Legatus Magazine July 2021

RSAESCTROEDRING JULY 2021 BEAUTY FAMILY & C. PAKALUK: BEING EVANGELIZATION PRO-LIFE ISN’T ENOUGH FR. WALCZYK: BRINGING ISSUE FOLLOWERS TO CHRIST R. HAMMOND: IMPART FAITH BUSINESS AS AT WORK BY EXAMPLE A VOCATION J. DICAMILLO: PARENTAL PRESSURE TO VACCINATE KIDS ATTAINING TECH PRIVACY FAMILY FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD

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07•21 INSIDE VOL 34 • NO 7 24 FAMILY CLOSENESS WITH GOD SPAWNS AT HOME by Jim Graves Prayer-habit gift provides spiritual ‘hedge fund’ for life 10 16 20 ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/OLEKSANDR YAKONIUK OLDI-NWSOPIRRLEDD- EXLEECAUDTEIVRSE SIDESTPERPIVPAINCGY ARTISANS SEE THEIR TRADE-OFF R E-I N V IGOR AT E BUSINESS AS FOR DIGITAL SACRED BEAUTY VOCATION CONVENIENCE by Trent Beattie by Gerald Korson by Judy Roberts Begun by immigrant-sculptor, Midwest 3 Legate businesses align wholly – and Several tactics help skirt Big family business exalts Church grandeur Tech’s monitoring modes 5July 2021pu| blicly – with C| hlreigsattiuas.norgprinciples

MORE COVER 08CHAIRMAN’S DESK 39 J MICATROTTO PHOTO 39FEEDING THE FOODIE Tom Monaghan: No priests, no Eucharist J. Micatrotto, Sr.: Enchilada omelet skillet Recalling that Russia 48FIVE MINUTES was once a widely 09EDITOR’S DESK Ralph Martin: 2021 Summit West speaker Catholic country, 50 MEET THE CHAPLAIN Christine V. Owsik: Fortifying a Catholic family Fr. Bramlage: 25th year as Cincinnati chaplain renewed inspiration seen at recently 26ETHICS MATTERS restored interior of C. Pakaluk: Why being pro-life isn’t enough St. Isaac Cathedral, 28CULTURE OF LIFE St. Petersburg. J. DiCamillo: Parents—don’t be vaccine-vexed istockphoto.com/ VitalyEdush 30GUEST VOICE PAGE R. Hammond: Impart faith at work by example PHOTO 32 FAITH MATTERS Legate-chef- restaurateur Joe Fr. Walczyk: Bringing others to Christ brings joy Micatrotto, Sr. 34ENGAGING THE FAITH takes readers to a hometown favorite Fr. Connor: ‘Sheen’ of Catholicism’s heydey eatery in sizzling 37WHAT TO SEE Vegas, revealing Minari their enchilada omelet skillet recipe 38 HEALTH MATTERS for family feasts. Dr. Rezaie: Navigating digestive microbiome ‘city’ 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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CHAIRMAN’S TOM MONAGHAN ST. PAULINE OF DESK THE AGONIZING HEART OF JESUS No priests, no Eucharist (1865-1942) MANY POPES, THEOLOGIANS Though I knew I was a year behind the other FEAST DAY: JULY 9 CANONIZED: MAY 19, 2002 PATRON OF DIABETICS “TRUST ALWAYS … IN DIVINE PROVIDENCE; NEVER LET YOURSELVES BE DISCOURAGED …” and saints have written boys, I was confident I could catch up. I lasted Brazil’s first immigrant-citizen about the importance of the less than a year. The rector of the seminary told to be canonized, Amabile Lucia priesthood. Each year, on Holy me that I lacked a vocation and told me, “When Visintainer was born in Italy to Thursday, we celebrate Christ’s you pack your bags for Easter vacation, you’ll a poor, Catholic family. From institution of the priesthood... be packing them for good.” This was a crushing an early age, she was known but how often do we really blow to me, not because it was the first time I for her piety and charity, and think about where we would be had experienced a setback, but because it was desire to serve God. without the priests who serve so final. I was so confused by the decision and it us? was out of my control. It was not until years later In 1875, her family relocated to that I really understood what had happened. My Brazil. At 15, she and a friend When I was young, I thought dismissal seemed to have more to do with my cared for a dying woman with a lot about the priesthood. I rowdy behavior, and the fact that I did not write no family, an early mark of her remember in grade school, home enough, than anything else… but that is service in religious life. telling my class that when I another story. grew up, I wanted to be a priest, She joined with an architect, and Each of us, through two women shortstop for the the vocation to start the Detroit Tigers. The “… each of us is called to God has for us, is Congregation other kids laughed called to seek the of the Little and said that was support and encourage salvation of souls Sisters of the not possible, but my our priests – including our Immaculate teacher, Sr. Berarda, own! Yet, I believe Conception, came to my defense. it is essential for calling herself Years later when I us to recognize St. Pauline of was a freshman in the critical role COMMUNION OF the Agonizing high school, after our priests. Simply SAINTS Heart of Jesus. having been distracted about put, without our priests, there is no Eucharist. She was my vocation, I remembered Without our priests, there is no Reconciliation. elected superior general in 1903 what I had told Sr. Berarda and We need not look far to see the impact of the and dedicated her community the class, and decided then vocations crisis in our country and around the to care for the destitute – and there that I wanted to be world. orphans, elderly, and children a priest. With the support of of former slaves (slavery ended Fr. Passeno, a local priest in The seminary discernment process is long and in Brazil in 1888). Traverse City, I applied to the arduous, as it should be, and there are certainly high school seminary in Grand organizations like the Knights of Columbus The holiness of Mother Pauline’s Rapids. To this day, I remember and Serra Clubs who do much to support our order attracted numerous the question on the seminary seminarians. However, I think each of us is vocations, despite immense application form, Why do you called to support and encourage our priests difficulties the sisters endured. want to be a priest? My answer and do what we can, first and foremost through Their work continues still in South was these exact words, “I prayer, to foster vocations to the priesthood, America, Africa, and Europe. seek the salvation of souls.” I because… no priests, no Eucharist.  L was accepted and began my Pauline suffered ill health in sophomore year. TOM MONAGHAN later life, including diabetes. is Legatus’ founder, chairman, and CEO. Just before death, she wrote: “Be humble. Trust always and a great deal in Divine Providence; never let yourselves be discouraged, despite contrary winds.” L — Jim Graves 8July 2021 | | legatus.org

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old-world business splendor through Chicago’s Daprato Rigali Saint Hedwig Catholic Church in Chicago, one of Daprato Rigali Studios’ signature restoration projects, is done in highly detailed “Polish Cathedral Style,” often found in upper Midwest parishes built in the 1800s and early 1900s. July 2021 | 10 | legatus.org

elevates church When John E. Rigali came to the five generations United States as a 16-year-old in 1881, he could not have imagined Studios brings sacred art to life all the ecclesiastical beauty that would emanate from this decision. The prodigious sculptor did intend to bring his artwork to churches in North America, but who could have guessed this would include running a business that would expand into every aspect of interior church design, receiving an award from Pope Saint Pius X, and going strong 140 years later? Yet this is exactly what did happen. John E. Rigali, identified as the maestro of his art school in Florence, Italy, joined the Daprato brothers at Daprato Statuary Company aaariptntaIps(tsa1Scrta9Tghehotl3heaneioda6ett1oaanu.i6nclypHai-ei,ampnpreDswyerFmjaeaaohClpsroiioosngeirrdcmaedrheueatdnaplionnnpcdattteRth1naoo.J9ieygotrf2-tcahiD0enoln.anim1HSpEd8tpe.re9uaRad0ddtniiogieyoadsl)i, in Chicago, became a partner only three years later in 1884, and president in 1890. By 1909, the company had been awarded the title of Pontifical Institute of Christian Art by Pope Saint Pius X. The pontiff who made it a hallmark of his papacy to “restore all things in Christ” saw fit to give such a title to a company that restores churches for the sake of the Savior. By Trent Beattie 11July 2021 | | legatus.org

By the 1920s, things were going in the ‘60s, Mike was later so well for the Daprato Statuary told of how employees were Company that new offices were released to form their own opened in Montreal and New specialty businesses. Sculptors, York—and even one back in glaziers, carpenters, bronze Italy. By the 1960s, however, workers, and so forth would interest in sacred art had be contracted when Daprato diminished to the point that Rigali secured a rare project those additional offices needed that called for their specific to be closed and the Chicago services. office was pared down to only The 1960s were disheartening two people. The company that times for Daprato Rigali, not had once claimed well over 200 only because new projects did employees, was now comprised not come around often, but of the owner, Robert Rigali (the because their very own artwork grandson of John E. Rigali) and was often whitewashed, two employees: his own wife obscured, removed, or even Therese and noted stone mason destroyed, in an effort to have Lucherino Lucherini. DRS a more “modern” or “open- minded” worship environment. John E. Rigali, who began as a sculptor-apprentice and later became president of Daprato Statuary in 1890, convinced the business to switch from making novelty statuettes to opening the door to Traditional church furnishings, crafting altars and full statues for churches. He jettisoned its growth into a worldwide new opportunities such as marble high altars ecclesiastical art producer. As Mike Rigali grew up, so in sanctuaries enclosed by with earth-toned glass depicting nothing in particular, became did his understanding of matching altar rails and what was going on in the stained-glass windows quite popular. Church—especially in sacred depicting human forms, art. Although still in tough became undesirable in the Churches that had once been the summit of Western architecture times, the ‘70s actually saw the minds of the “experts.” Wooden began to resemble barns, gyms, and washing machine agitators— gradual increase of employees tables without any surrounding and this, despite the Church officially directing bishops at the at Daprato Rigali. “It went from indication of holiness, along Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) to carefully avoid what was one employee in the ‘60s, to starting to take place under their five in the ‘70s, to ten in the watch. ‘80s,” said Mike. It was a slow “Pope Saint Pius X … made it a but sure revival of a once-dying business. hallmark of his papacy to “restore all “Those were tough times for our things in Christ” [and] saw fit to give Church and for our family business,” such a title to a company that restores said Mike Rigali, the son of Robert churches for the sake of the Savior. Rigali, who changed the company named to Daprato Rigali Studios in 1960. Although only a small child An exquisite example of one of Daprato Rigali’s original marble mosaics. 12July 2021 | | legatus.org

