Legatus Magazine August 2021

AUGUST 2021 HEROES IN UNIFORM ISSUE NEAR-DEATH COVID BATTLES J. PEARCE: FIGHTING THE GOOD WHAT IS HEROISM? [LEGAL] FIGHT P. SMITH: MATT MAHER – COVID VACCINE DECEPTION FR. PAVONE: ROUSING SUMMIT ALL LIVES MATTER WEST SINGER P. KENGOR: DEFENDING THE POLICE OPPOSING WOKE CAPITALISM

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08•21 INSIDE VOL 34 • NO 8 16 FIGHTING THE GOOD CHRISTIAN FIGHT IN AMERICA … AND WINNING by Jim Graves Southern CA Legate-lawyers triumph in defending religious liberty 10 20 24 ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/BILL CHIZEK FORGE2TLHERGOAUTGEHS ONOCEUTT,UNNOEWD LEADECRASTHMOULSITC TOUCH-AND-GO SINGING GOD’S BEAT BACK ‘WOKE’ COVID COMBAT PRAISES CAPITALISM by Gerald Korson by Tim Busch by Roxanne King Former Navy officer, Christ’s ambassadors publishing executive wage Summit West entertainer have obligation in service melodizes renewed battles of their lives to Truth and justice 5August 2021 e| ncounter with| Clhegraitsuts.org

MORE COVER 08DIRECTOR’S DESK 39 PHOTO ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/CARPE89 Stephen M. Henley: POW chaplain, unsung hero 39FEEDING THE FOODIE istockphoto.com/ J. Folse: Redfish Paella gordon images 09EDITOR’S DESK 49FIVE MINUTES Sohrab Ahmari: 2021 Summit West speaker PAGE Christine V. Owsik: True heroism stands alone 50 MEET THE CHAPLAIN PHOTO Fr. Michael Dolan – Hartford Chapter 26ETHICS MATTERS Chef John Folse shares his authentic J. Pearce: What is heroism – and true hero? Paella dish – perfect 28CULTURE OF LIFE for late summer –after walking the P. Smith: Calling out vaccine deceptions Camino in Spain 30GUEST VOICE and sampling many versions of it along P. Kengor: Defending the police the way. 32 FAITH MATTERS Fr. Pavone: Docs should protect all lives 34ENGAGING THE FAITH A. Ruse: What to do now 37WHAT TO SEE Joseph of Nazareth 38 HEALTH MATTERS Dr. Massoglia: Managing chronic pain BOARD OF GOVERNORS Berni Neal Randall W. Hammond Diana Parent Executive Director Thomas S. Monaghan Orange Coast Denver Fort Wayne Stephen M. Henley Ann Arbor Secretary Advent Capital Parke Group International Chaplain Legatus Troy L. King S. Craig Henry James P. Sarni Bishop Frank Caggiano Founder, Chairman & CEO Orlando Lafayette-Acadiana Pasadena Bishop of Diocese of Bridgeport Dentistry for Children Bradford Food Group Payden & Rygel Ecclesiastical Advisor Christopher S. McMahon Treasurer Jerry R. Jones Mark R. Scalise Archbishop José H. Gomez Pittsburgh Sean J. Bellew Indianapolis Jupiter/Palm Beach Archbishop of Los Angeles MFA Wealth, LLC Philadelphia Cannon IV Scalise Industries Corporation President, United States Conference Vice Chairman Bellew, LLC of Catholic Bishops LEGATUS MISSION STATEMENT: Editor Christine Valentine-Owsik Comments, queries and address changes: Legatus magazine is published 12 times per To study, live, and spread the Design  Shawna Kunz, Lime Design Legatus Magazine year by Legatus, a membership organization Catholic faith in our business, Editorial Consultant  Gerald Korson PO Box 444 of Catholic presidents and CEOs. professional, and personal lives. Contributing Writer  Judy Roberts Ann Arbor, MI 48106-0444 © 2021 Legatus Contributing Writer  Jim Graves [email protected] All rights reserved Contributing Writer Patti Armstrong Phone: 866-534-2887 Contributing Writer Trent Beattie Copy Editor  Nancy Carabio Belanger To advertise, contact: [email protected] Advertising Sales Representative Joe Giacalone

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S STEPHEN M. HENLEY ST. BERNARD DESK OF CLAIRVAUX POW chaplain — (1090-1153) an unsung hero FEAST DAY: AUGUST 20 IN JUNE, I HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO CANONIZED: JANUARY 18, 1174 join our Indianapolis Chapter for their monthly event. Aside PATRON OF BEEKEEPERS, from being a great chapter of CANDLE MAKERS 62 members, our third -largest chapter in the organization, “WHAT WE LOVE, WE SHALL GROW TO they hosted a phenomenal RESEMBLE.” • ST. BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX chapter speaker who is apropos for this month’s magazine St. Bernard was born into a theme: Heroes in Uniform. wealthy Catholic family in France. Originally trained as a Fr. Matthew Pawlikowski, Kapaun gained a reputation for bravely soldier, he subsequently joined known formerly as Chaplain serving the troops, rescuing the wounded and the Cistercians, and led 12 (Colonel) Matt Pawlikowski, dead, and ministering to the living by doing monks to start a new community first served as a commissioned baptisms, hearing Confessions, offering Holy in Clairvaux (“the valley of officer before pursuing his Communion, and celebrating Mass on an light”). Many men joined, vocation and returning to the improvised altar on thehood of a Jeep. At times his including his widowed father, Army to serve as a Catholic Mass kit, Jeep, and trailer were destroyed by enemy siblings, and cousins. As abbot, chaplain at the United States fire. In letters home, he said he was thoroughly Military Academy at West Point. convinced that others’ prayers helped him survive. he spent long He retired in 2020 and was hours in prayer, hired as a civilian to be the first In November, Kapaun’s 8th Cavalry Regiment was realizing the Catholic ever to hold the post of attacked and overrun. Despite many pleas for value of solitude Senior Chaplain at West Point. Kapaun to retreat, he stayed and rescued nearly as a time to Chaplain Col. Pawlikowski 40 men, which later earned him the Medal of communicate donned his Korean War-era Honor. He was eventually taken prisoner by the with God and olive drab blouse (shirt for Chinese where he gained the reputation of caring ‘hear’ His will. you civilians) and took to for his fellow POWs by stealing food for them. the podium. In front of him It was reported that in the prison camp, nearly Bernard was sat a table of props he used two dozen men daily would die from starvation, COMMUNION OF reluctant to throughout his dramatic malnutrition, disease, and cold. Kapaun refused reading of Fr. Emil Kapaun’s to despair and remained a beacon of hope for the SAINTS leave monastic story, which he likewise men until his last breath. seclusion, enacted. A native of Pilsen, KS, Fr. Kapaun eventually succumbed to malnutrition but because of his great ability Kapaun became a priest of and pneumonia in a Chinese death house (which as arbiter, was summoned the Diocese of Wichita. He the Chinese referred to as a ‘hospital’) on May 23, frequently to help solve Church rose to the rank of Captain 1951. Aside from the Medal of Honor, Kapaun disputes – like in 1130, when both after serving in World War was posthumously awarded the Legion of Merit Innocent II and Anacletus II each II, finished active duty, and for meritorious conduct as a POW. In 1993, Pope claimed to have been elected earned his master’s degree at St. John Paul II made Kapaun a Servant of God. pope. Innocent II would prevail. Catholic University of America. On March 4, 2021, his remains were identified He returned to active duty to and brought back to the Diocese of Wichita. An He battled heresies and deploy to Japan in 1950, and incredible witness for us, as we soldier our way vehemently defended soon was shipped off to Korea, through day-to-day struggles.  L Catholicism – his most popular making the first amphibious work being the Apologia. He assault of the war in July that STEPHEN M. HENLEY also urged Christians to defend year. is Legatus’ executive director. Europe against the threat of the Ottoman Turks. Known widely for his scriptural knowledge and eloquent sermons, Bernard unfailingly pursued his first Love – and invited others to Christ through Catholicism. When he died in 1153 there were some 400 Cistercian monasteries in Europe, 163 of which he founded. He was named a Doctor of the Church in 1830. L — Jim Graves 8August 2021 | | legatus.org

MARK YOUR EDITOR’S CHRISTINE VALENTINE-OWSIK CALENDARS DESK 2021 SUMMIT WEST True heroism often stands alone SEPTEMBER 16-18, 2021 THE PHOENICIAN, ONE OF THE FORGOTTEN – BUT Fortunately, the Church, in her timeless wisdom, SCOTTSDALE, AZ integral – tenets of Catholic holds to the ancient teachings of objective truth. teaching is that of objective No one – no matter his or her position in the MEDJUGORJE PILGRIMAGE truth. This is the reality of hard Church – can claim otherwise. There is no ‘re- moral truth, even if societally reading’ of doctrine pertaining to longstanding SEPTEMBER 28-OCTOBER 5, 2021 unpopular, or nonconforming moral law. It stays fixed, settled, unchangeable. BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINIA to someone’s newfound The long-ago Roman Catechism – the ‘identity.’ comprehensive one compiled at the Council of MEN’S ENCLAVE But when people become fixed Trent – goes through each Commandment and in their attachment to subjective elucidates the moral teachings and boundaries OCTOBER 13-16, 2021 truth, they seek affirmation pertinent to it. What is deemed objectively wrong THE JL BAR RANCH in it – even legalization and – is still just that – wrong. Then, now, and forever. SONORA, TEXAS groupthink-embrace of it. They relish consensus that bolsters Even if a person is unaware that something WOMEN’S ENCLAVE it. They’re ‘mature’ in their vice is evil or disordered, it remains objectively so – it undergirds their lifestyle, (though his culpability before God depends OCTOBER 24-27, 2021 enjoyment, and popularity. on his knowledge at the time.) Further, every BISHOP’S LODGE It’s finally deemed ‘correct’ in sin affects more than the perpetrator, it affects SANTA FE, NM polite society, and sophisticated society in disruption and disturbance – known Catholics now advocate non- and unknown – over time. The day-to-day 2022 SUMMIT EAST imposition of their faith. The contest for each of us is stepping up and get-along Catholic mutates into calling sin what it is – then working to stop JANUARY 27-29, 2022 the nice-guy neighbor, tolerant it. People need to hear the Truth, before it’s AMELIA ISLAND, FLORIDA of all. He doesn’t call a spade a too late. The stakes have never been higher, spade, it’s whatever he wants nor the risks greater. But God’s reward will be HOLY LAND PILGRIMAGE it to be. God takes a back seat commensurately grander. as a malleable fan. After all, no FEBRUARY 21-MARCH 2, 2022 one’s run into Him on the street Recently, we’ve had two incredibly effective JERUSALEM, ISRAEL lately, or had an uncomfortable priests at our parish moved to invisible tangle with Him in the post assignments, ostensibly because people were MEXICO PILGRIMAGE office. He’s quiet, so He’s surely ‘offended’ by their sermons and counsel. These acquiescent. priests had likewise kept themselves available JUNE 10-13, 2022 Human respect – the for Confessions and spiritual direction during MEXICO CITY, MEXICO temptation to enjoy esteem the pandemic – even when other priests hadn’t, and ease – is often at cross- and always took phone calls. They expounded on OBERAMMERGAU purposes with Truth. Christ the hard teachings of the Church, and gave spot- PILGRIMAGES said, “I have not come to unite, on counsel, even when it was hard to hear – and but to divide… a man’s foes will harder still to live. AUGUST 22-30, 2022 be those of his own household” BAVARIA & AUSTRIA (Matt 10:34-36). He meant His Real, heroic ambassadors of Christ – particularly teaching will inevitably divide His faithful priests – are true to Him even when 2022 SUMMIT WEST those who abide by it from they must stand alone. A number of them are those who won’t. Even among being called to that right now. L SEPTEMBER 1-3, 2022 groups seen as likeminded or COLORADO SPRINGS, CO close relations. CHRISTINE VALENTINE-OWSIK is Legatus magazine’s editor. 2023 SUMMIT EAST FEBRUARY 9-11, 2023 ORLANDO, FL FOR MORE INFORMATION: [email protected] OR CALL 866-534-2887 9August 2021 | | legatus.org

