Legatus Magazine February 2023

FEBRUARY 2023 BUSINESS AND VIRTUE ISSUE EXECUTIVE PARTNERSHIPS HOW COUPLES STAY HAPPY DESPITE BUSINESS STRESSES LONELY AT THE TOP? COPING WITH ISOLATION A VENERABLE PRIEST, A ‘COOPERATIVE’ SPIRIT TO COACH LIKE A CHAMPION: FOR LOU HOLTZ, FAITH IS FIRST LESSONS FROM THE SOWER Fr. Robert Sirico SILENT SUFFERING OF INFERTILITY Ann M. Koshute BUSINESS AND POSITIVE CHANGE Fr. Shenan J. Boquet WHAT TO DO ABOUT HATERS David Mills

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02•23 INSIDE VOL 36 • NO 2 10 SEEING CLEARLY FROM THE TOP by Judy Roberts Executive loneliness is a thing. Here’s how leaders deal with it 16 20 24 A SECRETS TO ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/GREMLIN VENERABLE SUCCESSFUL FAITH, ENTREPRENEUR PARTNERSHIPS FAMILY, FOOTBALL by Rachel Hoover by Jim Graves by Trent Beattie Basque priest’s cooperatives Couples keep marriages happy founded on social teachings Champion coach Lou Holtz 2023de|spite pressure|s of business sets his life’s priorities straight 5February legatus.org

Lemon drop cookies MORE COVER 08CHAIRMAN’S DESK 37 PHOTO ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/MICHAELGATEWOOD Tom Monaghan: What’s wrong with the world? 40GUEST VOICE istockphoto.com/vvvita David Mills: Responding to those who hate us 09EDITOR’S DESK 48FIVE MINUTES WITH PAGE Stephen Auth, Summit 2023 speaker PHOTO Gerald Korson: Lonely where the buck stops 50 MEET THE CHAPLAIN Fr. Thomas Farrell, NE Wisconsin Chapter Got a sweet tooth? 26BUSINESS ETHICS Monsignor Jamie Fr. Robert Sirico: The sower needs fertile ground Gigantiello offers his recipe for lemon drop 28CULTURE OF LIFE cookies. Ann M. Koshute: Understanding infertile couples 30FAITH MATTERS Fr. Shenan J. Boquet: Business and the gospel 32ENGAGING THE FAITH Edward and Beth Sri: Healing wounds in marriage 35WHAT TO SEE Jesus Revolution: Welcoming those strange to us 36HEALTH MATTERS Gwyneth A. Spaeder, M.D.: The scourge of RSV 37 FEEDING THE FOODIE Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello: Sweet rewards BOARD OF GOVERNORS Berni Neal Randall W. Hammond Diana Parent President Thomas S. Monaghan Orange County 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 Vice Chairman Bellew, LLC Communications Director Christine V. Owsik Comments, queries and address changes: Legatus magazine is published 12 times per LEGATUS MISSION STATEMENT: Editor  Gerald Korson Legatus Magazine year by Legatus, a membership organization To study, live, and spread the Design  Shawna Kunz, Lime Design PO Box 444 of Catholic presidents and CEOs. Catholic faith in our business, Contributing Writer  Judy Roberts Ann Arbor, MI 48106-0444 © 2023 Legatus Contributing Writer  Jim Graves [email protected] All rights reserved professional, and personal lives. Phone: 866-534-2887 Contributing Writer Rachel Hoover Contributing Writer Trent Beattie To advertise, contact: [email protected] Copy Editor  Nancy Carabio Belanger Advertising Sales Representative Joe Giacalone

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CHAIRMAN’S TOM MONAGHAN FRA ANGELICO DESK (1395-1455) What is wrong with the world? FEAST DAY: FEBRUARY 18 CANONIZED: OCTOBER 3, 1982 ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO, I WAS wrote in his famous book having breakfast with a What’s Wrong with the World: PATRON OF ARTISTS well-known conservative “…in the modern world we are media personality, and he primarily confronted with the Fra Giovanni da Fiesole, or was lamenting all the terrible extraordinary spectacle of Fra Angelico, was a Dominican things that were going on in people turning to new ideals friar and gifted artist of the early Renaissance. Known as “The Angelic Painter,” he created many magnificent works of religious art that adorn churches and religious houses in Italy. Among his most famous works are The Annunciation and Descent from the Cross. our country. He shared that because they have not tried the Fra Angelico it seemed that everything of old.” was born in importance in the country Rome and was going wrong — terrorism, Our country and society need joined the drug abuse, abortion, gender to be exhorted to turn to (or Dominicans in confusion, illegal immigration, return to) the truth – the 1420. He began issues with China and Church, which few have ever his career Russia, liberal media, Church really tried. Yet who is going to as an artist scandals, rampant atheism, encourage them? Throughout illustrating crisis in education at all levels, history, when the Church manuscripts and many other things. He faced what appeared to be COMMUNION OF and choir had been a Catholic but left insurmountable challenges, SAINTS books. To him, the Church due to trouble he saints arose. During the to paint was had with some of the Church’s Protestant revolt, when things to pray, and he began each teachings (although he still seemed especially dark, we artistic endeavor begging God belongs to a Christian church). had St. Ignatius of Loyola, to bless his work. St. Robert Bellarmine, St. John I told him that I was convinced of the Cross, and St. Teresa of His talent was quickly that the only hope Avila, to name recognized, and he was asked for our country a few, and that to paint interiors of convents is the Catholic “Our country and society was just one and churches. One altarpiece Church. Nothing example in showing the intricacy of his else will be able need to be exhorted to history. work depicts Christ in glory surrounded by 250 saints and to withstand the turn to (or return to) the is preserved in the National onslaught of the As Legatus Gallery of London. His famous evil one because, truth – the Church, which members, we image of The Annunciation was painted at the request in the end, the few have ever really tried. are charged of the influential Cosimo Church will prevail. with being dé Medici in Florence in the We have a divine ambassadors to 1440s. He was summoned to promise of that! the world. And Rome to paint church interiors He disagreed with as fewer people and rooms used by the pope. me, however, and said he did step foot within our churches, not think the Church could do we the Church (Legatus) anything to alter the course of need to go into the world and our country. witness to the truth.  L Pope John Paul II was asked about miracles attributed Yet, no matter how bad it TOM to Fra Angelico upon his gets, we must not give up. MONAGHAN beatification. The pope pointed We need to put our faith in is Legatus’ founder, to his art and said, “These are Christ and the Church that he his miracles.”  L established. G.K. Chesterton chairman, and CEO. — Jim Graves 8February 2023 | | legatus.org

