Legatus Magazine April 2021

APRIL 2021 EASTER & HEALTH CARE EDITION CWOHVAIDT VCAATCCHIONLEISCS– SHOULD KNOW DENTIST FIGHTS TODAY’S ‘TRUTH’ DECAY SHINING FOR GOD IN POST-CHRISTIAN TIME LESSER-KNOWN SHROUD OF CHRIST’S FACE FR. PAVONE: CONFRONT COVID WITH EASTER HOPE LAMAR HUNT: HOW DO WE ANSWER THE KING’S CALL? DR. CHAVEY: CATHOLIC HEALTH CARE IS REALLY GOD’S F. MAIER: TRUE FISCAL PROGRESS ENNOBLES HUMAN SPIRIT

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04•21 08 INSIDE VOL 34 • NO 4 SORTING THROUGH MORAL FACETS OF COVID VACCINES by Gerald Korson No authority – Church or civil – can oblige Catholics to take the shot French town of Bonnieux at early dawn, with 18 22 view of farm countryside in Provence, France URGENT TIME BURIAL COVERING FOR CATHOLIC FOR CHRIST’S ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/DON WHITE 14 HEAD GIVES LEADERS ‘DIVINE MERCY’ TO GLOW IN TESTIMONY TO DENTIST PUBLIC LIFE HIS PASSION WORKS FOR by Jim Graves by Janice Bennett IMPERISHABLE Former congressman discusses Once safeguarded in Jerusalem, CROWN creating culture open Crucifixion relic now in by Trent Beattie Boston dentist’s concern for patients has spiritual teeth 3April 2021 | to Christia|n eletghatiucs.org (new website!) Spanish cathedral

MORE COVER 06DIRECTOR’S DESK 37 PHOTO Stephen Henley: Gratitude to Bishop Sam Jacobs 37FEEDING THE FOODIE istockphoto.com/ VladGans 07EDITOR’S DESK Chef John Folse: Crown of thorns cake PAGE Christine V. Owsik: No standing in both courts 45FIVE MINUTES PHOTO 24ETHICS MATTERS S. Mach: 2020 Chapter Administrator of the Year Chef John Folse’s crown of thorns Lamar Hunt: How do we answer the King’s call? 46 MEET THE CHAPLAIN cake gives visual testament to a 26CULTURE OF LIFE Fr. Firmin: 2020 Southeast Chaplain of the Year Catholic’s love and Dr. Chavey: Health care is really God’s gratitude for Christ’s 28GUEST VOICE ultimate sacrifice. F. Maier: True fiscal progress ennobles men’s souls 30 FAITH MATTERS Fr. Pavone: Confront COVID with Easter hope 32ENGAGING THE FAITH P. Kreeft: When envy is disguised as equality 35WHAT TO SEE Roe vs. Wade : How we lost our innocents 36 HEALTH MATTERS Dr. Carson: For better health, tend to spirituality 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, Contributing Writer  Judy Roberts PO Box 444 of Catholic presidents and CEOs. professional, and personal lives. Contributing Writer  Jim Graves Ann Arbor, MI 48106-0444 © 2021 Legatus Editorial Consultant  Gerald Korson [email protected] All rights reserved Contributing Writer Patti Armstrong Phone: 866-534-2887 Copy Editor  Nancy Carabio Belanger Advertising Sales Representative Jayne Doran To advertise, contact: [email protected]

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S STEPHEN M. HENLEY POPE ST. PIUS V DESK (1504-72) In gratitude to Bishop Sam Jacobs FEAST DAY: APRIL 30 CANONIZED: MAY 22, 1712 THROUGHOUT MY EIGHT YEARS Four years later, Bishop Jacobs was asked to DECLARED OCTOBER 7 THE with Legatus as both central serve as Legatus’ international chaplain. His FEAST OF OUR LADY OF VICTORY regional director and executive devotion and passion for the organization, so director, I have had the clearly demonstrated in Houma-Thibodaux, were Pope St. Pius V, known as “the pleasure of witnessing several the perfect model for the other chapter chaplains pope of the rosary,” was born individuals who have taken to emulate. Our governors also began to benefit as Michele Ghislieri in Bosco, the Legatus mission to heart from Bishop Jacobs’ wisdom and experience Italy in 1504, and became a in an exceptional manner and when he assumed an ex-officio seat on Legatus’ Dominican priest at 26. have gone above and beyond International Board as part of his new role. in their help and service to The Dominicans named him an the organization in some truly For the next decade, embracing his position Inquisitor to combat Protestant remarkable ways. Bishop Sam wholeheartedly, Bishop Jacobs faithfully errors, and later he became Jacobs, bishop emeritus of encouraged and assisted the chaplains in their bishop and cardinal of Nepi Houma-Thibodaux, is certainly own roles, which in turn strengthened the faith and Sutri, a diocese near Rome. one of those individuals and of the members throughout the organization. Devoted to prayer and personal his numerous contributions This is what the Legatus mission is all about, penance, he was known to Legatus over the past two and why our chaplains are so important. As we decades have had a profoundly look to doctors to tend to our physical health, especially for positive impact on our we look to our priests for assistance with our his humility. organization. spiritual health. And within Legatus, that As cardinal means our chapter and pope, Pius Bishop Jacobs chaplains. We continued is most widely depend on them to wear the recognized for their guidance, simple white throughout support, wisdom Dominican Legatus for his role and, above all, the habit, as international sacraments, which beginning the chaplain, which are the primary tradition of he held for the way that we grow COMMUNION OF popes wearing past 11 years, from in holiness and SAINTS white. his appointment advance along the in 2009 until his path to salvation. Elected pope in 1566, he enforced recent retirement Bishop Jacobs with Tom Monaghan For this reason, Church law and morality, and at the end of 2020. it is impossible rooted out corruption and However, his involvement in to overstate the importance of the Legatus heresy. Undertaking the Council Legatus reaches back to 2005 chapter chaplains and, indeed, our international of Trent’s reforms, he oversaw when he was a key driving chaplain. completion of the Catechism of force in the founding and the Council of Trent, and revision chartering of the Houma- I would like to sincerely thank and honor Bishop of the Roman Breviary and Thibodaux Chapter. Serving Jacobs for his tireless service to our organization Missal. as the Chapter’s founding over these many years. I can say with certainty chaplain, Bishop Jacobs played that the Legatus chaplains, governors, members, His greatest feat came late a significant role in leading the and staff have all been extremely blessed by his in his pontificate, when he fledgling group from its first faithful witness and his generous support.  L persuaded European leaders meeting to chartering in only to lay aside rivalries and join seven months. In November, STEPHEN M. HENLEY in a Holy Alliance against the Muslim Turks, whose imminent 2005, Bishop Jacobs presided is Legatus’ invasion greatly threatened Europe. Europe’s unified over the Chapter’s chartering executive director. fasting and prayer, including the rosary, resulted in the ceremony where no less than Christians’ decisive victory 42 members were inducted. over the Muslims in the Battle of Lepanto on October 7, 1571. Pius declared October 7 the Feast of Our Lady of Victory, memorializing triumph through the Blessed Mother. L — Jim Graves 6April 2021 | | legatus.org (new website!)

MARK YOUR EDITOR’S CHRISTINE VALENTINE-OWSIK CALENDARS DESK COOPER CLINIC One cannot have standing in both courts JULY 26-28, 2021 DALLAS, TX WE CAN SEE UNMISTAKABLY scratch, outfitting rooms with fresh flowers, today that there are two courts and arranging nice background music. My DECANTING THE FAITH & of finding – that of society, and husband would freshen the flower beds outside, WINE OF BURGUNDY of God. A follower of Christ will add new annuals, hanging baskets, and potted not enjoy esteem in both. One arrangements by the front door. He’d even prime AUGUST 31 – SEPTEMBER 7, 2021 must make his choice, and his prized putting green. Then we were ready. FRANCE once he does, it becomes more Okay, so starting off with two pitchers of difficult to pretend to have watermelon martinis — a little on the rocket- 2021 SUMMIT WEST standing on the other side. fuel side — could have unhinged the evening’s If we embrace Truth, we’re conversation. We were leisurely enjoying a SEPTEMBER 16-18, 2021 met with barbs, mockery, braciole dinner with open windows, the sun PHOENIX, AZ sometimes abandonment … setting, and smooth jazz, when the discussion but ultimately, an affirming turned to what our kids were planning college- MEDJUGORJE PILGRIMAGE embrace of God. If we reject wise. Truth, or feign acceptance of it We exchanged school ideas, what intended SEPTEMBER 28-OCTOBER 5, 2021 but behave otherwise, He will studies were, and then one of the wives asked why BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINIA not be fooled. He isn’t ‘woke’, we were zeroing in on a certain obscure Catholic politically correct, or cool. His college. I noticed she’d just polished off the second MEN’S ENCLAVE Truth is refreshingly reliable martini pitcher, splattering some on the rug. and unchanging … in a word, Attempting to ignore the stain, I tried to casually OCTOBER 13-16, 2021 Absolute. His teaching is, and express that we — and he — wanted the framework THE JL BAR RANCH has always been, perfectly for his history major to be firmly Catholic. Four SONORA, TEXAS transparent. But it’s a finger sets of eyeballs froze in my direction. ready to draw a line in the sand. Taking a hard left, they joked about college kids WOMEN’S ENCLAVE And it can burn a hole through coming home with surprise ‘conditions’ and bold the disingenuous. ‘outings.’ One said she’d always support whatever OCTOBER 24-27, 2021 There are startling ways of their choices were. Now I was envisioning a BISHOP’S LODGE learning this anew, even when martini pitcher all to myself. Their hysterical, SANTA FE, NM we think we’re comfortable frenetic laughter shrieked on. The gag was on us. with the faith. 2022 SUMMIT EAST One summer evening about 20 I was jarred into speaking. JANUARY 27-29, 2022 years ago, we invited two couples AMELIA ISLAND, FLORIDA —­ longtime friends — for dinner. “Uh, sorry folks, can’t agree,” I said, my voice loud Our kids went to school together, and shuddering. Now perspiring and wanting OBERAMMERGAU and we were in the same parish. the night to end, I was choking on my words: we PILGRIMAGES For years, my husband and wouldn’t cheer-lead serious sin, college-spawned I enjoyed hosting special or not. That cinched it. They struggled to their AUGUST 22-30, 2022 dinners. Planning a lovely feet, swigged drinks, and made reasons to leave BAVARIA & AUSTRIA occasion is something we’ve – chuckling back to their cars. relished with good friends, 2022 SUMMIT WEST family, even colleagues. I would enjoy poring over SEPTEMBER 1-3, 2022 recipes, shining silver and COLORADO SPRINGS, CO crystal, making things from FOR MORE INFORMATION: [email protected] OR CALL 866-534-2887 Typical of my husband, he simply said, “Now that was a fun evening, don’t ya think?” L CHRISTINE VALENTINE-OWSIK is Legatus magazine’s editor. 7April 2021 | | legatus.org (new website!)

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vs. edge oF eviL? COVID- 19 vaccines with remote Links to ceLL Lines From aborted Fetuses raise moraL and ethicaL concerns As the COVID-19 pandemic approached its second year of disrupting life as we knew it, the first two of the long-awaited vaccines against the coronavirus — by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna — received “emergency use authorization” from the FDA in December, and a methodical rollout of vaccine administration began. Several other vaccines were already in development, testing, or awaiting similar authorization as 2021 began. Yet long before the first health-care workers and emergency responders began rolling up their sleeves, Catholic bishops and ethicists were already voicing concerns and explaining the moral considerations involving vaccines that are developed, manufactured, or tested using cell lines that originated with a fetus that had been aborted. by Gerald Korson 9April 2021 | | legatus.org (new website!)