from near-death...back into life Two Legates find interior strength and renewed perspective after surviving touch-and-go battles with COVID-19 by Gerald Korson August 2021 | 10 | legatus.org

The coronavirus pandemic, now in ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/SAMAFOTO apparent remission, has exacted a toll beyond the inconveniences and hardships of social distancing, vaccination campaigns, and disruption of employment, education, and public worship. Although the vast majority of those infected with COVID-19 have experienced relatively mild to moderate symptoms, many have struggled through more severe complications, and many have died. Two Legates, Bryan Pecherek and Jason Shanks, were infected in late fall 2020 and came close to slipping into that final category. Both men spent last Christmas in hospitals, unconscious, and on ventilators, fighting for their lives, sustained by life-support measures and the fervent prayers of many. These are their stories. 11August 2021 | | legatus.org

a marathon battle Around December 8, Pecherek came down with what he suspected was his usual seasonal sinus infection, but the As an avid runner and former following week his condition worsened. His physician and fellow U.S. Navy Reserve officer, Legate, Dr. Max Mercado, wrote prescriptions, but his symptoms 55-year-old Bryan Pecherek remained unremarkable. By the 18th, after a work-at-home day profiles as the very picture of that “was a fog,” things escalated rapidly. His wife, Jen, who had health. gone to bed earlier, came downstairs to discover him lying on the couch gasping for air. She phoned 911. “I was in good health before EMTs arrived in hazmat gear, found his oxygen levels perilously Bryan Pecherek in his hospital bed the ‘Vid,’” as he calls the low, and rushed him to Grand View Hospital in Sellersville, PA. during his induced coma. coronavirus, “and probably the Before he knew it, he was in a hospital room, intubated, and on a updates and shared what he best condition I had been in the ventilator. Soon he was sedated into an induced coma. He would could. They all stepped up in last 20 years,” Pecherek said. “I remain in that state for 12 days. ways I cannot describe.” was going to the gym three or “I coded and needed to be revived on the 19th,” Pecherek said. Doctors held little hope for his four times per week and running He later developed pneumonia and sepsis, and his kidneys were survival and believed he would on the other days, training for failing. “On the tenth day of the coma, they were going to medevac suffer permanent effects of a half-marathon.” He had no me to a neighboring hospital to take my blood out and clean it the disease if he did survive. underlying health conditions. on some special machine.” Concerned he’d not survive the flight, “My friends felt differently Yet when COVID-19 paid a doctors kept him in the ICU instead. and had lots of hope that God visit, it hit him. Hard. “It was a Meanwhile, Pecherek’s family, friends, and fellow parishioners would answer their prayers,” total surprise,” said the Bucks held him up in prayer. Pecherek said. Nurses would County, PA Legate, a financial later tell him how they were advisor with New Britain “Legatus was praying and saying rosaries for Financial Advisors. great during him as well. this time. After On December 29, Day 12 of the my recovery, coma, he was removed from I discovered the ventilator and breathing on that the entire his own. He had slept through group was Christmas but was conscious praying for me, by New Year’s. On January 2, my family, and my recovery constantly,” he said. “Max Mercado called the hospital for ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/DON WHITE Bryan Pecherek begins his rehabilitation at Grand View Hospital in Sellersville, PA. 12August 2021 | | legatus.org

“… strength for recovery ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/GRANDFAILURE came from … discipline … learned in the military and athletics. But the main source … was … prayer. Bryan and After weeks of rigorous inpatient rehabilitation, Catholic Innovation and a Jen Pecherek, Pecherek was released and returned home. He Fort Wayne, IN Legate, was at the day Bryan attributes his “miracle” to multiple factors. elevated risk of complications finally left the “My strength for recovery came from a due to his asthma. As his hospital; he combination of the discipline I learned in the family recovered, his health lost 50 lbs. military and athletics,” he said. “But the main headed downhill. during the source of strength was truly and simply prayer.” “We were following all CDC- ordeal. Months later, he still asks God what His plan or advised protocols, especially he was transferred to recovery special mission for him might be. But he’s sure of social distancing and wearing and spoke to Jen for the first one thing. of masks,” Shanks said. “I did time in 16 days — via video “My goal now, more than ever, is to get to heaven and to do what I think I would likely have a chat. can to get my wife and kids there too,” Pecherek said. “My goal is to more severe case, and was I Now awake, Pecherek, whom be a saint. But for now, I am a saint-in-training.” ever right.” staff began calling the “Miracle His prolonged battle and Man,” could pray again. He through the shadow of death triumph over COVID-19 leads began to remember dreams many to speak of a miracle. he had during his coma – of After Jason and Melissa Shanks’ Jason’s cough was out of heaven, of his guardian angel, special-needs daughter was of a “joyful and comforting” exposed to COVID-19 through love such as he had never her therapist’s office in early experienced before, of the November, the illness coursed Blessed Mother holding his throughout the household as hand as he lay in his hospital might be expected. Melissa bed. “The feeling was an and all five children recovered indescribable love and peace,” unscathed. he said. But Jason, president of Our Jason and Sunday Visitor’s Institute for Melissa Shanks 13August 2021 | | legatus.org

control, and he could not “My Men’s Forum realized I wouldn’t be able to breath deeply. He stepped buy my wife Christmas presents, so they went up breathing treatments and shopping for her on my behalf. I couldn’t believe got meds from the hospital they did this,” Jason said. The Women’s Forum ER but was not admitted. On assisted Melissa with meals, laundry, and other November 14, nine days after helpful tasks. For her part, Melissa made nightly testing positive, he was rushed video calls to Jason after the kids were asleep back to the hospital. to share the daily Mass readings and rosary with him, hoping he might hear her despite his Shanks thought all he needed unconsciousness. was an overnight stay with oxygen and steroid treatment. In early December, doctors saw signs of Once admitted, however, improvement and tried to wean Jason off the doctors put him in the ICU. ventilator. That didn’t work: he developed Like Bryan Pecherek, he was bacterial pneumonia and a MRSA infection sedated into a comalike state. that advanced into sepsis. Now sicker than In Shanks’s case, he would be ever, Jason’s organs were shutting down and kept unconscious for six weeks. his kidneys failed. He was placed on full-time dialysis, and doctors nearly hooked him to a Melissa Shanks knew she heart-lung bypass machine. Doctors told Melissa couldn’t handle this crisis that were Jason to survive, he likely would need alone, so she turned to dialysis and a ventilator for her partners in faith life. and to social media to ask for prayers. “… he would be Melissa put out another The response was kept unconscious urgent call for prayers, and overwhelming. Our for six weeks Jason’s supporters began a Sunday Visitor, local Novena to St. Jude, the patron Jason Shanks holds one of his children as the parishes, and other of lost causes, on December family visited him during his weeks of recovery. groups organized rosaries, novenas, and 15. A friend brought Melissa “When you almost lose your a St. Jude relic, and a nurse placed the relic on life, it just puts everything meal deliveries. Fellow Jason’s chest as he slept. in perspective as to what’s Legates responded important and not important,” generously with both prayer The next day, Jason had his first negative COVID-19 test, and he told OSV Newsweekly. and practical support. his chest X-ray showed dramatic improvement to his lungs. Throughout the novena, his One major change in Jason’s other symptoms also improved. prayer life is that he now has By Day 9, doctors were planning a strong devotion to St. Jude, to wean him from the ventilator having personally experienced again. his powerful intercession. In January, Jason was moved Reflecting on his ordeal, Jason to a rehabilitation facility in expressed gratitude. Ohio to continue his daunting path to recovery. His kidneys “I feel free,” he said. “I am not returned to normal function supposed to be here. I want after having shut down, to appreciate things so much something Jason’s nephrologist more and take nothing for calls a “miracle.” Jason had to granted. I have a greater sense relearn how to speak, eat, stand, of urgency.” walk, and write. His six weeks under sedation left him with an He felt that gratitude in a alternate sense of reality, and it special way when he returned took time to readjust to real-life to his first meeting with his routines. But his therapy went Legatus family. well, and within a month – on February 8 – Jason beat the odds “When I walked in, they and went home. cheered,” Jason recalled. “It Like Pecherek, Jason’s near- meant the world to me to be death experience led him to back with friends, celebrating re-examine God’s purpose for what God had done.” L his life and re-evaluate his Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese celebrates Mass in priorities. GERALD KORSON, editorial consultant Jason Shanks’s room at the rehabilitation facility in Ohio. Bishop Rhoades “helped for Legatus magazine, is based in Indiana. me understand how to apply graces I might be receiving because of my trials to the suffering of others,” Shanks said. 14August 2021 | | legatus.org

prayers in the key of life “As I was recovering in the hospital, I would pray for eight or ten hours a day. I also discovered that thousands of people were praying for me… It was and is so humbling to find that even one person will take the time to ask God to help you.”  •Bryan Pecherek “One Gospel story that resonated with me during my illness and recovery was that of the paralytic being lowered through the roof to Christ for healing. His friends interceded on his behalf. I relate this to the many ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/JC_DESIGN people who prayed for me and supported my family. In a way, I was put before Christ, and he said: ‘Rise and walk.’” •Jason Shanks 15August 2021 | | legatus.org

fighting the good fight … and winning As American society has become secularized, the right of Christians to represent their faith publicly is increasingly at risk. Whether it be advocacy for the rights of the unborn, openly expressing their beliefs, declining to participate in activities they deem morally objectionable, or even gathering for Sunday worship, Christians are expected to tolerate unjust discrimination or face legal sanction. Legates Charles “Chuck” LiMandri and Paul Jonna, partners in the Southern California law firm LiMandri & Jonna LLP, are unwilling to accept violations of the rights of Christians by civil authorities, and have put their immense legal talent to work to preserve the religious liberties of their beleaguered clients, often prevailing in their efforts. by Jim Graves 16August 2021 | | legatus.org