MARK YOUR EDITOR’S GERALD KORSON CALENDARS DESK 2023 SUMMIT Coping with loneliness as an executive leader SOLD OUTFEBRUARY 9-11, 2023 THERE’S AN ICONIC BLACK-AND- That sense is not limited to world leaders, FOUR SEASONS RESORT ORLANDO white photo from 1961 by New however. CEOs and other business executives ORLANDO, FL York Times photojournalist often face similar issues. When one must make George Tames depicting the final call about any risky strategy or painful LEGATUS.ORG/SUMMIT23 President John F. Kennedy decision like downsizing or layoffs, it is natural to from behind, leaning with his feel responsible for any negative repercussions, BURGUNDY: hands on a desk at a window of actual or potential. Judy Roberts’ feature story in the White House, head bowed, this issue relates the strategies of some leaders SOLD OUTDECANTING THE FAITH appearing deep in thought as for coping with loneliness (see p. 10). APRIL 18-25, 2023 though the weight of the world BURGUNDY REGION OF FRANCE were on his shoulders. Writing in Forbes magazine not long ago, leadership consultant Constance Dierickx MEXICO FAMILY In reality, the image was opines that while the phrase PILGRIMAGE snapped as Kennedy “lonely at the top” may be was routinely reading a “Where the buck true, it is also fatalistic. Some JUNE 9-12, 2023 document in preparation stops is often a see loneliness as the price MEXICO CITY, MEXICO for a meeting with the for success, a condition to be PILGRIMAGES.COM/LEGATUS ambassador from France. place of solitude endured. And while the pat COOPER CLINIC But the powerful photo advice is to increase social took on a connotation of contact, she writes, the most EXECUTIVE PHYSICAL its own as an illustration important factor “is not the AUGUST 2-4, 2023 of the burdens and loneliness number or frequency of contacts, but a lack of DALLAS, TX of executive leadership, where meaningful connection with other people.” best judgments and weighty LEGATUS.ORG/COOPER23 decisions that ultimately affect Some of the “dampening effect” of loneliness, the well-being of many must Dierickx says, include tension and fear, a loss MEDJUGORJE & often be made. of enjoyment, a loss of empathy, less tolerance CROATIA CRUISE for imperfections, and distress over what is U.S. presidents have often amiss. A leader might create echo chambers SEPTEMBER 25–OCTOBER 7, 2023 reflected on the loneliness of for reassurance, shutting down real dialogue. PRIVATE YACHT ADRIATIC CRUISE their office. “This is the loneliest Dierickx offers possible solutions: PLUS MEDJUGORJE AND SARAJEVO place in the world,” President William Howard Taft warned Take your emotions seriously. Stress can affect FOR MORE INFORMATION: [email protected] OR CALL 866-534-2887 Woodrow Wilson, his successor. not only performance but health too. Wilson would come to agree: “I never dreamed such loneliness Think small to create big effects. Actively listen, and desolation of heart possible,” observe, and ask questions of others, thereby he would later write. building those necessary connections — both on business and personal levels. President Harry Truman once referred to the White House as Take the long view. During a crisis, recall the “this great white jail.” He also frequent refrain of Abraham Lincoln, another said: “To be president of the U.S. president who battled loneliness: “This, too, United States is to be lonely, shall pass.” very lonely, at times of great decisions.” It can be lonely at the top. But it doesn’t have to be.  L Where the buck stops is often a place of solitude. GERALD KORSON is editor of Legatus magazine. 9February 2023 | | legatus.org

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Seeing ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/CALVIO clearly from the top Leadership can be a lonely existence with its burdens of difficult, impactful decisions. Here’s what some have discovered to help mitigate the solitary stress of executive responsibilities BY JUDY ROBERTS 11February 2023 | | legatus.org

When he was installed in May as bishop of the Diocese of Columbus, OH, Bishop Earl Fernandes knew he had stepped outside the brotherhood of priests who had always supported him as a pastor. “When you’re a priest, you can hang out with your brother priests, but when you’re a bishop . . . You’re not just one of the guys.” In that moment, Bishop Fernandes briefly essentially alone at times to said Hamrock, a member of Legatus’ had a sense of the isolation those in high- make certain key decisions. Columbus Chapter. Hence, he added, “In a level leadership positions can experience. But he tried to limit the deeper personal sense, you have to guard Indeed, popular sayings like “Uneasy lies number of those occasions against making any aspect of leadership the head that wears a crown” and “It’s lonely by leaving as much to about yourself. If you’re feeling lonely, you at the top” suggest that executives and other others as possible and thus might be making the job about you and not leaders must bear alone the burdens of holding them accountable. the people you serve.” power. As a result, he said, he did Rather than become mired in isolation, not experience the kind Bishop Fernandes briefly however, Bishop Fernandes and many of personal loneliness had a sense of the isolation others have found ways of approaching sometimes associated with those in high-level leadership their positions that minimize potential high-level positions. stress and pressure. Furthermore, he had positions can experience learned that leadership is IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU all about service to others. “It’s really best measured by For example, as the CEO of NiSource, a how well others are served position from which he recently retired, by the organization you’re Joe Hamrock knew that he would be left leading or how well people you lead are being served,” Bishop Earl Fernandes speaks EMMA NOEL PHOTO with young Celeste Noel at St. Peter’s Parish in Chillicothe, OH. 12February 2023 | | legatus.org