Mike graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1983 with a degree in American studies. “It had an emphasis on American architecture, so I basically studied architecture without officially becoming an architect,” he explained. However, he did officially become part of the growing family business after graduating. By the early 1990s, Mike, his two older brothers John and Bob, and his younger sister, Lisa, were the team running Daprato Rigali Studios. As their father Robert was exiting the business he had kept alive and slowly growing, the four-person fourth generation was poised to usher in a new Renaissance in sacred art. In 1992, the Second Vatican Council’s endorsement of liturgical beauty was echoed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. This time around, the faithful and their pastors heeded the call to recognize, especially the intimate relationship between beauty and truth—that sacred art is not merely a matter of personal preference, but of eternal significance (see Catechism paragraphs 2500 to 2513). One of the hallmarks of this new The painstakingly restored reredos (altar backdrop in Motherhouse Chapel of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Renaissance in sacred art was a Eucharist in Ann Arbor). The project, completed in 2006, was the authentic restoration of an over-100-year-old reredos from distinctive sanctuary. A colorful Spain, which had suffered significant damage over the years and needed reassembly, repair, detailing, and re-beautification. example was found with the Dominican Sisters of Mary, pieces of intricate wood overlaid with gold leaf, had suffered a This was something made Mother of the Eucharist. The good deal of damage. possible by the influence of Ann Arbor-based community The Dominican Sisters needed trustworthy hands to reassemble Mike’s father, Robert. “My dad was looking for the right altar and repair the ornamental structure meant to house the tabernacle always emphasized quality, backdrop (called a reredos) in and, in Mother Assumpta’s words, a “whole assemblage of celestial quality, quality in church their motherhouse chapel. beauty.” They found those hands through the Rigali family. decoration and restoration,” Mike Rigali fondly recalled Mother Assumpta summed up the experience this way: “Not Mike remembered, saying “that the project, completed in only did they treat every piece of the reredos with reverence, they meant doing the big things 2006, as did Mother Assumpta seemed to enjoy the elegance of this amazing work of worship and well, but also the little things.” Long, O.P., co-foundress of the of art—and we enjoyed their careful work as well!” One example that quickly new community established came to Mike’s mind involved through the help of Tom shadowing his father around Monaghan. Mother Assumpta explained: “When our new Community was completing our Motherhouse Chapel, we were blessed by some wonderful benefactors with an over-100-year-old reredos from Spain.” The only problem was, the reredos, with so many 13July 2021 | | legatus.org

artists had painted it to match the rest of the color scheme, since it was, after all, part of the interior of the church. back to the future In recent years, Daprato Rigali, thanks to its nearly Daprato Rigali’s stained glass studio artisans excel particularly 40 employees, has compiled at painting-on-glass — seen in this St. Thomas More piece. one of the most impressive This method for creating stained glass art is typically the most portfolios of church challenging in high-quality renderings such as this one. DRS renovations in the country. Among their most notable church projects in the 1980s. recent projects in Chicago are Saint Hedwig The pastor of a church, who had Church, done in the ornate “Polish Cathedral experience with three different Style” and Saint Alphonsus Church, whose studios, was delighted to see celestial ceilings have gained attention even that Daprato Rigali had gone from secular sources. the extra mile. Beyond Chicago, top recent projects The pastor pointed specifically include the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Closeup of restoration detail at St. John Cantius Church (Chicago), an to a plank of wood found inside Immaculate Conception in Peoria, Illinois, internationally known icon of Catholic art and architecture, recently a small door near the pipe the Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta, voted the most beautiful church in the U.S. Daprato Rigali Studios did organ in the choir loft. While and Saint Boniface Church in San Francisco. extensive renovation/ restoration work to the church over decades almost no one would ever – including decorative painting, stenciling, faux finish, cleaning, see that wood, Daprato Rigali marbleizing, and stained-glass window restoration. The restored “celestial ceilings” of the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception (commonly referred to as “Saint Mary’s) in Peoria, IL. Blue and gold are the main colors on the ceiling, matched by the blue windows and golden walls. 14July 2021 | | legatus.org

DRS DRS Daprato Rigali artists have extensive gold and metal leaf application experience and have installed different patterns and designs in many buildings and churches. Gilding is a spectacular way to brighten and enhance any sacred interior. A key component of all these “I had worked with my family intermittently in high school by Although the tenures of Dan’s projects is awareness and helping out on various projects, but, after graduating with a cousins are shorter, Taylor respect for the church building. construction management degree from the University of Denver, Rigali, Audrey Galvin, and Mike said that “our artists worked elsewhere for a few years. I’ve been back for about seven Tommy Galvin have also been know that they are working in, years now and I’m completely dedicated to keeping the family part of the family business not just a shell structure, but a business growing,” Dan stated. recognized by Pope Saint sacred place that people come Pius X and, more recently, by to for prayer, so we try to keep Not many people can say they work for a company that has Loyola University in Chicago. it as serene as possible. That endured 161 years—including the last 140 specifically with family The school’s 2019 Illinois includes daily cleanups that members in it. This longevity is also reflected in maximizing Small Family Business of ‘minimize our dust’ and keep worker retention. Daprato Rigali has a decorative painter who has the Year Award was given to the projects moving forward.” been with them for 40 years, while another has been with them for Daprato Rigali Studios for their Because the fourth-generation 37 years. continued efforts to beautify Rigalis want to beautify sacred buildings. churches indefinitely, they are All Catholics should be able to enter their Dan said he loves to be part pleased to have Dan Rigali back parish churches and exclaim, like Jacob in of this sacred family tradition in their midst. At 35, he is the Genesis 28, ‘How awesome is this place! and hopes to help expand their oldest of Mike’s four sons and This is none other than the house of God; artistic efforts even further. the first of his generation to take this is the gate of heaven.’ He explained: “All Catholics an active leadership role in the should be able to enter their business as a project manager. parish churches and exclaim, like Jacob in Genesis 28, ‘How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.’” Although Robert Rigali died in December of 2020 at the age of 88, his noble work of carrying on his father’s and grandfather’s legacy has been passed down to his own children and grandchildren. Restoring all things in Christ is, the Rigalis have found, a timeless ideal. L TRENT BEATTIE is a Legatus magazine contributing writer. Rigali family – including the four owner/executives of the business today – and staff. (l. to r.): Dan Rigali, Mike Rigali (owner/exec), Lisa Rigali-Galvin (owner/exec), Joseph Dealba, Thomas Galvin, Audrey Galvin, Joe Ufheil, John Rigali (owner/exec), Bob Rigali (owner/exec). 15July 2021 | | legatus.org

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BUSINESS EXECUTIVES DRIVEN BY FAITH Company CEOs and other top managers who see their role as a vocation try to model themselves and their decisions along Christian principles. By Gerald Korson The word vocation often conjures images of a call to the priesthood, diaconate, consecrated life, or marriage. Yet there’s another sense of vocation as discerning a higher purpose within professional life, whether one’s line of work has explicit apostolic aims or not. HLreeorgleae,tsebsarsiwehafolcyea,mlblariranecgesfttrohoremiierGsopdor.fofaesfseiwonal 17July 2021 | | legatus.org

ASCENDING TO CEO Ascension Press has a clear Catholic mission: to “to present the truth and beauty of the Catholic Faith as the path to a fulfilled life and authentic happiness” through resources, media, and community- building that help teach and transform lives through the “… WE NEED TO BE Gospel. So recently, when PROFITABLE AND Philadaelphia Legate and GROW, AND WE DON’T ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/SVIATLANA LAZARENKA company founder Matthew APOLOGIZE FOR IT Pinto decided to leave Ascension, COO Jonathan Strate saw an opportunity to take ownership Church’s own struggles: with Mass attendance and Catholic school His role as a Catholic of one of enrollment declining, for example, parishes and educational businessman “became to the nation’s administrators are seeking better, more engaging content in help people rise up and live leading catechetical materials, said Strate. abundantly, and doing that Catholic But since as COO he oversaw a rebranding and launched a number for customers and employees Jonathan Strate publishers. of new products, including the popular podcast The Bible in a Year is what I now see as the true with Fr. Mike Schmitz, featuring Jeff Cavins, “the changes I bring [as entrepreneurial calling,” Securing a Small Business CEO] will feel more like continued, organic growth,” he said. he explained. “That’s what I Administration loan, Strate “That’s what we’re challenged with,” Strate added, “and I feel learned in 2009.” – also a Philadelphia Legate – blessed to be called to continue the work in the service of God’s In his 2017 book 7 Principles of negotiated a deal, purchased people as my vocation.” Transformational Leadership, Ascension, and became CEO. Blane presents an essential The transaction was completed concept for overcoming in February. business obstacles he calls “the Perseverance Principle.” For Strate, who had been PERSEVERANCE One of the key ideas — one that in youth and young adult UNDER PRESSURE relates to the Catholic faith — is ministry for years, coming that finding strength requires to Ascension and eventually Hugh Blane of the Seattle Chapter, president admitting weakness. assuming ownership were the of Claris Consulting, came to view his “Ignatius of Loyola continuation of a divine calling. business and his professional life as a recommended that all God-given vocation the hard way. As an members of his community “Participating in and giving Hugh Blane entrepreneur who had bought out one of his complete an examination of back to the Catholic community partners just prior to the 2008 financial crisis, conscience once or twice per was always a part of my life,” he he endured the year-long loss of another day,” he said. “In my Ignatian said. “When it was offered to me partner who was battling cancer, and the practice there is a question I to come work at Ascension in embezzlement of a substantial sum before ask that goes, ‘Where did I not 2014, it felt like the right time to the bank called his company’s line of credit. live the absolute best version offer my professional skill set to of myself today?’ For me, that a mission-based organization. “I did everything I knew to address the issues at hand and realized absolute best version of myself When the opportunity came that there were red flags along the way,” Blane said in retrospect. is when I am loving God, loving to transition ownership of the “Had I been paying attention, I wouldn’t have experienced these others, and living the Gospel. company, it was something hardships as I did. I was overly focused on money and financial When I take a sincere look at my wife and I prayed about. success, and living my professional life aligned with biblical my day and look for ways that We felt we already were part principles was not on my radar screen.” I have not lived in alignment of the good work being done at with God‘s love, that is the Ascension, and God had put us As these tribulations raged, reading Christ’s words about the “first jumping off point for seeing in the best position to continue and greatest commandment” (see Matt 22:36-40) inspired him. where I am living off the mark shepherding this work forward of my faith.” as our continued vocation.” “Amidst this financial reversal, what I came to want most was to create a flourishing business — flourishing for others first, and then Catholic publishing faces for me,” Blane said. “I wanted flourishing customers and flourishing challenges resulting from the employees. That’s when my Catholic faith started to become real.” 18July 2021 | | legatus.org