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ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/CHRIS RYAN St. Thomas More, Mount Soledad in 1954. The cross was participate in a city Gay Pride mentor built as a war memorial on public land, parade by a lesbian fire chief. and its presence was challenged in the The foursome participated the LiMandri lives and works in courts for being a religious symbol on first year despite opposing the the San Diego suburb Rancho government property. Between 2004 and parade agenda, but found “they Santa Fe, and had been a 2012, LiMandri provided $2 million worth were subjected to obscene successful litigator since 1983. of pro-bono legal work to save the cross; gestures and vulgar catcalls by A committed Catholic, he has supporters prevailed when a non-profit the homosexual throng. When grown increasingly concerned group bought the half-acre site on which they would not respond to the about the direction of society, Chuck LiMandri the cross was built for $1.4 million. sexual overtures of the crowd, saying “… I want to help preserve as much of our Judeo- At the urging of fellow Legates, “… want to help it turned hostile, and they were Christian culture as I can.” LiMandri established the Freedom preserve as further assaulted with He takes as his inspiration St. of Conscience Defense Fund to much of our insulting words and Thomas More, the 16th-century support his work on behalf of gestures.” lord chancellor of England who religious rights. His organization When they refused was ultimately beheaded at the has recently partnered with the to participate the command of king Henry VIII, Thomas More Society, a Chicago following year, the case because he would not accept law firm led by Catholic attorneys Judeo-Christian went to court, with the King as self-proclaimed head of the Church. engaged in similar work. LiMandri culture as the city arguing the In the early 2000s LiMandri explained, “While it has not yet parade participation joined Legatus and became been finalized, we’ve effectively [possible] was a public relations involved in a number of civil rights legal battles, among merged our two firms.” function, like visiting a the most notable being the local school. LiMandri, effort to preserve a 43-foot arguing on behalf of cross erected atop San Diego’s Can fight city hall the firemen, countered that it was in reality a political event In 2007, LiMandri was called on to defend the rights of four “designed to advocate for the San Diego Christian firemen who objected to being ordered to civil rights of homosexuals, 18August 2021 | | legatus.org

and in recent years to promote will ultimately win the case, as forcing her to make a same-sex Judge Pulskamp signed a the controversial concept of gay wedding cake “would constitute compelled expressive speech; permanent injunction barring marriage.” such compelled speech is absolutely prohibited by the First the state from ever imposing LiMandri again prevailed, Amendment.” discriminatory restrictions on and the city agreed that in houses of worship in an effort the future city employees Litigation for life to combat COVID-19; the State could no longer be mandated of California also agreed to pay to participate in Gay Pride or LiMandri is also involved in pro-life cases, representing David $2.15 million in “prevailing other political events. Daleiden and his Center for Medical Progress in litigation party” attorney fees. Jonna He is currently involved in triggered by his 2015 release of undercover videos exposing called the decision “vitally another key case challenging Planned Parenthood’s sale of aborted baby parts. important,” and believes the those who promote the gay California government has rights agenda, this time on While in his early legal crusades LiMandri shown “a complete disregard behalf of California cake artist operated as a one-man operation, in 2016 for religion. They view it as Cathy Miller of Tastries Bakery. he took on a like-minded young lawyer, unimportant.” Miller was asked to create a Paul Jonna, whom he said, “has really been cake for a same-sex wedding a big help to me.” Jonna has also worked on other reception, but she refused, civil rights cases, including citing her Christian beliefs. Paul Jonna Jonna, a Latin Mass-attending Catholic advocating on behalf of The couple filed a complaint with seven children, had previously Children of the Immaculate with California’s Department worked at large law firms and was on track Heart (CIH), a San Diego-area of Fair Employment and to become a partner. During that time, he religious charity that helps Housing, which sought an noted, many partners held a secular liberal women escape from sex order to force Miller to create worldview, and “assumed you shared that.” trafficking. State licensing cakes that celebrate same-sex offices denied a license to ceremonies. When Jonna complained to his pastor, the priest introduced Jonna CIH because they find CIH’s A state court judge ruled in to LiMandri, who eventually hired him. Jonna is now a partner in Catholic identity offensive, Miller’s favor, but additional the firm and assists with LiMandri’s civil rights work, and a total of Jonna said, and they disagree litigation is still pending. 10 lawyers are now employed by the firm. with the charity’s religious LiMandri believes Miller beliefs about sexual orientation Among the cases Jonna has been involved with include defending and reproduction. “compelled the rights of California churches to be treated on an equal basis as expressive Jonna won, and a license was speech … is large retail outlets in regards granted. He observed, “What absolutely to COVID-19 lockdowns. this case has exposed is that prohibited Jonna successfully officials of the State of California, by the First advocated on behalf of despite the San Diego area Amendment Society of St. Pius X priest Fr. having a major sex trafficking Trevor Burfitt, who serves at problem, would rather leave multiple California churches CIH closed and unable to help including Our Lady of the victims, rather than having the Angels Church in Arcadia. home run by Catholics.” He also advocated for South Bay Pentecostal Church Both LiMandri and Jonna are and its pastor, Bishop Art grateful for the support and Hodges III, against the encouragement their Legatus State of California and its Chapter has provided them governor, Gavin Newsom. in their legal advocacy work; The superior court judge on Jonna is the Chapter’s current the case, Gregory Pulskamp, president and LiMandri past noted he was not convinced president. that churches should be treated differently than Many more important civil big-box retail stores as “… rights cases are pending; for It appears that shoppers additional information, visit the at Costco, Walmart, Home Thomas More Society website Depot., etc., may — and (www.thomasmoresociety.org). frequently do — congregate ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/LURII in numbers, proximity LiMandri concluded, “It has L and duration that is very been a struggle, but we’re comparable to worshippers winning some important in houses of worship.” battles.” JIM GRAVES is a Legatus magazine contributing writer. 19August 2021 | | legatus.org

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–M aontnotcwe Mt traouhunfebeorardd oGouuordt, When then-Canadian college student Matt Maher moved from Newfoundland to Arizona in 1995 hoping to finish his music degree and pursue a career in film scoring, life took an unexpected turn—he found Jesus and never looked back. Along with finding faith, the now hugely popular, award- winning Christian music artist also found his calling. By Roxanne King 21August 2021 | | legatus.org

Roadshow 2020 tour. Tuning in It was summer and Maher’s “As he grew parents had separated. His mother, an American, relocated in faith, his to Phoenix. On a whim, the songwriting 20-year-old jazz piano major reflected the accompanied her. questions he “I wanted to get into movies, was asking. particularly film scoring,” he said. “I thought, this is my opportunity to head west.” In Phoenix, a cousin invited him to Mass. Although a lapsed Catholic at the time, Maher went, thinking, “OK, I guess we go to church here.” He continued going and hanging out with his cousin and her friends who were volunteers with a Charismatic Renewal youth group. “By summer’s end … I began loves me. It’s so beautiful,” Maher said. “I had that encounter and or co-written five No. 1 radio to feel like maybe the reason it knocked me over. I immediately had this sense that God was singles. I was there was less about my saying, ‘Hey, there’s so much more I want to show you.’ My 21st Maher, now 46, is humble about music career and more about my birthday was that weekend, and then I was just off to the races.” his success. encounter with God,” he recalled. “I really wasn’t even a His feeling was confirmed tChomromuguhninsgonwgith God … singer,” he said, about his that November when he was pre-conversion musical recruited to provide music for Intent on realizing his baptismal promises, as he finished his degree experience, which included a youth retreat. In his mind, he at the University of Arizona, Maher played piano and sang at church playing keyboards for garage was just jamming and goofing as a way of tithing his time, talent, and treasure. As he grew in faith, rock bands. “That’s the funniest off, much like band leader and his songwriting reflected the questions he was asking. At the same thing to me. That’s the irony of fellow Canadian Paul Shaffer. time, contemporary worship music was coming into its own. God, that I would primarily be Returning from a cigarette “It wasn’t something I was chasing after, it was what I got led into known for my voice—the thing break, Maher caught a skit and fell into,” he said about becoming a troubadour for God. I was least comfortable with.” about a teenager whose heart After graduating in 1999, he moved to Mesa, AZ, where he did full- Career highlights have included got broken. Accompanied by time parish work and got involved in youth ministry. performing for massive crowds an ‘80s pop ballad describing “We’d be on a retreat and would need a song about how God is a gathered with the last three a turbulent relationship that family—the Trinity—so I would pray about that, mull that over, and popes: Pope St. John Paul II can also be understood as one’s write a song,” he said. at World Youth Day 2002 in connection with God, Maher Soon, other churches were using his songs. Eventually, other Toronto, Pope Benedict XVI’s broke down. artists wanted to record them. In 2001 he released the first of three 2008 visit to the United States in “All of a sudden it was very independent albums, “The End and the Beginning,” and his career Yonkers, NY, and Pope Francis apparent to me that God was as a Christian music artist and songwriter was born. twice—with an estimated 3 speaking in the midst of it, In 2008, his first major-label album, “Empty and Beautiful,” made million people at World Youth saying, ‘Hey, I want to give the Billboard Top 200 secular album chart—a rare achievement Day 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, and you a new heart,’” he said. for a Christian artist. Since then, his popularity and critical at the 2015 World Meeting of Chuckling, he added: “Now I acclaim has grown exponentially. He is a nine-time Grammy Families in Philadelphia. look back and go, this is very nominee and three-time GMA Dove Award winner. He has written “All of those experiences were formulaic. But I’d never seen amazing. How lucky are we anything like it at the time.” to be alive at a time when we God spoke to Maher through get to have visible examples of the music. His conversion was this grand enterprise we call swift and strong. the universal Church?” he said. “I didn’t realize how much God August 2021 | 22 | legatus.org