SEEKING SUPPORT If you’re feeling lonely, you might be making the In the months since job about you and not his installation, Bishop the people you serve. Fernandes has found spending time with other or expertise. When he was bishops to be an antidote asked to consider leading to isolation. He said he has AEP Ohio’s information experienced “a healthy technology division, “It broke sense of fraternity” the paradigm of having through meetings of domain knowledge and the U.S. Conference of expertise because I clearly Catholic Bishops. His bonds didn’t,” he recalled. “That in with other bishops were essence started the deeper strengthened during a and more important journey 10-day formation course about leadership, which is in Rome for new episcopal really about bringing out the leaders. In addition, he best in people so that they benefits from monthly Zoom have the best opportunities meetings with the bishops of to contribute, and are Ohio and from calling upon recognized, rewarded, and his three predecessors in the held accountable. It became Columbus diocese for advice all about people, not about and counsel. technology.” This also turned out to be a He also continues to find core part of his preparation for support through regular being a CEO, he said, because contact with his family it shattered the idea that the and the lay movement, person at the top had to have Communion and Liberation, all the answers. Hamrock which has a “school of said he was fortunate in that community” at his former position to have a strong team parish in Cincinnati. “The on which he could depend fraternity I have with this for organizational support. movement really sustained “You’ve got to have a core me as a priest and continues team you trust and who trust to sustain me as a bishop,” each other,” he said. “It’s not a he affirmed. “I know these one-way street.” people pray for me and I can Bishop Fernandes takes a be myself in front of them.” similar view, recognizing that members of his team Hamrock said his family, may have experience he lacks. “I want particularly his wife, Lori, to trust their judgement,” he said. “I has been tremendous in A&D PHOTOGRAPHY believe laypeople should not be merely supporting him through his collaborators but actually protagonists in career, as have a core set the future of the Church who need to accept of friends he and Lori have Joe Hamrock finds stress relief through performing music. co-responsibility for the Church.” known for 25 years. His SHARE THE BURDENS wife’s faith life has been an inspiration and he took the top post with magnet for him. “She also has a nice way of NiSource, Hamrock said he Bishop Fernandes said in his new position, keeping me humble,” he admitted. was prepared for the role he also has sought to maintain perspective by another job he held as on what needs to be done and what he can Additionally, having given up golf 25 years senior vice president and and cannot do. ago, Hamrock decompresses now through chief information officer “I just turned 50 and I have lots of energy, performing music — playing guitar, keyboard, for American Electric but I realize that when I’m 60 or 70, I won’t and accordion, and singing in a 12-piece Power, a position in which band called The Navigators. “We play the he was responsible for Beatles, Eagles, Chicago, Guns N’ Roses, and the company’s computer everything else in between,” he said. systems. SMARTEST GUY IN THE ROOM? Hamrock explained how early in his career he tended But his outlook as a CEO also has done to define leadership as much to lessen stress and isolation. Before being the person with the most technical knowledge 13February 2023 | | legatus.org

have the same levels of energy,” he said. “I don’t have a driver, I drive myself, I carry my own bags and I have no master of ceremonies. And there are some nights where I’m really tired. I have to kind of pace myself.” The bishop said he is aware, too, that he has some workaholic tendencies. In one previous position as a seminary dean, for example, he juggled several jobs both in and outside the seminary. “I like work. I can do work,” he said, but he also knows how to delegate. “I like to know what is happening, but I don’t necessarily like to micromanage everything or do everything myself, though I like to be informed. I realize that other people have gifts and talents to offer. They have expertise in some areas that I don’t have expertise in. So in terms of execution, by and large, I leave it to them.” Bishop Fernandes meets with a couple EMMA NOEL PHOTO KEEP THE FAITH after a Mass at St. Joseph’s in Circleville, OH. Joe and Lori Hamrock As important as attitude and approach are in handling top-level jobs, both Bishop Fernandes and Hamrock consider their Catholic faith as key to managing their duties well. Bishop Fernandes said maintaining a life of prayer — which includes a daily practice of a Holy Hour, the Rosary, and the Divine Office — is essential for him. He also has a strong devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, St. Francis de Sales, St. John Vianney, St. Alphonsus Liguori, St. Ignatius Loyola, and St. Thérèse of Lisieux, his family’s patron. Hamrock said he has often recited the prayer, “Come, Holy Spirit” in key and mundane moments to stay close to Christ. But he said a structured spiritual life with his wife that includes prayer, daily Mass, the rosary, weekly adoration, and monthly Confession also has grounded him. Finally, he said, Legatus has been a significant source of support. Participating in the meetings of the Columbus Chapter and national conferences, he said, provided him and his wife with fellowship and the recognition that they are part of a strong community. A member during most of his time as a CEO, Hamrock said, “[Legatus] helps build confidence and clarity.”  L JUDY ROBERTS is a contributing writer for Legatus magazine. 14February 2023 | | legatus.org

On being ‘spiritual entrepreneurs’ Not surprisingly, both Joe Hamrock and Bishop Earl Fernandes consider the Catholic faith a “best practice” for success in business or other endeavors. Hamrock’s advice to those who aspire to top-level positions is to make time for the deeper exploration of the faith. “The faith is so rich in giving you the tools to navigate the challenges you see. When you don’t have it, you can be wandering around aimlessly and bumping into things,” he said. “It doesn’t mean you have to lead in an evangelical way. It’s how you internalize the faith and make it core to who you are and how you lead. Lead with the virtues as a guide. My Catholic faith guides me, but it’s different than reciting Scripture at a meeting.” Bishop Fernandes concurred. He likes the term “spiritual entrepreneurs” to describe those who lead in this way. “Spiritual entrepreneurs are virtuous individuals,” he said, adding that “people want to work for men and women of integrity who demonstrate faith, hope, and charity and even temperance, justice and fortitude.” The bishop said Pope Benedict XVI expanded on this idea in his 2009 encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, in which he wrote, “Development is impossible without upright men and women, without financiers and politicians whose consciences are finely attuned to the requirements of the common good. Both professional competence and moral consistency are necessary.” ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/PROSTOCK-STUDIO 15February 2023 | | legatus.org

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Venerable entrepreneur was a ‘cooperative’ man Spain’s Fr. Jose‘ Maria Arizmendiarrieta built a legacy of businesses and schools based on worker-ownership and faithful to Catholic social teaching February 2023 | Venerable José Maria Arizmendiarrieta is unfamiliar to most Catholics in the United States as a saintly intercessor, even more so as a business advisor. But the story of this Basque priest’s life is inspiring, and his work continues to impact the world today. In a small Spanish town in the 1940s, Fr. Arizmendiarrieta planted the seed that would eventually grow into the multinational Mondragon Corporation, an association of cooperative businesses based on principles from Catholic social teaching. Across industries as diverse as retail, finance, and engineering, the Mondragon cooperatives show that a person-first and community-focused approach to business is not only good for persons and communities, it’s also good for business. by Rachel Hoover 17 | legatus.org

