the decade between that “all men are created equal.” slaves. the Declaration and the Constitution, did every state north of the Mason-Dixon line and the Ohio To fight racism today, the last thing anyone So, the existence of slavery River abolish slavery or pass legislation leading should try to do is tear down the nation premised was not the puzzle. The real to its abolition by 1800? Why did the Northwest on that principle.  L puzzle was its elimination in Ordinance, passed by Congress in 1787, forbid the very nation in whose DNA it slavery in the huge territory that would later ROBERT R. REILLY is the director of the supposedly resided. The Times comprise five midwestern states? Westminster Institute. In government, he served should have asked: How did that happen? What ideas made Why did the Constitution contain a provision as the director of the Voice of America and as a special assistant to President Ronald Reagan. that possible, and from where allowing Congress to pass an 1808 law did they come? forbidding the foreign slave trade? President October 2020 | 30 | legatus.org (new website!)

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FAITH FR. SHENAN BOQUET MATTERS Society must be re-sensitized to God’s ‘sculpture’ of every life “THINGS HAVE A PRICE AND CAN unique and unrepeatable, deserving of loving neighbor, cherishing and respecting without be for sale, but people have a care and veneration. exception his or her inalienable dignity. dignity that is priceless and worth far more than things.” Pope St. John Paul II reminded us that we “True compassion,” said St. John Paul II, “leads -Pope Francis must reaffirm “the value of human life and its to sharing another’s pain” (EV, 66). Solidarity “is Among the many challenges inviolability.” Through word and deed, we are not a feeling of vague compassion,” the saintly humanity faces is the need to be as leaven in the world, teaching others pope asserts, but “a firm and persevering to become resensitized to the how to “respect, protect, love, and serve life, determination to commit oneself to the intrinsic beauty of human every human life,“ emphasizing that “only in common good; that is to say, to the good of life — born and unborn — to this direction will you [the world] find justice, all and of each individual, because we are all all human suffering and development, true freedom, peace, and really responsible for all.” He underscores that misery, and to all injustice and happiness!” (Evangelium Vitae, 5) “these attitudes and ‘structures of sin’ are only wrong. Tragically, many have conquered — presupposing become desensitized to the To unseat the culture of the help of divine grace — by incomparable worth of human death and its tyranny “ … where every human a diametrically opposed life and indifferent toward their neighbor. Denying the inherent against the sanctity of life is recognized as a attitude: a commitment to the and immutable dignity of the human life requires a sacred gift … and worthy good of one’s neighbor with human person, the culture of strong antidote. Caritas the readiness, in the Gospel death purports that life has is the remedy. “As I have sense, to ‘lose oneself’ for the value only to the extent that it loved you,” says Jesus, “so of protection and care … sake of the other instead of is productive or brings pleasure you also should love one until its natural end exploiting him, and to ‘serve and well-being. This ill-guided another (Jn 13:34). The him’ instead of oppressing and corrosive mentality treats human person is called him for one’s own advantage.” a person as an object to use, to love, and this love (Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 38) rather than as an object of love must be transformed and to be loved — a creation into a gift of self to the other. “To love someone,” Love implies concern for everyone. Ours, then, willed by God for his or her own said Pope Benedict XVI, “is to desire that person’s is the daily task to manifest to others a radically sake, a marvelous gift that is good and to take effective steps to secure it” different vision of the human person and of (Caritas in Veritate, 7). Thus, the culture of life human relationships, where every human life becomes rooted when we love and serve our is recognized as a sacred gift from God worthy of protection and care from the moment of conception until its natural end. To realize the kind of community that values every person unconditionally, not for what they have, do, or produce, involves a process of conversion, “sensitization,” which begins in our own hearts and is demonstrated in our choices and attitudes. During Respect Life Month, let us unite our intentions with St. John Paul II, who prayed, “May the ‘people for life’ constantly grow in number, and may a new culture of love and solidarity develop for the true good of the whole of human ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/LISE GAGNE society.” (EV, 101) L FATHER SHENAN J. BOQUET is the president of Human Life International and a priest of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, La. October 2020 | 32 | legatus.org (new website!)