To develop vaccines, scientists lesser degree, depending upon how direct, THE BISHOPS SPEAK take samples of a live virus, proximate, intentional, and active an individual’s grow the virus in living cells, participation is. Obviously, those who procured As word of vaccine links to the and then alter the virus to the original fetal tissue from abortion and the problematic cell lines became produce a weakened form for pharmaceutical firms that knowingly conduct known last year, individual immunization. Sometimes research with these cell lines bear the greatest U.S. bishops began to voice for this purpose they use cell responsibility. Those of us who consent to objections. Among the most lines derived from fetal tissue receiving such a vaccine, on the other hand, vocal was Bishop Joseph harvested from particular cooperate in the evil to a very minute degree – Strickland of Tyler, Texas. “If abortions performed decades what theologians might term “passive remote a vaccine for this virus is only ago – cell lines that are valued material cooperation.” attainable if we use body parts because they have been widely Nevertheless, the CDF said, when “ethically of aborted children, then I Bishop Joseph Strickland studied and are known to be irreproachable” vaccines are unavailable to safe. combat this pandemic, “it is morally acceptable will refuse the vaccine,” he tweeted last April. So, what’s the moral issue? to receive COVID-19 vaccines that have used cell In November, relying on information provided Despite the good that such a lines from aborted fetuses in their research and by the pro-life organization Children of God for vaccine might accomplish, it production process.” Life, he tweeted that the Moderna vaccine in has a link, however remote, to While it is best to avoid any cooperation in particular “is not morally produced” and urged the evil act of abortion. evil whatsoever, the moral choice of whether the faithful to reject it. According to a December 2020 to receive the COVID-19 vaccines remains a statement by the Congregation matter for the informed individual conscience, In a November memo to the for the Doctrine of the Faith, to considering also the benefit to oneself and to the bishops of the United States, participate in the development common good as well as the particular vaccine two leading members of the or use of these vaccines being offered. U.S. Conference of Catholic constitutes “cooperation Bishops responded to such with evil” to a greater or advice. Bishop Kevin Rhoades Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, IN, who chairs the doctrine ‘‘ Some vaccines have stronger ties to abortion than others, because they used cell lines from an aborted fetus in the development or manufacture of their [product] 10 ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/BRAZZO April 2021 | | legatus.org (new website!)

committee, and Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, KS, chairman of the committee for pro-life activities, wrote that it is “an inaccurate portrayal of Church teaching” to assert that “if a vaccine is connected in any way with tainted cell lines, then it is immoral to be vaccinated” with it. “Neither the Pfizer ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/AGSANDREW nor the Moderna vaccine involved the use of cell lines that originated in fetal tissue taken from the body of an aborted baby at any level of design, development, or production,” the two bishops wrote, citing a report by the pro- life Charlotte Lozier Institute. Although both companies Naumann said in a fuller ‘‘ the moral choice of whether to used a tainted cell line for public statement a few receive the COVID-19 vaccines confirmatory tests on their weeks later. They went on to remains a matter for the vaccines, the connection say that receiving the COVID-19 vaccine “should informed individual conscience … to fetal tissue “is relatively be considered an act of love of our neighbor and remote,” they concluded. part of our moral responsibility for the common late February, Bishop Rhoades and Archbishop good.” Naumann issued a further statement clarifying A few The AstraZeneca vaccine, which at the time that the newly available vaccine was more days later, was awaiting FDA emergency use approval, is problematic than the Pfizer and Moderna Bishop “more morally compromised” for having been vaccines because it used aborted fetal cell lines Rhoades produced using an aborted fetal cell line, they not only in testing, but in development and and said, and therefore “should be avoided if there production as well. Archbishop are alternatives available.” “[I]f one can choose among equally safe and Naumann effective COVID-19 vaccines, the vaccine with released Meanwhile, Bishop the least connection to abortion-derived cell a more Strickland joined four lines should be chosen,” they said, echoing the Archbishop Joseph Naumann detailed other bishops of the CDF position. “Therefore, if one has the ability to statement, world, including Bishop choose a vaccine, Pfizer or Moderna’s vaccines Moral Considerations Regarding Athanasius Schneider of should be chosen over Johnson & Johnson’s.” the New COVID-19 Vaccines. Kazakhstan, in appearing When bishops take issue with other bishops and “In view of the gravity of the to take issue with this even with the Vatican itself on the issue of the current pandemic and the lack position. “Catholics COVID-19 vaccines, what’s a Catholic to do? of availability of alternative categorically cannot vaccines, the reasons to accept Bishop Athanasius Schneider encourage and promote the new COVID-19 vaccines the sin of abortion, even from Pfizer and Moderna in the slightest, by accepting these vaccines,” are sufficiently serious to they said in a statement. justify their use, despite their After the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine remote connection to morally received FDA emergency-use authorization in compromised cell lines,” Bishop Rhoades and Archbishop 11April 2021 | | legatus.org (new website!)

PRUDENTIAL JUDGMENT In the end, no Church authority can oblige individual Catholics what to do about the COVID-19 vaccines – which vaccine to accept, or even whether to get vaccinated at all. That is the view of Janet E. Smith, a retired professor of moral theology. Janet E. Smith “I don’t disagree with the conclusion of the CDF that COVID-19 vaccines can be used for suitably serious reasons, but I want people to understand that it is not the task of the Church to decide what those suitably serious reasons are or when they exist,” she wrote in a Crisis magazine commentary. “These are prudential decisions ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/BRASIL2 ‘ ‘ no Church authority can oblige individual Catholics [on] which ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/CASARSAGURUto be made by individual moral vaccine to accept, or even whether to get vaccinated at all. agents – not by any curial office. “The Church can only give ‘guidance,’” Smith said. While she and other moral theologians believe traditional principles of “cooperation with evil” correctly apply only to actions in which an individual’s “contribution” is made before or simultaneous to the actions performed – and therefore are not applicable to questions of accepting a vaccine with links to an abortion committed more than 40 years ago – Smith does state that abortion-tainted vaccines are problematic to receive insofar as they involve “appropriation” or “benefiting from ill-gotten gains.” “When we can avoid such action, we should,” she wrote in the National Catholic Register, “but at times it is moral to benefit from past evil action.” L GERALD KORSON, editorial consultant for Legatus magazine, is based in Indiana. 12April 2021 | | legatus.org (new website!)

‘Cheat sheet’ on COVID vaccines In its 2005 Moral Reflection on Vaccines Prepared from Cells No option? If you are at elevated risk of COVID-19 or simply Derived from Aborted Human Fetuses, the Pontifical Academy for Life said that when offered vaccines tainted even remotely by the wish to get the vaccine to help prevent its spread, and only one use of cell lines from aborted fetuses, doctors and families “have vaccine is available to you, feel free to roll up your sleeve. The a grave responsibility to use alternative vaccines” if such are greater good of protecting yourself and others may far outweigh available “and to make a conscientious objection with regard to any concern over remote cooperation or appropriation of evil those which have moral problems.” involved. So how does one concerned about this moral issue object to the Just wait. That’s the advice Bishop Joseph Strickland at one problematic COVID-19 vaccines? These are the primary options. point offered his faithful in the diocese of Tyler, Texas: if you can Ask questions, expLore options. Some vaccines have prudently delay vaccination, hold out until a COVID-19 vaccine with no ties to abortion whatsoever becomes available. stronger ties to abortion than others because they used cell lines from an aborted fetus in the development or manufacture of Skip the needLe. The Catholic Church presents a strong their vaccines. These include Johnson & Johnson-Janssen Biotech, which received emergency-use authorization from the FDA in moral argument in favor of getting vaccinated against serious late February ; Oxford-AstraZeneca, which anticipates getting the communicable disease, but does not demand it. Vaccination green light in April; and Novavax, on track for June distribution. “is not, as a rule, a moral obligation” and “must be voluntary,” The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, the first to receive writes the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in its emergency use authorization in the U.S., used such cell lines only December 2020 Note on the Morality of Using Some Anti-COVID-19 in testing their products and so are further removed from the act Vaccines. From the ethical standpoint, it went on, “the morality of of abortion. vaccination depends not only on the duty to protect one’s health, but also on the duty to pursue the common good.” Sanofi Pasteur hopes to have two vaccines ready by the end of 2021. Nevertheless, those who refuse vaccines “for reasons of One of these, developed in conjunction with GlaxoSmithKline, conscience” must “do their utmost” to avoid infecting others by appears to be free of any link to cell lines from aborted fetuses; the appropriate behavior and preventative measures, said the CDF. other, produced in a partnership with Translate Bio, used aborted All the faithful can further register their objections to vaccines fetal cell line in its testing. Several other companies are also in the that use aborted fetal cell lines to political leaders, pharmaceutical process of developing or testing COVID-19 vaccines. companies, health officials, and the various media. It’s worth finding out out which vaccines are available in your area and choosing the least offensive vaccine. ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/KALI9 13April 2021 | | legatus.org (new website!)

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‘ Divine Mercy dentist’ works for an imperishable crown Dr. Valdemar Welz Fights Truth Decay on Daily Basis The Boston workplace of Dr. Valdemar Welz is a little different than the typical dentist’s office. A visitor can see two Divine Mercy images displayed, as well as an icon of the Annunciation. In addition to these visual reminders of the faith, the soothing sounds of Gregorian chant sometimes fill the air. by Trent Beattie 15April 2021 | | legatus.org (new website!)