Who was Fr. Arizmendiarrieta? Arizmendiarrieta—sometimes called “Arizmendi” for short—was born in 1915 and grew up in a modest farmhouse in the province of Biscay on the central northern coast of Spain. In due time, he entered the seminary at Vitoria, but his studies were interrupted in 1936 by the Spanish Civil War. Arizmendiarrieta was mobilized by the Basque government but deemed unfit for combat because he had lost an eye in a childhood accident. Instead, he was made editor of a government-run, Basque- language newspaper. This work led to his arrest by Nationalist rebel leader Ferdinand Franco’s army in 1937, when he narrowly escaped being shot. After being mobilized again by Franco’s Fr. José María Arizmendiarrieta army, Arizmendi was allowed to continue his seminary studies. He also became the workers in any Mondragon cooperative are also part-owners in the involved in the social apostolate in Vitoria, company and get to vote on major decisions. focusing particularly on laborers and youth. They also get to distribute profits among themselves based on the amount With this background in communication of labor contributed. “Capital … is a necessary resource,” says Mondragon, and social work, Arizmendiarrieta was “but it does not confer the right to vote and its stake in the profit is limited finally ordained a priest in late 1940 and and subordinated to labour.” assigned to the small town of Mondragon. During the 2020 pandemic recession, many worker-owners of Mondragon cooperatives voted to reduce their own salaries or hours temporarily, rather The war had left poverty and a lack of than eliminate positions, according to the New Yorker. Thus, Mondragon prospects in its wake, particularly in workers cooperated to preserve their jobs until the economy recovered. Mondragon’s agricultural Today, Mondragon consists of 95 cooperatives. After ULGOR, other and industrial economy. cooperatives were founded as needs arose: a cooperative pension and “The townsfolk were insurance organization was created in 1958, followed by a cooperative caught in a vicious cycle bank in 1959. More cooperatives were formed or joined the association of poverty,” said Michael over the years. Today, the Mondragon cooperatives employ around 80,000 Severance of the Acton people and make sales in over 150 countries around the world. Institute in a recent essay. “The war was destructive Eternal principles both materially and spiritually. Arizmendi The cooperative business model is based on the principles of Catholic social thought deeply about how teaching: solidarity, subsidiarity, and commitment to the common good. Michael Severance to break this cycle.” In 2008, Pope Benedict defined solidarity as “the virtue enabling the human family to share fully the treasure of material and spiritual goods.” Mondragon He broke it first with education, both says it is “driven by a commitment to solidarity”: workers who shared in the religious and professional. In 1943, he labor share in the profit, and in decisions about how to allocate it. opened a polytechnical school that allowed Subsidiarity is also evident in the Mondragon structure: the 95 cooperatives its students to work in the mornings and are self-governing, although with a common ethical code and values. attend classes in the afternoons. In Centesimus Annus, Pope St. John Paul II explained the principle of subsidiarity: “a community of a higher order should not interfere in the In 1956, five graduates from the school internal life of a community of a lower order, … but rather should support banded together with Arizmendi’s support it in case of need and help to coordinate its activity with the activities of the to form ULGOR, the first of the Mondragon rest of society, always with a view to the common good.” cooperatives. That common good is twofold: internal and external. “Communities of work have a duty to conduct their operations by choosing courses of action that Making Mondragon What is a cooperative? Organizations with this label vary in their precise structure, but the Mondragon Corporation’s website explains that their cooperatives are based on a democratic system. Most or all of 18February 2023 | | legatus.org

[M]any worker- who was fired from his previous job in owners of Mondragon the middle of the cooperatives voted Covid-19 shutdowns after staying home to reduce their own from work when he salaries or hours felt sick but could not prove he had the temporarily, rather virus. Later, he got a than eliminate job at a Mondragon positions cooperative that trusts its employees to make the choice to stay home when they are ill—and doesn’t fire anyone without taking a vote. deliberately subserve the common good of that community This respect for human flourishing has and advance the common good of society as a whole,” said typically led to stable businesses and Stephen Cortright, professor of philosophy at St. Mary’s healthy financial returns. Mondragon’s College of California, in a recent interview. latest annual report says that aggregate sales in 2021 totaled 11.404 billion euros As shown by the cooperatives that voted to preserve jobs with (about $12 billion), and net profit was 392 a pay reduction, job security is an internal common good that million euros (about $415 million). the members of each cooperative are happy to share. “People’s satisfaction is Stephen Cortwright But Mondragon also promotes broader societal goods. One greater [in cooperatives] and, as a result, their of their principles is education, not just of their own worker- contribution to the members but of “young people in general,” according to their website. The collective project and technical school founded by Arizmendiarrieta has grown into the multi- the effectiveness and campus Mondragon University, and several other cooperatives are focused sustainability is also on research and development, technology, and innovation. greater,” said Jose Manuel Sinde, president of the Some of Mondragon’s initiatives, like the Azaro Foundation, work to Arizmendiarrieta Christian Jose Manuel Sinde sustain the Basque region and its unique language and culture. Another, Foundation, which the Mundukide cooperative, shares resources and knowledge to help promotes the venerable communities in developing countries thrive in a self-managed way. priest’s model. Temporal results “The Mondragon experience … proves that [Catholic] social doctrine is not a set of well- All of Catholic social teaching promotes a person-first attitude, seeing intentioned but non-applicable principles; markets and business as at the service of human flourishing, rather than but rather that they are able to inspire useful, the other way around. Mondragon incorporates this in its entire structure. practical solutions to solve the problems of individuals and communities.” L In 2022, the New Yorker highlighted the story of Jorge Vega Hernández, RACHEL HOOVER is a contributing writer for Legatus magazine. Pope Francis on cooperatives “The Church has always recognized, appreciated, and encouraged cooperatives…. Today, I would like our dialogue to look not only at the past but above all to be directed forward: to new perspectives, to new responsibilities, to new forms of initiatives of cooperative enterprises.” — Audience with representatives of the Confederation of Italian Cooperatives (2015) 19February 2023 | | legatus.org

Secrets to a Despite the stressful demands on their time and at tention, executives and their spouses find ways to keep their marriages strong and collaborative by Jim Graves EPIC STOCK MEDIA/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM February 2023 | 20 | legatus.org

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Running a business often entails long hours, frequent travel, and constant stress that can take a toll on one’s marriage and personal life. Being a success not only involves turning a profit, but also giving one’s spouse and children the quality time they need to make a happy home. Legatus members are not strangers to such challenges. We spoke with three Legatus couples recently about how they have managed to achieve a successful work-family balance in their lives. Separation of work and home He and Karen have four and when Sean was on vacation, he was on grown children together. vacation. He’d rarely call the office or go to Sean and Karen Miller have been members In years past, when the work on the computer.” of the Kansas City Chapter for the past year, children were young, Sean Karen quit her job to become a full-time and Karen is the chapter’s new president. put in a 12-hour workday mom when they married, but she noted Sean recently retired as CEO of The Robert Monday through Friday. that when Sean came home from work, “He E. Miller Group of Kansas City, MO, an However, Sean said, “When took over. He loved feeding the kids, giving insurance and benefits broker. The company I was done, I was done. I them baths, and playing with them. He took was founded by his father 61 years ago and didn’t work weekends, and I care of the kids so I could cook dinner or do was purchased by Sean and his brother 30 coached basketball, so I was whatever I needed to do.” years ago. The company of 65 employees has there for the kids’ practices Part of what helped him leave work at the been selected by the Kansas City Business and games.” office, Sean said, was planning out the Journal as the best place to work in the city Karen added, “Sean was following day’s work before leaving the for the past five consecutive years. really good about it in office. “I did that at the end of every day,” he comparison to other explained. “Then, I’d shut my planner, go “Since we bought the business from my dad, families we’ve known. We’d home and I was done with work.” we’ve grown 800 percent,” said Sean. “Like go on vacation every year, running any business, it is challenging, but we have good people.” The firm reflects the values of “He took care of the the Jesuit education instilled kids so I could cook in his father, Sean continued, dinner or do whatever including prayer before business I needed to do meetings. “The Jesuits’ motto was Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, ‘For the Greater Glory of God,’ and that is the purpose of our company,” he said. “We keep God, family, and community first in our business. You see it on the wallpaper when you enter.” Sean is the last to interview job Sean and Karen Miller applicants before they are hired, and he shares the company’s values and practices, including prayer before meetings. “I tell them if that is something you don’t like, this is not the company for you,” he said. February 2023 | 22 | legatus.org