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ENGAGING THE MARY RICE HASSON FAITH & THERESA FARNAN Cultivating activists, not balanced American citizens WHAT DO CLASSICISM, “change” imposed by a ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/JACOBLUND “As those first CATECHISM racism, xenophobia, sexism, new generation of social responsible and transgenderism have justice warriors. In the for the 101 in common? These are the globalized utopia of themes dominating the “Social their dreams, “citizens education Justice Book List,” the books of the world” abjure of their children, parents have recommended by the National “nationalistic” allegiance the right to choose a school Network of State Teachers of to the United States, and for them which corresponds the Year for children in [public] patriotism is a vice, not a virtue. to their own convictions. This preschool through sixth grade. How did this happen? right is fundamental. As far America’s top public school The scholastic attack on American patriotism as possible parents have the teachers recommend even began with the move to abandon “useless” duty of choosing schools that darker reading for grades seven facts and dates in history classes, which were will best help them in their through nine, adding suicide, reconstituted as “social studies.” Social studies, task as Christian educators. child abuse, mental illness, in turn, gave birth to a new kind of “civics,” which Public authorities have the “othering,” and police brutality to catechizes students in progressive identity politics duty of guaranteeing this the “isms” of elementary school. – community organizing for schoolchildren. parental right and of ensuring The recommended reading for “Rights talk” has replaced teaching the duties and the concrete conditions for its high school moves on to sexual responsibilities of citizenship. exercise.’” violence, sexual identity, sexual Beneath the surface of these changes is a trafficking, climate change, slow-boiling hostility to America – hostility Catechism of the and the “history” of the United to the founding, our market-based economic Catholic Church, #2229 States from the “perspective of system, the Constitution, our Judeo-Christian marginalized and oppressed moral tradition, and the American ideals of SCRIPTURE Train up people.” industry, patriotism, respect, equal dignity, and 101 a child in These lists were not compiled by opportunity. Students are trained to see America the way he academic radicals at progressive as blighted by racism, white privilege, sexism, should go, universities but by some of classism, patriarchy, colonialism, ableism, and a and when he America’s most celebrated slew of other “isms.” public school teachers. Worse, By the time our children reach college, the familiar is old he will not depart from it. this is the vision of America anti-American sentiments have given rise to Proverbs 22:6 that our “best and brightest” activist demands, intimidation, and even riots.  L classroom teachers believe our children need. We have seen how America’s Excerpt from Get Out Now – Why You Should Pull Your Child From Public School public schools are busily Before It’s Too Late, by Mary Rice Hasson & Theresa Farnan (Regnery Gateway, forming our children according 2018), From Chapter 5, “Cultivating Activists, Not Americans,” pp. 85-87. to the progressive vision of the person as secular and MARY RICE HASSON, JD, is the Kate irreligious, androgynous, and O’Beirne Fellow and the director of the Catholic self-defining. But there’s more Women’s Forum at the Ethics and Public Policy to that problematic vision. Progressives look at America and Center in Washington, D.C. see a deeply flawed country, built by oppression and maintained THERESA FARNAN, PHD, is a by privilege, a system ripe for philosopher specializing in virtue ethics, moral education, philosophy of the person, and ethical issues facing the family. October 2020 | 34 | legatus.org (new website!)

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WHAT TO READ The Devil and Karl Marx: the roots of communism and good. It’s a real spiritual battle, sound advice Communism’s Long March its later exponents even to and part of one’s best defense for everyone: of Death, Deception, and its vestiges in the Marxist- is in the discernment of quit playing Infiltration socialist ideology and its spirits, something St. Ignatius the “blame Paul Kengor moral relativism embraced by taught his disciples well. game.” TAN Books, 552 pages many of today’s liberals. It’s a In this manual, Dan Burke Amid all thorough study, and the devil, summarizes centuries of solid the political The devil is Kengor might say, is in the Catholic spiritual guidance and class recognized details. for doing combat with Satan. divisions by his It requires vigilance and the and finger-pointing among works, and Spiritual Warfare and the practice of virtue, but it’s a war the elites today regarding those works Discernment of Spirits that can be won because it’s everything from the state are amply Dan Burke already been won by Christ — of the economy to higher evident in Sophia Institute Press, 120 pages and as Ignatius also taught, education to immigration, the evils that each person must recognize people of virtue must take communism The devil is and choose which side he is on. responsibility for their own has wrought throughout real, and he’s role in these crises. Ordinary the world to the tune of after each Crisis of Responsibility: Our people need to stop playing some 100 million deaths. Its person’s Cultural Addiction to Blame victim, quit playing the principal architect, Karl Marx, soul. He and How You Can Cure It system for their own benefit, was not only dismissive of won’t appear David L. Bahnsen and get their own houses in religious faith but also had a with horns, Post Hill Press, 192 pages order before blaming Wall fascination with the demonic pitchfork, and Street, the government, or the as reflected in his early poetry. flames, but Among the top financial other political party for what Astute political scientist he works in insidious, subtle advisors in the country and ails them. He makes a strong and author Paul Kengor ways, sometimes disguised manager of over $1 billion in argument.  L explores that influence in as something that appears capital, David L. Bahnsen has October 2020 | 36 | legatus.org (new website!)

WHAT TO SEE Recalling the ‘Rosary Priest’ IMAGINE A HUMBLE CATHOLIC to promote family prayer He had critics who looked Pray: The Story priest who could fill a sports through the media apostolate askance at his Hollywood of Patrick Peyton arena as well as Billy Graham today and produced this film, connections, and his being Fr. Patrick Peyton, Fr. Willy Raymond, in his heyday. Fr. Patrick is the fruit of his early efforts. funded for some overseas Seamus Mulligan, Ronnie Owens Peyton, the Irish immigrant Father Peyton’s passion for missions by the CIA, who and Holy Cross priest, for Marian prayer originated in hoped his message of prayer 71 min. • Unrated decades drew crowds in the his near-miraculous healing would bring peace to countries hundreds of thousands to from tuberculosis that struck where leftist uprisings millions during his worldwide him down as he was nearing threatened. But he remained Rosary Crusades. ordination to the priesthood. above board at all times. His Pray: The Story of Patrick The experience transformed cause for beatification has Peyton, which has its him into a tireless advocate for been introduced. theatrical release this month, devotion to Our Lady, and to is an efficient documentary the importance of a family life If Fr. Peyton’s slogan is telling the life story of this centered on prayer. He enlisted accurate, then the state of remarkable clergyman who Hollywood idols like Loretta family life now suggests endeared himself to so many Young, Charlton Heston, families aren’t praying as he popularized the slogan, James Stewart, Natalie Wood, together enough. Pray is a “The family that prays together and Bing Crosby to star in his small way perhaps to rekindle stays together.” He was among Family Theater productions Fr. Peyton’s message and the early religious figures to on radio and television – not introduce the “Rosary Priest” to utilize mass media and did so only religious dramas but a new generation of Catholics. L effectively. Holy Cross Family adaptations of classic stories, Ministries, which continues 482 episodes in all. GERALD KORSON is a Legatus magazine staff writer. October 2020 | 37 | legatus.org (new website!)