Perseverance, he concluded, blacksmith shop by his great-great-grandfather in 1902. When as a leader in the metal “falls into three buckets for me: he started full time in 2004 at the age of 19, it was still a mom- fabrication and specialty trades loving deeply, learning daily, and-pop welding repair business, but in the years that followed industries.” and living boldly.” Matthew helped expand the business through acquisitions to Matthew describes the Nix include powder coatings and painting, fabrication, and farm company culture in two parts: FAITH IN THE equipment sales and service — and even the construction of two “people and values based,” and NIX OF TIME steel yachts. He and his brother Adam bought majority control of “progressive and competitive.” Nix Companies in 2012; Matthew’s wife, Lindsey, came on board “Those might seem at odds with Matthew Nix grew up working around then and presently serves as strategic account manager each other, but I can assure in the family business and director of public relations. you they are not,” he explained. headquartered in Poseyville, “In the past decade, we have grown and evolved from a small- “We have grown our business IN, originally founded as a town welding repair shop with four family members to a nearly a hundredfold while still diversified regional business with 100-plus team members focusing on our people and our focusing on metal fabrication and specialty trades contracting,” values. Not only do we want to Mathew explained. be profitable and grow; we need As the business grew under his entrepreneurial spirit, so also did to be profitable and grow, and his interior sense of a calling from God. we don’t apologize for it.” “In the beginning, I think I was like a lot of people, it was growth His job as president and CEO, for growth’s sake, and some ego was involved as well. I wanted to Matthew said, “is to set the prove myself,” he admitted. “But at some point, I started asking vision and constantly help myself some deeper questions. Why am I doing what I’m doing? Is everyone in the company it all worth it?” connect what they are doing, For a few years, he went through intense discernment, reading, why they are doing it, and how and prayer: why keep growing the business if we had a good thing they measure success, to this going and a comfortable middle-class lifestyle? His father and vision and purpose,” Matthew grandfather had kept things simple, weren’t driven like he was, said. “We don’t always get this and were happy. Matthew came to realize his “talent” was “of the right, but if we can keep coming entrepreneurial kind,” and his God-given talents should be put to back to this as our North Star, good use. I believe we will be a much One Sunday morning he had an insight, almost as of a voice stronger organization. speaking to him: “Why are you making it so complicated? It’s Matthew and Lindsey Nix with their about the people!” Taking that as God’s call, he developed a vision “Meanwhile, I’ll be doing what I children Charlie (7), Mason (5), and Roman statement, which today affirms that Nix Companies strives “to was called to do.” L (6 months). The Nixes, who formerly create world-class employment opportunities and be recognized commuted two hours as members of the GERALD KORSON, editorial consultant Louisville (KY) Chapter, are founding for Legatus magazine, is based in Indiana. Legates of the Evansville (IN) Chapter still in development. THE MOTIVATION OF A CHRISTIAN BUSINESS LEADER ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/VM “Christian business leaders are men and women of action who have demonstrated an authentic entrepreneurial spirit, one that recognizes the God-given responsibility to accept the vocation of business generously and faithfully. These leaders are motivated by much more than financial success, enlightened self-interest, or an abstract social contract as often prescribed by economic literature and management textbooks. Faith enables Christian business leaders to see a much larger world, a world in which God is at work, and where their individual interests and desires are not the sole driving force. The Church’s teachings inspire business leaders to view God as being at work throughout His creation and their own vocation as a call to directly and respectfully contribute to this creation.” • Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, Vocation of a Business Leader: A Reflection, 2018 English Edition, 65) 19July 2021 | | legatus.org

The price of digital convenience: your privacy How to work around Big Tech’s ability to watch you online by judy roberts AS BIG TECH WIELDS ITS HEAVY HAND TO CONTROL THE FLOW OF NEWS AND INFORMATION, IT’S ALSO BECOMING CLEAR THAT ANYONE WHO GOES ONLINE HAS REASON TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT PRIVACY. July 2021 | 20 | legatus.org

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‘‘ Big Tech is consistently violating [your] privacy, and what may seem innocent today may later be used against you ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/JAE YOUNG JU Catholic author Eric Sammons, ‘free’; unlike traditional services which sell products to you, these and whistleblower Edward who has written about the topic services sell you to the advertisers.” Snowden swears by Signal. on his blog at ericsammons. Such “profiles” can be used for anything, including government For secure email, Sammons com, said even users who or Big Tech surveillance, Sammons said. “Let’s say you sent recommends Belgium-based think no one would possibly be a Facebook message to a friend two years ago that criticized Mailfence, which offers interested in their social media transgenderism. That action can potentially impact your future encryption and does no tracking, postings or emails to friends ability to get work or even raise your own kids. It sounds far- but he also has used ProtonMail, don’t realize how much their fetched, but it’s actually already happening.” which is based in Switzerland activities – what they buy, what The bottom line is that everyone who ventures into the digital and encrypts all emails as well. they watch, what they say, even realm is vulnerable. Users of Google’s Gmail and Chrome, for Another basic step to enhance in so-called private messages example, are having their emails scanned and stored by a third privacy online involves – are tracked online. “This party, but just about all their online activity is being tracked as switching to a browser that does information is then gathered well, unless they take specific steps to protect themselves. not track a user’s activity on the together to form a profile of “We all expect a certain base level of privacy, no matter how web. Among the alternatives each person, which is then innocent we believe our activities are, but Big Tech is consistently to Internet Explorer, Google used for advertising purposes. violating this privacy, and what may seem innocent today may Chrome, Firefox, and Safari are That’s why these services are later be used against you.” Brave, TOR, and DuckDuckGo. Eric Sammons Sammons, who previously used FIRST STEPS: CHANGING MESSAGING AND EMAIL both Google Chrome and Firefox, said he changed his browser to Users who want to protect their online privacy can start by Brave for its functionality and changing their messaging and email applications to ones that privacy policies. encrypt messages. Signal and Telegram are two such options Similarly, users concerned and, although Telegram offers more options such as groups, that when they “Google it” Sammons prefers Signal, believing it to be more trustworthy. their searches are being In fact, he writes in his Jan. 13 blog post, “A Guide to Living in an tracked by Google or another Orwellian Digital Age,” that former intelligence community officer search engine can switch July 2021 | 22 | legatus.org

to an alternative such as to view its videos without signing in. When accessing YouTube, WANHDAWT’SHAPTO’SSSNIBOLTE DuckDuckGo or Presearch. he also uses a VPN (virtual private network), which prevents an Having used Google almost internet service provider or anyone else from tracking online since its inception, Sammons activity. Additionally, he recommends watching YouTube videos He said no one can be on the said he initially changed to on a computer, not a smartphone, and with a separate browser. internet and be completely DuckDuckGo, but later found private or secure, but it is the grass-roots, decentralized CUTTING TIES WITH GOOGLE possible for users to increase Presearch to be even better. their privacy and security levels. Sammons has gone even further in his efforts to disconnect from When it comes to social media, Internet services that are constantly collecting information about Since writing both posts some Internet users with users by seeking to cease using most Google products. In his Feb. in January and February, privacy or censorship concerns 1 post, “How I Disconnected from the Google Borg,” he explained Sammons has made have happily disconnected how this has been no mean feat because of the many services he one additional change – from platforms like Facebook has come to depend on. downgrading to a “dumb and Twitter, but others continue phone,” both for privacy reasons to find them convenient ways For instance, Sammons for more than a decade had a personal and to break any unhealthy to access news and to stay in email address powered by Gmail, all his files were on Google Drive, attachment to the virtual world. touch with friends and family. and he was regularly accessing various Google apps and services. Sammons has remained This means he can only call on both platforms, but he He managed to find alternatives, though not all of them free, for and text with his new phone advises accessing them only nearly every Google service he had been using, including Google – a Light Phone II – and has on a computer and not via Docs, Google Sheets, Google Photos, Google Analytics, Google had to adjust to being without a smartphone app, both for Maps, and Google Tasks. a portable camera or GPS. He privacy reasons and because still accesses social media and it is healthier for the Instead of Google Docs and other messaging services on mind and spirit. He ‘‘… no one can be Google Sheets, he is now using his desktop computer, where he also suggests using a on the Internet Mailfence, and instead of Google also can take part in a regular separate browser for Drive and Google Photos, he has chat with his adult children via such activity. switched to pCloud, a service Apple’s iMessages. based in Europe. For website and be completelyRepulsed by Big Tech’s analytics, he chose Clicky, and Although he made the switch private or securecensorship of certain for Google Tasks, the Todoist app largely because he realized he views on social media, along with old-fashioned paper was using his smartphone too some have turned to lists. much, wasting time that could Twitter alternatives Gab and have been spent with his family, Parler, Facebook alternative Finding another navigation and map app was among the more reading, or studying, Sammons MeWe, and video-hosting difficult challenges, but Sammons said he finally settled on “GPS was also influenced by a platforms Odysee, Bitchute, and Navigation & Maps,” which requires downloading individual state smartphone’s ability to allow Rumble instead of YouTube. maps. Big Tech and Big Government to track online and offline activity. Although he has deleted Sammons said he still uses Google products and services in his own YouTube channel, his work for Crisis magazine, where he is the editor-in-chief, “I’m not arguing that Sammons, who is now using because the publication still uses Google Workspace, but he has ditching the smartphone is Odysee, still finds YouTube’s separate browsers for work and personal activities on his desktop for everyone,” he wrote in content useful and so continues computer. “It’s not perfect, but it does help keep Google away from “I’m Going Dumb,” another me a bit more,” post on his blog, “but I do he said. think we should all be more ‘‘… downgrading to In addition to intentional in how we use a “dumb phone,” his blog and new technologies. Instead of work for Crisis, just embracing them because Sammons is everyone else is, we should both for privacy the author of be intentional in our usage, making a cost/benefit analysis reasons and to several books, and deciding if and how they including his will become part of our lives.” break … unhealthy latest, Deadly Indifference: For additional information attachment to the How the about online protection and Church Lost disconnecting from services ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/VALENTIN RUSSANOV virtual world Her Mission that do not ensure users’ and How We privacy, see: ericsammons. Can Reclaim com/a-guide-to-living-in-an- It (CRISIS orwellian-digital-age/  L Publications). JUDY ROBERTS is a Legatus magazine staff writer. July 2021 | 23 | legatus.org