“These events … remind us of which is his marriage. He tied the knot in 2010 with Maher and his family at the beach, 2021 (Front, L-R: how global the movement of Kristin Fisher, a non-Catholic. Residing in Nashville, Rowan, Callum, Conor; Back L-R: Kristin, Matt). Christ is.” the Mahers attend both a Catholic and a non- denominational church but are raising their three Pofrofmouunsdic power children Catholic. He aims to write songs “We’re dedicated to this pursuit of unity and that echo what the Church relational reconciliation within the church,” Maher professes and believes. Arising said. “My music is just an extension of that.” from his honest pursuit of the truth, his music resonates with Harmonized priorities others, Catholic or not. In 2005, during a Bible study, Maher Balancing both a music career that demands “At gatherings like this God has was profoundly struck by John touring with raising a family, while challenging, multiple things He’s doing— 17:21, often called “The High is helped by his faith, which puts things into He’s changing our hearts and Priestly Prayer of Jesus.” There, perspective. The Christian view of life is that of He’s also rallying His followers Christ prays, “that they may all being on pilgrimage from earth to heaven, Maher for multiple purposes,” Maher be one; even as thou, Father, art said. Within that, life is made up of seasons. said. “I hope the weekend in me, and I in thee, that they “This period of life as a touring artist, singer- helps bring about a change for also may be in us, so that the songwriter, it’s a season. And I hold it very loosely,” everyone there.” L world may believe that thou he said. “I don’t want to end up in the position of hast sent me.” having built a mountain for God at the expense of “Something really broke in my ignoring my vocation as a husband and father.” heart for that prayer that hadn’t The Scriptures, the sacraments, the rhythm of the before, particularly around liturgical calendar, the rosary, the Ignatian exercises of daily the unity of Christians,” Maher examen and discernment, help keep him grounded. said. “I realized the way I could “The Gospel comes to bring comfort to the afflicted and to afflict comply with Jesus in this prayer the comfortable. I hope my music creates an atmosphere for that is through my music. Music has to happen,” Maher said. “All art has the opportunity to reflect the the ability to create common transcendentals—truth, beauty, and goodness. I hope my music ground. I realized that’s part of does that.” my calling.” Communion, or unity, is a Maher is looking forward to the Sept. 16-18 Legatus Summit West ROXANNE KING is a Legatus magazine theme that permeates all of in Scottsdale, AZ, where he will share his music and stories about contributing writer from Denver. Maher’s life, not the least of the action of God in his life. “Arising from his honest pursuit of the truth, his music resonates with others, Catholic or not ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/KATIV August 2021 | 23 | legatus.org

Catholic ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/TEAM DAF business leaders must fight ‘woke’ wave Welcome to the era of “woke capitalism.” Everywhere you look, companies are wading into the most contentious political debates – and undermining the truths and principles that Catholics cherish, and America needs. As Catholic entrepreneurs, innovators, and executives, we must stand against the rising tide of radicalism, or else we and our country will be swept away. I’ve been focused on this crisis support federal legislation – the misnamed “For the People Act” pressured to embrace the for some time, and last year, I – that would give D.C. control over state elections and undermine Equality Act, a bill in Congress even hosted a conference on free speech. Businesses are jumping on the bandwagon, fearing that would redefine gender the topic of woke capitalism. they’ll be attacked if they don’t. and gut religious liberty. This The crisis has only worsened That’s bad enough, but it gets worse. Companies are being bill, which recently passed since then. On issue after issue, the House of Representatives political and cultural activists are pressuring companies to toe an extreme ideological line. While this effort defies a simplistic left-versus-right distinction, it’s undeniable that so-called “progressives” are leading the charge to take America backward. Dangerous trajectories Where to start? How about the ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/PAUL BRADBURY campaign to weaken America’s electoral process. Activists have pressured countless companies to oppose common-sense voting reforms at the state level. Businesses like Major League Baseball have canceled big events in states like Georgia. Plenty of other businesses are boycotting states. Now activists are demanding that companies August 2021 | 24 | legatus.org

and has the support of the “equity” instead of “equality” in hiring, promotions, and public Just as important, we can White House, would obliterate statements. But that’s just code for judging people by the color illuminate what’s right the legal distinction between of their skin, which is rightly called racism. This overtly political for our communities and men and women, force campaign is pushing companies to undermine human dignity, country. We should point out transgenderism on society, while calling it justice. the timeless principles and and hasten the collapse of precepts that we hold dear the family. Activists want it Today’s Catholic ambassador while advocating for an ethical to become a litmus test for approach to business. We have businesses. Support it, and In the face of these assaults on truth, human dignity, and common the opportunity – and the you’re safe. Oppose it, and sense, what is a Catholic business leader to do? obligation – to act in service to prepare to be savaged. Some may be tempted to stay quiet or, worse, go along with the truth and justice. And we must It’s a similar story with woke wave. That would violate everything we stand for and move always and everywhere pray, abortion. Nearly 50 years America further away from its moral foundation. It would make fast, and give alms, combatting after Roe vs. Wade, abortion businesses tools of the state. That’s the path to crony capitalism evil with the goodness of God. extremists have co-opted the and, ultimately, socialism. business community to oppose It’s just as unacceptable to fight fire with fire. Companies shouldn’t Our leadership is urgently pro-life laws – see the 180 wade into political and policy fights from the opposite direction. needed. The woke wave is CEOs who recently signed a Our role as job creators is to unite society by serving society, not crashing into America. It’s up to letter opposing any abortion divide people by picking sides. If companies get in the business of us, as people of faith, to be the restrictions. The goal is to get politics, then politics will dominate business. wall that beats it back. L every business in America But Catholic business leaders can still speak up, forcefully on board with abortion-on- and respectfully. As individuals, we can and must use our TIM BUSCH, a demand. platforms and positions to shine a light on all that’s wrong with Legatus member for And of course, activists are woke capitalism. Some are doing just that by calling out woke pushing businesses to accept a companies directly – check out the Consumers First Initiative, 31 years, is founder radical approach to race. They which is running ads against woke companies. and CEO of Pacific want companies to focus on Hospitality Group and founder of the Napa Institute, a Catholic lay organization. ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/DEBERARR ‘‘The woke wave is crashing into America. It’s up to us, as people of faith, to be the wall that beats it back August 2021 | 25 | legatus.org

ETHICS JOSEPH PEARCE MATTERS What is heroism, and who are our true heroes? IN AN ISSUE DEDICATED TO THE daily basis. He is one who knows that theme of “heroes in uniform” such heroism is not possible without it would be good to remember God’s help. This is why true heroes do the uniformity of heroism not hold their heads high in pride but itself. Heroism is the same in bow them in prayer. A true hero is one all ages because, in essence, it who admits to himself his failures and is synonymous with holiness. A confesses them to God. A true hero hero is someone who lays down knows that he is not always heroic. He his life for others. No greater knows that heroism is cooperation with love has anyone, says Our Lord, the will of God. than to lay down his life for his friends (see John 15:13). And This understanding of heroism since Our Lord also commands animates my forthcoming book, which us to love our neighbor (see is a history of “true England.” It tells of Mark 12:31), we can see that a those heroic souls who remained true to hero is one who lays down his Truth Himself even in the darkest times. life for his neighbors. These heroes of true England include St. Alban, the first English martyr, put to If, however, acts of heroism can death during the Roman occupation, as be seen to be self-sacrificial well as the hundreds of English martyrs and therefore holy, are all who were killed during the 150 years heroes to be considered saints? of tyranny and torture that followed Surely not. Isn’t history full of Henry VIII’s establishment of a state “heroes” who were certainly not religion to supplant the true Church. saints? ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/CASEY HILL PHOTO Does this mean that heroes must be Someone can show great martyrs? In one sense, it doesn’t; but, in courage in wartime but a deeper sense, it does. Clearly it is not mistreat his own family always necessary to die for the Faith members in times of peace. in order to be truly heroic. Heaven is The question we need to ask full of saints who died in ripe old age, is whether such people are peacefully in bed, having lived long truly heroes. lives of heroic self- a matter of laying down our lives for Christ and Although they sacrifice. Yet even His Church, and for our neighbors as well as our can be said to “He … knows that … these heroes were enemies. be heroes at martyrs in the deeper certain heroic heroism is not possible and broader sense This is true heroism. It is the heroism to which moments in without God’s help. … of the word. Martyr Christ calls us. It is the heroism by which we take their lives, is means “witness.” up our own individual cross, carrying it with this enough to [T]rue heroes do not hold Insofar as we are all Christ’s help, as a way of helping others. make someone their heads high in pride called to be witnesses Returning to the original questions about a hero in the to the Faith in our defining heroism, we can see that heroism is fullest sense? but bow them in prayer daily lives, we are doing what Christ commands, and that the true heroes are those who are trying to be saints. L The answer thereby embracing must be “no.” martyrdom. If we are JOSEPH PEARCE is director of book willing to practice publishing with the Augustine Institute, editor of A true hero what we preach, is one who makes a habit of putting our Christian principles into practice, we the St. Austin Review, and the author of many heroism. He is one who lays are witnesses and therefore martyrs. And this books. His personal website is jpearce.co. down his life for others on a does indeed require that we die for the Faith. It is August 2021 | 26 | legatus.org