HEALTH DR. BARBARA GOLDER MATTERS Make prudent business calls during a pandemic ONE OF THE GREATEST more important to challenges of the COVID-19 assess what happens pandemic is the array of if the information ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/STIGUR MAR KARLSSON HEIMSMYNDIR conflicting, ever-changing, on which actions are sometimes mutually exclusive based is incorrect. medical opinions. How do we This requires make sense out of medical advisors with evidence that changes daily? different expertise How do we make sure to do and perspectives. what is right? Being wrong about the effectiveness of Maybe we don’t. Maybe the best requiring masks, we can do is to choose not what for example, will makes us right (because that is have a very different unclear) but that which keeps downside risk us in right relationship. (little more than inconvenience for Business owners have to wearing one) than make decisions in such an being wrong about the necessity of shutting continued employment by keeping the business environment every day. The down an enterprise for several months (loss of open may be more compliant than those who see same general principles, income, personal isolation, increased mental it as government overreach. grounded in science, that health problems, or increase in spread of facilitate decisions in the infections). Work with what is possible, and encourage economic realm others to do so. This limits recreational outrage, also help in “‘Science on the run’ is Make certain to redirects energy, and focuses productive efforts. applying the confusing, and things understand the There’s not much use in arguing about what science of COVID factors that make “should” happen. to business a difference from a decisions: change quickly medical perspective, Adjust as new information comes out, as they will explaining changes required by new Decisions best undergird everything information. “Science on the run” is confusing, serve employees else. Going to a and things change quickly. To review and and customers by big-box store for analyze what changes, what remains the same, prioritizing the needs of the groceries or supplies presents a very different and how these factors affect business, leaders vulnerable, even as business infection risk than does sitting in a movie theater need reliable and well-credentialed sources of needs are met. For Christians, for an extended period. It’s epidemiologically information: consultants who are able to admit this is always a top priority. A reasonable to treat them differently. Understand their own errors and biases and who can explain pandemic doesn’t change that. why in order to understand what mitigating complicated ideas in layman’s terms. L Take time to articulate who is policies are needed. affected and how. BARBARA GOLDER, M.D., J.D., editor of Explain decisions in relational terms when Linacre Quarterly, has served as medical examiner, “What if this information is possible, and admit legitimate uncertainty. hospital pathologist, health care attorney, and as wrong?” In an environment of Employees who see wearing a mask in the director of medical quality assurance for a Fortune extreme uncertainty, it is even context of protecting others and promoting 500 Insurance company. Listen to engaging CMA doctors discuss important health  The Catholic Medical Association – comprised of over 2500 topics on Doctor, Doctor  each Saturday at 11 a.m. Eastern health care professionals from 109 local guilds – inspires /8 a.m. Pacific on the EWTN Radio Network or Sirius XM  Channel 130.  All episodes can also be accessed on your  physicians to imitate Jesus Christ by forming and supporting favorite podcast app. current and future physicians to live and promote the principles of the Catholic faith in the science and practice of medicine. October 2020 | 38 | legatus.org (new website!)

FEEDING THE JOE MICATROTTO, SR. FOODIE Quest for flavor and famiglia fulfilled in Firenze I AM GOING OUT ON A Michelangelo to create While the menu is a cornucopia of proverbial limb with these the Pieta. All these men Tuscan delights, it has at its core two nouns by claiming this lie in repose within this powerfully flavored cucina povera “quest” is satisfied in Firenze beautiful church. recipes, such as ribollita minestra. (Florence), Italy. Travel and Leisure recently called this Now on to the quest for This dish captures the rich essence Renaissance city the finest in epicurean flavor and of both Il Latini and Tuscany in the world to visit. Having made famiglia. One restaurant a bowl: diverse, complex, yet all nearly 60 trips to this jewel of encapsulates these two achievable in flavor, and available the Arno River, I agree. delights with few rivals: to cucinas whether ricco or povera. Il Latini. For decades, The true inherent beauty this gem of Italy has Having brought some 300 guests of Florence is her variety interwoven friendships to Il Latini over the years, I always of artistic, spiritual, and from every corner of the strove to return to my own epicurean wonders. Nowhere globe. The tradition is restaurants that unique “Il Latini captures Catholicism’s artistic to reveal and discover spirit.” Among my own favorite and religious flavors better Tuscany and its people. The best recipes of quotes is, “We are vital, vibrant, and powerfully than this home of the Uffizi, Tuscany’s countryside are turned into dishes flavored.” Since my earliest visits there, recalling the renowned museum that typical of this region’s tradition. The vast menu the flavors and aromas of ribollita would bring is Italy’s finest is exceeded only by her to mind the times spent dining side by side with vestige of art. wines and topped off folks from everywhere. Despite differences “The true inherent with a love of service in language, ethnicity, and race, we blended How amazing is beauty of Florence that features you, the beautifully as a flavorful family. Latin is said this city’s history, guest, as the “center of to be a dead language because it has no native where Dante is her variety of the plate.” This is where speaker. Il Latini, however, is alive and well — is just another artistic, spiritual, and family truly makes its because, like being Italian, it is not the blood in resident of the epicurean wonders grand entrance. your veins but the spirit in your heart that makes famed Basilica you il Latini. L of Santa Croce. You do not enter Il Latini You can almost for a cozy meal for two. JOE MICATROTTO SR., KCHS, has been a founder and CEO in hear the music The majority of seating is the restaurant industry for more than 45 years, including among his credits of Rossini, by groups of six or more. discuss the diplomatic state You might not know the person seated next to Buca di Beppo, Panda Express, and MRG Marketing & Management, Inc. of Europe with Machiavelli, you, (socially distanced), but by meal’s end you (Micatrotto Restaurant Group). He and his wife Connie serve as councilors ponder astronomy with Galileo, will be friends for life, or at least until you finish or question what inspired your limoncello. for the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem Western Lieutenancy. They reside in Las Vegas and travel extensively, especially in the Holy Land for the EOHSJ. RIBOLLITA (ITALIAN VEGETABLE AND BREAD SOUP) Ingredients: 3 C. napa cabbage, chopped Preparation 1. Pour olive oil into a large, deep pan. 1 C. extra virgin olive oil 3 C. canned diced tomatoes, Heat to medium, then stir in garlic. 2 large cloves garlic, diced (preferably San Marzano) Next, add all ingredients except salt, 2 C. yellow onion, chopped 3 C. cavallo nero (Italian kale), chopped pepper, cheese, and bread. 2. Cover, reduce heat to low, and 2 C. cannellini beans, 1 C. carrots, diced (small) simmer 1½ hours or until vegetables with liquid 1 C. Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, are soft, stirring regularly. 3. Remove from heat. Add salt, pepper, 2 C. water grated and grated cheese. Stir. 1 C. rutabaga, peeled and 4 tsp. kosher salt Add diced bread. 4. Refrigerate 8½ hours. diced (small) 4 tsp. ground black pepper 1 C. butternut squash, peeled ½ lb. dry Italian bread, diced To serve, reheat on medium for one hour. Add water or bread for desired consistency. Enjoy! Grazie! and diced (small) 1 C. fennel (or anise), diced October 2020 | 39 | legatus.org (new website!)