Families strengthen around ‘prayer’ fire by Jim Graves ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/ANNASTILLS Fr. Patrick Peyton (1909-92), known for leading hundreds of large rosary rallies over the course of his Fr. Patrick Peyton WIKITREE life, famously declared that “the family that prays together, stays together.” Statistics demonstrate that both the strength of the family and practice of the Catholic faith have been in decline since his time, making it even more important today that Catholic families put Fr. Peyton’s advice into practice in a way that is enduring and effective. ‘Oxygen of the soul’ Warfare, in some families only one member may be practicing the believes faith and praying, but nonetheless, “The sole intercessor for the that prayer Evangelist and author Kathleen family has great spiritual power to pray for the conversion of their keeps family Beckman described prayer as loved ones.” members “the oxygen of the soul,” and She suggested families develop a daily routine in which they united to recommends family prayer begin and end the day in family prayer, and create a family God and because “it brings together oratory, a prayer area that is considered holy ground within the one another, spouses and children in a spirit house. This may contain such blessed objects as holy water, holy and in turn, of love to raise hearts to God.” “strengthens Praying vocal prayers together cards, religious statues, and a crucifix which us to be good Fr. Tim Donovan “solidifies communion with all encourage “spontaneous visits there disciples as one another and with God. where loved ones may pray to God for special we go out into the world.” He When family members pray intentions.” advises that families identify from the heart for specific something related to prayer intentions, they establish a Sustenance for daily journey they can do daily, and suggests bond of trust, faith deepens, using visual cues as reminders. hope ignites, and love grows.” Kathleen Beckman Fr. Tim Donovan, a Catholic high school He explained, “A parent taking As she notes in her new book, chaplain who is founder and president of a child to school, for example, A Family Guide to Spiritual Faith and Family Life Catholic Ministries, may pass a particular donut shop which can be a visual July 2021 | 24 | legatus.org

reminder to offer their day to like a candle, he burns out.” ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/HALFPOINT God. Such reminders can be If a husband and wife stop helpful, as people’s schedules communicating, for example, can be so crazy.” their relationship slowly dies. Such practices, he continued, The same occurs in one’s “can evolve into regular family relationship with God when gatherings for sharing highs prayer ceases. and lows, having conversations Fr. Skonezny experienced related to faith, reading the a re-awakening of his own Scriptures, and speaking to priesthood after a pilgrimage God about their needs.” led him to revitalize his prayer life. He explained, “I had slipped Regular appointment into a patterned mediocrity. It with God is easy for us priests to fall into a rote attitude and take the Fr. Raymond supernatural for granted.” communion with God.” Skonezny Not every family member may desire prayer, Beckman conceded, is a former but added, “If one member of the family has a heart on fire for God, Trappist then he or she can light a fire for the rest.” They can catechize not only monk who with books, she continued, offered Family catechesis – ‘forever gift’ to children but with their example, such spiritual as by praying before meals direction for Fr. Donovan recalled an experience of one family whose parents or blessing their children two groups had a 7-year-old and two others ages 18 and 19. The older children each day. They also catechize Fr. Raymond Skonezny which were raised without the Catholic faith, but the parents had a “by prioritizing and living “reversion,” began practicing their faith, and then began praying in a sacramental life, taking promote lay the home with the younger child. The young adult children were their children to Mass and family spirituality, Cursillo and home one evening during prayers, took an interest in what was Confession, and celebrating the Magnificat. He, too, believes happening, then asked their parents, “Why were we not raised in liturgical seasons.” in setting fixed times for the Faith?” Father said, “It sparked in interest in their becoming daily prayer. He recalled the involved.” example of California Bishop Fr. Donovan also noted that family prayer must also incorporate Such a rich family prayer life, John Steinbock (1937-2010) catechesis. He asked, “If prayer is primarily a relationship with she believes, offers many who penciled in a one-hour God, it is hard to have a conversation with someone we know little blessings to each family “appointment” every day with about. That’s were catechesis comes in. It is not a starting place, member and is “a great spiritual Jesus. but a place where we can grow.” hedge of protection for each Beckman added, “Parents have the beautiful privilege and duty to member of the family, protecting If done consistently, such teach their children about the faith, about the spiritual life that is from the spirit of the world, the prayer time enables families flesh, and the devil.” L to develop a rich interior life. But when people neglect JIM GRAVES is a Legatus magazine prayer, “the person just dies; contributing writer. “a rich family prayer life … offers many blessings … and is ‘a great spiritual hedge of protection for each member of the family’ 25 ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/OSOBYSTIST July 2021 | | legatus.org

ETHICS CATHERINE PAKALUK, PH.D. MATTERS When being ‘pro-life’ isn’t enough IN MY ENTIRE LIFETIME AS A care, assistance to pro-lifer—almost a half-century— women in crisis it has been accepted orthodoxy pregnancies, and a within the movement, from the total womb-to-tomb top to the bottom, that we orient “pro-life” ethic. our work and witness around what we are for rather than But this rhetoric what we are against. Hence, we has had one major have vigorously self-identified problem: expanding as “pro-life,” as “right to life,” as the objective area promoters of a “culture of life,” drew attention away and we have just as vigorously from the center rejected being labeled as of the target—for “anti-abortion.” I am beginning ourselves, but more to wonder if this has been a critically for our ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/VM mistake. opponents. We have been vulnerable It’s not difficult to see the case to political taunts for calling ourselves pro-life. of this type: “if you From the early days of the pro- really were ‘pro-life’ you would be in favor of anti- constantly for antiracist policies and norms that life movement, mainstream poverty measures which will improve quality of chip away at the social sin of racism. media depicted pro-lifers as life for many and lead (indirectly—they say) to angry white men, typified by fewer abortions.” But if an anti-poverty measure Applied to the pro-life movement, Kendi’s logic aging Republican politicians includes funding for abortion, we know, and seems correct: it’s not enough to be “pro-life”; and decrepit Catholic clergy, they know, we are against it because we are you have to be “anti-abortion” in a society that is when in reality pro-lifers anti-abortion. structurally steeped in the evil of abortionism. were youthful, cheerful, Opposing the You must name the sin, bravely and often. and diverse. Further, “You must name the sin, legal, state- Therefore, I oppose the use of vaccines derived political opponents sponsored or tested on biological material taken from still- argued that pro-lifers bravely and often. killing of living human unborn children: only the most extreme, genuine necessity (think of the movie were simple-minded one class of Alive!) could excuse the use of such vaccines. one-issue voters who persons must That is why I have called upon congressional cared about controlling take priority leaders to pass a bill requiring food and medical women’s bodies and over other life manufacturers to label all products tested or not at all about the quality issues since it is more heinous. These opponents’ developed using human fetal tissue. of life that an “unwanted” arguments correctly “call our bluff” on “pro-life” baby would have after birth. language. To be pro-life, as we understand it, is These false narratives seemed to be profoundly anti-abortion—to be unwilling “Protect unborn man from born man!” urged easier to combat if we chose to accept even one abortion for the sake of some Pope St. John Paul the Great. I can think of no for ourselves a title that putatively greater good. better rallying cry. Let us remain as “pro-life” as signaled our comprehensive ever, but let us also become more deeply anti- commitment to the good of The popular New York Times bestseller How abortion. L human life—including abortion to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi seems to resistance, yes, but also illustrate the point. It’s not enough, Kendi argues, CATHERINE RUTH PAKALUK, opposition to euthanasia, to to avoid being a racist yourself, like those who PH.D., is assistant professor of social research physician-assisted suicide, and say of abortion they are “personally opposed,” and economic thought at The Catholic University of to the destruction and abuse of or that they “would never have one.” Instead, America in Washington, D.C. Her book (co-authored human embryos, together with Kendi argues, to be truly for racial equality in with Trent Horn), Can a Catholic Be a Socialist? has an unwavering commitment a structurally racist society, you must work sold more than 10,000 copies. She is now working to compassionate end-of-life on a book on motive and meaning among religious women with large families. July 2021 | 26 | legatus.org

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CULTURE OF JOHN A. DI CAMILLO, PH.D., BE.L. LIFE Parents should not be coerced into vaccinating kids IN LATE 2020, THE U.S. FOOD AND in a negative light as if they were indecisive, FDA emergency use authorizations (EUAs) is Drug Administration (FDA) irrational, or—worse still—indifferent to the well- disastrously imprudent at best. authorized the first COVID-19 being of others. We should be on guard against vaccines for emergency use “shaming” or other forms of undue pressure to If the U.S. Department of Health and Human in adults. In May 2021, the accept or refuse a vaccine, particularly when Services (HHS) were to revoke its declaration of Pfizer vaccine became the these pressures bear upon our fears, sense of a public health emergency, then all EUAs would first authorized for children self-worth, or feelings of guilt. automatically be rescinded, and the unlicensed as young as 12. The threshold vaccines could no longer be used. Mandating may be lower by the start of Whichever option parents conclude is good their use in children as a condition for access to the new school year this fall. for their children, we should all be united in education is profoundly unjust. Parents should How can parents begin to think fighting one colossal form of external pressure: be ready to communicate this to their children’s through a vaccination decision mandating COVID-19 vaccines as a condition for schools and to investigate legal options if schools for children? attending school. Vaccines that are still in Phase are unresponsive. Medical decisions such as III clinical trials with no COVID-19 vaccination should more than one year of long- To serve the spiritual well- not be based primarily on term follow-up in adults “Medical decisions being of our families and external pressures. Reason, reliable information, and should not be required such as COVID-19 communities, including the prayerful discernment are the as a condition for school Church as a whole, we should pillars of sound decisions. No attendance, especially when vaccination should avoid division based on one should succumb to feelings that they “have to” vaccinate or children face little risk from not be based primarily vaccination decisions. Parents refuse to vaccinate their child. COVID-19. Studies involving on external pressures will make different decisions For example, a propagandistic millions of children in about COVID vaccines with term like “vaccine hesitancy” school settings have found respect to their own children, might be used to “nudge” minimal transmission of seeking and navigating reliable people toward vaccination. the disease among children information and advice as This would constitute and virtually no mortality. best they can with prayer and undue influence, casting Teachers are more at risk of teacher-to-teacher prudence. This is no light task, so we must build those who may be waiting transmission than child-to-teacher transmission. one another up in the Lord and be at peace with for more reliable medical one another, as St. Paul says (see 1 Thess 5:11-13). information about the vaccines The Catholic Church’s highest doctrinal body confirmed in December 2020 that vaccination Our Lord taught that a house divided against must be voluntary. The ethical principle that itself cannot stand (see Matt 3:25). We must not medical decisions must be adequately informed feed a new class narrative based on “vaccinated” and free of versus “unvaccinated” status, ostracizing and coercion has ghettoizing one another, particularly within been affirmed families. Let us instead be united in the Lord repeatedly in and in the defense of adequately informed and international law, voluntary medical decisions, free of coercive including in the influences that undermine the dignity of the 1947 Nuremburg human person and do not serve the common Code and the good. L 2005 Universal Declaration on JOHN A. DI CAMILLO, PH.D., BE.L., ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/SDI PRODUCTIONS Bioethics and is a staff ethicist at The National Catholic Human Rights. Bioethics Center. He applies Catholic moral Mandating the theology to science and medicine through writing, use of unapproved speaking, and fielding hundreds of individual and and unlicensed organizational consultations each year. He lives in biologics that are available under Lancaster County, PA, with his wife, Serena, and their six children. July 2021 | 28 | legatus.org