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CULTURE OF PETER JOSEPH SMITH LIFE Calling out the vaccine producers’ viral deceptions THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAS all COVID-19 vaccines in the United States are Concurrently, the immorality and perils inherent challenged the very concept of tainted by the use of abortion-derived cell lines. in these vaccines are being discounted. imago Dei and is demanding consideration of how far we will In response, the Catholic hierarchy capitulated, These vaccines are not just weakened forms of go to deny our inevitable death. arguing that these tainted vaccines are morally the virus. As Dr. Tal Zaks, chief medical officer Timothy must have had this in permissible because of the grave danger and at Moderna (until February 2021) said, “We are mind when he wrote: “The time because these abortions took place 40 years ago. actually hacking the software of life.” is coming when people won’t listen to good teaching. Instead, No! This is wrong! Abortion, either as an end or These coronavirus vaccines are experimental they will look for teachers who a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law. gene therapies that supercharge our immune will please them by telling That an abortion took place 40 years ago has no cells. With the COVID-19 vaccine, immune cells them only what they are itching bearing on the fact that it is human trafficking are supercharged to target the spike protein to hear” (2 Tim 4:3). to harvest an aborted child’s organs in order that of the coronavirus. Targeting is not highly In this context, Big Tech, Big we might live. specific, however, and since humans have Pharma, and the mainstream some 20 naturally occurring spike proteins, media have seized the lectern. This harvesting of preborn children’s organs sometimes the wrong spike protein gets targeted, They teach that if we are to continues today. The U.S. Food and Drug with adverse consequences. The placenta, for survive, the whole world must Administration currently example, has spike protein, be vaccinated. Anything that supplies “fresh” aborted body and some miscarriages does not fit this narrative is parts to “humanize” mice for “… the immorality and after vaccination are blocked as “fake news,” just as testing biologic drugs such as perils inherent in these attributed to supercharged social media routinely blocks the coronavirus vaccines. This immune cells targeting expert COVID-19 opinions practice was stopped in 2019, vaccines are being the placenta spike protein. presented on our radio program but the Biden administration discounted Moreover, that woman and at our pro-life convention. has reapproved this federally might now be “vaccinated” In April 2020, the U.S. bishops funded trade in body parts against any future pointed out that aborted obtained by abortion. pregnancy. children’s body parts were not required for vaccine Moreover, the gravity of the coronavirus We are created in the image and likeness of development since alternatives danger is at best controversial. Coronavirus God. So, besides the immorality of harvesting are available and regularly death definitions are so inconsistent that body parts from children He made, is it licit for used. But we did not insist on any conclusions drawn from the data are Catholics to cooperate in “hacking the software these moral options, and now meaningless. To wit, the CDC has stated that of life”? Or to coerce others to participate in this only six percent of reported deaths were from violation of God’s creation? coronavirus versus with coronavirus. But the “For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the debate over whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul?” mortality is (Matt 16:26) L irrelevant. ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/KOVOP58 Whether there PETER (JOE) SMITH of the Cleveland were 500 or Chapter, originally from the U.K., has travelled 500,000 deaths, extensively and lived in South Africa, Zimbabwe, what matters is Canada, and the U.S. With advanced degrees in that a vaccine science and engineering, he worked in collecting tainted with body and analyzing data to make global strategic policy parts harvested decisions. Before retirement, he led the global from an aborted operational excellence team for a major U.S. corporation. He now works child is gravely with Cleveland Right to Life, and supports the nightly radio program From contrary to the the Median and the annual “Bringing America Back to Life” convention. moral law. August 2021 | 28 | legatus.org

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GUEST PAUL KENGOR VOICE Defending the police … so they can defend us IN MID-MAY, FINALLY FREE they want to abolish the police, they “100 from nearly a year of lockdown percent” mean they want no more police. that cancelled all my speaking engagements, I spoke to three They’ve pursued just that. Legatus chapters: Lexington, Louisville, and Indianapolis. “We call for a national defunding The people were great, the of police,” states Black Lives Matter interaction stimulating and on its website, under its hashtag fun. I was struck at how our #DefundThePolice. Under the tab “What conversations touched on not Defunding the Police Really Means,” BLM ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/NNEHRING just matters from COVID to the leads with this outrageous claim: “We culture to the Church, but the know that police don’t keep us safe.” social unrest in the streets the year before. That’s an alarming assertion that angers police (including black officers) as well as This was particularly the black residents in communities who feel the police “I talk to them,” Joe told me. “I treat them with case in Louisville, where the do keep them safe. dignity. I tell them that I want to go home tonight Breonna Taylor incident had and see my family. We talk about race. We talk taken place, which spilled Asked about defunding, David Clarke, the former about religion.” protesters into the streets, sheriff of Milwaukee County, WI, (and African He has worked to form bonds. But now, it’s many of them backing Black American), states emphatically: “The biggest getting harder. Lives Matter and demanding losers in all this will be poor black people in “For the first time in my 15-plus-year career,” the defunding of police. There crime-ridden ghettos. The police are the only Joe said to me, “I feel I can understand what the were also demonstrations thing standing between them and violent soldiers returning from Vietnam experienced in Lexington, criminal predators. You’d upon returning to a thankless country.” a university have to loathe black people All Joe wanted to be was a policeman. While town. And “… you don’t make to do that to them.” other students of mine went to law school or medical school, Joe went to police school to learn likewise, protests the streets safer Of course, cities that have how to chase down bad guys. He viewed police had shaken by defunding or cut police funding, like heroically, but now he feels helpless. downtown Of course, I totally understand that there are Indianapolis. Portland and Seattle, have abusive police. I’ve personally witnessed it. abolishing the police seen an explosion in crime Friends of mine, white friends, have experienced police abuse. But you don’t make the streets safer For many of and civil unrest. And the by defunding or abolishing the police. the protesters, police feel embattled. defunding the police meant precisely that. For This brings me back to my three recent talks to some, even that wasn’t enough. Legatus chapters. I finished up in Indianapolis, They have called for abolishing where a former student of mine is a police officer. the police, and more. I’ll call him “Joe.” “Abolition is the getting rid “As a police officer I see firsthand the damage Bad police need to be stopped, but good police of police, prisons and jails, that Black Lives Matter is causing,” Joe told me. need to be defended.  L surveillance, and courts,” states He’s suddenly facing suspicion and hostility Patrisse Cullors, founder of from a black community he worked hard to PAUL KENGOR is professor of political Black Lives Matter. establish friendships with. His fellow police science at Grove City College in Grove City, PA. He is She’s far from alone. officers (many if not mostly black) jokingly call author of more than a dozen books, including The BLM activist Miski Noor insists him “the philosopher” because he engages in Devil and Karl Marx: Communism’s Long March of that when fellow activists say philosophical-theological conversations with Death, Deception, and Infiltration, and A Pope and street guys, black and white. a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century. August 2021 | 30 | legatus.org

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FAITH FATHER FRANK PAVONE MATTERS Protecting life and the integrity of the medical profession ONE OF THE KINDS OF UNIFORMS After surgery, during we are all used to seeing are which I was on a those of medical professionals heart-lung machine who care for our needs – for a time, I told the doctors, nurses, other medical doctor that two times specialists. They go by different in my life, my heart colors, and yet all of them, for so has started beating. many of us, inspire confidence. One was 18 days after We literally put our lives in their conception; the other hands and sometimes receive was a few hours ago. back from their hands God’s gift of life anew. Life indeed is a gift, and so is medicine. That I recently had more interaction fact that someone can with them than usual as I went hold my heart and fix ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/STURTI through open heart surgery it to work better than for a mitral valve repair, before is amazing. And necessitated by a congenital it raises the question of condition (for whichI had no why we still haven’t set symptoms). I was cared for the medical profession in Orlando by Advent Health, free of the stain and shame of killing babies by and promote life, as the physician acts directly whose motto is “To Extend the abortion. Babies at their most dependent and against the physical life of a child, whom he or Healing Ministry of Christ.” vulnerable stage of life continue to be snuffed she had just delivered, all but the head, out of the And what a fabulous job they out legally by the thousands each day in our womb, in order to end that life.” did. Each doctor, nurse, and country. medical assistant This indeed is a motive today as well for ending in the unit wore a This not only all abortion, and for our efforts to protect babies heart-shaped pin “… the protection of compromises the born alive after a failed abortion. I praise God that said, “I care for human life is … the moral condition of for the efforts of each one of us in the pro-life you like I care for our culture, but it movement. _____” and then motive for which so also compromises had the name of many … wear those the dignity of the When I awoke from anesthesia after surgery, as someone dear to medical profession one of my Priests for Life associates approached them: a parent, awe-inspiring uniforms itself. me, the first words I said were, “For the unborn!” grandparent, spouse, that represent the We reaffirmed to one another that this is the child, or other We are making motive for which we are doing what we do each special person. medical profession tremendous day. And the protection of human life is also the progress against motive for which so many men and women wear The whole abortion. One such those awe-inspiring uniforms that represent the experience was step has been the medical profession. L a great reminder federal protection of the dignity of life as well offered to children against the partial-birth FATHER FRANK PAVONE is one of as the dignity of the medical abortion procedure. In the very text of that law, the most prominent pro-life leaders in the world. profession. On the day of signed in 2003 by President George W. Bush, the surgery, I told my doctors that motive of protecting the integrity of the medical In 1993 he became National Director of Priests I had the easiest job of all: they profession itself is explicitly mentioned in the for Life. He is also the president of the National had to do the hard work, those following words: Pro-life Religious Council, and the national pastoral close to me had to do the hard director of the Silent No More Campaign and of waiting, but I just had to go to “Partial-birth abortion also confuses the medical, Rachel’s Vineyard, the world’s largest ministry of sleep and get all the benefit. legal, and ethical duties of physicians to preserve healing after abortion. He has served at the Vatican assisting the Church’s pro-life work under Pope St. John Paul II. More can be found at www. FrFrankPavone.org. August 2021 | 32 | legatus.org