U.S. BRIEFS FOLLOWING DEATH OF JUSTICE to a Centers for Disease Control “public witness of faith” to press civil GINSBERG, TRUMP SAYS survey published in August. authorities to “Free the Mass.” REPLACEMENT WILL BE A WOMAN Of all respondents, 10.7 percent San Francisco mayor London WASHINGTON, D.C. – The reported “having seriously Breed’s norms (at press time) didn’t September 18 death of longtime considered suicide” in the 30 days allow indoor gatherings in houses U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth prior to taking the survey, which of worship — other than 12 people Bader Ginsburg – at 87, the eldest was conducted in late June. That to live-stream a service — and were of the nine justices, succumbing to number rose to 25.5 percent of restricting outdoor gatherings to pancreatic cancer – has juiced this respondents aged 18-24. 50 people (up from the previously year’s election-season adrenaline allowed 12). While the Mayor had even further. With President Tommy Tighe, a marriage and permitted indoor private prayer, Trump narrowing his choices to family counselor and host of the only one person at a time has been female candidates, Senate Majority Catholic mental health podcast allowed inside. Leader Mitch McConnell aims for a “Saint Dymphna’s Playbook,” said Senate vote before the November 3 the data shows “our baseline level BISHOPS: CATHOLIC VOTERS’ presidential election. This would be of anxiety has gone up during CONSCIENCES SHOULD President Trump’s third Supreme this experience” of the COVID-19 SUPPORT COMMON GOOD, NOT Court appointment. pandemic, lockdowns, and social PARTISANSHIP Ginsburg was the second woman distancing measures. OKLAHOMA CITY — The U.S. nominated to the Supreme Court SAN FRANCISCO ARCHBISHOP bishops’ quadrennial document (after Sandra Day O’Connor). ENCOURAGES ‘PUSH BACK’ on political responsibility “is ON MASS AND WORSHIP meant to give Catholic voters an Trump’s rumored finalists (at RESTRICTIONS opportunity to reflect upon how press time) included Amy Coney SAN FRANCISCO — In a their faith intersects with their Barrett, 48, judge with the Chicago- midsummer letter citing political and civic responsibilities,” based U.S. Court of Appeals for the government-imposed limits said Archbishop Paul S. Coakley Seventh Circuit. She is a Catholic on public gatherings due to the of Oklahoma City, who chairs the mother of seven who once clerked COVID-19 pandemic, San Francisco bishops’ Committee on Domestic for the late Justice Antonin Scalia, Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone Justice and Human Development. and who became widely known asked priests of the archdiocese when Senator Dianne Feinstein “to do everything possible to make Voting, he added, is a responsibility (D-CA) interrogated her about her Mass available to your people.” to be taken seriously and that Catholic faith during her 7th Circuit Then in mid-September, he requires prudential judgment in confirmation hearing in 2017. At emphatically denounced the city’s determining who can best serve that time, Barrett was a University updated coronavirus restrictions the common good. Titled Forming of Notre Dame law professor. as “uniquely punitive,” referring Consciences for Faithful Citizenship, PANDEMIC EFFECTS? ONE-FOURTH to limits (albeit increased) on the document has been updated OF YOUNG ADULTS RECENTLY numbers of participants allowed for and offered as a guide to Catholic CONTEMPLATED SUICIDE, CDC Mass indoors and outdoors. Saying voters every presidential election REPORTS the “time has come to push back,” he year since 1976.  L WASHINGTON — Over a quarter then asked Catholics of his diocese of young adults aged 18-24 have to join Eucharistic processions seriously contemplated suicide beginning September 20 that would during the month of June, according eventually “process together” as a October 2020 | 40 | legatus.org (new website!)