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GUEST RANDY HAMMOND VOICE To impart faith at work, be an example IN HIS EXCELLENT ARTICLE IN THE perfectly: “to give an account of the May issue of Legatus magazine, hope that is in you” (1 Pet 3:15). “Running an Enterprise in ‘Woke Times,’” Dr. Andrew Abela offered When we serve people, we bring the that excellence in the workplace love of Jesus to them. Evangelism is should be achieved through the not as much about bringing people cultivation of virtue in order to to Jesus as it is bringing Jesus to “give witness to true, rational people—to show, and then tell. That morality by showing that it was key to St. Paul’s strategy: “For works.” though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, That got me thinking about so that I might win more of them” evangelization in the (1 Cor 9:19). Saint Paul connected ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/STEEX workplace. Studies show that with people wherever they felt most up to 90 percent of people who comfortable; he did not require had a conversion experience them to accommodate him. as an adult did so because of a relationship with people Dr. Scott Hahn likens evangelizing outside of church. This statistic to talking about the ball game over underscores the water cooler. Being part Console. Spend time with them when they are the strategic “Evangelism is not of someone’s faith journey particularly challenged, are feeling down, or are nature of the as much about could begin with sharing in mourning. workplace for conversation over a cup of evangelization. bringing people to coffee, encouraging someone Be Catholic. Pray at meals and make the Sign Most of us do Jesus as it is bringing who’s having a rough week, of the Cross. Wear symbols of faith proudly, or offering a hand to a perhaps a scapular or crucifix. not feel gifted colleague under stress. as evangelists, Jesus to people—to Here is a list of actions to Proclaim. Mentioning Mass as part of your and so the call to show, and then tell weekend plans may prompt a question and an share the Gospel consider: opportunity. Talk to colleagues about your faith message can when appropriate. Tell them you are praying be unsettling. Work hard. The quality of for them. Maybe invite them to Mass: a recent Broaching a spiritual our work and our attitude toward it tells people a study indicated that 82 percent of people who conversation with colleagues at lot about us and the God we serve. When we do no longer attend Mass or church services would work can stir no small amount good work, God is glorified. consider going if someone were to invite them. of angst. You might feel a bit intimidated by hostile attitudes Be joyful in all you do. Being a disciple means being constantly ready toward Christianity. If you are to bring the love of Jesus to others, and this can not careful, you could push Serve others. Always strive to help and support. happen unexpectedly. We must be mentally your colleagues away from prepared for these opportunities. Listen to God’s yourself and/or from God. Talk about your family. And ask your voice, follow His promptings, and let the Holy What should a leader do? colleagues about theirs. Spirit guide the conversations.  L Andrew mentioned setting Interact. Make time when they simply want to RANDY HAMMOND and his wife, Kaye, the example, and this is where talk. Be a good listener. Let them know they can Legatus members since 2011, are members of the it starts. Two words come to always rely on you. mind: joy and service. The Celebrate. Be the first to congratulate Denver Chapter. Randy serves on the Legatus most important thing is to be them on the birth or a child or a significant International Board of Governors and is chairman joyful in living out the Gospel. accomplishment. St. Peter described this joy of the Forums Committee. July 2021 | 30 | legatus.org

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FAITH FATHER RAFAL WALCZYK MATTERS Our common purpose – leading new followers to Christ – also brings joy “GO INTO THE WHOLE WORLD and proclaim the Gospel to every creature…” (Mark 16:15) As a person who was born and ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/POWEROFFOREVER raised in another country on another continent, currently living in the United States, very often I experience a feeling of longing. It is a longing for my family, for the old country. Often it is a strong, disturbing feeling, and sometimes it is a very delicate feeling that does not evoke any additional emotions. However, it is always a longing that suggests some lack. It indicates a need for something that I don’t currently have. How can I satisfy my longing? When Jesus was 12 years This is where the decisive moment of my short into the whole world and proclaim the Gospel to old, His parents took Him to story begins. every creature.” Go and proclaim! He says these Jerusalem for the Feast of words to each and every one of us! Jesus sends Passover (Luke 2: 41-52). It Everyone is looking for something in his life. not only his disciples, but also each of us. He was time spent among friends, Sometimes it is an insignificant thing; other obliges us to go out into the world and proclaim family, acquaintances; it was times it is an important thing, or even the most His Gospel and His love. It doesn’t have to be time spent in prayer. However, important thing. However, we are really seeking in a different country or even on a different in the entire description of this happiness, the ultimate aim of every human continent. It is enough that in my workplace, event, one situation catches being. As the passage about finding Jesus shows in my neighborhood, I will talk about Him and my attention. At us, we can only find share what He is doing in my life. one point, Joseph happiness in the and Mary missed “[He] sends … each of temple. Yet we all are The Church is a family that gives birth, educates, Jesus. They noticed us … into the world [to] temples of the Holy and teaches. I believe that this is what Jesus that He was not Spirit. Moreover, the expects of me and of every believer today. Yet with them. So, they proclaim His way Holy Spirit lives in “it is more blessed to give than to receive” (Acts started looking for our heart, and that 20:35). He wants us to birth, to raise, and to teach Him. They did not is where we can find new disciples of His. He only means three things! stop and stand still, the happiness that Nothing more. Birth, raise, teach. By doing these but rather began we are looking for. things, each of us will be doing the Father’s will. to look for Him. By doing these things, each of us will satisfy our Their search ultimately was Jesus obeyed his earthly parents, Mary and hunger for happiness, because “My food is to do successful. After three days, Joseph, and there is a question for each of us: the will of Him who sent me” (John 4:34). L Mary and Joseph found Jesus in whom should I obey? It seems to me, above all the temple. The evangelist Luke and always, I must obey God and God’s Word. FATHER RAFAL WALCZYK, says that after finding Jesus, God’s Word makes it very clear what we are to do. O.S.P.P.E., hails from Poland, and currently “He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was In Mark 16:15, we read the words Jesus spoke serves at The National Shrine of Our Lady of obedient to them” (Luke 2:51). to His disciples as He ascended to heaven: “Go Czestochowa in Doylestown, PA. He has been a priest since 2005 in the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit. July 2021 | 32 | legatus.org

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ENGAGING THE FR. CHARLES CONNOR FAITH Recalling the Sheen of Catholicism’s heyday ANOTHER SIGN OF THE STRENGTH As to Clare’s of American Catholicism in ultimate the 1950s was the number of conversion: converts who were received into the Church. This was one of the “It finally took The disciple CATECHISM highest priorities of the Church: two world wars, of Christ must She who possessed the fullness the overthrow not only keep 101 of truth was filled with a strong of several dozen evangelistic fervor to share that thrones and the faith and truth with as many people as governments, the live on it, but also profess it, possible. … Russian revolution, confidently bear witness to it, … Perhaps the single best- the swift collapse, and spread it. known convert instructor, of in our own time, course, was Bishop Fulton J. of hundreds of Catechism of the Sheen. In the 1950s, Sheen was thought-systems, Catholic Church, #1816 at the height of his popularity; a small number of his Emmy Award–winning which collapsed SCRIPTURE But we carry program, Life Is Worth Living, on me, the death 101 this treasure made Sheen a household name of millions, as well as the death of my daughter, in vessels of and brought him — and the Faith before I was willing to take a look at this clay, to show — to the attention of millions. It extraordinary institution, the Catholic Church.” would be impossible to calculate that the abundance of the how many were brought to the It had been her daughter’s death that stimulated power is God’s and not ours. Church through his broadcasts her to discuss religion with then-Monsignor and books. Some who were Sheen. She became irate at Sheen’s mention 2 Corinthians 4:7 received into the fullness of of the goodness of God, asking why, if God faith, however, were particularly was so good, He had taken her daughter in an well known, and their automobile accident. Sheen replied: so that she, conversions were well noted. Clare, might now be taking the first steps needed Clare Boothe Luce was, without for conversion. She feared her own death, and doubt, one of Sheen’s best- whether she would merit an afterlife, and known students. The wife of wanted to rid herself of her burden of sin. Henry Luce, founder of an empire that would come to … On February 16, 1946 … Sheen received Mrs. include such publications as Clare Boothe Luce into the Catholic Church in St. Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. … As a sign of and People magazines, she was gratitude, she commissioned a celebrated artist a distinguished author and to paint a portrait of Monsignor Sheen against a writer of Broadway plays, not background of the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes. to mention a Congresswoman To this day, it is one of the most recognizable from Connecticut and a United depictions of Venerable Sheen. L States ambassador to Italy. Bishop Sheen felt that never Excerpt from Toil and Transcendence: Catholicism in 20th-Century America, in his life had he been so by Rev. Charles P. Connor, S.T.L., Ph.D. (EWTN Publishing, Inc., 2020), pp. 258-60. privileged to instruct anyone who was as “brilliant and FR. CHARLES CONNOR, S.T.L., scintillating in conversation as PH.D, a faculty member at Mount St. Mary’s Mrs. Luce.” Seminary in Emmitsburg, MD, is an expert in Church history. He is the host of several television series on EWTN including Historic Catholic Converts. July 2021 | 34 | legatus.org

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WHAT TO READ Boundaries of Eden featuring the internal brokenness. But there is ourselves Glenn Arbery dialogues of a large cast of hope,” writes McDermott and our Wiseblood Books, 510 pages characters, Boundaries of — with healing to be found loved ones Eden is not simple to digest, through humility, prayer, from harm. Glenn but the artistry of Arbery’s and forgiveness. The central We simply Arbery, prose makes it well worth the solution is a “national need to be president of journey. covenant,” a faith-based prepared to Wyoming concept rooted in Scripture. do battle as Catholic Race and Covenant: These scholars don’t buy into “spiritual College and Rediscovering the Religious the narrative of systemic warriors” a Legate of Roots for American racism and identity politics against the demons’ influence. the Denver Reconciliation but rather provide critical An evangelist and retreat Chapter, Gerald R. McDermott analysis to these ideas and director experienced in has written Acton Institute, 318 pages to the reparations question. exorcism and deliverance a “Southern novel” set in Their consensus: true ministry, Kathleen Beckman the present day but with Gerald McDermott has reconciliation is the pathway explains how to strengthen unraveling mysteries collected essays from 16 out of the “exile” of racial your household, recognize the that reach to the South scholars tackling the complex tensions in America today. devil’s work and strategies, of generations past. It’s a shield your family against complex work of fiction issue of race A Family Guide to Spiritual spiritual attacks, and engage centered upon the sometimes relations in Warfare: Strategies for in spiritual warfare when tragic, always fascinating the United Deliverance and Healing necessary. The destruction of life of Georgia native Walter States. “This Kathleen Beckman family life is among Satan’s Peach, a news editor and nation is Sophia Institute Press, 336 pages primary aims, and so parents drifted-away Catholic whose hurting… must remain vigilant and investigative instincts draw and racial Should we fear the devil? No, keep the most effective him and his family into division is for our Catholic faith gives us weapons locked and loaded. L danger. A lengthy narrative a big part the necessary armor to protect of that July 2021 | 36 | legatus.org