Detail of old fresco of Jesus Christ (c. 1854), from church in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic “The music depends on the patient’s choice. Some prefer silence, but we have chant Pandora stations for those who prefer peaceful singing,” said Welz, not the retiring type when it comes to sharing the faith—or to closing a career. Now 69 and in better shape than he was at 59, Welz is happy to talk about what really matters. “This is a dental office,” Welz “… there is a plenary indulgence for souls who go to ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/IMAMEMBER said, “so the specific job Confession and receive Holy Communion on Divine patients expect of me is to Mercy Sunday,—the Second Sunday of Easter make sure they have healthy teeth. I’m happy to do this, Welz, always in search of the truth, has come a long way, both The two doctors appreciate and I’m also happy to talk physically and spiritually. A cradle Catholic who lost the faith due the paradox that, in order to about other aspects of physical in part to bad leadership in the Church, he spent years looking for find strength, a soul must health—as well as mental, soul-satisfying facts in science and philosophy. He found some first realize its own weakness. emotional, and spiritual truth here and there, but it would not be until 1995 that he found Then the power of grace can be health.” The adoptive father of the whole truth—and full satisfaction—back in the Catholic Church. sought out in the sacrament of three knows the human person Reconciliation, frequent worship is a whole being, not just a Intestinal fortitude at Mass on Sunday and during bunch of randomly connected the week, and silent Eucharistic parts, so he does not isolate Retired gastroenterologist adoration outside of Mass. teeth from everything else. Bryan Thatcher has a parallel Advice Welz has given his spiritual experience to that Freedom from sin patients includes using baking of Dr. Welz. Thatcher left the Like many Catholics away from soda rather than toothpaste (a Church at a young age, but in the Church for years, Welz practice he says is less abrasive his search for happiness, was was initially reluctant to go yet more effective), and eating drawn back to Catholicism. back to Confession. However, vegetables instead of animals. He founded the Eucharistic the first priest he encountered “A plant-based diet reduces Apostles of the Divine Mercy, after three decades away cholesterol, lowers blood a prayer group now affiliated made the process so easy pressure, improves joint health, with the Marians of the that Welz actually started and gives more energy—things Immaculate Conception in enjoying Confession. “I didn’t I discovered personally after Dr. Bryan Thatcher, MD, speaks at the 14th Stockbridge, Massachusetts. understand the distinction switching over to a plant- Annual Divine Mercy Medicine, Bioethics, between mortal and venial based diet a decade ago,” he and Spirituality Conference, sponsored by “Doctor Welz and I met sins then, so instead of trying explained. Healthcare Professionals for Divine Mercy, years ago at a Healthcare to remember everything I had an apostolate of the Marian Fathers, on Professionals for Divine done wrong, that priest took Dr. Valdemar Welz breezing cheerfully May 11, 2018, at the College of the Holy Mercy conference,” Thatcher the initiative and simply went past a painted image of the Divine Mercy Cross in Worcester, MA. explained, noting that Dr. Welz down the Ten Commandments, in his Boston dental office. asking if I had done X, Y, and Z “looks at dentistry not as a job and, if so, how many times.” but as a vocation, and realizes that we are spiritual beings in Welz loves how the sacrament frail, mortal bodies. He is not afraid to pray with patients when of forgiveness not only they ask; he doesn’t want anyone to miss out on heaven. He is a removes guilt, but helps to wonderful role model and example for health care professionals prevent future falls and makes today.” possible a clear and quick path to heaven.  He points out that Both Thatcher and Welz have been impacted by multiple readings there is a plenary indulgence of St. Faustina Kowalska’s Diary: Divine Mercy in My Soul, for souls who go to Confession particularly the giving up of one’s own will to enjoy the peace of and receive Holy Communion soul found in the will of God. This is found in a letter-perfect way on Divine Mercy Sunday—the in entry 374, where a large “X” is used to indicate the crossing out of Saint Faustina’s own will, which was followed by an interior light that she would not be judged by God. April 2021 | 16 | legatus.org (new website!)

St. Faustina Kowalska, a young, Second Sunday of Easter—and, in a spirit of detachment from Welz calls to mind that “We uneducated nun from Poland in the early all sin, participate in the public prayers of Divine Mercy or recite were told in the visions at 1900s, came from a poor family and was the Our Father, Apostle’s Creed, and a prayer for mercy in the Fatima that the errors of the third of 10 children. At age 26, she presence of the Blessed Sacrament. Communism would be spread received from Christ a message of mercy That plenary indulgence means a complete remission of the temporal throughout the world. Poland that she was told to spread throughout punishment due to sin. In other words, it is a trip right past Purgatory, was an early victim and many the world. He asked her to be ‘the apostle the one thing that stands in the way of a soul in the state of grace other countries have followed— and secretary of God’s mercy,’ a model seeing God face to face. Welz keeps this goal in mind, even when even ones once thought to of how to be merciful to others, and an others have become fixated on one illness. He knows that, whatever be safe from the errors.” The instrument for re-emphasizing God’s the problem might be, “the worst that could happen is, we die and go Boston dentist believes we live plan of mercy for the world.   The primary to Hell. The best thing that could happen is, we die and go to heaven.” in an age of deception but also message she received in her visions was Although Welz is not usually the one to initiate spiritual a time of atonement—accepting that God is a God of lavish mercy — mercy conversations with patients, the subject can come up even when crosses and making the best that greatly exceeds man’s sin — and teeth are being assessed. He points out that even teeth are found of them, all for the love of God that the world should turn to and trust in the Bible. “In fact,” he said, “they are mentioned more times than and neighbor. A life enriched by in His mercy now. Pope St. John Paul II prostitution or tax collecting—about 55 occurrences. Gnashing of sacraments and prayer should canonized St. Faustina in 2000. teeth (known as “bruxism” to dentists) is the focus of seven of those also be filled with works of occurrences, indicating someone set against the will of God”. mercy, one of which, for Welz, is taking care of many nuns and priests at no cost. “The whole point of life is to live in God’s will, which can be Brushing up on history described in many ways, but While Welz can talk from personal experience about how the one is that we simply accept Church was created for spiritual freedom, he can also talk, from what God, in His loving wisdom, family experience, about physical freedom. “My mother was in a sends us at every moment of the Siberian prison camp with some of her family during World War day, and then respond to those II and was repatriated back into Poland after the war. My father things with love, which is always was imprisoned as well, and my wife’s parents actually met in connected to the truth.” L a German Displaced Persons Camp. Dictatorial overreach and abuse were all too common for Poles in the 20th century.” TRENT BEATTIE is a Legatus magazine contributing writer. Dr. Welz’s wisdom “Forgiveness is all-important. This was made plain as day in Luke 6, especially verse 37, where we are told that, if we forgive, we shall be forgiven. That’s God’s deal with us: We will be given what we have given others.” • Dr. Valdemar Welz “Saint Apollonia was tortured and martyred in 3rd-century Egypt. One of her tortures was having her teeth pulled out or crushed with pliers. Remember that next time you’re reluctant to get your teeth cleaned and realize which one is easier.”  • Dr. Valdemar Welz “One of my favorite books is a very small one called Guidebook for Confession. In it, Pope St. John Paul II is quoted in his 1983 ad limina visit with American bishops, when he told them to do everything possible to make the administration of the sacrament of Confession a primary aspect of their ministry and the ministry of priests.”  • Dr. Valdemar Welz ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/D-KEINE “What would people say if a doctor decided he was only going to heal patients one hour a week? Years of expensive education utilized in so miserly a manner. Then what can be said for a priest who hears confessions only one hour a week?” • Dr. Valdemar Welz 17April 2021 | | legatus.org (new website!)

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evangelizing from scratch in post-Csohrciisettiyan Longtime Catholic pro-life, pro-family advocate and former Virginia House of Delegates member Bob Marshall, 76, admits to some discouragement about the political and cultural situation of the Bob Marshall United States in 2021. A speaker at Legatus events and periodic guest columnist to Legatus magazine, Marshall explained, “We have a U.S. president who identifies himself as a practicing Catholic who openly promotes abortion. And, there is an organized effort to kick Christians out of the public square, painting us as bigots, no different from the Klan other than that we don’t wear white sheets. From the Left’s viewpoint, we can have nothing to do with public policy.” by Jim Graves April 2021 | 19 | legatus.org (new website!)

“Things may look bleak, but … there is no better or more necessary time for authentic Catholics to become active in public life ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/SDI PRODUCTIONSHe also pointed with concernto become active in public life. He chuckled asby Caesar, but knew how to negotiate with him to ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/MILAN MARKOVICto the efforts of anotherhe referenced the famous Battle of the Bulgeprotect the rights of the Church. And, he would self-identified practicing line attributed to U.S. Army General Creighton never compromise principle.” Catholic, speaker of the house Abrams, “They’ve got us surrounded again, the Nancy Pelosi, to make H.R. poor bastards!” Love for faith, 5, “the Equality Act,” the law Catholics need to assert their views in the public and working for it of the land, which Pelosi arena, he said. “We need priests in the pulpit said in a statement will be to talk about issues which will directly affect Marshall grew up in the greater Washington, “a momentous step toward our ability to live our Catholic life. We need D.C. area. He was baptized a Roman Catholic finally and fully ending parishioners to write their members of Congress. in elementary school and has “always had an discrimination against LGBTQ We need people at the grass-roots level to go to affinity for the Faith.” Americans.” Marshall, who Capitol Hill to make their voices heard.” called the act “misnamed,” Citing Canon 822, he especially noted it will apply to all encouraged Catholic bishops ministries and institutions of to use all the communications the Church, and “will greatly resources they have to warn hamper the Church in her the faithful about threats to mission.” religious liberty. He explained, He explained, “You don’t have “If we don’t, new legislation is women priests? Well then, you going to threaten the existence can’t have a tax-exempt status. of our Catholic schools or the You won’t allow people in operation of Catholic charities.” same-sex relationships to teach He cites as a bishop role model in Catholic schools? You’re Cardinal John O’Connor of New violating their civil rights and York (1920-2000), who “didn’t we’re going to fine you.” take garbage from anyone. He Things may look bleak, but in was a gentleman, well read, and reality, Marshall said, there is attuned to threats to people of no better or more necessary faith. He was not intimidated time for authentic Catholics April 2021 | 20 | legatus.org (new website!)

He began his career as a “We need priests Catholic school teacher, when, in the pulpit to in 1970, the father of one of talk about issues his students suggested he which will … affect get involved with politics. He our ability to live was introduced to and went to [as Catholics] work for Congressman John Blatnik (1911-91), a Minnesota ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/ARON M Democrat whom Marshall described as a “right-to-life guy.” which prohibited the use of federal funds for Ways he suggests include: He recalled talking with Blatnik abortion. about the Doe v. Bolton case, Writing or meeting with elected officials to a companion case to Roe v. He went into politics express concerns. Mentioning one’s affiliation Wade; the U.S. Supreme Court’s himself, serving as with Legatus is a positive thing, he believes, as Doe ruling would overturn a Republican in the politicians will see its members are potential Georgia’s abortion law in Virginia House of campaign donors. 1973. Marshall said, “Doe was Delegates from 1992 making its way through the to 2018. Longtime Discussing relevant issues, candidates, and how courts. Blatnik was sure the friend Chuck Donovan, one intends to vote when appropriate at meetings. courts would strike it down.” president of the Virginia- Such conversations can have a positive impact He and Blatnik were astonished based, pro-life Charlotte on lesser-informed peers. to discover that the U.S. Chuck Donovan Lozier Institute, noted Supreme Court would affirm both Roe and Doe in 1973. He that as a politician Financially supporting the campaigns of candidates said, “I couldn’t believe the Marshall “was a very effective leader, and not who share one’s beliefs. Black noted, “There is judges were that stupid. They afraid to step out in front with difficult issues. He enormous money in vice, and very little in virtue. really had to connive to come passed quite a few pieces of legislation.” Our side always has difficulty raising money.” up with that result. Justice Harry Blackmun (1908-99) [who Not only did Marshall battle the Democrats, Sending one’s children to Catholic schools. This authored Roe] claimed, falsely, Donovan noted, “but sometimes members of will give them a good introduction to Catholicism that the unborn child had never his own party by raising issues they didn’t want and make them warriors for the Faith. been considered a legal person raised.” in the ‘whole sense.’” Both Donovan and Black added that qualified Marshall read Roe carefully, “Bob was known as a Christians should consider running for public giving special attention to Catholic legislator, a office. Black said, “Start at the local level, but its footnotes, and concluded, fighter, and a heroic realize that it is the hardest thing in the world to “While the press may have figure,” added retired stand up for virtue. The media will despise you, been ecstatic about Roe, no one Virginia senator Dick and you will attract enemies from every corner.” checked the facts Blackmun Black. “He displayed was citing. I did, and it was clear great courage, virtue, Marshall cited Acts 25, in which St. Paul stood Blackmun made up his decision stamina, and oratory skill. before the Roman procurator Festus. The out of whole cloth. The unborn He was also well-liked, Sanhedrin wanted to kill Paul, and wanted were considered human beings.” Dick Black and was effective at using Festus to send Paul to Jerusalem where they Marshall went on to work as a could ambush him. Paul shrewdly informed researcher for the American disarming humor when Festus that he was a Roman citizen, and that he Life League, and serve in difficult arguments with his opponents.” should be sent to Rome to be judged by Caesar. on the staffs of California Festus famously ruled, “You have appealed to congressman Robert Dornan Getting active in public Caesar. To Caesar you will go!” and Alabama senator Jeremiah Denton (1924-2014). It was Today, Marshall is active doing policy research Marshall noted, “We live in Caesar’s world, and during his time in Washington and writing, encouraging his fellow Catholics to we need to learn to use his techniques to aid our he learned to live according get active in the public arena to create a culture cause.” L to Our Lord’s maxim, “Be wise friendly to Catholic beliefs. There are many ways as serpents and innocent to positively influence elected officials, he said. JIM GRAVES is a Legatus magazine contributing writer. as doves” [Matthew 10:16]; meaning, he learned to use the language of the secular Left to champion pro-life, pro-family causes. Among his many accomplishments, he helped draft the Hyde Amendment, 21April 2021 | | legatus.org (new website!)