Focus on priorities Jim and Jody Akers of Legatus’ “I never felt the need Cincinnati Chapter have to work outside the six children together, the home. M y only goal youngest age 35. Jim is CEO of in life was to raise a Midwestern family business good kids that manufactures shipping containers. They joined Legatus four years ago, and today Jim serves as chapter president and Jody as program chair. Jim is a self-described Jim and Jody Akers have four adult children in their “workaholic,” but recalled that 30s. Unlike the Millers or Akers, when the couple’s third child was both Fesslers worked when their born, he gave up activities with children were small. Bill is a dentist, and male friends, such as weekend Mary Beth is a nurse practitioner. golf. “When I was not at work,” he recalled, “I was home and present to the family.” Like Sean, he began coaching their faith, they added such When their children were at home, Bill his children’s basketball teams, bringing elements as saying the worked six days a week, and Mary Beth the younger children in tow with him to rosary together on their once or twice a week in the evenings as well practices so that Jody could have a break walks, as well as daily Mass as on an occasional weekend. She also went at home. Jody was a full-time mom, which and monthly Confession. back to school when their youngest was 3. suited her fine: “I never felt the need to work “We’re on a faith journey outside the home,” she said. “My only goal in together, and receive graces life was to raise good kids.” together,” Jim said. While they always had a good marriage, A team effort Working in the medical profession makes something that helped them in their lives for a challenge in family life. “It’s not a was a Marriage Encounter weekend, “a way Bill and Mary Beth Fessler 9-to-5, Monday through Friday job,” said to make a good marriage great,” said Jim. are members of the Mary Beth. “You get a call in the evening or “It really reminded us of the importance of Fairfield County Chapter in over the weekend, a patient says he’s been good communication, and not holding back Connecticut, and today they injured and in pain, and you’re needed, so on things we should talk about.” you go. It’s not a profession, but a calling.” The couple began taking early morning walks and “making Yet despite the demands of their time for each other,” said Jody. jobs, “Family and faith always “A good foundation in a family come first,” she continued. The started with a good husband-wife couple made use of a babysitter at relationship, and the benefits are times, but otherwise, whoever was exponential from there.” at home cared for the children. “It was a team effort.” As they got more involved in The couple made many sacrifices “Family and faith and worked hard, “but it’s a good always come first thing for the children to see,” added Mary Beth. The pair have benefitted much from their involvement with Legatus, not only as a place to meet other Catholic couples “but to normalize the practice of our Catholic faith in a social setting,” she said.  L Bill and Mary Beth Fessler JIM GRAVES is a contributing writer for Legatus magazine. February 2023 | 23 | legatus.org

Choose like a champion t o da y Lou Holtz, who coached Not re Dame to college foot ball’s national title in 1988, st resses keeping the Catholic faith and making good decisions by Trent Beat tie Ask Lou Holtz how old Holtz led Notre Dame to the national championship in 1988. From 1960 to 1985, Holtz was on the coaching staff the general population is Devotion to ‘Saint’ Beth of nine different teams. in his area, and he might He then struck gold with say: “The average age in my Holtz has been all the more focused on death since the the acceptance of the head town is “dead.” passing of his beloved wife, Beth, in 2020. coaching position at the This quip is indicative of the University of Notre Dame. way the former University “We were married for 59 glorious During his tenure in South of Notre Dame head football years, which included the great Bend from 1986 to 1996, coach often communicates: gifts of four children. Words cannot the Fighting Irish won 100 with humor, but with a express how grateful I am for games, including a national purpose. The West Virginia that time,” said Holtz. “Beth was a championship in 1988. native, who turned 86 on saint—she had to be in order to put It was during that standout January 6, is known for up with the life of a football coach.” season that Holtz made a making epiphanies possible decision that other coaches through his engaging and The endless shuffling of coaches might balk at. Two of his clear teaching style. from team to team around the starters were not allowed While it is amusing to Lou and Beth Holtz country has been referred to as to play against No. 2 USC realize one’s own mortality because of disciplinary and the infirmities that the “coaching carousel,” and it is reasons. Holtz knew that precede it, this exercise is not generally favorable to forming strong families. However, everyone had to play by the also highly instructive on same rules, even if that meant how to see life and make great individuals would not decisions that have eternal be contributing against a benefits. Indeed, another highly ranked opponent in an Lou, Venerable Louis of important game. Granada, has said that Oh, and the Irish defeated “the life of a wise man is the Trojans soundly anyway, a constant meditation on 27-10. death.” Holtz gives the credit to Beth for keeping their family focused on faith throughout move after move. February 2023 | 24 | legatus.org