WHAT TO SEE Bolstered by hardship, immigrant family endures with resilience MINARI IS THE KOREAN NAME plot of land and move their portrayal by for an herb or vegetable — two children, David and Anne Yuh-jung Youn) some call it a weed — native (later joined by Monica’s is a bit eccentric to east Asia that is harvested mother, Soonja), into its and coarse, but it and eaten in the region. dilapidated mobile home with is she whose “old Otherwise known by names big plans creating a profitable country” ways like Chinese celery and enterprise harvesting Korean help ground Japanese parsley, minari vegetables. the family and has a somewhat bitter and Monica isn’t on board with exemplify joy peppery flavor; it enhances that dream and has concerns and forgiveness. many Korean dishes but about their son’s heart often is simply seasoned and condition; Jacob desperately Available on Minari eaten on its own. It’s also a feels the need to succeed at streaming and Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Yuh-jung Youn, Will Patton, plant that grows fast when something for his family. As on-demand planted, dies, but then returns Jacob slowly learns the art services, Minari Alan S. Kim, Noel Cho • 116 min. • PG-13 to life stronger than ever in its of farming and the family second season. integrates with Southern features a significant share the “American Dream,” and Minari thus aptly titles this culture, marital tensions of Korean dialogue, so be the love between husband 2020 film about the resilience threaten to break the Yi family prepared to read subtitles. and wife that endures all of a young Korean family apart until a near-tragedy The story often charms with hardships — and families seeking a fresh start on a causes Jacob and Monica to its intriguing window into the who, like minari itself, come remote Arkansas farmland. reassess their priorities. lives of a Korean immigrant back even stronger in the Poultry farm workers Jacob Soonja (in an Oscar-winning family. Its central themes, second season.  L and Monica Yi purchase a however, are universal and so cross ethnic lines: the value GERALD KORSON of hard work, the pursuit of is a Legatus magazine staff writer. July 2021 | 37 | legatus.org

HEALTH ALI REZAIE, M.D. MATTERS Gut microbiome – interior digestive ‘city’ and how to navigate it OVER THE LAST 15 YEARS experiencing medical researchers have digestive discovered that digestive problems. The health matters far more than GI system is we used to think. The gut astoundingly microbiome is becoming a complex. dominant field in medicine— how we modify it, how we keep There are it healthy, and how it affects many products not just the gut, but every organ on the market and system in your body. claiming to help with City inside your gut gut health— ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/DESIGN CELLS supplements, When we talk about the “gut,” probiotics, people think of the stomach. kombucha, But in my world, when we fiber, etc. say “gut,” we’re talking about When I see the entire gastrointestinal patients (GI) tract, which includes all with gut problems, I wish it were as simple as focused on gut health because many of the the organs of the digestive telling them to take a probiotic and wash it diseases that affect immunity also affect and system—all the way from gums down with kombucha, but it’s not. There is little are affected by the gut. COVID-19 is a prime to the end of the line. to no evidence that such products do any good. example. There’s research indicating that the Probiotic research health of a person’s microbiome may influence You can think of your has been going the severity of their COVID-19 symptoms, as well gut microbiome as a “After bone marrow, on for decades, as the strength of their body’s immune response city. There are millions and we really to fight the infection. of microorganisms your gut is the second haven’t found any living inside the GI biggest immune breakthroughs. I expect in another decade or two, gut health will tract—bacteria, fungi, be as commonly discussed as heart health. I’m archaea, viruses, and system in your body The only things delighted to be on the forefront of some of this research. We have a lot to learn. We’re studying bacteriophages—and we know for millions of bacteria, each with its own set of they must function sure make a genes. And we’re trying to figure out how to together and in positive impact modify them, so people feel good without side relationship to their on gut health effects. It’s a tricky and exhilarating challenge. L host (you). As in a city, you need are quite simple: a healthy diet, exercise, diversity of occupations for the avoid medications you don’t really need, and ALI REZAIE, M.D., M.SC., F.R.C.P.C., whole system to work well. If a potentially intermittent fasting. is medical director for the GI Motility Program certain type of bacteria with a at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. particular function dies, there Gut and immune health are problems throughout the He is one of Healthnetwork Foundation’s Service whole system. This is in part After bone marrow, your gut is the second Excellence Award recipients in recognition of his why there’s rarely a simple biggest immune system in your body. A lot of superb patient care. solution when a person is the immunotherapies being studied now are HEALTHNETWORK is a Legatus membership benefit, a health care “concierge service” that provides members and their families access to some of the most respected hospitals in the world. One Call Starts It All: (866) 968-2467 or (440) 893-0830. Email: [email protected] HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION is a nonprofit whose mission is to improve medicine for all by connecting CEOs with leading hospitals and their doctors to provide the best access to world-class care and increase philanthropic funding for medical research. July 2021 | 38 | legatus.org

FEEDING THE JOE MICATROTTO SR. FOODIE Vegas rallies heroic spirit in wake of tragedy “MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD festival—one would expect this mecca known as fear, isolation, or alone, but by every word that “Sin City” to have folded. Instead, what happened masks to separate comes out of the mouth of God” made it evolve into “Sincere City.” them from (Matt. 4:4). providing joyful I could document pages of the heroic spirit service when it has The years 2020-21 have yet to infused by love, kindness, and support that been needed most. be fully analyzed, understood, led to the preeminent new title “Vegas Strong.” or documented, but there is Now, nearly four years later, after the COVID-19 From the first days little doubt that all have been pandemic that left many people in a state of of COVID, I watched affected. Some have been what I call “COVID paralysis,” this strong city has people each week mournful, some financially displayed an inspiring resilience. We are moving walk into Peg’s crushed. The Church seems forward—safely, but forward! In so many ways, and be greeted Chef-owner, David Farrell, on the brink of facing empty Las Vegas has been a humanitarian oasis. with a sincere “Hi, of Peg’s Glorified Ham n Eggs buildings and welcome back, be right with you…” The menu is despondent Nowhere is this exhibited a plethora of bountiful delights, with a lean to congregations. “… so much more more than my favorite local Mexican and Hawaiian flairs and ingredients; it Still others count than just the dining spot, Peg’s Glorified also features salad and sandwiches that share their blessings Ham ’n’ Eggs. The operative the “glory” beyond ham and eggs. For this month’s that heretofore entertainment word is “glorified”! For 21 years, choice I selected the enchilada omelette skillet. were taken for capital. the owners, David and Jewel It combines much of the character of Peg’s and is granted. Every Farrell, have created nine Peg’s accompanied by a festival of tastes and aromas. city around the locations throughout Las Vegas world will have and elsewhere in Nevada. Now, please try to do the following when tales of triumph They have been serving fresh, preparing your own “glorified” skillet. When among its battles. ordinary ingredients and creating extraordinary completed and ready to dine, sit at a table with feasts. The food is on platters large enough to a loved one and reminisce of fun times, sweet After living in Las Vegas for serve four, but in this vestige of service and memories, and the joy of days to come. Then you more than 16 years, having had hospitality they are for one. can better feast on the words that come forth homes in nearly every direction from the mouth of God. L on a compass, I can say with When deciding where to base this month’s Foodie some expertise that Las Vegas article I thought of our past locations—Jerusalem, JOE MICATROTTO, SR., K.C.H.S., is so much more than just the Rome, Florence, and Bethlehem—but for these has been a founder and CEO in the restaurant entertainment capital. After “restricted” times I stayed close to home in Las industry for more than 45 years, including among the tragedy of October 1, 2017— Vegas. Every day of this pandemic, the team at his credits Buca di Beppo, Panda Express, and the mass outdoor shooting Peg’s filled their pans with the finest breakfast MRG Marketing & Management, Inc. (Micatrotto at the Harvest country music and lunch items imaginable. They never allowed Restaurant Group). He and his wife, Connie, are members of the Las Vegas Chapter. ENCHILADA OMELET SKILLET • SERVES 2 Ingredients and directions: Then add and sauté Next, heat in frying pan ½ tsp. for 10 more minutes: butter and add three whisked Julienne-cut and sauté • 1 cup diced fresh tomatoes eggs. Fry to omelet consistency, for 10 minutes: • 2 cups chicken stock then flip and add all the above, • 10 oz. shredded cooked chicken • 1 tsp. ea. salt and pepper plus ½ cup crushed tortilla chips. • 1 red pepper • ½ cup Monterey Jack cheese • 1 green pepper • ½ cup chopped cilantro Finally, complete with sliced • 1 medium yellow onion avocado and a tablespoon of • 1 tsp. fresh garlic sour cream. • 1 tbsp. butter July 2021 | 39 | legatus.org

U.S. will be flown Fordham University’s president, in a BRIEFS from Hawaii to letter to the college community. A PANDEMIC-FUELED BOON FOR Wichita in late Several others, however, including FAITH-BASED TECHNOLOGY: September for the Catholic University of America CATHOLIC PRAYER APP COMPANY a vigil and a and Belmont Abbey College, RAISES $12 MILLION funeral Mass, have emphasized the need for CHICAGO — Hallow, a Catholic followed by individuals to make their own prayer and meditation app, has interment in a prudential judgment in accordance raised $12 million in funding, crypt inside the with their conscience. suggesting that religious-based Cathedral of technology will remain popular the Immaculate US SUPREME COURT TO TAKE even as the COVID pandemic Conception. UP MISSISSIPPI CASE THAT MAY wanes and churches reopen Captured in CHALLENGE ABORTION LAW, ROE to full capacity. Hallow, which 1950 near V. WADE has partnered with hundreds of Unsan, North WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme parishes nationwide, offers basic Korea, while tending to soldiers, Court will hear oral arguments free content as well as expanded Fr. Kapaun ministered to fellow during its fall term on a Mississippi content via subscription. prisoners until his death of law that would ban most abortions Downloads of the app increased pneumonia. He was declared a after 15 weeks of pregnancy. sevenfold in 2020 as coronavirus “Servant of God,” a preliminary step Some legal experts say the case, spread, said founder and CEO toward canonization, in 1993. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Alex Jones, and demand spiked Organization, raises questions of noticeably during Lent and Easter CATHOLIC UNIVERSITIES fetal pain that could challenge 2021. “We’re looking to go after DIVIDED ON REQUIRING COVID-19 Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that folks who have fallen away from VACCINATIONS BEFORE FALL legalized abortion. their faith or just don’t connect with SEMESTER the Catholic Church but are still WASHINGTON — As colleges and Just after then-Mississippi Gov. interested in spirituality,” Jones said. universities grapple with how to Phil Bryant signed the law in reopen in the fall, by mid-June some 2018, a federal judge blocked it HIS REMAINS IDENTIFIED AND ON 30 Catholic colleges announced from taking effect after the state’s TRACK FOR SAINTHOOD, HEROIC they will require students to be only abortion clinic challenged its KOREAN WAR CHAPLAIN TO BE vaccinated for COVID-19, with constitutionality. The 5th U.S. Circuit INTERRED IN KANSAS some exemptions. Among larger Court of Appeals upheld the block. WICHITA, Kansas — A Kansas institutions taking this measure priest who is being considered for were Georgetown University, Boston sainthood will be laid to rest in College, DePaul University, and the Wichita, it was announced in May. University of Notre Dame. The newly identified remains “We see a path to the end of the of Fr. Emil Kapaun, a U.S. Army pandemic. That path is vaccination,” chaplain who died in a prisoner of said Jesuit Father Joseph McShane, war camp during the Korean War, The Supreme Court will begin hearing cases in October and is expected to announce its decision by June 2022.  L SOURCES: Catholic News Agency, Catholic News Service, CatholicVote, Bloomberg July 2021 | 40 | legatus.org