“The fresco of death” — Jesus with His Mother, women, and St. John the Evangelist (Cattedrale di San Giovanni Battista, Turin, Italy). Artist: C. Ferroni (1930). ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/SEDMAK The lesser-known shroud of Christ’s face Safeguarded, authenticated relic of The Savior’s Passion in Oviedo, Spain By Janice Bennett At Easter, the Paschal mystery overwhelming evidence of authenticity, carbon turbans. This type of cloth had no material value. focuses on the astonishing dating tests in 1988 assigned a date between Dr. Villalaín Blanco, a Spanish forensic scene at Jesus’ sepulcher: 1260 and 1390. These results, now discredited, pathologist, first sought to determine the nature “When Simon Peter arrived had a fortuitous outcome. of the bloodstains and how they were formed. after him, he went into the tomb He found that the cloth was folded back on itself, and saw the burial cloths there, Separate burial covering because it could not completely wrap the head, and the cloth (sudarium) that for Christ’s head due to the raised position of the right arm. The had covered his head, not with stains penetrated the second layer, leaving a the burial cloths but rolled up in That same year, the Spanish Center for Sindonology mirror image. a separate place” (John 20:6-7). (C.E.S.) received ecclesiastical Curiously, the Evangelist permission to examine the relic in mentions that there were two Oviedo known as the “Sudarium of separate cloths in the tomb. the Lord.” In order to disprove the Jesus’ burial cloth is believed carbon dating results, CES sought to be the Shroud of Turin, a to determine that both the Turin long, rectangular linen with Shroud and the Sudarium of Oviedo the unmistakable imprint covered the same crucifixion of a man, but could it be that victim, Jesus. the sudarium is the small, bloodstained cloth kept in The Sudarium of Oviedo is a Oviedo, Spain? small, rectangular linen, about The Shroud of Turin’s 34 by 21 inches. It is dirty, remarkable image, believed stained, and wrinkled, bearing to be a sign of Jesus’ bloodstains that conform to Resurrection, has garnered the a human head. The name intense interest of scientists sudarium, from the Latin word for for decades. In spite of sweat (sudor), referred to aprons, The reverse side of the Sudarium with the mirror image of post-mortem blood from the towels, napkins, handkerchiefs, and nose and mouth. Bloodstains from puncture wounds on the back of the head appear at the lower left. Photo courtesy of Spanish Center for Sindonology (CES). April 2021 | 22 | legatus.org (new website!)

The three positions of the Sudarium show how it was used to cover the head of a crucifixion victim in various stages. Photo courtesy of Spanish Center for Sindonology (CES). Bloodstains from the Sudarium are superimposed on the model of a human head. The central stains are briefly in Alexandria, Egypt. The Photo courtesy of Spanish Center for Sindonology (CES). composed of blood and chest remained in Seville during pulmonary serum (1:6)*, the time of Saint Isidore, and was transferred to acute pulmonary edema. Both linens wrapped a characteristic of crucifixion Toledo after his death in 636 A.D. body still bent from the posture of crucifixion. victims, that flowed from the nose and mouth after death. When the Muslims invaded Spain in 711 A.D., On both linens, the nose is eight centimeters They were formed with the they quickly conquered Toledo, so the Christians long, with a swelling on the right and evidence body in a vertical position for absconded to the north with their relics. The Holy of pressure to contain the loss of blood. The one hour, with the right arm Chest was hidden on a mountaintop near Oviedo right cheek shows evidence of a bruise. There raised, and the head inclined for 50 years. The relics were then transferred to are similar flows of blood along the beard from 70 degrees forward and 20 a monastery in Oviedo until King Alphonsus II post-mortem pulmonary edema. Both contain degrees to the right. built the Holy Chamber in the year 812 A.D., now the remains of aloe and myrrh, as well as pollens part of the Cathedral. from plants that grow in the vicinity of Jerusalem. The stain above them was formed by gravity after the body had The original Greek reveals the significance of been removed from the cross. Scientific congruency John 20:6-7. When John and Peter first arrived at the tomb, they found the shroud lying there, The areas of vital blood present “collapsed” on the shelf of the sepulcher, still on the head, shoulders, and Comparative studies reveal that both the unwrapped. The sudarium was lying nearby, back indicate that this person Sudarium and the Shroud covered a man with still knotted and stiff from aloe and myrrh. was first scourged and then blood type AB, with wounds likely from a crown This is what led John and Peter to believe in the crucified. of thorns. This man was crucified and suffered Resurrection. The cloth was eventually Although investigations are unfolded and wrapped around ongoing, the Spanish Center the entire head. It was knotted for Sindonology concludes that toward the upper back of the all evidence supports the belief head, confirmed in a 5th- that the Sudarium of Oviedo is century paraphrase of John 20. a testimony of Jesus’ passion After being moved, the body and death, while the Turin was positioned face up. The Shroud’s still-inexplicable image cloth was removed from the proclaims his Resurrection. head, still knotted, and covered Science has cast new light with aloe and myrrh before on these pivotal events of being set apart in the tomb. Christianity, bringing them to life in a way that has a profound On the move since impact on the faithful. L 7th century JANICE BENNETT Ancient documents relate that Historical route of the Sudarium, from Jerusalem to Spain. is the author of Sacred the Sudarium was safeguarded * In proportion of 1 to 6 (one part blood to six parts serum). Blood, Sacred Image: in Jerusalem until the Persian Serum is fluid buildup in the lungs, or edema. New Evidence for the Authenticity of the invasion of 614 A.D. The Shroud of Turin and Saint Christians fled to Spain with a Laurence & The Holy Grail: The Story of the Holy chest filled with relics, stopping Chalice of Valencia (both published by Ignatius Press). April 2021 | 23 | legatus.org (new website!)

ETHICS LAMAR HUNT MATTERS How do we answer the call of our King? A YOUNG MAN APPEARS AT the gate of the king’s palace and requests to see the king. He is eyed with great suspicion but permitted a hearing by the highest officials. The king is delighted to see him. The king says to the young man, “My kingdom is vast, and many do not know me. But I entrust you with this mission: give my people an impression of who I am.” The king hands the young man a scepter, a crown, and a robe, and says, “Go in peace.” The young man asks, “What ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/LILIBOAS am I to go and do?” The king pays him no attention, and the feeding the pigs, and fertilizing the land. He said This is a long process. But imperceptibly, something young man is ushered out into things that were mysterious: “A grain of wheat happens, and we are gradually transformed into the midday sun and begins a dies,” “we need not fear death,” and “one thing the image of what we contemplate. slow journey home. His parents remains, namely, that one has loved and been are quite delighted that the king loved.” Concentrate on Jesus and set out without had spoken with him. The son, knowing where you are going. Study while at work in the fields or When he dies, his relatives “The Gospel must the gifts you have received. A scepter? A resting from his labors, thinks search for his treasures cross? A crown (of thorns)? A robe? What constantly about the king’s — the scepter, the crown, take shape in our Jesus wore when He was humiliated? orders: “Give my people an impression of who I am.” and the robe — but all lives before we If we are to express Christ to others, The young man seeks out they find is a tattered old can communicate we must always give them the someone older and wiser than book that began with the he, who says to him, “You met words, “The genealogy experience that they are welcome to him once, and he gave you a of Jesus Christ, the son it to others be themselves. A vocation is personal; scepter, a crown, and a robe. Try to discover their meaning. of Abraham, the son it cannot be handed down from Therein may be the key.” The David…” generation to generation. It is passed young man agrees and wants to through the Gospel, where it begins know how he is to earn a living. In each of our lives, there anew. L The wise old man said, “You are is a call to mission. The mission entrusted to a farmer. Remain one. Be what St. Paul and the prophets that came before is a LAMAR HUNT JR. is the founder of Loretto you are. You are not a landlord or a clerk.” mission given to each of us. The Gospel must take Companies, LLC; owner of the Kansas City Mavericks, And so, the young man became shape in our lives before we can communicate it a franchise member of the ECHL hockey league; and someone whom everybody to others. That begins with a knowledge of Christ. a member of the founding family of the Kansas City loved. He was just, fair, and Yet, how can we give an impression of who Christ wise. He did his job without is if we have not taken the time to know him? To Chiefs. He was a featured speaker at the Legatus complaint, sowing the seed, know Christ Jesus is the goal of our lives, and the 2021 Summit East. Lamar and his wife, Rita, who only way to know him is to contemplate him. have nine children and eight grandchildren, are passionate about supporting Catholic education and advocating for the unborn. April 2021 | 24 | legatus.org (new website!)