WORLD BRIEFS VIETNAMESE OFFICIALS, The worker told Radio Free Asia “If an untrue image of the exorcist’s THUGS INVADE BENEDICTINE that hospital maternity wards in ministry has spread among the MONASTERY, SEIZE THEIR LAND Xinjiang strictly enforce family general public, this is due not to HANOI, Vietnam — Dozens of thugs planning laws, including limiting the discretion with which good and local officials have undertaken Uyghurs to three children in rural exorcists proceed, but to the lack of to harass and threaten the monks areas or two in urban regions. professional honesty” in the media, of Thiên An Benedictine Monastery “There were babies born at nine said Father Francesco Bamonte, in Hueế, disrupting their community months who we killed after inducing president of the Rome-based life and seizing monastery land. labor,” and some who were born alive association. Several times in August, the were killed, the worker said. “They The 300-page Guidelines for the aggressive group, which includes did that in the maternity wards, Ministry of Exorcism was originally government officials and security because those were the orders.” published as a private reference forces from the Thuủy Baằng People’s Well over 1 million Uyghurs are book for exorcists, but many priests (Municipal) Committee, entered estimated to be kept in some and bishops thought it would be the monastery’s cloister shouting 1,300 detention camps set up by a “good catechetical and pastoral insults and threats at the monks, Chinese authorities, ostensibly for tool that would counterbalance the even mocking the image of Christ “re-education” purposes. Survivors many publications that emphasize during prayer. They also seized part have reported indoctrination, the sensationalistic aspects of of the monastery land, cordoning it beatings, forced labor, and torture demonic activity,” said Fr. Bamonte. off with a barbed-wire fence. in the camps. An English version could be out as early as next year. For years the monastery has been VATICAN-APPROVED ASSOCIATION attacked by “red capitalists” who PUBLISHES GUIDE EXPLAINING CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC HAS mix communist ideology, capitalist CATECHESIS ON MINISTRY OF REVEALED HOW OFTEN HUMAN greed, and violence, resorting EXORCISM DIGNITY IS IGNORED, SAYS POPE at times to kidnapping and ROME — A new guide compiled FRANCIS intimidation in an effort to force the by the International Association VATICAN CITY — The coronavirus monks to leave the area so they can of Exorcists and approved by pandemic has shed light on other, sell the land to speculators. the Vatican aims to provide an “more widespread social diseases,” CHINA HOSPITALS REPORTEDLY authoritative, up-to-date, and particularly attacks on the God- FORCE ABORTIONS, INFANTICIDE accurate look at the quiet backstage given human dignity of every ON UYGHURS IN DETENTION ministry of exorcism. person, Pope Francis said. CAMPS XINJIANG, China — Hospitals in “The pandemic has highlighted China’s Xinjiang province regularly how vulnerable and interconnected commit forced late-term abortions we all are. If we do not take care of on Uyghur women and killed each other, starting with the least newborn Uyghur babies to enforce — those who are most affected, China’s family planning policies, including creation — we cannot according to a former hospital heal the world,” the pope said at a worker in the region. weekly general audience in mid- August. L SOURCES: Catholic News Agency, Catholic News Service, Crux, AsiaNews October 2020 | 41 | legatus.org (new website!)

CHAPTER NEWS FORUMS FINE-TUNE INTENTIONAL LISTENING Just how important is good listening Listening is vitally important because it Any Forum member will tell you that the for business leaders? For spouses? For underpins all relationships. And we don’t chance to share what’s on his heart or any Christian who wants to grow in a do it as well as we think we do; we all have head, in strict confidence with like-minded relationship with God? Our Lord tells us room for improvement. Just ask your spouse! Catholics who’ll listen without judgement how important listening is — “Whoever has Ask for an idea on how you could listen or give rapid-fire responses for how to fix ears ought to hear” Matt 13:9. better – I’ll bet you’ll get an answer you can something, is extremely helpful. Good Good use. Ask that same question to a few people listening makes for a fruitful and enduring listening is forum. essential for at work … then listen closely. The leaders at all answers they give will be determined How do you get better at listening? You levels, and by how well they think you listen. practice. Legatus Forums provide the chance my Legatus The meaty part of the forum meeting to intentionally listen to others. And in the Forum is is the discussion. Here, a member process, we help each other grow. I know helping me serves up a business or personal that in our Forum, we’ve all become better become situation or interesting topic for the listeners. And better listeners make for better a better group to explore. The member doesn’t leaders, better spouses, better friends. It is listener. want advice as much as the chance truly a skill that stands apart. How? Deliberate practice. My fellow to hear himself think out loud, to Legatus Forum members and I come look at the situation in a different light, or MIKE MCCARTNEY and his wife, to each meeting with great intention to uncover other issues he’s overlooked. In Molly, are members of The Genesis Chapter. listen, to focus attention on whomever is order to ask the member good questions, speaking, like he is the only one in the the rest of us have to really listen. We don’t He has served on the National Board of room. Listen to understand is a ground rule ask to satisfy our own curiosity, but rather Governors, and currently works with Legatus for us. to help a member explore his own ideas, or challenge him in supportive ways. to help launch and strengthen Forums. DENVER DENVER. At the Denver Chapter’s September 3 MADISON. The Madison Chapter was honored to have Bishop Donald Hying The Chapter’s in-person event meeting, outdoor Mass on the grounds of St. John (Diocese of Madison) join their August 13 meeting, held at Milford Hills (Johnson on September 3 was held at Vianney Theological Seminary was celebrated by Creek, WI). His Excellency presided at Mass in the early part of the evening. the beautiful St. John Vianney Chapter chaplain Rev. Daniel Leonard and Fr. Jason Theological Seminary grounds. Therauf, and assisted by Deacon Steve Stemper, Chapter chaplain Fr. Daniel Deacon Brian Kirby, and Seminarian Julius Lulu. Leonard celebrated Mass in an open-air tent. The evening’s featured speaker was Dr. Mario Enzler, a former Swiss Guard who gave a very engaging talk about his conversion and Pope John Paul II’s influence in his becoming a better man, businessman, and leader. The event was also attended via Zoom for those unable to come in person. DENVER. On the beautiful evening of September 3 for the Denver Chapter’s in-person event at St. MADISON. Bishop Hying later gave an inspiring presentation at the Madison John Vianney Theological Seminary grounds, pictured here are Mark Middendorf, president Rob Attai, Chapter’s August 13 meeting on “The Urgency of the New Evangelization.” Elizabeth Lazzeri, guest speaker Mario Enzler, and Rob Kohl. October 2020 | 42 | legatus.org (new website!)