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ENGAGING THE AUSTIN RUSE FAITH Answering the burning question of what to do now DO NOT GIVE IN TO POLITICAL correctness. It is a kind of terrorism. … Consider that there are ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/DIANE555 Coming to see CATECHISM three levels of fighting back… in the faith their The three steps are “quiet and new dignity, 101 privately,” “flying the flag,” and “charging the sniper’s nest.” First, act quietly and privately. people know that it is acceptable to disagree with Christians … Give your time or treasure. those who have put us under siege. They want are called to lead henceforth This can be quiet and private. us to think we are alone. Flying the flag means a life ‘worthy of the Gospel of Here’s how. others will know they are not alone. … Without Christ.’ They are made capable Find a local group lobbying a doubt, this could make things uneasy for of doing so by the grace of the school board, trying to get some, but it will not threaten your job and your Christ and the gifts of his Spirit, pornographic sex ed out of the career.… When you raise the flag, others will which they receive through school. Send them a check. rally to it. They are waiting to know that others the sacraments and through Show up at a meeting and wish are like them. prayer. them well. Even something so small means a lot. That means Third, charge the sniper’s nest. This is not for the Catechism of the a great deal to them because faint of heart and not for those who fear for their Catholic Church, #1692 those who are charging the livelihood. This means making a public speech sniper’s nest often feel alone. at the school board meeting. It means getting SCRIPTURE I have fought Above all, when they have a on the board of directors of a group fighting the 101 the good tough vote, show up and just LGBT agenda or for the unborn child. It means fight, I have sit there! They will know you’re coming out in the open and understanding that finished the there. This does not mean you the sniper will be firing at you. And you might have to raise your head above get hit. race, I have kept the faith. the fox hole, make a speech, 2 Timothy 4:7 and maybe harm your career. …Go to Mass every day if you can. Say the rosary Make these thanks private, every day … Read Sacred Scripture every day. quiet. That is fine. Find some spiritual reading. Find a spiritual ... Second, fly the flag. director. Learn the Faith. Teach it … especially Flying the flag can be quite [to] your children and your grandchildren. This is straightforward. Speak up. How foundational. many times have we simply swallowed our views for unity … And remember, there has never been a finer and comity, when all the while time to be a faithful Catholic. Your descendants our left-wing friends let their will say, “Weren’t they amazing? How I wish I flags fly? could have been there.” Let your friends and family L know your views. During campaign season, put a sign in Excerpt from Under Seige: No Finer Time to Be a Faithful Catholic, by Austin Ruse your yard. Put a bumper sticker (Crisis Publications, 2021), pp. 185-190. www.CrisisMagazine.com on your car. Refuse to use the Left’s linguistic tricks. Let AUSTIN RUSE is the president of C-Fam, a New York and Washington, D.C.–based research institute accredited to the U.N. Economic and Social Council and the Organization of American States. He wrote three previous books, and more than a thousand columns, essays, and articles. August 2021 | 34 | legatus.org

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WHAT TO READ Toil and Transcendence: day, surveying struggles as he needed to Catholicism In 20th Century against anti-Catholic bigotry sought out show how America as the Church in the United innovative personal Father Charles P. Connor States entered its springtime. ways to holiness EWTN Publishing, 400 pages His articulate big-picture develop both and selfless analysis is peppered with his company service to This is the insightful anecdotes helpful for and his own others are third in understanding and contrasting leadership not only a trilogy with the crises we face in skills with pathways to of books the present day – essential keen attention to core values. heaven, but by Father historical study for any Catholic. He’s big on a free-market the virtues that bring remedy to Connor, economy, proclaiming in a today’s confused world. Father the widely Conscious Leadership: recent interview that capitalism Aloysius Schwartz (1930-1992), acclaimed Elevating Humanity Through is “the greatest thing humanity declared Venerable by Pope Church Business has ever done” and stressed a Francis in 2015, is such an historian and EWTN television- John Mackey, Steve McIntosh, more spirited defense against example. His work bringing series host (“Historic Catholic Carter Phipps the current anti-capitalist hope and human dignity Converts”), and faculty member Portfolio/Penguin, 272 pages cultural narrative. His wisdom to the most desperate and at Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary in here is worth absorbing. impoverished communities Emmitsburg, MD. This title Whole Foods CEO John in post-war South Korea is follows his previous releases Mackey, co-author of Conscious Priest and Beggar: The Heroic the stuff by which heroes Pioneer Priests and Makeshift Capitalism (2013), is back with Life of Venerable Aloysius are defined. The book details Altars (covering America’s another bestseller wherein he Schwartz the real-life stories that will colonial years) and Faith and and his coauthors explain his Kevin Wells challenge Catholics today to “do Fury: The Rise of Catholicism vision, strategies, and approach Ignatius Press, 230 pages more” and inspire priestly and during the Civil War. Here to founding his organic-foods consecrated vocations among his narrative sweeps from empire. His journey often took Many more saints – young adults.  L the late 1800s to the present him on the road less traveled contemporary saints – are August 2021 | 36 | legatus.org

WHAT TO SEE There’s a big place for the strong, silent type IN SCRIPTURE, ST. JOSEPH picture to spotlight and narratives, doesn’t have much to say. develop the character of this and one might Although he plays a crucial noble foster father of Jesus. quibble with the role in the infancy narratives Years later this film, retitled liberties taken by in the gospels of Matthew Joseph of Nazareth: The Story the scriptwriters. and Luke, nowhere is he of the Man Closest to Jesus, Some of the quoted directly. Skim these was re-edited and re-released embellished accounts lightly, and one on DVD through Ignatius elements work might think him weak and Press and presently is also adequately, one-dimensional. Yet when accessible through the parish- while others read through eyes of faith, his based Formed streaming seem contrived. silence speaks volumes. service. In this production, On the whole, Joseph of Nazareth: The Story Perhaps it is due to his “quiet” which features an all-Italian however, Joseph of the Man Closest to Christ presence in Scripture that cast but with seamless of Nazareth Joseph has long been a minor English dubbing, Joseph is masterfully Tobias Moretti, Stefania Rivi, Massimo Reale character in films on the life of anything but silent, and his 105 min. • Unrated Christ. When it was released strength of faith and moral for television in 2000 — as part character shines through draws out of a “Close to Jesus” trilogy that amid the unique challenges the manly virtues our faith we must continually ask of included episodes presented that confront him. attributes to the husband and ourselves as we seek an ever- from the perspective of Mary As one might expect, the guardian of Mary. deepening relationship with Magdalene and St. Thomas the storytelling colors far outside Christ. With his words as well Apostle — Joseph of Nazareth the lines of the biblical “Will I ever understand Him?” as his silence, Joseph, like Mary, was said to be the first motion Joseph says to himself of Jesus clearly points us to Jesus.  L at one point in the film. “Will I ever see Him as He is?” It’s GERALD KORSON a probingly honest question is a Legatus magazine staff writer. August 2021 | 37 | legatus.org

HEALTH DR. LESLIE MASSOGLIA MATTERS 5 strategies make pain management easier YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WITH and swelling. patients suffering from chronic This causes pain have revealed that the pressure and following strategies yield the irritation of greatest benefits for reducing the nerves in pain and maintaining a those tissues. healthy and active lifestyle:  Conversely, putting ice on Get regular aerobic exercise. tissues causes Less physically active people blood vessels experience more pain due to to constrict weakening of muscles and resulting in the tissue around the joints decreased ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/AMRIPHOTO and spine. The body is made blood flow and to move, and when it doesn’t, drawing fluids it suffers. Exercise such as out of the walking 30 minutes daily is a tissues leaving simple way to improve this. more room for nerves Manage your weight. to function normally. Applying an ice pack for of acetaminophen every 4-6 hours during the Most chronic pain patients 15-30 minutes twice daily to an area of pain can day as needed for pain flares, and two ibuprofen report that pain increases or provide significant relief. again at bedtime. This provides the benefits of decreases with their weight. both medications while avoiding the risks of In addition to the Take over-the- high doses. physical strain counter (OTC) pain that extra weight “Less physically active medications. When Practice redemptive suffering. Accept suffering places on the body, people experience more pain interferes with as a part of life and unite it with the sufferings fat cells release daily activities or of Christ. Suffering is inevitable. As our Lord chemicals that pain due to weakening sleep OTC pain Jesus Christ attested, “In the world you will have cause inflammation of muscles and the medications can suffering. But take heart! I have overcome the and contribute help. Nonsteroidal world!” (John 16:33) Scripture and the lives of the to discomfort. tissue around the joints anti-inflammatory saints provide us with many examples of how Shedding fat and and spine. The body is drugs (NSAIDs) to cope with our sufferings. One of my favorites maintaining a such as ibuprofen is in Colossians, where St. Paul states, “I rejoice healthy weight are made to move … are a safe option if in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I essential to pain there is no history do my share on behalf of His body, which is the management. of stomach ulcers Church, in filling up what is lacking in Christ’s or kidney problems. afflictions” (Col 1:24). L Use ice, not heat. Acetaminophen is Putting heat on a painful area also safe when taken per package directions in LESLIE MASSOGLIA, M.D., is a family results in dilation of blood the absence of heavy alcohol use or liver disease. physician with over 20 years’ experience treating vessels, increased blood It can be particularly effective to alternate patients with chronic pain and addiction in the office, supply and other fluids in the these two medications taking two tablets of correctional institutions, and hospice and palliative tissues, resulting in redness ibuprofen in the morning followed by two tablets care settings. A member of the Catholic Medical Association, she practices in Eagan, MN. 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. August 2021 | 38 | legatus.org