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CULTURE OF DR. WILLIAM E. CHAVEY LIFE Reimagine Catholic health care as God’s THE YEAR 2014 SAW A Catholic physicians who are statistic that had not occured trained and willing to integrate in decades: human life faith into the practice of medicine. expectancy in this country declined. That decline has Even if these barriers could been attributed to alcoholism, be overcome, the singular drug overdoses, and suicides focus of Catholic health care as — diseases of despair. This hospital-based is outdated. The ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/FLORIN CRISTIAN AILENEI phenomenon preceded COVID, foundational piece of health care which then exacerbated the is primary care, and it is in this problem. outpatient setting that Catholic health care can be reimagined. The reality is that Catholic health care in 2021 is defined In communities nationwide, by large health systems in Catholic clinics are emerging as which it ostensibly resides, alternatives — Emmaus Health yet Catholic identity in these in Ann Arbor, Gianna Clinic in Green Bay, and by the risks owed to limits on religious liberty, institutions is often lacking. Bella in Denver. Catholic health care is fully especially in today’s environment. There is typically no integration integrated in these models that include primary of faith at the point of care, care, OB/GYN, crisis pregnancy services, and, There are four additional challenges that must most of the staff are not often, mental health. These clinics serve as icons be met so these clinics can thrive: Catholic, the U.S. bishops’ of innovation, courage, passion, and faithful • We must train those providing the care. Current Ethical and Religious Directives service in a reimagined model of Catholic health training models are lacking. for Catholic Health Care Services care. They operate apart from the large health • We must be able to articulate the link between are considered systems, are well- faith and reason and become a trusted source for burdensome, and received by patients, people of faith. the proportion of “The foundational have philanthropic • We must develop financial and administrative systems that allow clinics to succeed. charity care may piece of health care is support, and provide • We must align the image and the identity of not exceed that of primary care, and it is in faith-based care our work so that others understand the value of other hospitals. for the broader Catholic health care. communities, not This situation is this outpatient setting just the Catholic For far too long, Catholic health care has not new. In 1995, that Catholic health populations. If Jesuit Fr. Richard care can be reimagined Catholic health care languished, manifest as a remnant of its fully McCormick wrote is to survive as an realized potential. Our expectations have been about it in a entity, it will do so nominal as well. When fully realized in models piece titled “The through such clinics. like the clinics I have described, it can be, as Pope Catholic Hospital St. John Paul II said, “a response of solidarity and Today: Mission Impossible” There are challenges. The financial model of charity by the Church to the mandate of the Lord, in which he described the health care is broken. Primary care is a loss who sent the Twelve to proclaim the Kingdom of impediments to truly Catholic leader, but is still attractive to health systems God and heal the sick.” L health care in large hospital because of downstream revenue. Clinics tied to systems as insurmountable. a health system can sustain those losses. Those WILLIAM E. CHAVEY, M.D., M.S., He cites, among other factors, that are independent cannot, thus the shrinking is a professor and service chief for the Department the depersonalization and number of independent practices. Regulation secularization of health and risk aversion have stifled innovation. of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan, care and the changing where he also is associate chief of staff for the reimbursement models. I As a result, these Catholic clinics often rely on would add that there is an philanthropy to support operating losses. This health system. In 2014, he and colleagues opened insufficient workforce of vulnerability, while substantial, is surpassed Emmaus Health as a primary care office in Ann Arbor, MI. He is currently the medical director of Emmaus. April 2021 | 26 | legatus.org (new website!)

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GUEST FRANCIS X. MAIER VOICE True economic headway ennobles the human spirit WE’VE BEEN THROUGH A YEAR ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/GECE33 of lockdowns, job loss, racial conflict, COVID anxiety, and political turmoil. As Archbishop Charles Chaput often said — his latest book, Things Worth Dying For, is well worth reading — we live in difficult times. But that’s never an excuse for despair, and with his permission, I’ll revisit some of his thoughts here. One of my favorite quotes is attributed to Vladimir Lenin: “Worse is better.” The words have a curious kind of wisdom. The worse things get, the more American democratic capitalism has reshaped breed a practical atheism by revolving our lives painful they become. The much of the world; in effect, it’s created a new around the desire and consumption of new things. more painful they become, world of political and economic relationships the more urgently we ask why. by lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty. In our own American case, the triggers of change And when we know the reason Religious leaders do a disservice when they have been the transistor, the microchip, and “why” behind our troubles, we undervalue this fact. We need to voice real everything useful that come from them – the can start to fix them. gratitude for the human ingenuity it expresses. internet, robotics and artificial intelligence, Otherwise, we rob ourselves of the credibility to Amazon, Zoom, Google, and a thousand other There are two problems with criticize the damage that market economies can new tools. The point is, we use our tools, but our the Lenin quote. First, Lenin also do. tools also use us. They reframe our assumptions, never actually said those imaginations, and appetites. They rewire our words. Second, Seventy years ago, relationships with each other and the world even if he had, economic historian around us. And in the process, every major they’re not true. “… real progress is Karl Polanyi wrote The new technology also creates a new class of never merely material Great Transformation. winners and a new class of losers. Ask your local Murders in Chicago It’s a dense but blacksmith. have been getting important work. worse for years. Polanyi showed Archbishop Chaput would note that there’s They’re now so common that how the industrial revolution disrupted and a simple lesson in all of this, and it’s worth the rest of the country sees reorganized the entire fabric of English life. remembering in the years ahead. Innovation is them as routine. This is not It revolutionized the structure of the British part of the special American genius. In a biblical good. Worse is not better. One economy. In doing so, it also reshaped every sense, it also expresses humanity’s God-given of the tasks of the Church, each other aspect of the nation’s culture — from family mandate to steward and enrich the earth. But of us as individual believers, relations, to politics and education, to the use of real progress is never merely material; unless it and especially those in time, to patterns of thought and behavior. also ennobles the human spirit, it isn’t “progress” leadership positions, is to live at all. The task of Catholic business leaders and work in a way that helps Something similar is happening in our own is to ensure that their faith helps to shape an make the world, and especially country. For all of its remarkable benefits, a economy that advances that nobility.  L our own nation, a better place. consumer market economy tends to commodify everything and recast all relationships FRANCIS X. MAIER is a senior fellow in The United States is the as transactional. In practice, it can easily Catholic studies with the Ethics and Public Policy world’s most powerful market depersonalize a culture by commercializing many economy. Since World War II, of our routine human interactions. It can also Center and senior research associate in Constitutional studies at the University of Notre Dame. April 2021 | 28 | legatus.org (new website!)

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FAITH FATHER FRANK PAVONE MATTERS Confront COVID-19 with Easter hope WHEN WE THINK OF HEALTH But curiously, our response to COVID-19 death. Rather, final victory is found in Easter, in care in America lately, at has revealed a partisan divide. At the risk of the Resurrection of Christ, which is shared with the top of our concerns is oversimplifying things, we have seen Blue states us through faith and Baptism. the COVID-19 pandemic. trend toward lockdown and Red states champion Under the leadership of people’s freedom; we have seen one party push There’s a reason Jesus did not heal every sick President Trump, we saw a masks, and the other warn about government person in the regions he traveled. He was not mobilization of government overreach; we have seen our ex-president simply on a horizontal mission to make life in and the private sector unlike declare our best days are ahead, and the current this world better for people. His mission was anything since World War II one declare darker days can be ahead. to announce the Kingdom, which is found by (see ProLifePresident.com), putting faith in Him. His and we witnessed medical One political expert I consulted healings were signs meant history being made by the who is also a man of deep “Our faith does not to engender that faith. development of vaccines in faith made the interesting Indeed, we see that in record time. point that this partisan divide permit us to be certain places He worked Morally speaking, it has been is shaped, at least in part, negligent in vigorously fewer healings because of refreshing to have so many by how people on each side people’s lack of faith (see people at every level of society approach faith. It is widely fighting the virus. But Matt. 13:58). talking so constantly about known that the nonreligious in we also know evil the need to save lives, and we America gravitate toward one But once it is embraced, mourn those around the world party, while the most actively does not and cannot that faith leads us all to the who have died from this virus. practicing Christians tend to have the last word total Easter victory over all It has also been interesting support another. sickness, disease, and death. to see the pro-abortion community vigorously Practicing Christians, We learn a valuable lesson embracing the idea that the moreover, know the spiritual from the optimism of former freedom to do what one wants realities of suffering and death, President Trump. He is a with one’s body can be limited and continue to maintain hope. Christian, and during the early months of the by a concern for the lives of Our faith does not permit us to be negligent in pandemic, relying on the expert input that was others. vigorously fighting the virus. But we also know available at the time, he expressed the hope that evil does not and cannot have the last word, and by Easter we would have been past the worst of it. And he commented on how appropriate a that suffering time that would be to emerge victorious over has a meaning this scourge. We all learned that it would take and a value. somewhat longer. Nobody knows the future. We believe that final President Trump was right about the way victory over Christians deal with challenges to health. We are sickness and a people of hope. The Resurrection of Jesus is the death does most positive thing that has ever happened, and not come from it remains the most powerful anchor of hope for any efforts to dealing with present and future evils. L create a utopia ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/DIETERMEYRL on earth or FATHER FRANK PAVONE is one of the to use any most prominent pro-life leaders in the world. In measure, no matter how 1993 he became the national director of Priests for drastic or Life. He is also the president of the National Pro-life repressive, Religious Council, and the national pastoral director to eliminate suffering and of the Silent No More Campaign and of Rachel’s Vineyard, the world’s largest ministry of healing after abortion. He has served at the Vatican assisting the Church’s pro-life work under Pope St. John Paul II. April 2021 | 30 | legatus.org (new website!)

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ENGAGING THE PETER KREEFT FAITH When envy is disguised as equality I’VE NEVER FIGURED OUT ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/URBAZON The tenth CATECHISM why Americans can be so commandment enthusiastic about equality. passionlessness? Gray equality, in itself, is unable requires 101 It’s necessary in many areas, to stimulate the heart’s passion, but resentment of course – in math equations, at inequality can do that. I suspect that the that envy be in human rights, and in voting passion that generates the war on inequality is banished from the human – but it’s dull. If values had coming from one of the seven deadly sins: envy. heart … Would you like to color, courage would be red, joy see God glorified by you? yellow, hope green, peace blue, Then rejoice in your brother’s comfort tan, creativity purple, … The opposite of equality is hierarchy. The progress and you will and equality gray. I’ve also universe is a hierarchy; nature is a hierarchy. immediately give glory to God. never figured out why gray is And acting according to nature always causes the most popular color today. joy, while acting against nature always causes Catechism of the It’s the dullest of all colors. It’s pain. And therefore, equality’s denial of Catholic Church, #2538, 2540 the color of compromise, and of hierarchy, due to envy, causes spiritual pain. The fog. And of our lives. result of envy is always misery, while the result SCRIPTURE A tranquil … If I gave every student the of exulting in hierarchy is two great joys: the joy 101 mind gives same grade (the class average, of admiring and learning from a superior and life to the say), that would be injustice, not the joy of helping and teaching an inferior; the body, but justice. Justice means giving joy of exercising rightful obedience and the joy jealousy rots each thing or person its, his, or of exercising rightful authority. This is the main the bones. her due, and obviously what’s reason why envy steals away our happiness: it due or right to minerals, plants, makes these two great goods into evils. animals, men, women, and God is not the same. Trees do … heaven is not a democracy. America is a great Proverbs 14:30 not have the right not to be cut place to live, but America is not heaven, and down and used for building heaven is not America. God is not our equal, our materials; people do. Pregnancy chummy buddy. We worship Christ the King, not is not a right that is “due” to Christ the kitten. males any more than growth is “due” to minerals. Animals are …Communist states, which worshipped equality, not people and do not have the had to create advertising propaganda to reward rights that humans do… There hard workers because the removal of private is hierarchy everywhere, both in property removed the natural incentive and nature and in every functioning passion to work. L society. And that means superiority and inferiority. Excerpt from Wisdom of the Heart: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful at the Men are obviously superior Center of Us All, by Peter Kreeft (TAN Books, 2020), pp. 132-136. www.TANBooks.com to women at being men, and women are obviously superior PETER KREEFT, PH.D., is professor to men at being women. … of philosophy at Boston College and also at Why do we deny this? Where King’s College in New York City. He’s written over is this confusion coming 80 books and is in wide demand as speaker. from? Confusions in the He is a convert to Catholicism from Reformed head are almost always from brokenness or perversions Protestantism. in the heart. What passion in the heart is at the root of this April 2021 | 32 | legatus.org (new website!)