CHAPTER Fr. Will Schmid celebrated Mass spoke about “Excavating Jesus,” NEWS with speaker Fr. Dave Heney enlightening attendees about concelebrating, while at-home archeological findings from the PHOENIX members “Zoomed” in to the service Holy Land. Phoenix Chapter Legates and and dinner/speaker. Fr. Dave guests met in person for the first time since February on September 9 at The Henry Restaurant. Chaplain PHOENIX. Pictured from the Phoenix Chapter’s September 9 meeting are: (l. to r) Phoenix chaplain CLEVELAND. Fr. Patrick Schultz (left) and Fr. John Riccardo (right). Fr. Fr. Will Schmid, Scott and Nicole (Chapter president) Fleckenstein, and Fr. Dave Heney. Riccardo inspired Cleveland Chapter members at their August 19 meeting at Canterbury Golf Club in Beachwood, OH, as he challenged them to see the big picture of God’s plan for the world, and each person’s place in the mission to bring souls to Him. Fr. Schultz is the Chapter’s new associate chaplain. The event was likewise accessible by Zoom to members who could not attend. CHARLOTTE. The Charlotte Chapter welcomed its newest members, Justin and Angela Biance, at the September 10 meeting. The couple is shown here after their investiture ceremony, alongside chaplain Abbot Placid Solari and Chapter president Dave Anderson at Ballantyne Country Club in Charlotte. CHARLOTTE. Charlotte Chapter members seen here enjoying the lovely September 10 evening on the veranda at Ballantyne Country Club. The evening’s featured speaker, Frank Cannon, talked about “A Catholic Moment In Politics.” October 2020 | 43 | legatus.org (new website!)

CHAPTER NEWS PITTSBURGH Members of the Pittsburgh Chapter who have visited Medjugorje and plan to return in September 2021 with Fr. Tom Kunz, Chapter chaplain, would like to share what a radical faith experience it was and encourage others to join. Jim and Cathy ORANGE COAST (MULTI-CHAPTER EVENT). On August 11, the Orange Coast Chapter ORANGE COAST (MULTI-CHAPTER EVENT). Howe, along with Chris welcomed members of Orange County, Orange Canyons Chapters for a gathering. Also in Orange Coast Chapter chaplain Fr. Patrick Moses and Molly McMahon, attendance were Peter and Katie Szyman from the San Juan Capistrano Chapter as well as offered outdoor Mass for the August 11 multi-chapter Franny Stone, Cathy John Cox and Mike and Sandy Murphy from San Diego. Legates Bob and Marty Birgen, Nell gathering as the number in attendance swelled. Crawford, Scott and and Jerry Hackbarth, Kathleen Lund, Wayne and Deanna Lugo, Dr. Martin O’Toole with wife Some had not been able to attend Holy Mass or Barbara Davidson, Joanna, Mike and Marcie Soper, and Tony and Kristy Vena drove in from Pasadena. The event receive the Holy Eucharist for months beforehand. was a beautiful summer evening of Catholic faith and fellowship. Orange Coast vice president Tom VanDorpe and his wife Lisa led the Rosary (pictured here) for some 55 Legates. Fred and Christine Hespenheide, Pat and Andrea Molyneaux, and Frank and Christine Strano, have made this visit to the small village in Bosnia-Hercegovina, where Our Lady has been reported to appear to six visionaries. Cathy Howe has made a pilgrimage to Medjugorje 26 ORANGE COAST (MULTI-CHAPTER EVENT). Enjoying the times since 1994, and has written August 11 social following rosary and Mass, pictured here (l. to r.) are Joe a book about her experiences: A DeSantis, Michele DeSantis, Joanne Hulme, and Mark Hulme, all members Heavenly Promise. “In these times of Orange Coast. of darkness, God has a peace plan. I believe the Blessed Virgin is being sent to earth to help God’s plan come into fruition! It is a simple plan, consisting of prayer, especially the rosary, frequent reception of the ORANGE COAST. At its September 8 meeting, Holy Eucharist, regular Confession, Orange Coast hosted its first live-streamed speaker, reading the Bible, and fasting with Legates from the Orange County Chapter joining regularly. Through my experiences in as well. Nationally syndicated radio show host Hugh ORANGE COAST (MULTI-CHAPTER EVENT). The August 11 multi- at Medjugorje, I know God is in Hewitt stayed up late to address members and guests chapter event was delayed three months due to the CA governor’s stay- charge, and that is peace itself!” LIVE at 8 p.m. PST with his Election 2020 insights. Over at-home order. Prior to guest speaker Antwone Fisher’s presentation, For more information, contact 75 Legates came together for dinner and fellowship at Orange Canyon Legate Chuck Walker (pictured with wife, Annette) shared [email protected]. L The Pacific Club, and another several dozen couples his personal testimony about how viewing the 2002 film, “Antwone tuned in for the live broadcast. Shown here are (l. to r.) Fisher” (speaker’s biography set to cinema) had an impact on his life. Carrie Paone and Mary Campbell, of Orange County. PITTSBURGH. Legatus Medjugorje Pilgrimage group,November 2019. ORANGE COAST (MULTI-CHAPTER EVENT). Also at the August 11 multi-chapter meeting, pictured here are Pasadena Chapter’s Deanna Lugo, Nell and Jerry Hackbarth, and Joanna O’Toole enjoying their first in-person Legatus event in five months. October 2020 | 44 | legatus.org (new website!)