FEEDING THE JOHN D. FOLSE AND MICHAELA D. YORK FOODIE Taking steps of St. James – while eating paella – along the Camino THE FIRST STEP IS THE “We ate more than Galicia is not unlike south Louisiana, hardest. For years, walking a special place set apart from the rest the Camino de Santiago our share of grilled of Spain with its unique dialect, love of (“The Way of St. James”) was on our bucket list, but octopus, garlic food, and warm welcome to strangers there were many obstacles. soup, and paella. passing through. We stayed in country Finally, like the scallop cottages where hot local fare and shell of St. James that Spanish wines awaited us. We ate more leads pilgrims along The than our share of grilled octopus, garlic Way, a great tour company soup, and paella. In fact, I am sharing pointed us in the right a Louisiana-style redfish paella recipe direction. So we gathered red fern gullies, given to me by chef Francisco Sterling. a few friends, hopped a and eucalyptus plane to Spain, and began forests with prayers Every pilgrimage begins with the first step. Buen the adventure of a lifetime. in our hearts for Camino! L personal intentions. We tramped CHEF JOHN D. FOLSE is an entrepreneur with interests ranging We commenced our Chef Folse with friends and colleagues through sleet, snow, from restaurant development to food manufacturing, catering to culinary pilgrimage at the at Santiago de Compostela Cathedral in and downright education. A cradle-Catholic, he supports many Catholic organizations end, walking the last Spain, after completing the Walk of St. downpours as we 100 kilometers from James. (l. to r.): Kim Johnson, Dr. Michael journeyed toward including the Sister Dulce Ministry at Cypress Springs Mercedarian Prayer Sarria to Santiago. We Casadaban, Michaela York, Chef John Folse. Center in Baton Rouge, LA. traversed steep hills, Santiago with fellow MICHAELA D. YORK is vice president of communications pilgrims. for Chef John Folse & Company. REDFISH PAELLA • PREP TIME: 1 HOUR • YIELDS: 6-8 SERVINGS Ingredients: ½ tsp crumbled saffron taste. Mash to a paste and IMAGE COURTESY OF LOUISIANA COOKIN’ MAGAZINE ½ pound redfish, grouper, or threads set side. (LOUISIANACOOKIN.COM) other firm-fleshed fish fillets, 2 tbsp minced parsley In a paella pan or cast iron cut into ½-inch cubes ½ cup olive oil, divided skillet, heat 6 tablespoons and bell pepper and cook 2-3 sausage, squid, and peas, 3 cups Spanish rice or arborio 1 onion, finely chopped olive oil over medium-high minutes or until vegetables stir well and bring to a rolling short-grain rice 1 red bell pepper, finely heat. When oil is hot, add are wilted. Stir in tomato and boil. Cook 5-7 minutes or 16 (10-12 count) shrimp, chopped shrimp and cook 2-3 minutes, cook 1-2 additional minutes. until rice absorbs most of peeled, butterflied, and 1 large tomato, finely chopped stirring occasionally. Do not Add paprika and rice, stirring to the liquid. Arrange chicken, tailfin intact 2 tbsp paprika, preferably cook all the way. Remove coat rice well with vegetable shrimp, mussels, and clams ½ pound squid, cleaned, Spanish smoked shrimp and set aside. mixture. evenly over rice and transfer to cut into ½-inch rings and 6 cups hot fish stock In same pan, sauté chicken Pour in stock and bring to a oven. Bake, uncovered, 15-20 tentacles, halved ½ cup frozen fresh peas 5-7 minutes or until brown rolling boil. Add paste from minutes or until rice is al dente. 2½ pounds chicken thighs, ¼ cup olive oil for garnish but not fully cooked. Remove mortar, season to taste Remove to a warm spot, cover boned and cut into ½-inch 1 (13¾-ounce) can Roland from pan and set aside with using salt and black pepper, with foil, and allow to sit 10-12 cubes whole red pimientos, drained shrimp. Add pork and sausage and continue to boil about 3 minutes or until rice is fully ½ pound boneless pork loin, and julienned to pan and sauté 3-5 minutes, minutes, stirring and rotating cooked. Before serving, pour cut into ½-inch cubes then transfer to a platter. Set pan occasionally. ¼ cup olive oil over rice and ½ pound pork sausage, cut Method: platter aside. Add reserved fish, pork, garnish with pimiento strips. into ¼-inch slices Preheat oven to 400°F. 2 dozen small mussels Sprinkle fish, shrimp, squid, Add cubed fish and cook 2-3 1 dozen small clams chicken, and pork with salt and minutes. Remove and set coarse salt and black pepper pepper then set aside. aside with pork and sausage. to taste In a mortar, add minced garlic, Into the same pan, add 6 cloves garlic, minced saffron, parsley, and salt to remaining olive oil. Add onion August 2021 | 39 | legatus.org

NEWS BRIEFS PUBLIC SCHOOL PRAYER IS BACK various LGBTQ groups “[loving] each According to China’s National Bureau IN THE SUNSHINE STATE AS other so proudly” on Blue’s Clues and of Statistics, the country recorded GOVERNOR SIGNS ‘MINUTE OF You, a show for preschoolers. In a 12 million births in 2020, the lowest SILENCE’ BILL INTO LAW separate live video, West explained number reported since the 1960s. TALLAHASSEE, FL — Florida Gov. the meaning of the LGBTQ Pride flags China vigorously imposed a Ron DeSantis has signed into law a with a song. one-child policy from 1980 to bill requiring public schools in his Nickelodeon has dropped from 1.3 2016 to curb population growth state to set aside at least one minute million average viewers per week in and enforced it with steep fines, of silence for children to meditate 2017 to just 372,000 in June 2021. sterilizations, and forced abortions. or pray. Jenna Ellis, attorney for the Thomas A later policy, sparked by concerns The law makes Florida one of at More Society, tweeted in June that over the aging population, allowed least 15 states requiring a “moment “No parent should ever let their two children. Before the latest of silence” in public schools. child watch @Nickelodeon again.” policy, Chinese couples having a Previously, Florida was among third child faced fines. some 18 other states that merely allowed schools that option. LIFE IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC: ENGLAND, WALES REPORT RECORD DeSantis said it’s important to NUMBER OF ABORTIONS IN 2020 provide each student the ability each LONDON, England — A record day to reflect and pray as they see number of abortions took place fit. “The idea that you can just push in England and Wales in 2020, God out of every institution, and be according to statistics released in successful — I’m sorry, our founding June by the Department of Health fathers did not believe that.” and Social Care. HERE’S A CLUE THAT MAKES NICKELODEON BLUE: LGBTQ BE MORE FRUITFUL AND The figures showed that there were AGENDA CONTINUES SHARP MULTIPLY? BIRTH RATE CONCERNS 210,860 abortions last year, the RATINGS DROP LEAD CHINA SHIFT TO THREE- highest number since the Abortion NEW YORK —Nickelodeon’s CHILD POLICY Act 1967 was introduced. promotion of the LGBTQ agenda to BEIJING, China — Facing a sharply children is hurting the network’s declining national birth rate, The Society for the Protection of ratings, the Daily Wire reported in China’s government announced Unborn Children (SPUC) said that mid-June. in May that couples can have the figure — an increase of 1,341 In late spring, Nickelodeon and its up to three children. The official from the previous peak in 2019 — preschool-targeted network, Nick Jr., state-run Xinhua News Agency marked “a devastating surge” in released videos championing “trans,” said the communist government’s abortions after the government “queer,” and “pansexual” inclusion. decision sought to ensure continued allowed women in England to Among these was a cartoon depicting economic growth, national security, complete medical abortions at home drag queen Nina West singing about and social stability. in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, due to the coronavirus pandemic.  L SOURCES: Catholic News Agency, Catholic News Service, CatholicVote, Crux August 2021 | 40 | legatus.org

CHAPTER NEWS GREAT LAKES 6-CHAPTER EVENT. At the Great Lakes 6-Chapter Event, shown (l. to. r.): Executive GREAT Hilton Garden Inn in Perrysburg, director Stephen Henley, Fr. Jeffrey Day (Detroit Northeast chaplain), Monsignor Chuck Kosanke (Detroit LAKES OH. Another 100 members engaged chaplain), Monsignor Michael Billian (Genesis chaplain), guest speaker Gus Lloyd, Fr. Chas Canoy (Ann 6-CHAPTER virtually from remote locations. Arbor chaplain), and Great Lakes regional vice president Nate Wine. EVENT Legatus executive director Stephen On June 10, the Henley attended and addressed Great Lakes the members. Beginning with chapters of Eucharistic Adoration, Confession, Ann Arbor, and rosary, Mass followed and Detroit, Detroit was con-celebrated by Monsignor Northeast, Michael Billian (Genesis chaplain) Grand Rapids, with three other Legatus chaplains — Lansing, (Monsignor Chuck Kosanke (Detroit and Genesis chaplain), Fr. Jeffrey Day (Detroit participated in Northeast chaplain), and Fr. Chas a magnificent Canoy (Ann Arbor chaplain). The joint event evening’s guest speaker after dinner wherein some was Gus Lloyd, host of “Seize the 140 members Day” on Sirius Catholic Radio, who gathered at spoke on “Seeds of Grace” which was themed on the Parable of the Sower. GREAT LAKES 6-CHAPTER EVENT. GREAT LAKES 6-CHAPTER EVENT. Also enjoying the Great Enjoying the June 10 event, Great Lakes regional Lakes 6-Chapter Event, (l. to r.): Genesis Chapter members Mike and vice president Nate Wine and his wife, Lauren. Molly McCartney, and Brady and Katie Fineske. GREAT LAKES 6-CHAPTER EVENT. GREAT LAKES 6-CHAPTER EVENT. 41August 2021 | | legatus.org

CHAPTER NEWS VENTURA-LA NORTH. Pictured at the Chapter’s June 19 Chapter event – featuring Mother Madeline Marie’s special presentation VENTURA-LA NORTH on the Church in Europe – are: (back, l. to r.) Dieter and Cecilia Huckestein; Chapter chaplain Fr. Dave Heney; Tom and Christine Ellis; Ten members of the Ventura – LA and Terri Dillon; (front row) Mother Madeline Marie of St. Joseph and Sr. Joseph Marie. North Chapter recently attended the West Region multi-chapter event in Orange County, then were hosted for a wonderful Italian dinner by Chapter chaplain and 2020 West Region Chaplain of the Year, Fr. Dave Heney at his St. Bruno Catholic Church in Whittier. The next day, they all attended Fr. Dave’s Sunday Mass at St. Bruno’s. On June 19, Chapter vice president Tom Ellis introduced his sister, Mother Madeline Marie of St. Joseph, as guest speaker for the meeting. As superior of the Sister Adorers of the Royal Heart of Jesus Christ Sovereign Priest, Mother Madeleine Marie travels worldwide to oversee the sisters’ eight growing houses in five countries. She spoke on “The State of the Church in Europe.” While her orthodox, Eucharist-centered order is indeed growing, the Catholic faith in Europe is struggling due to secular influences that have distracted many from the Faith. MADISON. The Chapter’s July 8 event, held at St. Paul’s Catholic Center in Madison, featured guest speaker Monsignor Stuart Swetland, who spoke on “The Vocation of Work.” SOUTH BEND-ELKHART & FORT WAYNE JOINT EVENT. The South Bend-Elkhart and Fort Wayne Chapters held their joint event on June 30 in Syracuse, Indiana – beginning with Mass at Saint Martin de Porres Catholic Church, presided by Most Reverend Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades, then with dinner following at The Oakwood Resort on Lake Wawasee. With their bishop in attendance, members from both chapters especially enjoyed the lively Q&A session with him. Pictured here are the combined members in attendance, Bishop Rhoades, and his support team. August 2021 | 42 | legatus.org