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WHAT TO READ Into the Storm: Chronicle of a crisis, personnel decisions, existence of God. Arguably, its regard the Year in Crisis and lack of transparency. failure to account for the pre- Psalms Christopher R. Altieri “The crisis of leadership in the existing matter, conditions, of the Old TAN Books, 391 pages Catholic Church is protracted, or causes that brought the Testament. persistent, and global,” Altieri universe into existence is Most are From the title one might begins one report in this itself a proof of God. In this hard pressed expect an examination collection of essays published work, Dr. Gerard Verschuuren to recognize of 2020 with its COVID during this tumultuous year. walks the reader through the any but It’s a worthy backgrounder on medieval five proofs for God’s the 23rd pandemic, a crisis still seeking resolution. existence from the perspective Psalm, “The street of a Catholic scientist, Lord is my shepherd…” Yet riots, and A Catholic Scientist Proves demonstrating how the use the Psalms have been at the contentious God Exists of reason in examining the heart of prayer and worship U.S. Dr. Gerard Verschuuren observable universe and the from the time of the ancient presidential Sophia Institute Press, 176 pages logical deductions that follow Jews to the liturgy of the election. reveal the power of God and Church today. Boston College Instead, Although some in the His perfect attributes. As professor Peter Kreeft looks Christopher scientific community dare Charles Dickens wrote, “Take here at just a dozen of the 150 Altieri everything on evidence.” It’s Psalms, drawing out their offers his to propose there. lyrical beauty and meaning. journalist’s perspective on theoretical The Psalms provide an ever- another year and crisis: the models Wisdom from the Psalms relevant voyage for inspiring period from late January 2018 for creatio Peter J. Kreeft praise, petition, contrition, to late February 2019, when ex nihilo, Ignatius Press, 243 pages and contemplation, and this the leadership of the Catholic science is book is a valuable tool for their Church up to and including incapable of Looked over, then overlooked rediscovery.  L Pope Francis came under fire disproving – that’s how too many would for its handling of the abuse the April 2021 | 34 | legatus.org (new website!)

WHAT TO SEE How we lost our innocents FORTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO, culminated in the twisted at Planned Parenthood abortion on demand became legal logic of the fateful 1973 founder Margaret Sanger “the law of the land” with a decision. Nathanson eventually at a Ku Klux Klan women’s controversial 7-2 decision would repent of his life’s work auxiliary in 1936, preaching of the U.S. Supreme Court. to become one of the pro-life her gospel of eugenics to Roe v. Wade, a 2021 film now movement’s greatest advocates. limit the black population. available digitally through on- demand streaming services, The script leaves something to Then there are the pro-life Jon Voight stars as Chief Justice Warren Burger in explains the real story behind be desired, but it gets the facts folks who underestimated the new motion picture Roe v. Wade, now available that tragic ruling that has straight. We meet Nathanson, the power of the “pro- resulted in the killing of 62 who bonds with feminist choice” radicals and the through on-demand streaming services million unborn lives to date. Betty Freidan and others to weak resolve of even some Narrated from the perspective build support for reproductive conservative Supreme the pro-abortion radicals as of Dr. Bernard Nathanson, the “choice” and whittle away at Court justices. Receiving well as their anti-Catholic bent notorious New York abortionist laws protecting the unborn. her due is Mildred Jefferson, is particularly revealing. It is who co-founded NARAL There’s Norma McCorvey, the the black physician who a film that ought to shore up (National Abortion Rights naïve young woman recruited worked tirelessly to defend our resolve to end our nation’s Action League) and committed to become “Jane Roe” of the laws restricting abortion and nearly half-century slaughter some 75,000 abortions, the film landmark case. We look back became the first president of of the innocents.  L details the legal maneuvers National Right to Life. and outright deceptions Roe v. Wade The film’s pace is ponderous GERALD KORSON engineered by pro-abortion Jon Voight, Nick Loeb, at times, but the portrayal of is a Legatus magazine staff writer. feminists and those who would Stacey Dash, Corbin Bernsen, the easy manipulation of the profit from legal abortion that Robert Davi, William Forsythe, media and public opinion by Greer Grammer • 112 min. • PG-13 April 2021 | 35 | legatus.org (new website!)

HEALTH DR. PAUL CARSON MATTERS For enhanced physical health, tend to spiritual side CATHOLICS BELIEVE THAT Mental health. Over 200 studies reveal lower life expectancy. Over 120 high-quality studies the human person possesses rates of depression, fewer problems with anxiety, show an average 37 percent mortality reduction an integrally connected and a greater chance of overcoming substance in people who are religious compared to their body and soul. Yet modern abuse in people who are religious compared to areligious counterparts. medicine almost exclusively their areligious counterparts. In one study of focuses on the body and leaves adult children at high genetic risk for depression, Our brains may be hard-wired to connect with “spiritual matters” to one’s subjects placing high importance on religion God. In a fascinating study of college students, personal inclinations. But in their lives had a 90 percent reduced risk of pain tolerance was measured by how long science is revealing that what major depression. In a study following almost students could hold their hands in an ice bath. we do with our spiritual lives 90,000 nurses for several decades, those that Students who were asked to use a spiritual strongly impacts the health regularly attended religious service had an 84 meditation (e.g., “God is good” or “God is love”) of our bodies, and health care percent reduction in suicide. Psychotherapy and — as opposed to relaxation techniques or a non- professionals should pay heed. medications provide nowhere near this level of religious meditation — were able to hold their An explosion of recent research benefit. hands in the ice bath nearly from universities like Duke, twice as long as students Harvard, and UC-Berkeley Physical health. Numerous “… [people are] body- not using a religious have opened our eyes to the relationship between studies demonstrate better soul composites meditation. religious practice and health. outcomes with diabetes, [who] fare better on Other research indicates Almost without exception, the hypertension, heart disease, research shows that people and even cancer in people who that social connectedness, who regularly worship in a regularly practice their faith. all fronts when they humility, gratitude, religious community possess In one high-quality study of tend to the spiritual propensity toward substantially better mental and over 22,000 subjects, religious forgiveness, and having physical health. Caucasians added 7 years — part of themselves purpose and meaning and African Americans added in one’s life are all a whopping 14 years — to their independent predictors of better health. Although one does not need to be religious to possess these qualities, there is little like the Christian faith that encompasses and even demands these attributes of its followers. ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/FATCAMERA The proper end of our faith is not better physical health, but union with God. But it should not be surprising that creatures that are body-soul composites fare better on all fronts when they attend to the spiritual part of themselves. Perhaps it is high time the medical profession take notice.L PAUL CARSON, M.D., is a physician and professor in the department of public health at North Dakota State University. He is the immediate past president of the Catholic Medical Association guild in Fargo, N.D. Listen to engaging CMA doctors discuss important health  The Catholic Medical Association – comprised of over 2500 topics on Doctor, Doctor  each Saturday at 11 a.m. Eastern health care professionals from 109 local guilds – inspires /8 a.m. Pacific on the EWTN Radio Network or Sirius XM  Channel 130.  All episodes can also be accessed on your  physicians to imitate Jesus Christ by forming and supporting favorite podcast app. current and future physicians to live and promote the principles of the Catholic faith in the science and practice of medicine. April 2021 | 36 | legatus.org (new website!)

FEEDING THE CHEF JOHN D. FOLSE AND MICHAELA D. YORK FOODIE Take time to say ‘I love you’ to the Lord RECENTLY I ATTENDED A This group of wayward saints began singing the Bread of Life, from Virgin’s womb prayer meeting at Cypress words we knew so well. Somehow the words He fills our days with hope; no Springs Mercedarian Prayer pierced our hearts, and we wept. suffering, no gloom. Center in Baton Rouge. Sister But He it is, alive and true. Dulce Maria, who created The Lord calls us every day to say I love you: Reform me with these three this sanctuary of healing and through the Eucharist, discipline, and the Word words I must pray to You. prayer, asked us, “When did made flesh. “As a man disciplines his son, the you last tell the Lord that you Lord your God disciplines you” (Deut. 8:5). Over What could bring joy, health, loved Him?” Then Sister began the past 14 months, I think we have all purged our and wellness to our souls like prayer and reading to sing, and encouraged us all hearts and souls as we pondered life’s purpose. I the Word of God? Sink your teeth into the Bible while to join her: have reflected on Stevie Wonder’s lyrics through enjoying a heavenly piece of Scripture Cake.  L the pandemic’s prism — cancellations, no I just called to say I love you. celebrations, and missed sacraments. CHEF JOHN D. FOLSE is an entrepreneur with interests ranging I just called to say how much I care. from restaurant development to food manufacturing, catering to culinary I just called to say I love you. No holy days to celebrate And I mean it from the bottom of No hugging friends and loved ones, they must stay away education. A cradle-Catholic, he supports many Catholic organizations my heart. No peace of Christ, no Choir to sing, In fact it’s just another solitary day. including the Sister Dulce Ministry at Cypress Springs Mercedarian Prayer Center in Baton Rouge, LA. MICHAELA D. YORK is vice president of communications for Chef John Folse & Company. “CROWN OF THORNS” SCRIPTURE CAKE • PREP TIME: 4 HOURS • YIELD: 1 BUNDT CAKE Ingredients for Cake: aside. In another mixing bowl, combine Method for Fondant 3 cups flour, baking powder, salt, and Crown of Thorns: 1 cup softened butter (Judges 5:25) spices. Add dry mixture to creamed 2 cups sugar (Jeremiah 6:20) mixture alternately with water. Beat Combine gelatin and cold the fondant. Roll fondant into three 1 tbsp honey (Exodus 16:31) well. Dredge raisins, figs, and almonds water; set aside until mixture six-inch strands, each about a half-inch 6 eggs (Isaiah 10:14) in remaining ½ cup of flour. Gently thickens. Place gelatin mixture thick. Carefully cross the strands, one 3 cups all-purpose flour (1st Kings 4:22) stir fruits and nuts into batter. Spoon in top of double boiler and heat over another. With a small knife, gently 2 tsps. baking powder batter into greased Bundt pan and until dissolved. Add glucose pare a bit of icing away from each of (1st Corinthians 5:6) bake one hour and 15 minutes. Let cool and glycerin, mixing well. Add the long icing strands, which makes ½ tsp salt (Leviticus 2:13) 30 minutes. Unmold and let cool for shortening, removing from heat the thorns. Repeat process all along 1 tsp cinnamon (1st Kings 10:10) three hours. Finish with a dusting of just before completely melted. the strands. Make a ring with the three ¼ tsp cloves (1st Kings 10:10) confectioner’s sugar atop the cake. Stir in vanilla and cool mixture strands and set atop cake. ¼ tsp ginger (1st Kings 10:10) until lukewarm. In large bowl, 1 cup water (Exodus 17:6) Ingredients for Fondant: add four cups confectioner’s 2 cups raisins (1st Samuel 30:12) sugar. Make a well in center 2 cups figs (1st Samuel 30:12) 1 (.25-ounce) package of confectioner’s sugar, then 1 cup chopped almonds (Genesis 43:11) unflavored gelatin stir in the lukewarm gelatin ½ cup all-purpose flour (1st Kings 4:22) ¼ cup cold water mixture. Mix in confectioner’s ½ cup confectioner’s sugar, sifted ½ cup glucose syrup sugar a little at a time until stickiness 1 tbsp glycerin disappears. Knead in remaining Method for Cake: 2 tbsps. shortening confectioner’s sugar until the fondant 1 tsp vanilla extract is smooth, pliable, and does not stick Preheat oven to 325°F. Grease and flour 8 cups sifted confectioner’s sugar to fingers. (Add more sugar if fondant Bundt pan; set aside. In large mixing Food coloring for the thorns is too soft. Add one drop of water at bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add a time if fondant is too stiff. However, honey and blend well. Add eggs, one at mixture needs to be fairly stiff so thorns a time, beating after each addition. Set will not droop.) Mix food coloring into April 2021 | 37 | legatus.org (new website!)