CHAPTER NEWS ATLANTA. On September 8, Atlanta and North Georgia Chapters had a special combined event. Members from the two Chapters attended Mass at the Cathedral of Christ the King Church with newly appointed Archbishop Gregory Hartmayer, O.F.M. Conv, concelebrated with Monsignor McNamee and Chapter chaplains Fr. Lino Otero, LC and Fr. Juan Pablo Durán,  LC. ATLANTA. At the Atlanta and North Georgia Chapters’ combined event on September 8, immediately following Mass the group enjoyed a cocktail reception, dinner, and keynote presentation by former Swiss Guard, Dr. Mario Enzler, at The Buckhead Club. Pictured here: Archbishop Gregory Hartmayer, O.F.M. Conv. and Dr. Mario Enzler, special guests for the evening. Dr. Enzler both entertained and inspired the group by sharing stories of his interactions with Pope St. John Paul II and Saint Mother Teresa. INDIANAPOLIS. Legatus founder, chairman, & CEO Tom Monaghan is shown here presenting Indianapolis Legate Jerry R. Jones with his new Governor Appreciation Plaque. Jerry was elected to the Legatus Board of Governors on September 17, and is CEO Emeritus of Cannon IV, Inc. Previously, he had been Legatus National President of the Year (2017). He has won many business and civic awards, and has served on numerous boards and councils. NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER NORTHERN VIRGINIA. Northern Virginia Legate Marjorie Dannenfelser (second from left) was among a small group of leading American women invited to President Trump’s posthumous pardoning on August 18 of Susan B. Anthony, long ago arrested and fined $100.00 for illegally voting in the 1872 election.  The ceremony marked the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which protects the right of women to vote.  Reflecting on the milestone at the White House ceremony, Dannenfelser said: “Susan B. Anthony fought to expand the promise of human rights and dignity to all people. She and her compatriots provide us with the model of how to advocate for the voiceless and disenfranchised in our own time. It is her courageous example that inspired the formation of Susan B. Anthony List [of which Dannenfelser is president] and continues to inspire our work today…”. October 2020 | 45 | legatus.org (new website!)

CHAPTER NEWS BALTIMORE. Baltimore Legates are pictured here enjoying the Chapter’s Summer Social at the BISMARK. With Central Region director Ken Darnell in town for the September 3 beautiful home of members Mike and Gina Baldwin in Crownsville, Maryland on August 22. Bismarck meeting, Chapter member Vern Dosch and he participated in a radio program hosted by Monsignor Patrick Schumacher of Real Presence Radio to talk about Legatus.  The program is broadcast to North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota. PASADENA. The Legatus member who is owner and hospitality manager of BISMARK. The September 3 Chapter event for Bismarck was held in beautiful Medora, where Theodore Chateau Montelena Winery in Napa, Judy Barrett, took the Pasadena Chapter on Roosevelt National Park is located; it is part of the Badlands with spectacular views.  Mr. Roosevelt spent a virtual tour of the winery, cellar, and castle on August 12. Chapter members were three years there after losing his wife and mother on the same day in completely unrelated circumstances.  He given a presentation on the two wines shipped to them, had a virtual tasting in the then immersed himself back into politics. Confession, rosary, and Mass were held at St. Mary Catholic Church, comfort of their homes, and a digital mingle with other Legates afterwards. and dinner was held outside on a gorgeous evening at the Harold Schafer Heritage Center where members were served buffalo!  Fr. Russell Kovash was the guest speaker with an inspiring presentation on gratitude. PASADENA. SAVANNAH. Following their induction on September 1 at the Oglethorpe Club, new Savannah members Chuck and Dotty Kearns October 2020 | 46 are welcomed to the Chapter by president Ed Chapman, Bishop Stephen Parkes, and Chapter chaplain Fr. Daniel Firmin. | legatus.org (new website!)