CHAPTER NEWS CINCINNATI CINCINNATI. The Cincinnati Chapter’s three new member-couples inducted in June, pictured here. LAS VEGAS At its May event, after Mass with chaplain Fr. James Bramlage. Shown (back, l. to r.): Sponsors Jim and Jody Akers; president Mike Rick Gordon, president of at St. Gertrude’s Church, the Huh; sponsors Linda and Ron Brown; (front, l. to r.): Tony and Jessica (not pictured) Stieritz; Martin the Las Vegas Chapter and Cincinnati Chapter hosted and Dagmar Wilhelmy; Bonnie and David Adams. Karen Gordon (his sister, and Luke Fickell, University of Chapter administrator) delight Cincinnati’s head football in sharing the news that their coach, who won many brother-priest has just been hearts that evening with appointed auxiliary bishop his presentation, “Faith, for the Diocese of Las Vegas. Family, and Football.” Bishop-elect Gregory Gordon The Chapter’s June event was ordained to his new post (at the St. Clare Chapel) on July 16. featured the induction of three new member- LAS VEGAS. couples. An evening of entertainment and insight followed with a presentation by film producer Eric Groth, who shared how he experienced “Holiness & Hollywood” while filming, Paul the Apostle and Full of Grace. CINCINNATI. (l. to r.): Cincinnati Chapter member Fred Habegger, Luke Fickell, member Bob Gramann, chaplain Fr. James Bramlage. CHARLOTTE. At the Chapter’s June 3 event at Firethorne Country Club (Marvin, NC), Cari Berger was inducted as new treasurer. Also pictured here are: Mosignor Patrick J. Winslow, vicar general and chancellor of the Diocese of Charlotte; and Dave Anderson, Chapter president. The Chapter is currently celebrating its five-year anniversary. August 2021 | 43 | legatus.org

CHAPTER NEWS CLEVELAND and Lisa Miotke, and Jeanne and The Chapter’s June event, Kevin Coughlin. Legatus executive held at Signature of director Stephen Henley also Solon, featured Dr. Scott attended the meeting. Hahn speaking via Zoom. With over 70 guests in MIAMI attendance, Dr. Hahn The Miami Chapter met June 15 addressed them on the at the Club of Knights, at which theme of his recent book time Jose and Maria Juncadella Hope to Die, that man is (Legatus alumni) were welcomed called to live for the life once again back into the Legatus that is to come. Earlier in family. Following Mass, members the evening, the Chapter enjoyed a delicious dinner and CLEVELAND. At the Chapter’s June event after their new-member investure. Shown held an Investiture moving presentation by Jennifer (l. to r.): associate chaplain Fr. Patrick Schultz; new member-couples Frank and Lisa Ceremony for its newest Hubbard entitled “Walking in Miotke, Jeanne and Kevin Coughlin; and Dan McMahon (Chapter president). member-couples, Frank Confidence.” L PORTLAND. The Portland Chapter’s June event was held at Nicoletta’s Table & Marketplace (Lake Oswego, MIAMI. At the Chapter’s June 15 gathering, (l. to r.): Angel Gallinal, OR). Members gathered for rosary, Mass, dinner, and enjoyed guest speaker Dr. Scott French who discussed “Fear Chapter president; Jose and Maria Juncadella; and Fr. Richard Vigoa, of Death/Be Not Afraid!” Dr. French is a Catholic board-certified emergency physician – who ultimately became a Chaplain following the Juncadellas’ re-instatement into Legatus. business leader in ERs and large multispecialty group practices, including health plans. Pictured are (l. to r.): Darin Stegemoller, Geneva Stegemoller, Fr. David Shaw, Dr. Scott French, Shelley Nelson, Scott Nelson. INDIANAPOLIS. The Chapter’s June 17 event began at St. Luke INDIANAPOLIS. Also on June 17, the Indianapolis executive officers met prior to the Chapter meeting; with many Catholic Church, with Mass celebrated by Monsignor Joseph Schaedel now serving a second term. Great Lakes regional vice president Nate Wine and Legatus executive director Stephen and Fr. Matthew Pawlikowski. After dinner at Meridian Hills, Fr. Henley were also present. Pawlikowski, senior chaplain at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (first Catholic priest to hold this chaplaincy post) told the incredible story of Fr. Emil Kapaun, the Army chaplain who died in a POW camp in 1950 during the Korean War. Fr. Kapaun was declared a Servant of God in 1993, the first step toward being declared a saint. August 2021 | 44 | legatus.org

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2021 SUMMIT WEST SPEAKER 5 MINUTES JIM GRAVES WITH ‘Freedom’ as purposeless autonomy tends to enslave SOHRAB AHMARI, NY POST OP-ED EDITOR AND CATHOLIC CONVERT, FEATURED AT SUMMIT WEST ON TYRANNY MASKING AS ‘FREEDOM’ SOHRAB AHMARI WILL DISCUSS a man out of my son who may be materially atomized, at war with each other and with “What is Freedom for?” at the successful but whose life is ultimately marked by nature. In so doing, they radically rejected the 2021 Legatus Summit West, purposeless decadence. A society that urges him classical and Christian account of the human Sept. 16-18 in Phoenix. to just “get ahead” and “keep your options open” person as a rational, political animal ordered may, if not counteracted, leave him enslaved to to certain objective ends by nature, in whose Ahmari grew up in a nominally baser desires and unbound from any of duties fulfillment he found his true happiness. “Self- Muslim home in Iran but as a and commitments that make for a truly happy government” became merely the protection of teenager had renounced all and free life. individual rights in a dog-eat-dog world, rather religion. In 1998, than the rule of the self over the tyrant within he immigrated to A great thinker you and the rational pursuit of the common good. the United States. feature is Aleksandr So much of the degradation and brutality we He worked as a Solzhenitsyn. What witness in society today can be traced back to writer and editor can we learn from this break with the older philosophical traditions for The Wall Street him? of the West. Journal, and is today op-ed editor Solzhenitsyn had helped How has growing up under an of the New York expose the horrors lurking oppressive Islamic regime sensitized Post, a columnist behind the Iron Curtain, you to these issues? for First Things, in the gulag, but when and a contributing he arrived in the West Those of us who have lived under blatantly editor to the U.K. he was baffled by how lawless tyrannical regimes can be especially journal Catholic Westerners were also unfree, only in a different alarmed by how Western liberalism itself has Herald. way. An excess of rights, unbound from duties or become tyrannical. With my friend Patrick a concern for the common good, had created in Deneen, I’m persuaded that this tyrannical turn He announced his conversion the West a system of diffuse, private tyranny, in is merely liberalism becoming more fully itself. to Catholicism in 2016 and which private actors pursuing their own selfish wrote about it in his 2019 book ends hindered moral, spiritual, and intellectual How can Catholicism serve as an From Fire, By Water (Ignatius excellence. He shockingly told an audience antidote to our society’s problems? Press). In 2021, he released The of Harvard grads in 1978 that he wouldn’t Unbroken Thread: Discovering recommend American society as a model for the Catholic social teaching — and the Church’s Wisdom of Tradition in an Age transformation of the nations trapped behind entire tradition of social and political thought of Chaos (Convergent Books). the Iron Curtain! stretching from Aristotle to St. Thomas to Pope Leo XIII — provides not only an acute diagnosis You’ve said you wrote You believe many abuses of freedom of what has gone wrong, but also a powerful The Unbroken Thread for in America originate in the bad ideas antidote. We must recover the common good. We your son. Please explain. of past philosophers. must recover a true anthropology, a true account of who human beings really are. The Church’s My concern is that the modern Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment intellectual repository is full of treasures for account of freedom—which philosophers posited human beings as radically those who would undertake such a project of reduces freedom to mere recovery. L autonomous choice—will form August 2021 | 49 | legatus.org

MEET THE JIM GRAVES CHAPLAIN He emulated the happiest, smartest people he knew – parish priests HARTFORD CHAPLAIN FR. MICHAEL J. DOLAN SEES STRONG LITURGY, WORKS OF MERCY AS KEY TO KEEPING YOUTHS CATHOLIC FATHER MICHAEL J. DOLAN IS As chaplain, I offer Mass for Just recently, a man whom I’d helped get into chaplain of Legatus’ Hartford Legates and attend dinners college took me to lunch to thank me for my help. Chapter. He serves as president and board meetings. I help It makes me feel like a stepfather, like St. Joseph, of the Archdiocese of Hartford’s grow the organization by and really makes me look forward to each day. 460-student Northwest taking advantage of my But there are challenges. The priesthood calls Catholic High School (NWC) contacts across the archdiocese on you for talents you do not know you have. I and lives in residence at the to introduce some of the am constantly engaging in public speaking archdiocese’s Cathedral of St. successful people I’ve known and writing. I knew I’d be doing a lot on the Joseph. to Legatus and ask them to sacramental side, but there is a huge business consider if it might be a good side as well, being a good steward of the Born in Waterbury, CT, he fit for them. I help scout out resources you’ve been given. was ordained a priest in interesting worship and dining My worst single day in the priesthood occurred 1996. Having served in many locations for future Legatus in 2012, when I was state police chaplain. After parishes and roles and in events. the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, campus ministry, today he I had to inform the parents of a first grader that is director of interreligious Why did their child was among those who died. affairs for the archdiocese and you decide will soon launch a podcast to go to the What do you do as NWC president? about the life of the believer in seminary? secular society. Years ago, I asked Half is fundraising, and much of the rest is Why did you want myself, “What will coordinating the education and faith formation to serve as Legatus make me most of our students with our two principals. I also chaplain? What do happy?” I saw that cheer on our sports teams from the sidelines. you do? the parish priests around me were How can we keep young people in I was asked by another priest the happiest, smartest, and the Church? to attend Legatus meetings most interesting people I knew, and offer Mass for them. I so I decided to follow in their As Pope Benedict XVI advised, we need to was intrigued by the caliber footsteps. propose, not impose, the Faith. We need to and topics of conversation give our young people a positive experience at these events and enjoyed What do you find most of the Faith in worship by having liturgies the companionship of rewarding and most with good preaching, high-quality music, and Catholics who had excelled challenging about the clear symbols. We need to encourage them in life. In much of my priestly priesthood? to practice the corporal and spiritual works of ministry I have worked with mercy, distinguishing that it is a Christian effort the underprivileged. It was The most rewarding thing rather than just a humanitarian effort. We need wonderful to encounter people is when you run into people to share with them the value of the Christian who had the desire and means whom you’ve touched in the worldview in life, such as the importance of to help those underprivileged past who return to thank you. redemptive suffering. L people in real and creative ways. August 2021 | 50 | legatus.org