WORLD said Catholic clergy cannot bless Brandon Lewis, the British BRIEFS same-sex unions because God government’s minister for “cannot bless sin.” Northern Ireland, acknowledged OUTRAGE OVER UNICEF REPORT The German church has been at the the victims’ innocence and said THAT SUGGESTS PORNOGRAPHY IS forefront of pushing for discussion he would carefully consider the NOT SO HARMFUL FOR CHILDREN on hot-button issues such the findings. The victims’ grief has WASHINGTON — The UN Children’s Church’s teaching on homosexuality been “compounded by the long Fund (UNICEF) is under fire for a as part of a formal process of debate and difficult process of waiting for recent report suggesting there is no and reform — raising concerns the answers for so many years,” he said. conclusive evidence that children German church might be heading exposed to pornography are harmed. toward schism. POPE FRANCIS INSTITUTES In a recent report on protecting SECULAR MINISTRY OF CATECHIST children from harmful content AS A CALLING FOR LAY PERSONS online, UNICEF cited a European ROME – Pope Francis instituted the study that concluded 39 percent of “secular” ministry of the catechist, Spanish children were happy after meant for lay men and women who seeing pornography. UNICEF also feel called to help in the Catholic said efforts to block children from Church’s mission of spreading the accessing pornography online might Gospel. infringe on their human rights. JUSTICE DELAYED: NORTHERN With the formal recognition of the “UNICEF’s report ignores the vast IRELAND INQUEST RECOGNIZES many “competent catechists” who body of research demonstrating the VICTIMS OF BALLYMURPHY already exercise an “irreplaceable harms of pornography to children,” MASSACRE mission in the transmission and responded Lisa Thompson, vice BELFAST, Northern Ireland — A deepening of the faith,” Francis president and director of the Catholic priest, a mother of eight, offers yet another ministry to the Research Institute at the National and at least seven other civilians laity after extending the role of Center on Sexual Exploitation. were wrongly killed by British acolytes and readers to women in RENEGADE GERMAN PRIESTS soldiers in Northern Ireland in a January. BLESS SAME-SEX UNIONS DESPITE three-day 1971 incident known as CLEAR DIRECTIVES FROM THE the Ballymurphy Massacre, a new VATICAN inquiry has ruled. BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s The official finding places the powerful Catholic progressives are incident as a possible forerunner to openly defying a recent Holy See Bloody Sunday, another massacre pronouncement that priests cannot of Catholic demonstrators by British bless same-sex unions. paratroopers. The blessings, which began at over 100 open worship services in mid- The institution of the ministry of May, are the latest pushback from the catechist came in the form of a German Catholics against a March motu proprio, a document issued by document from the Congregation the pope on his own initiative and for the Doctrine of the Faith that personally signed by him.  L SOURCES: Catholic News Agency, Catholic News Service, Crux, C-Fam 41July 2021 | | legatus.org

CHAPTER NEWS RALEIGH (DEVELOPING) At its May 27 gathering at the Prestonwood Country Club (Cary, NC), the Raleigh Chapter welcomed guest speaker and Legate Craig Henry, who spoke on “Living the Legatus Mission through Faith, Love, Hope, and Mercy.” RALEIGH. RALEIGH. WEST REGION WEST REGION MULTI-CHAPTER EVENT. MULTI-CHAPTER EVENT Catholic with So Many Challenges After a long lockdown year in CA, in This Time?”), a leisurely lunch, a special day-long multi-chapter and an afternoon showing of the event for the West Region was held recently released “Fatima” movie May 13 at the recently reopened – just two days after the 104th Richard Nixon Presidential Library anniversary of the 1917 Fatima (Yorba Linda, CA). apparitions in Portugal. Members The day began at 9 a.m. with rosary from the San Diego, Orange County, and Holy Mass (celebrated by Fr. Pasadena, South Bay LA, Ventura- Dave Heney), then featured a LA North, Santa Barbara, and San talk by Patrick Madrid (“Why Be Juan Capistrano Chapters enjoyed the magnificently inspiring and social event. WEST REGION MULTI-CHAPTER EVENT. WEST REGION MULTI-CHAPTER EVENT. WEST REGION MULTI-CHAPTER EVENT. July 2021 | 42 | legatus.org

CHAPTER NEWS BALTIMORE DENVER. At the Denver Chapter’s The Baltimore Chapter held a very June 3 meeting held at Holy Name special event on May 19, at the Catholic Church in Denver, pictured singular invitation of Archbishop here are (l. to r.): Rob Attai, chapter of Baltimore, The Most Reverend president; Jennifer Hubbard, the William E. Lori, to his historic evening’s guest speaker; Judy and residence for a reception and Ken Darnell (Central Region vice dinner. The residence dates back to president). Ms. Hubbard lost a child America’s first Catholic bishop, John in the Sandy Hook incident and Carroll. After Confession, rosary, speaks of faith and hope in a loving and Mass in the undercroft God in the midst of suffering. chapel (beneath The Basilica of The Assumption), Baltimore JUPITER-PALM BEACH. The Jupiter-Palm Beach April 15 event Chapter members Stephen featured the induction of two new women members, Anita Menarde, and Deborah Peroutka and Michele Sagarino and her husband Mike Tellex. Michele is vice were presented the 2020 president of development for Cross Catholic Outreach. Ambassador of the Year Award (AMBY) – Legatus’ JUPITER-PALM BEACH. Featured most prestigious annual speaker for the Jupiter-Palm Beach award – by Archbishop April 15 event was John Horvat, vice Lori. Each year, the AMBY president and member of the board of recognizes Legatus member(s) directors for the American Society for who have demonstrated the Defense of Tradition, Family, and outstanding Christian witness Property. He also serves on the board to their business and/or of the America Needs Fatima campaign, BALTIMORE. (l. to r.) Legatus executive director Stephen Henley with and spoke on “Facing a Choice between community. Steve Peroutka 2020 Ambassador of the Year Award recipients, Stephen and Deborah the Great Reset or our Fatima Future,” has served as Chapter Peroutka, and The Most Reverend William E. Lori, Archbishop of Baltimore. along with his new book “Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy to an president since 2019. Organic Christian Society–Where We’ve Been, How We Got Here and Where We BALTIMORE. Baltimore’s Archbishop William Lori (left) hosting Baltimore Chapter members at a Need to Go.” special May 19 reception at his residence, during which he presented Stephen and Deborah Peroutka the 2020 Ambassador of the Year Award. HARRISBURG. The Harrisburg Chapter members celebrated their 5th anniversary on May 18 at the Hotel Hershey. Bishop Ronald Gainer (chaplain of the Harrisburg Chapter since 2016) was presented the 2020 National Chapter Chaplain of the Year Award. July 2021 | 43 | legatus.org

CHAPTER NEWS LINCOLN LINCOLN. The Chapter’s May 18 event was a special visit to the Cloisters on the Platte – a premier retreat center and beautiful complex in the bluffs near the Platte River, founded by Joe Ricketts (founder of TD Ameritrade and owner of the Chicago Cubs). The complex features life-size bronze sculptures of the Stations of the Cross on a paved ½-mile walking path with audio meditation for each Station. Members also toured a guest lodge, then joined in the rosary and Mass in the Ignatian Chapel. Joe Ricketts spoke about how silent retreats such as this one have impacted people’s lives, Catholic and non- Catholic alike. DALLAS In late May, Bishop Edward Burns of the Diocese of Dallas spoke to the Chapter and provided an update on the state of the diocese. The Chapter event was held on the 17th floor of the beautiful NORTHERN NEW JERSEY. Lloyd and Katie Martinson (shown, Park City Club that provided a DALLAS. Dallas Chapter 2021 officers: Gerry Jacob, chapter president; middle) joined the Northern New Jersey Chapter last year, but due to breathtaking panoramic view of Jonathan Sanford, Ed Oleksiak, Doug Lang, Vince Hess, Kris Kramer, and COVID circumstances, were officially inducted into the Chapter on April the Dallas metroplex. Chapter chaplain Fr. Fergal O’Duill. 15 at St. Vincent de Paul Church in Sterling, NJ. They are seen here with Father Anthony Mastroeni and Sal Salvo, chapter president. DALLAS. COLORADO SPRINGS. To welcome their new incoming bishop – Bishop-elect James Golka (formerly of the Diocese of Grand COLORADO SPRINGS. Also at the June 2 meeting, Marc and Island, Nebraska) – the Colorado Springs Chapter had this special photo taken at their June 2 meeting at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Kathy Nelson were welcomed as the newest members of the and submitted to their diocesan newspaper. Bishop-elect Golka will succeed Bishop Michael Sheridan. Colorado Springs Chapter, pictured here with Chapter chaplain, Monsignor Bob Jaeger. July 2021 | 44 | legatus.org

CHAPTER NEWS ST. LOUIS gathered in the Kenrick INDIANAPOLIS The Chapter’s May 18 meeting Refectory for cocktails, Longtime members Larry and began at the beautiful Kenrick dinner, and a presentation Colleen Kaelin celebrated their Seminary Chapel, with Chapter by Fr. James Mason, 43rd wedding anniversary at the Chaplin, Monsignor Breier president-rector of the Indianapolis Chapter event on hearing Confessions while Seminary. He spoke on May 20, among friends after a members prayed the rosary ST. LOUIS. The St. Louis Chapter Mass on “From Christendom to socially distanced year. Mass was before Holy Mass. Immediately May 18, with honored celebrant, the newly Apostolic Mission: Pastoral celebrated at St. Luke Catholic following Mass, members retired Bishop Robert Carlson of St Louis. Strategies for an Apostolic Church followed by dinner Age.”  Members Diane and at Meridian Hills Club, with Dave Snively were the day chairs.  As guest speaker Dr. Paul Kengor. well, two new couples were inducted Monsignor Schaedel gave Larry after the Mass, Mr. and Mrs. Jason and Colleen a special blessing. and Shelly Cattoor, and Mr. and Mrs. Matt and Stephanie Reh. INDIANAPOLIS. FORT LAUDERDALE ST. LOUIS. Inside the beautiful Kenrick Seminary Chapel, where the St. TWIN CITIES At the Fort Lauderdale April 21 Louis Chapter’s May 18 meeting began with Confession, rosary, and Mass. In a long-awaited recognition of event, the Chapter inducted its the 2020 Campbell Award winners newest members, Juan Carlos and for the Great Lakes, Keith and Ann Marta Castaneda, with Fr. Robert Barnes of the Twin Cities Chapter Ayala performing the ceremony. were officially presented with The event was held at Sea Watch on their Award on May 19. Held at the the Ocean, with speaker Fr. Wilson historic Jax Café, the Chapter event Miscamble discussing the life of also featured an inspiring guest Fr. Ted Hesburgh and the impact presentation from Jeff Cavins, he had as 35-year president of the who spoke on “Taking Your Faith University of Notre Dame; he also to the Next Level” — how to make spoke about and signed copies of his evangelization a part of your book, American Priest, for members. everyday life. MIAMI. The Miami Chapter’s May 18 meeting at the Club of Knights featured TWIN CITIES. participation from all the member couples. The meeting took place on the 101st birthday of Pope St. John Paul II. Guest speaker and papal biographer, George Weigel, enlightened the group on why we are living in a privileged Catholic moment. New members, Alfred and Pam Bunge, were invested that evening as well. Pictured (l. to r.): Fr. Richard Vigoa, chaplain; Alfred and Pam Bunge; and Angel Gallinal, Chapter president. MIAMI. Also inducted at the Chapter’s May 18 meeting were the Miami FORT LAUDERDALE. David Adams is the Fort FORT LAUDERDALE. Fr. Wilson Miscamble, who spoke Chapter’s Board members (l. to r.): Angel Gallinal, president; Jeff Gamboa, Lauderdale Chapter’s new president this year. at the Fort Lauderdale Chapter’s April 21 event, on the life of vice president; Jenny Ibarra, program chair; Gerry Portela, director; Claudia Fr. Ted Hesburgh and the impact he had as the president of Batlle Alvarez and Roberto Alvarez Vela, treasurers. Notre Dame for 35 years. July 2021 | 45 | legatus.org