U.S. “Teaching kids to hate their country in the womb or on your deathbed. BRIEFS and to hate each other is not worth That’s my conviction,” said Watson, one red cent of taxpayer money,” a member of the Super Bowl EQUALITY ACT SEEKS TO COERCE DeSantis said. His $106 million XXXIX-winning New England ‘ANTI-WOKE’ DISSENTERS TO education plan would incentive Patriots. “But with the film, I’ll FORFEIT FIRST AMENDMENT teachers to get additional training engage those who disagree and RIGHTS and certification in “foundational hear their reasoning.” WASHINGTON – The proposed concepts” of American civics. Among topics discussed is the Equality Act, being actively argued [Critical race theory, according to negative effect abortion has on before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Encyclopedia Britannica, holds the women and African Americans. Committee [at press time in mid- view that “law and legal institutions March], has alarming ramifications are inherently racist and that race CATHOLIC PUBLISHERS GET for its threats to religious liberty, itself, instead of being biologically SOCIAL MEDIA SUSPENSIONS, women’s athletics, privacy rights, grounded and natural, is a socially CANCELLATIONS FOR LACKING and businesses and employers. constructed concept used by white POLITICAL CORRECTNESS Ethics and Public Policy Center people to further their economic WASHINGTON — The “cancel attorney Mary and political interests at the culture” has censored Catholic Rice Hasson expense of people of color.”] and conservative publishers from presented social media in recent months for strong faith- presenting perspectives at odds and law-based with the liberal agenda. testimony before the Judiciary PRO-LIFE FORMER SUPER In January, Twitter temporarily Committee on BOWL CHAMPION RELEASES suspended the account of Catholic March 17, in firm DOCUMENTARY FILM ON ABORTION World Report for “hateful conduct” opposition to the DENVER —Former NFL tight end days after the journal tweeted Equality Act. Benjamin Watson said he hopes a news brief referring to then- Being championed as top priority his newly released documentary, President-elect Biden’s HHS by the Biden administration, the Divided Hearts of America, will nominee Rachel Levine as “a Equality Act would expand the 1964 “unveil the truth about abortion, biological man identifying as a Civil Rights Act to force businesses the laws, the history and where our transgender woman.” to recognize individuals’ claimed country is headed.” “gender identity,” and forbid The film, now available on video TAN Books has seen Facebook pull businesses of 15 or more from and streaming services, includes several ads, including Paul Kengor’s discriminating based on “sexual interviews with experts from a The Devil and Karl Marx, Carrie orientation,” “gender identity,” variety of fields and socio-political Gress’s The Anti-Mary Exposed: and would mandate transgender backgrounds. Rescuing the Culture from Toxic “access” to sex-specific facilities “I believe in the sanctity of life, be it Femininity, and even the children’s (bathrooms, etc.). book Stations of the Cross for Kids. “Apparently, the image of the FLORIDA CALLS FOR EXCLUDING crucifix on the cover constitutes CRITICAL RACE THEORY TEACHING a shocking and violent image,” IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS Kengor wrote in Crisis magazine.  L TALLAHASSEE, FL – Florida governor Ron DeSantis stated on SOURCES: Catholic News Agency, Catholic News March 17 that a new education plan Service, Crux, Crisis, LifeSiteNews in his state proposes to “expressly exclude” the critical race theory doctrine in public schools. His plan will provide for “civics curricula to incorporate foundational concepts with the best materials, and will expressly exclude unsanctioned narratives like critical race theory.” April 2021 | 38 | legatus.org (new website!)

WORLD Auxiliary Bishop Antoine Hérouard “During the first wave of the BRIEFS of Lille, in his homily for the Mass pandemic, a considerable part of offered at Lourdes on Feb. 11, said the deaths from COVID-19 occurred PRIVATE SCHOOL many people “have a heavy heart in institutions for the elderly, places CATHOLIC DOCTOR CALLS FOR not being able to come to Lourdes” that should have protected the INDEPENDENT INQUIRY INTO DNR during the pandemic. However, ‘most fragile part of society’ and NOTICES FOR COVID-19 PATIENTS whether from behind a screen or where instead death has struck WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES through the airwaves, “the power disproportionately more than the MANCHESTER, England — Father of prayer brings the whole world home and family environment,” the Patrick Pullicino, a Catholic together with Mary here in Lourdes.” academy said. neurosurgeon with the National After a year in which 95 percent of “Isolating the elderly is an obvious Health Service, has called for a Lourdes pilgrimages were canceled, manifestation of what Pope Francis “full independent inquiry” into the shrine is planning to host safe has called the ‘throwaway culture,’” reports that COVID-19 patients pilgrimages for summer 2021 while it said. with learning disabilities have offering online resources (lourdes- EXTENDING THE AIRWAVES: been given “do not resuscitate” france.org). VATICAN RADIO FETES 90TH notices during the second wave of ANNIVERSARY WITH 24-HOUR coronavirus in the U.K. INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF WEB LAUNCH The charity Mencap said people THE ELDERLY A MARK OF A VATICAN CITY — Vatican Radio with learning disabilities such ‘THROWAWAY CULTURE,’ SAYS launched a 24-hour web radio as autism had been told they VATICAN to mark its 90th anniversary would not be resuscitated if they VATICAN CITY — In a February in February. The new initiative contracted the coronavirus. document that keys off the current made Vatican Radio broadcasts pandemic, the Vatican’s Pontifical available over the internet in seven Pullicino called for a public inquiry Academy for Life has called for a languages — English, Italian, last year into why so many elderly “profound change of mentality and French, Spanish, Portuguese, people died of COVID in U.K. approach” in elder care, arguing German, and Armenian. nursing homes after having been that the elderly are best cared for in denied hospital care. an environment more like a family The broadcasts will also be available “Why have the vulnerable been home than a hospital. via the Radio Vaticana app. Vatican targeted when they should be Radio already transmits via radio protected?” Pullicino said in a mid- waves, shortwave, satellite, DAB+, February interview. and digitally. CAN’T GET TO THE HEALING Vatican Radio, established by WATERS OF LOURDES? CONSIDER Pope Pius XI on Feb. 12, 1931, also A VIRTUAL VISIT TO THE MARIAN launched a “reworked” website for SHRINE its anniversary commemoration. L ROME — On the feast of Our Lady of SOURCES: Catholic News Agency, Catholic News Lourdes, the Marian shrine’s papal delegate urged masked pilgrims Service, Crux, National Catholic Register and virtual viewers alike not to lose hope in the face of sickness and difficulties. April 2021 | 39 | legatus.org (new website!)

CHAPTER NEWS PHILADELPHIA-LEHIGH VALLEY Catholic Professionals (YCP) will come in to help young Catholic NEED TO FALL IN LOVE AGAIN — adults network and nurture their WITH CHRIST faith, and have access to Catholic At their special two-chapter event on February 9, the executive-mentors. He took many Philadelphia and Lehigh questions from Legates – on Valley Chapters welcomed everything from why pro-choice Philadelphia’s new shepherd, Catholic politicians have been Archbishop Nelson Perez, given Holy Communion, to the as honored speaker. The expected role of laity now, to BISMARCK. The Bismarck Chapter’s March 4 event took Archbishop was the main how the Church can make its place at the beautiful Heritage Center on the grounds of the celebrant for Mass at Epiphany unchanging moral compass more State Capitol.    It is a museum with a multitude of artifacts of Our Lord Catholic Church clear and affirming. and historical information, including dinosaurs and in Plymouth Meeting, PA, background on explorers Lewis and Clark, who wintered in followed by a special dinner Archbishop Nelson Perez “Our people – and especially our nearby Mandan.  The evening’s guest speaker was Genesis youth – need to fall in love again Chapter member and leadership coach Mike McCartney, and Q&A event at The Country PHILADELPHIA/ with Christ,” he said. “That’s the who spoke on the topic, “Lead with FIRE,” a mix of House at Bluestone. LEHIGH VALLEY. reason we’re here – and bolsters leadership coaching, personal stories, and Church teaching. our great hope for heaven.” BISMARCK. In the center of the dining area at the The Archbishop opened his much- Heritage Center was a magnificent lighted seal of the anticipated talk about the future of by CHRISTINE V. OWSIK, state of North Dakota. the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Editor, Legatus Magazine To engage the crisis of faith PHILADELPHIA/LEHIGH VALLEY. –among the young, but also in other segments – he is restructuring youth and young adult ministries into two separate apostolates. Two new initiatives were also launched. The Culture Project – a missionary organization of young adults deployed to parishes and schools – has been engaged over the next five years. Secondly, Young PHILADELPHIA/LEHIGH VALLEY. April 2021 | 40 | legatus.org (new website!)

CHAPTER NEWS VENTURA/LA NORTH On March 4, some 35 members and guests of the Ventura/LA North Chapter met at St. Jude’s Catholic Church in Westlake for rosary and Mass, concelebrated by Fr. Robert Sirico from the Acton Institute and Chapter chaplain Fr. Dave Heney. Following Mass, Fr. Sirico VENTURA/LA NORTH. At the Ventura/LA Chapter’s March 4 event, shown here spoke about “Business as a are: (l. to r.) Ray and Susie Screbant; guest concelebrant and speaker, Fr. Robert Sirico; Vocation: An Important Justin Alvarez; Fr. Dave Heney; Jim and Germaine Wensley. Calling from God.”  Then, ALBANY. Bill Baaki, Esq., partner at the Goldberg Segalla law firm and founding a reception and dinner WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. Dr. Tom Kaiser, board member of the Friends of Our Lady of Martyrs Shrine corporation in Auriesville, was held overlooking dean of the New England Campus of Thomas NY, speaks to members and guests of the Albany Chapter at its February 25 meeting at Westlake Lake at Aquinas College (Northfield, MA) and member of the the historic Fort Orange Club in downtown Albany, NY.  Mr. Baaki gave a sweeping and Bocaccio’s Restaurant. Western Massachusetts Chapter, welcomes bishop of incredibly detailed history of the embryonic Catholic Church in North America and the Springfield, the Most Reverend Bill Byrne, for his first major role that Native American Christians played in it. visit to campus on March 5. Byrne, who was founding chaplain of the Washington, D.C. Chapter and served in that role for five years, was ordained and installed as the 10th bishop of Springfield in December 2020. PITTSBURGH. Pittsburgh Chapter chaplain Fr. Tom Kunz leads all gathered in prayer before dinner at the February 18 meeting at the Kaufman Tavern in Zelienople, PA, a very special location owned by family members of longtime Legatus members Fred and Christine Hespenheide. RALEIGH. The Raleigh Chapter’s February 4 event at Ruth’s Chris in Cary, NC featured guest speaker  Elisabeth Sullivan (executive director of the Catholic Institute for Liberal Education), who gave an impressive presentation about the need for renewal of a truly Catholic liberal education. Pictured here are (back four): Jamie Oreffice (member), Nicole Gould (guest), Elisabeth Sullivan (speaker), Anne Braden (member). Front (l. to r.): Andy Oreffice (Chapter president), Brooks Braden (member). April 2021 | 41 | legatus.org (new website!)