2021 SUMMIT EAST SPEAKER 5 MINUTES BRIAN FRAGA WITH Campus priest’s example led her to healing and a life with Christ SISTER MIRIAM JAMES HEIDLAND TO SPEAK ON OVERCOMING ADDICTION AND HER CONVERSION AT JANUARY EVENT A PRIEST’S AUTHENTIC People often ask, “What’s the it is you’ve got, but I want that.” His witness was Christian example changed the best gift I can give to other what allowed me to dream about something course of Sister Miriam James people around me?” I really and different. I didn’t know that was possible. That Heidland’s life. truly believe that the best gift witness opens our hearts to see something “I am a religious sister today we can give to other people is to different. largely because of the witness allow Jesus Christ to come and of somebody who loved heal us every single day. How did you come to enter Christ,” said Sister religious life? Miriam, who was a What was it Division I volleyball about a priest’s After college, I went to a SOLT mission in New player at the University witness that Mexico. Within a few months, I had a distinct of Nevada, Reno when led to your encounter of Jesus Christ calling me. I just knew she met the priest on conversion? it. I didn’t discern other communities. It was such campus. a profound moment, a signal grace, where I knew His witness led her to He was the first Christ was calling me, and that if I didn’t say yes discern her vocation and person I ever met in that moment, I knew I would never do it again. join the Society of Our who was totally It was a powerful moment of encounter. Lady of the Most Holy in love with Jesus Trinity (SOLT) in 1998 Christ. He was so You’ve spoken that encountering after graduating from college. one with Christ that you could Christ led you to experience healing Her own encounter with Christ tangibly experience Jesus from childhood trauma. What also led to profound inner Christ in his presence. There happened there? healing from childhood trauma were many times when Father and addiction that she often would look at me and I could Opening our hearts to the deepest places of pain talks about in conferences literally see Jesus looking at is the deepest means of transformation. We all around the country and me through his eyes. It was have addictions in our lives, the places we run overseas. so tangible. His holiness, to when we don’t like how we’re feeling, or when Sister Miriam will speak about because of his intimacy with there are things in our lives we don’t want to face. the power of Christian witness Jesus and Mary, could not be Through facing those uncomfortable things, and her conversion story at the denied. You’d meet him and those unpleasant memories, the pain in our 2021 Legatus Summit East in you’d think, “This is a man who lives, and gracing those things with Christ and January. She recently spoke loves Christ. This is a man who being honest about them, His light comes in and with Legatus magazine. intimately walks with Jesus.” transforms them. What will you talk about It was so powerful and so Do you still enjoy sports? at the Summit? captivating that I remember looking at him when I was 21 I love sports. It’s one of my love languages. It’s I speak a lot about having a years old, a college senior, an such a great metaphor for so many things. I use personal encounter with Jesus addict, my life a hot mess, and sports analogies all the time. It’s one of the ways Christ, conversion, and healing. thinking, “I don’t know what the Lord speaks to me, through the power and beauty of sports. L October 2020 | 47 | legatus.org (new website!)

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MEET THE BRIAN FRAGA CHAPLAIN ‘A pastor is close to his people,’ says Genesis chaplain MONSIGNOR BILLIAN FINDS PASTORAL DISTANCE GREATEST PANDEMIC CHALLENGE UNTIL HE FIRST BECAME A How have the last 10 How did the pandemic impact your parish priest nearly 10 years years been as a parish priestly ministry? ago, Monsignor Michael Billian priest? regarded Legatus’ Genesis Celebrating the sacraments without a Chapter essentially as his At first, I was made congregation was challenging. My best friend parish. pastor of two parishes: for two-and-a-half months at the liturgy, when “That was my regular a standard family city public Masses were suspended, was the camera community,” said parish with a grade mounted on the back wall of the church. It‘s still Monsignor Billian, 62, a school, and a parish a challenge today to not be in close contact with priest of the Diocese of at the University of my people: I call them on the phone, and see Toledo who spent his first Toledo. They were two them at a distance now. But generally, a pastor is 27 priesthood years in a very different parishes, close to his people. That hasn‘t been very possible variety of roles including but wonderful lately. I don’t get to make as many rounds to shut- diocesan vicar general experiences. After ins or people in the nursing home. That’s why it’s and chancellor. seven years, the bishop good to get back to some normalcy, even if it‘s Today, as pastor of St. asked me to take on the still reduced. Joseph Church in Sylvania, largest parish in the Ohio, Monsignor Billian still diocese. We have more than What value do you see Legatus having serves as chaplain of the 10,000 registered members for its members and the Church? Genesis Chapter. He recently and a big school. I’ve been here spoke with Legatus magazine. two years. It’s a wonderful When you look across the diocesan boards and community. councils, they’re significantly populated with How is the Genesis Legates. There are many members in my parish Chapter doing? When did you first have as well, and they’re the leaders of our parish. an inkling that you were They have a strong effect on parish and diocesan The chapter has continued to called to be a priest? life. I believe the time they spend together helps entice a lot of people to have nourish them for doing that. To be able to have interest in Legatus. We’ve In grade school. After eighth the time to pray together, to be strengthened in had a heavy concentration of grade, I went to the seminary their personal relationship with each other, and members in the Toledo area, for high school, college, and to have great speakers who motivate us to take but really our territory is the theology training. It wasn’t Christ into the marketplace is a blessing. That whole Diocese of Toledo, which dramatic or any lightning bolt. blessing overflows from the members to their covers 19 counties. We’ve I was impressed with the parishes and to the diocese as well. always had a few here and priests I had encountered. And there, but we’re beginning to I had other people telling me, What advice do you regularly give to make inroads into other areas “You ought to think about being the Legates in your Chapter? within the diocese. That’s very a priest.“ I’ve been a priest for promising. a little over 36 years and am Do not be afraid to approach your chaplain. He absolutely in love with my doesn’t take the place of your pastor, but he can vocation. be a great help to you personally and for your chapter. L October 2020 | 50 | legatus.org (new website!)