Decision with he noted. The dual aspects of knowing and living are achieve anything without combined in the life of a faithful follower of Christ. the help of Beth,” he stated. precision Decisions that would otherwise be made with great So clear is the importance How to make good difficulty can become clear and easy with grace obtained of marriage for Holtz that he decisions is the topic of through prayer, Confession, and Holy Communion. even tells people to make Holtz’s upcoming speech However, as faith exercised on earth is always a battle, sure to attend at least one at Legatus’ Summit 2023 there will often be times when doing the right thing is met wedding each year. That in Orlando, FL, this month. with strong outside resistance. way, one’s own vows can be Because someone’s life can mentally renewed as the be said to be the sum total of This is when Holtz reassures people that even though marrying couple is officially his decisions, knowing how challenges will likely increase for those on the right path, exchanging theirs. to choose one thing over God gives the strength needed to persevere to the end. another is irreplaceably Salvation, like a football victory, is not guaranteed, but “In addition to that, I also important. the wrestling against powers and principalities (Eph 6:12) tell people to make sure to should be dominated by faith in God’s promises. attend at least one funeral Everyone knows that lesser each year,” Holtz added. things should be sacrificed “That will remind you that for greater ones and time- The Holtz rules this life is short, and its honored principles always main purpose is to prepare matter more than short-term for the next life, which is gains. Holtz said that “most Holtz encourages the tenacious yet joyful pursuit of goals very, very long.” of the time, it’s easy to know so that eventual victory may be “wrested” — taken hold the right thing to do. The of. He said that the “thing I miss the most about coaching The average age in Holtz’s part that takes discipline is the relationships built with the players—helping them town might be “dead,” and courage is to actually learn about how life works, how to overcome adversity, and but his faith is alive as do it.” succeed as a team.” he happily—though not complacently—pursues Learning the Catholic faith The three overarching rules to success for Holtz were to do salvation, one decision at a is essential to gaining the right thing, do the best you can, and show people that time.  L discipline and courage, as you care. While he did care about his players, his primary are perpetual prayer and attention was directed toward his wife, to whom he gives TRENT BEATTIE is a contributing writer sacramental reception, credit for his own success. “I would not have been able to for Legatus magazine. Called to the Lou Holtz is best known for his years as a college football coach and later as a college football game college game analyst for CBS and ESPN. Less remembered is his brief stint into the National Football League as head coach of the New York Jets in 1976, a decade before he arrived at Notre Dame. Holtz left his second collegiate head coaching job at North Carolina State to take on the Jets, who were in the middle of a decade in which they would never finish with a winning record. Despite his success in college football, Holtz had a dismal year as he coached the Jets to a 3-10 record before resigning with one game remaining on the schedule. He returned to the collegiate ranks and resumed his string of successful seasons, first with Arkansas before moving on to Minnesota and then Notre Dame. Lou Holtz coached the Notre Dame Fighting Irish from 1986 to 1996. He would later summarize his NFL February 2023 | experience with his usual sense of humor: “God did not put Lou Holtz on this earth to coach in the pros.” 25 | legatus.org

BUSINESS FR. ROBERT SIRICO ETHICS Parable of the sower offers lessons in business virtue IN MANY PEOPLE’S MINDS THE understanding of agriculture, phrase “business virtue” is an the dominant business of the oxymoron, as though virtue first century. Still, the story raises is the antithesis of commerce. many questions we might confront Commerce is all about profits, even in our own day: is nature our they say, and virtue is not. friend or our enemy? What do our Really? minds have to do with productivity in making land more receptive While it is true that a person is to growth? What does human not virtuous simply because industry and ingenuity have to do he or she is successful in with prosperity? business, it is equally untrue to think that a person cannot be In the same way that the kingdom ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/ROMOLOTAVANI virtuous if he is. of God will not appear all at once but requires preparation, Consider how often Jesus cultivation, and waiting, so too does points to merchants and the land. Preparatory work and the commerce as metaphors right conditions are required. for the kingdom of God. An example of how virtue and the The preparation of the soil requires human is its owner or under contract by its owner to talents of business can work hands directed by human intelligence. Skill, do the work. This assures that the land and hand in hand emerges from the study, experience, and good management are its increasing value (that is, productivity) backdrop of the parable of the all necessary. What is at play here is not only will be protected from invasion, looting, or sower in Matthew 13:3-9. the legitimacy and dignity of human work and expropriation. intelligence but also their necessity. The dominant Of course, the purpose of the parable is not to metaphor in this Contrary to some offer a seminar on the legitimacy of business, story is the varied “The sower can only contemporary but it does presume private ownership and some receptivity of the prepare the ground sentiments, level of managerial proficiency. Economics is not ground to the seeds it is the very the point either of the commandments or of the that are sown. In if he is its owner or manipulation—in parables. Private ownership is simply assumed this parable, the soil under contract by its the truest meaning as part of the structure of the story, and indeed represents people. of the word, that is, as a demand of human nature in its temporal The Word is accepted owner to do the work “fashioning with reality. This is what gives rise to business in the first place: to satisfy human needs. The parable by some, but not one’s hands”— of the sower and other similar stories would not appropriated, and so of the natural make much sense without postulating private their faith withers. For environment that property. others, the Word is accepted, makes an otherwise barren plot fruitful. Effort but only superficially, and must be applied to the soil. Some today seem to so the Word is discarded or think that a pristine environment untouched by This is the first part of a two-part series. In the betrayed. There are varying humanity is somehow morally superior to land second part of this reflection, to be published in degrees of understanding that had been “worked.” the May 2023 issue, we’ll look at the connection and tenacity, but in only one of business and virtue by considering the human case does the faith produce And here is where the vocation of business dimension of commerce that both inspires and spectacular growth, and that arises. The truth is that a jungle is not always requires virtue. L is only when it is permitted to preferred to a garden. penetrate deeply. FATHER ROBERT A. SIRICO is president For those who hold to a kind of environmentalist emeritus and co-founder of the Acton Institute in To truly grasp this parable religion, Jesus’ parable will be incomprehensible. requires, at some level, an The sower can only prepare the ground if he Grand Rapids, MI. His latest book is The Economics of the Parables (Regnery Publishing). February 2023 | 26 | legatus.org

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CULTURE OF ANN M. KOSHUTE LIFE Accompanying infertile couples with love and understanding SARAH, RACHEL, AND HANNAH. or who experience Anna and Elizabeth. The pregnancy loss: they stories of these women and are in our pews on their anguished cries to Sundays. Do we notice God for the gift of children them? And if so, how are deeply ingrained in the can we walk with Tradition. Each experienced them? sadness, shame, and ridicule — sometimes even within Seek to understand their closest relationships. their experience. Childlessness cast a shadow The emotional, over their marriages — recall spiritual, and physical Elkinah’s pained question to suffering associated ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/MILAN2099 Hannah, “Am I not better for with infertility you than ten sons?” (1 Sam cannot be overstated, 1:8) — and stirred up spiritual though it is mostly conflict in their hearts. Yet each carried in silence of their stories ended similarly: and isolation. This with God’s miraculous isolation sometimes even penetrates the marital Instead of solutions, offer presence, love, and intervention, and the children relationship as spouses struggle to understand prayers. No one knows the shape or weight of they bore assuming pivotal each other’s experience of grief. Infertility is another’s cross, and the greatest gift we can give roles in salvation history. accompanied by such complex emotions as to someone who is suffering is simply to love sadness, anger, jealousy, and self-doubt. Added and be present to them. As difficult as it may be, For some couples, the hoped- to this is the burden of well-meaning but often when we learn of a couple’s infertility, we must for “miracle” of a child comes insensitive questions and proposed “solutions” resist the temptation toward idle curiosity or to only after many years of from family, friends, and even strangers. offer solutions based on our own experience. painful disappointment. For Thus, infertility tends to be a silent suffering, This way, we are more available to offer support, others, this miracle never but one that requires great compassion and including through our prayers. In our response manifests. Some suffer the understanding from others, especially within to the couple experiencing infertility, we have pain of pregnancy loss, while the Body of Christ. the opportunity to be compassionate and to others never affirm the goodness of their marriage and their conceive. These Acknowledge their contribution to the Church and the world. couples grieve “[I]nfertility tends to cross as faithful their lost hopes be a silent suffering, Catholics. The Catholic Couples carrying the cross of infertility walk and dreams and Church holds a a difficult path, but it is one that offers many may wonder if God but one that requires consistent pro-life graces and gifts. Their radical availability has deemed them great compassion ethic and fights for the to serve others and the Church makes them unworthy. dignity and right to life uniquely fruitful. Through their love for one of all human persons. another and willingness to seek God’s will as According to the The Church’s teaching spouses, they are invaluable witnesses to the Centers for Disease Control on marriage and the giftedness of children, good of marriage and the gift of fidelity amid and Prevention, approximately along with its advocacy for the unborn, are truly adversity. Couples experiencing infertility truly one in five couples experience signs of contradiction in our world. Yet when belong in the Church.  L infertility. Whether or not the hopes of married couples desiring a “big you carry this burden, it is Catholic family” are not realized, these couples ANN M. KOSHUTE, M.T.S., is co-founder likely endured by a family may endure shame on top of their grief, fearing and executive director of Springs in the Desert, a member, friend, or co-worker. judgement for their small family size or lack of Catholic apostolate dedicated to spiritually and As Christians, we should be children, and may even be falsely assumed to be concerned about these couples contracepting. emotionally accompanying couples struggling with who are struggling to conceive infertility and loss. Its sister organization, Springs of Love, encourages, educates, and equips Catholics to discern and live out the call to foster and adopt. February 2023 | 28 | legatus.org