CHAPTER NEWS LEHIGH VALLEY LEHIGH VALLEY. MADISON. The Chapter’s June 10 social began at Charlie’s Cheese Room, then continued with a tour of Father Larry Richards members Charlie and Joni Crave’s dairy farm, Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese (Waterloo, WI). The evening spoke at the Lehigh Valley began with rosary, Mass, social, and dinner in the Cheese Room, and concluded with an optional farm tour. Chapter’s meeting on Shown here, l. to r.: Alison Robak (CA), John and Lisa Fahrney, Brendan and LeAnna Wall, Charlie Crave, Kathy May 5, at Lehigh Country and Pat Wall, and Sarah and Matthew Gonnering. Club.  During his homily, he commented in relation to St. John’s Gospel verse, I am the vine and you are the branches; remain in me (John 15:5) that we can do nothing without Christ. We must live a life serving others. He later spoke on remembering that God is in control. Through our faith, we are not to let fear, division, and conflict steal our peace and love for others. LAFAYETTE-ACADIANA The Lafayette- Acadiana Chapter held its annual family fun day on May 1. The afternoon MADISON. The Madison Chapter welcomed special guest speaker, Richard Lane, at its May 13 meeting. event began with He presented his powerful conversion story, and is a Chapter chaplain renowned speaker worldwide at men’s conferences, parish Bishop Douglas missions, and for inspiring many thousands with new zeal Deshotel celebrating for witnessing to the Catholic faith. Mass. Gracious hosts Eddie and Michelle Neupert then welcomed members and families to their 200-acre horse farm, once part of Chretien Point LAFAYETTE-ACADIANA. Bishop Douglas Deshotel, PITTSBURGH. At their May 20 event, PITTSBURGH. Also at the Chapter’s May 20 event, Plantation in Sunset, Chapter chaplain, pictured here enjoying the Chapter’s the Pittsburgh Chapter embarked on Chris McMahon, winner of the 2020 Ace of the Year LA. Some members family fun day on May 1 at Eddie and Michelle Neupert’s a mini-pilgrimage to Old St. Patrick’s Award, with his wife, Molly (center); Northeast regional enjoyed fishing in 200-acre horse farm, which began with Mass, then featured Church, which is known for The Holy vice president Jill O’Donnell (left); Chapter president Judy the Neupert’s five- family outdoor activities (fishing, feeding horses, hayride), Stairs (Scala Sancta), a 28-stair replica Spanos (near right); and Chapter chaplain Fr. Tom Kunz acre pond while the and a genuine crawfish boil for over 90 family members. of the original at the Vatican. Members (far right). younger children ascended on their knees, then joined in rosary, Mass, and meeting. enjoyed feeding the horses apples and carrots. The day ended with a hayride just before sunset. Over 90 family members enjoyed 400 pounds of boiled crawfish served with boiled corn and JACKSONVILLE. Seen here at the May 22 wedding reception of Legates Skip potatoes. LAFAYETTE-ACADIANA. Members are seen here heading out on their (Frances) and Karen Frantz at Ponte Vedra Inn and Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, pre-sunset hayride, as part of their family fun day on May 1, held at Eddie and FL, the couples shown (l. to r.) are: Cleggs, Sullivans, Boomas, Frantzes, Kuliks, Michelle Neupert’s 200-acre horse farm in Sunset, LA. Barnhorsts. July 2021 | 46 | legatus.org

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2021 SUMMIT WEST SPEAKER 5 MINUTES JIM GRAVES WITH How Christ’s ambassadors can evangelize a culture in retreat DR. RALPH MARTIN, PROFESSOR AND EVANGELIST, TO REVEAL ‘PATHWAYS FORWARD’ AT SUMMIT WEST CATHOLIC PROFESSOR AND in Crisis. Our society is moving from a post- Also, the Church has been slow to confront the evangelist Dr. Ralph Martin Christian culture to an anti-Christian one, culture in its challenges to the Catholic faith. will be a featured speaker at and many Catholics are confused on what to When the Church needed to give a clear signal the 2021 Legatus Summit West, believe. That confusion appears throughout our in response to such challenges, there was often a to be held September 16-18 Church, as we see our bishops and cardinals remarkable silence. at The Phoenician Resort in contradicting one another. I want to do what Scottsdale, AZ. As president of I can to help people to be clear on what God is Is there a relation between what is Renewal Ministries, a Catholic revealing to us and help them keep their balance going on in today’s culture, and what is evangelization apostolate, he in this time of confusion. happening in the Church? also hosts a weekly Catholic television When did the Absolutely. The culture has been more successful program, The modern Catholic in evangelizing the Church than the Church Choices We Face, confusion start? has been in evangelizing the culture. Those and is author of who have power and influence in society— multiple Catholic It can be traced back to the Hollywood, government agencies, corporations, books including Second Vatican Council, professional sports organizations and the like— his most recent, A which produced many advocate an ideology at variance with what Church in Crisis: wonderful things, but some God has revealed to us. We are headed toward a Pathways Forward. took it as an opportunity to difficult time, and the Church needs to wake up. Martin is a change Church teaching to founding member accommodate the culture. Don’t we have a U.S. president, a of Legatus’ Ann Two streams of thought speaker of the House, and a majority Arbor Chapter and emerged: the authentic spirit of Vatican II, and an of the U.S. Supreme Court justices who speaks regularly at Legatus effort to accommodate the Church to the culture. are Catholic? events. While the latter view seemed to have been corrected during the pontificates of Popes St. Archbishops Charles Chaput, Salvatore Dr. Martin earned a John Paul II and Benedict XVI, the confusion has Cordileone, Samuel Aquila, and other bishops doctorate in theology from returned in the past seven or eight years. It goes would argue that most are not real Catholics and the Angelicum University in all the way to Rome, which has been sending the should not be presenting themselves for Holy Rome and serves as director of world mixed signals. Communion. They instead aggressively advocate graduate theology programs for positions opposed to Church teaching. in evangelization and as a Why have so many people stopped professor of theology at Sacred active participation in the Church? Why have you devoted your life to Heart Major Seminary in the evangelization? Archdiocese of Detroit. Pope Benedict pointed out that in our time we have witnessed a catastrophe of catechesis. I believe the Lord has called me to it. There is What will you speak on at Young Catholics have not been properly nothing more important in life than the salvation this year’s Summit West? catechized and have a vague understanding of of souls, so leading people to heaven is the most what it is to be a Catholic. The large exodus is a important thing I can do. L I plan to touch on themes result of that bad catechesis. from my new book, A Church July 2021 | 48 | legatus.org

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MEET THE JIM GRAVES CHAPLAIN His love of the priesthood sustains him FATHER JAMES BRAMLAGE REFLECTS ON 25 YEARS AS CINCINNATI CHAPLAIN FATHER JAMES BRAMLAGE, In high school, I leaned towards archdiocesan administration for a time, which 83, who is celebrating his 25th going to college to study I did, although I did not expect nor relish it. It anniversary as chaplain of chemistry, but the thought did turn out to be a great privilege to work at Legatus’ Cincinnati Chapter, of the priesthood returned, the chancery; however, I longed to get back into grew up in a pious Catholic and I opted instead to give the parish ministry. After seven years I was allowed family in Dayton, Ohio. He seminary a try. to return, which pleased me very much. entered the seminary for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and It was a different What was it like serving at was ordained a priest in the world in the the cathedral? historic Cathedral Basilica Church back of Saint Peter in Chains in then. The Second You do the work of a typical parish, but also 1964. He served in a variety Vatican Council have the chance to do things that don’t happen of parishes and archdiocesan was still going at a typical parish, such as ordinations or other administrative posts in the years on when I was special archdiocesan events. As we were located following, including 20 years as ordained, and we downtown, I found myself working with many cathedral pastor. At the request were all curious civic organizations that help the poor. of his archbishop, he helped as to what its found the Cincinnati Chapter, effects were What advice might you offer to a which began meeting in 1993 going to be on the newly ordained priest? and is now in its 25th year. Church. Be prepared. Being a priest is not easy. We work What is your Cincinnati Many of your fellow in a secular culture that influences the people Chapter like? priests left active that we serve, and I think this challenge is only ministry in the late ’60s going to get worse over time. It is made up of about 45 and early ’70s. Why did couples who are exemplary you persevere? Keep up your prayer life. It will be difficult, as Catholics. They make their there are many demands on your time, but if you faith central to their lives both Yes, many did leave. I had my don’t make prayer a priority, your enthusiasm for at home and at work. They are own struggles, but I love the the priesthood is going to wane. I try to maintain wonderful examples of what priesthood and always wanted a daily schedule for the Divine Office. The daily devoted Catholics ought to to be a priest. I was determined liturgy and Eucharist are also sustaining things be. It has been my pleasure to to work through any issues that for me. be their chaplain these past came along. 25 years, and I always look Seek out the fraternal support you need. There forward to interacting with What have you found are fewer priests today, hence priestly fraternity them at our Legatus events. rewarding about the is not as prevalent now as it was when I was priesthood? ordained. But these connections are important. Why did you choose to be a priest? I love parish ministry. I love Be patient with difficult people. They may not be being among the people. The at their best when you deal with them. Listen, I was interested in the archbishop asked me to go into hear what they are saying, and respond as best priesthood from a young age. you can. L July 2021 | 50 | legatus.org