CHAPTER NEWS FORT WORTH CHARLOTTE. Also at the Chapter’s March 4 gathering, new members David The Fort Worth and Jennifer Brugh (c.) were invested after Mass by Chapter chaplain Abbot Chapter held its Placid Solari (r.), assisted by Dave Anderson, Chapter president (l.). regular monthly Mass, reception, and CHARLOTTE. At the Chapter’s March 4 event, Chapter member meeting on February Warren Surface (r.), is shown leading members in the Litany of St. 11, and was was most Joseph in honor of the Year of Saint Joseph, and for St. Joseph’s fortunate to welcome March 19 feast day.  Chapter president, Dave Anderson is also seen as its guest speaker at the podium. The meeting was held at Firethorne Country Club in Steven W. Mosher, Charlotte. an internationally acclaimed authority on China. Mr. Mosher focused on the many challenges the Peoples Republic of China poses to the United States, and as well to the Catholic Church in China. L FORT WORTH. China expert Steven W. Mosher addresses SANTA BARBARA. At its February 16 meeting, the Santa Barbara Chapter the Fort Worth Chapter at its February 11 meeting. was able to gather in person, and witnessed the investiture of its two newest members, Paul and Kim Lazenby. The Mass and guest speaker presentation took place at the beautiful Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, followed by dinner at Pane e Vino Trattoria. Guest speaker, Pastor James Ward, discussed his recent book, Zero Victim: Liberate Yourself from the Mentality of Defeat, sparking a lively Q & A discussion. Pictured are (l. to r.): Fr. Lawrence Seyer, Jim Link, Paul Lazenby, Kim Lazenby, Andy Fetyko. Members were able to gather together in person and celebrated Mass and listened to the speaker inside the beautiful church. Then they went to a local restaurant for dinner and q&a with the speaker. FAIRFIELD COUNTY. Fairfield County Chapter members gather around Bishop Frank Caggiano (center) at St. Mary’s Church in Greenwich, CT on February 24.  This was the bishop’s first visit to his home Legatus Chapter since being named new international chaplain of Legatus earlier this year. April 2021 | 42 | legatus.org (new website!)

CHAPTER NEWS BALTIMORE. Baltimore Chapter members gather around speaker Patrick Reilly (c.), SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO. The San Juan Capistrano Chapter celebrated its Feb 11 event at founder and president of the Cardinal Newman Society, at their March 10 Chapter meeting the home of members Marc and Jacqueline Carlson. The Chapter likewise welcomed two new at Chartwell Golf and Country Club in Severna Park, MD. members, Rachel Wolven-Everett, as well as member-couple Geoff and Teresa Sando. The visiting celebrant was Fr. Daniel Seo. Guest speaker Mark Randall discussed “Good News about the American Priesthood.” Pictured (l. to r.): Ron Nielsen, Kathleen Nielsen, Rachel Wolven- Everett, Teresa Sando, Geoff Sando, Fr. Daniel Seo. WILMINGTON. The Wilmington Chapter met at the DuPont Country Club in Wilmington, WASHINGTON, D.C. Sister Mary Gabriel of the Sisters of Life speaks to the Washington, DE on March 9.  Chapter officers Margie Baker and Bob Suppe joined Chapter president D.C. Chapter at its February 24 meeting at Morton’s Steakhouse in Bethesda, MD. Sister Mary Francis Pileggi (standing, c.) to invest new members who joined over the past year: Joseph Gabriel’s familial sister is Mary Devlin Capizzi, the Chapter’s president-elect. Pileggi, Elizabeth Savage, Brian Lessard, and Kathy Lessard.  Diocese of Wilmington priest Fr. Richard Jasper joined them for a blessing. WESTCHESTER COUNTY. Chris Bell, co-founder and president of Good WESTCHESTER COUNTY. Westchester Chapter member Paula Summa and her husband, Jim Counsel Homes as well as the 2007 recipient of Legatus’ Cardinal John J. O’Connor O’Neill, enjoy time with their Chapter’s assistant chaplain, Rev. Dr. Fidelis Halifax Oppong at Morton’s Pro-Life Award, speaks about valuing all human life at Morton’s Steakhouse in Steakhouse in White Plains, NY at the Chapter’s February 24 meeting. Jim and Paula wore traditional White Plains, NY for the Westchester County Chapter’s February 24 meeting. Ghanaian Kente scarves as a sign of affection for their friend Fr. Fidelis, a native of Ghana. HARRISBURG. Harrisburg Chapter president Camille Kostelac-Cherry greets HARRISBURG. Also at its February 16 meeting, Harrisburg Chapter chaplain Bishop Ronald speaker Elise Crawford Gallagher, founder and CEO of the RINGLET Firm, at the Gainer blesses the Chapter’s officers. Shown (l. to r.): Norm Basso, president-elect; Hank Christ, past Chapter’s February 16 meeting at Wyndridge Farm in Dallastown, PA. Ms. Crawford president; Richie Musser, assistant membership chair; Maria DiSanto, membership chair; and Camille Gallagher spoke about “Feminine Genius in Business.” Kostelac-Cherry, president. April 2021 | 43 | legatus.org (new website!)

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5 MINUTES JIM GRAVES WITH Administrator safeguarded Lincoln Chapter throughout pandemic challenge SUE MACH, ‘LIFEBLOOD OF THE CHAPTER,’ NAMED 2020 NATIONAL CHAPTER ADMINISTRATOR OF THE YEAR SUE MACH, CHAPTER to event planning. Our Chapter has an officer One adjustment was that we began administrator of Legatus’ committee, a program committee, and a livestreaming our event Masses and speakers, Lincoln, NE Chapter, was membership committee. I handle all the details as about half of our membership only wanted to honored with the 2020 National related to their meetings, including preparing participate in them virtually. Additionally, those Chapter Administrator of agendas, planning meetings, and handing the attending virtually had the option of stopping by the Year award at the 2021 follow-up related to meetings. the event locations and picking up their meals to Legatus Summit East held in eat at home while they watched the events. These Palm Beach, FL, in January. I also coordinate our monthly Chapter events. adaptations proved successful, as 80 percent Ken Darnell, Legatus’ I arrange for locations and speakers, assist of our membership continued to participate in Central Region director, had our speakers with travel arrangements and events. Overall, 92 percent of our members saw recommended Mach for the audiovisual needs, plan meals, arrange seating, their participation in Legatus as beneficial and award, believing she was and do whatever else is needed to make these renewed their memberships. deserving of the honor because events a success. she “exudes a warmth What special events are planned for and enthusiasm Who are a few this year? for Legatus and its of your recent vision,” was popular speakers? Members will have the option of joining a bus with Lincoln Chapter trip to The Cloisters on the Platte in Gretna, a members, and was We’ve had Paul Voss, retreat center established by Joe Ricketts, former “truly the lifeblood of a leadership coach CEO and chairman of TD Ameritrade and owner the Chapter.” He also who has spoken to of the Chicago Cubs. Ricketts attended a Jesuit praised her efficiency Legatus audiences retreat decades ago that changed his life. He and organization. before; Curtis Martin, established the retreat center as a way to offer founder and CEO of the Jesuit retreat experience to others. He is a Mach, a resident of the Fellowship of major philanthropist. Wahoo, a Lincoln Catholic University suburb, became Students (FOCUS); and We will also be having the 15th anniversary chapter administrator Jennifer Roback Morse of the Ruth Institute, celebration of our Chapter. We’re actually in 2014 after going to a Legatus who discusses the harmful effects of the Sexual celebrating it in our 16th year because this event, event as a guest with her Revolution. Upcoming speakers include Mike as well as our bus trip, was postponed from last husband to hear a talk by McCartney, who also speaks on leadership, and year because of COVID-19. Elizabeth Lev, a Catholic art how to establish forums within a chapter. historian. The Lincoln Chapter Any additional thoughts? she serves has 72 members How did the pandemic affect your and was founded in 2005. Chapter’s member participation? I’m grateful for having had the opportunity to work for the Lincoln Chapter for over 6 years. It What do your We had to work especially hard to navigate is a vibrant chapter, and its members are easy to responsibilities entail as through COVID-19 and keep our membership work with. It’s such a pleasure to do this work. It chapter administrator? engaged. We had to postpone some events, doesn’t even seem like a job. L and we modified others to keep people as I devote half of my time to comfortable and as safe as possible. being an administrative assistant and the other half April 2021 | 45 | legatus.org (new website!)

MEET THE JIM GRAVES CHAPLAIN Dart-throwing priest embraces challenges of ministry – and drawing youth to Catholicism SAVANNAH CHAPTER’S FATHER DANIEL FIRMIN NAMED 2020 SOUTHEAST REGION CHAPLAIN OF THE YEAR FATHER DANIEL FIRMIN HAS What do you enjoy we’re growing. At a time when you see other been selected as the recipient most about being a places in the country closing parishes, we’re of the 2020 Southeast priest, and what is most building new churches. Region Chaplain Award in challenging? recognition of his eight years How do you recommend getting young of outstanding service as I like that when I get up in the people interested in the Faith? chaplain of Georgia’s Savannah morning, I discover that every Chapter. He received the award day is different. I just received a We need to engage and invite them to at the Legatus Summit East call from a parishioner the other participate. We need to provide them with event in Palm Beach, FL, in day, for example, who told me opportunities for prayer. At my parish, we had a January. his son was dying in hospice. I wonderful Holy Hour with praise and worship. Born in 1978, stopped everything and went We need to be able to answer their difficult he grew up in over to anoint him. He died that questions. Young people want to be challenged and Augusta, GA, evening. I also love being an live lives full of meaning. Living the Christian life the oldest of instrument of the Lord’s healing gives them the meaning for which they’re looking. nine children. and reconciliation in times such He earned as these, and that I can help What work do you do with the a B.A. in souls get to heaven. Carmelites? humanities and Catholic The life of a priest can also be We have a community of 10 cloistered nuns culture from very tiring. Every day I get up, living in Our Lady of Confidence Monastery in Franciscan I say Mass, hear Confessions Savannah. I serve on their advisory board. Along University of and engage in parish work and with other priests, I come to celebrate Mass and Steubenville in work at the diocesan offices. I hear Confessions. Later this year, I’ll be assisting 2000 and attended seminary at might be involved in a wedding the nuns with a capital campaign to raise money the Pontifical North American rehearsal and dinner, a funeral, for a new monastery where they can live, work, College in Rome. He was or something else. It makes for and have formation. ordained a priest in 2004 for long days, but it’s filled with I was drawn to their community by their the Diocese of Savannah, good stuff. consistent study of prayer and living of the where he has served as Christian life. The spirituality of Carmelite saints chancellor and is currently What is the Church like Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross has always vicar general. He has been in Savannah? intrigued me. pastor of St. James the Less Parish in Savannah since 2017. We’re a small part of the What appeals to you in throwing darts? Fr. Firmin is also spiritual population, about 3 percent, assistant of the Secular Order making us a missionary It is something completely different for me than of Discalced Carmelites diocese. We have about 110,000 what I normally do. All I have to worry about is and has worked in campus registered and unregistered throwing a dart and hitting a part of the board. I ministry. For leisure he enjoys Catholics served by 110 find it relaxing. L throwing darts and competes diocesan and religious order on a team with the Savannah priests. But, unlike other areas, Area Darts Association League. April 2021 | 46 | legatus.org (new website!)

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