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FAITH FR. SHENAN J. BOQUET MATTERS Use business as an agent of positive social change THE MORAL LIFE CONSISTS “It is not always easy to of people choosing actions reconcile the demands of the and developing virtues that gospel with the demands of enable them to pursue their business and commerce,” own good and the good of said Pope Francis during others so that they may enter a meeting with young into communion with God, Catholic entrepreneurs and their Supreme Good. This business people. However, understanding is based on the the “‘evangelical values’ that ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/RAWPIXEL Church’s view of the human entrepreneurs and managers person and his dignity, as well hope to implement in their as what is truly best for him. businesses,” emphasized Therefore, to truly love another the Holy Father, “provide person is to want him or her an opportunity for ‘genuine to flourish, treating others as and irreplaceable Christian led to grave harms to persons and the common ends in themselves and not as witness.’” In other words, the businessperson good. Consequently, we have experienced far too mere means to an end. has a fundamental role in transforming society often the scandal and confusion caused when that begins with respect for the dignity of illicit and immoral behavior goes unchecked With this framework in mind, human work and the subjective dimension of and uncorrected. Therefore, to ensure that we recognize that each person work, seeing that “work is work with others and Catholic identity and Catholic social teaching has a task, a mission to know, work for others” (Centesimus Annus, 31). guide business life and practice requires love, and serve God in a stewardship, constant vigilance, and ongoing particular way. Our lives will Catholic social principles serve as focal points evaluation. It also requires education and take on their true meaning to of Catholic identity, and they remind us of formation for leaders and employees in Catholic the extent that we fulfill that the source of our truest good and ultimate teaching. mission. happiness. These principles, on the practical level, keep business Catholic identity signifies a distinctive character, This is true in owners, leaders, a raison d’ etrè, and it serves as the foundation a particular “[T]he culture created organizations, and and guiding force for and within Catholic life, way of Catholic within the workplace institutions focused on including business. Everything the Catholic business leaders serving the common business does and aspires to be should flow who can use becomes a gateway for good, producing from its Catholic identity, grounded in the their business the gospel goods and services tradition and social teaching of the Church. organizations that meet genuine It should permeate its culture, the business as agents of human needs. They or institution’s way of doing things, because change. When do this while taking the culture is what brings identity to life. such individuals responsibility for their This identity guides policies, decisions, and understand their daily work social and environmental impact, watching procedures, and it provides direction for its as a vocation, doing God’s for opportunities to serve the poor, organizing service to human persons. work, they see their role as productive and meaningful work that respects servant leaders, evangelizing the human dignity of employees and their right Aligning a Catholic business’s core values the workplace – helping form and duty to flourish in their work, structuring and mission does not just happen; it must be people in virtue. Thus, the workplaces with subsidiarity that equips and intentional, attended to, and nurtured. L culture created within the entrusts employees to succeed, and using workplace becomes a gateway resources wisely to create sustainable wealth FATHER SHENAN J. BOQUET for the gospel, a place to engage and to distribute it justly. is president of Human Life International and a the world and advance the priest of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, LA. principles of human dignity Sadly, many Catholic business owners, leaders, Please keep Human Life International in your and the common good. and employees are unfamiliar with Catholic continued prayers and support. social teaching, and this lack of awareness has February 2023 | 30 | legatus.org

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ENGAGING THE EDWARD AND BETH SRI FAITH Healing those wounds that surface in marriage MANY OF US CARRY WOUNDS ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/FIZKES CATECHISM To heal the from our upbringing, from 101 wounds dysfunctional family life, Second, don’t run away from your wounds. As of sin, from traumatic events, or Jesus, the Divine Physician, draws near to those [a married] from patterns of unhealthy areas of our lives he wants to heal, we will be man and behavior we developed over tempted to run away — to keep busy, to blame the years. Others of us might others for our troubles, or to convince ourselves woman need the help of the carry even deeper wounds we don’t have a problem. It can be so painful to grace that God in his infinite from abandonment; parents go there with him and revisit the hurts of our mercy never refuses them. divorcing; manipulation; past. … Without his help man and a parent with alcoholism Third, realize these hurts from the past don’t have woman cannot achieve the or narcissism; or physical, to define us. Jesus doesn’t want us to use our union of their lives for which psychological, or sexual abuse. wounds as an excuse for failing in love and not God created them ‘in the As God draws closer to people growing in virtue. … He actually wants us to do beginning’. in any state of life, he wants the hard work of meeting him in the cross of our to bring those wounds to our sufferings and allowing him to bring life from Catechism of the attention. those areas of darkness. If we cooperate with the Catholic Church, #1608 But in marriage, this process healing process, we are not just comforted by of sanctification takes on God’s love. His love changes us. … SCRIPTURE Husbands, a particular shape. God 101 love your sanctifies couples precisely wives, as through the ordinary Christ loved demands, trials, hurts, and the church stresses of married life. These, in fact, are the instruments God and gave himself up for her. uses to make us holy, to give us Ephesians 5:25 opportunities to love more — and to make us more aware of areas he wants to heal. … The pressures and demands Fourth, seek help. Have the humility to of marriage and family life recognize you have a wound that affects you, squeeze every ounce of energy your marriage, and your family. Seek help and effort out of us. As we are from a good spiritual director. Seek help from a stretched like never before, professional therapist. Often both are needed. … whatever wounds we carry Be willing to put in the hard work for the healing start to manifest themselves in process. Your spouse is depending on you. Your new ways. …. children are depending on you. Jesus is longing If you find yourself in this to heal you. Will you let him in?  L situation, there are four critical things you need to keep in mind. Excerpted from The Good, the Messy, and the Beautiful: The Joys and Struggles of First, don’t panic. … It is not a Real Married Life, by Edward and Beth Sri (Ascension Press, 2022), pp. 62-65. sign that something is terribly wrong in your marriage or that EDWARD AND BETH SRI you have failed in some way. It is write, mentor, and present nationally on a sign the sacrament is working! This is what marriage does. … spirituality, marriage, and family life. February 2023 | 32 | legatus.org

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WHAT TO READ Holy Entrepreneurs in how the Cistercians’ Trinity and of Christ’s love can use Constance Brittain Bouchard entrepreneurial acumen for His Church, a means by any copy of Cornell University Press, 260 pages helped Burgundy produce which a man and woman help the latest superior wines and create each other become saints and edition Heading to a robust market with attain eternal life, and it is a of The Burgundy cooperation from knights and foretaste of heaven itself. It Catechism of with other area interests, and it’s is a state of life rich in graces the Catholic Legatus a medieval lesson in making and virtues one may call upon Church — in April? If business and the Catholic in order to love and serve one but this looking for faith work together. another more fully, thereby one is specially designed and a deeper fulfilling one’s vocation. color-coded to go along with dive into God’s Plan for Your Marriage the podcast. Value-added the region’s Fr. Robert Altier Fr. Robert Altier provides tools in this Ascension Press history, here’s a book Sophia Institute Press, 208 pages an excellent catechesis on edition include a “Catechism to consider. Constance marriage and an inspiring at a Glance” chart, highlighted Brittain Bouchard, professor Legal touchstone for renewing keywords and visual of medieval history at marriage and re-energizing one’s own references, callout boxes to the University of Akron, is just a marital union. draw attention to Scripture describes how the Cistercian contract books and Church documents, monasteries of 12th-century between Catechism of the Catholic and a useful appendix. It may Burgundy accomplished not two people Church, Ascension Edition just be an edition that’s easier only a revival of Catholic to share Ascension Press on the eyes for any reader spiritual life but also a rapid their lives, 932 pages who finds other editions a development of the region’s but the bit intimidating. Whatever it economy, including through Sacrament of Marriage is If you’re tuning in to Father takes, every Catholic ought to its prolific vineyards and something infinitely more Mike Schmitz’s podcast of read and study the Catechism. rich soils. It’s a crash course profound: it is a sign of the The Catechism in a Year, you L February 2023 | 34 | legatus.org

WHAT TO SEE The Jesus Revolution: Sharing the gospel with those on the edge NO ONE QUITE KNEW WHAT TO Cheers and Frasier actor as a youth and who later do with the “hippies” of the Kelsey Grammer plays Smith founded the Harvest Woodstock generation, with in Jesus Revolution, which hits Christian Fellowship their long hair, strange music, theaters nationwide February churches active today in unconventional worldview, 24. Jonathan Roumie, who California and Hawaii. nomadic lifestyle, and often spoke at Legatus’ Summit 2022 a penchant for drug use and and is best known as Jesus in As with any sexual license. the crowdfunded hit series independent Bible Some of them found Jesus. The Chosen, portrays Frisbee, church, the gospel Chuck Smith, pastor of a looking pretty much the same preached has many small and struggling Bible but sans the Middle Eastern positive messages The Jesus Revolution church in Orange County, accent. The two preachers wind but comes off at best Kelsey Grammer, Jonathan Roumie, CA, didn’t know what to do up having their differences, but as “Catholic lite.” It’s a Joel Courtney, Kimberly Williams-Paisley with them either. But once he the story that unfolds is of the mix of Pentecostalism welcomed self-styled hippie power of the gospel working in 120 minutes • Unrated evangelist Lonnie Frisbee and unexpected ways. his friends into his skeptical Smith’s legacy is the Calvary and evangelicalism service could be nothing more faith community, his church Chapel movement which boasts that serves to draw people to than a symbol anyway. was transformed, energized, some 1,000 churches across Christ but falls far short of the and experienced exponential the U.S. and hundreds more fullness of truth. An interesting Jesus Revolution is a rousing growth. in other countries. Another moment occurs when Smith, film worth seeing, a reminder The Jesus Revolution was on. legacy that gets attention in holding a cup of wine, explains that our call to evangelize Jesus Revolution is that of Greg that “Jesus said this represents reaches even to those beyond Laurie, whom Smith mentored my blood.” Jesus, of course, our comfort zone. L said no such thing, but it was strangely appropriate here GERALD KORSON since the wine in Smith’s is editor of Legatus magazine. February 2023 | 35 | legatus.org

HEALTH GWYNETH A. SPAEDER, M.D. MATTERS When the old seems new: The viral scourge of RSV THIS SEASON, YOU MAY HAVE heard a lot about respiratory syncytial virus, commonly known as RSV. What is it, and why is it getting so much attention now? RSV is an incredibly common virus that can affect both the upper and lower respiratory tracts. Infection begins as a typical “common cold”: sore throat, runny nose, fever. Symptoms may progress to involve the lower respiratory tract with coughing or wheezing. Children may ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/OZGURCAN KAYA develop “bronchiolitis,” meaning inflammation of the bronchioles (smaller airways). For most patients, these symptoms are merely a nuisance. But for some, the progression of inflammation the scourge of young infants (birth to about A Pfizer candidate vaccine showed a significant can cause difficulty breathing. six months old), RSV can also hospitalize older decrease in severe disease in individuals over children, the elderly, and immunocompromised age 60; the pharmaceutical company is expected Treatment is purely supportive, persons. Also different is the timing of RSV to seek FDA approval this year. Pfizer is also as there is no specific antiviral surges: before Covid, RSV was exclusively seen studying the effects of vaccinating pregnant remedy. Patients who require in the fall and winter months. Over the past women, who could then pass antibodies to their hospitalization can receive two years we have seen surges in spring and babies before delivery; early results suggest anti-fever medications, IV summer. This almost certainly has to do with the good protection against severe disease for up fluids, and oxygen. effects of masking and to six months after birth. GlaxoSmithKline also Some parents may social distancing over has an RSV vaccine undergoing clinical trials. remember their older “As with most the past few years, but children receiving viral illnesses, the specific causes may When should you call your doctor? Anyone albuterol nebulizer take years to tease out. with difficulty breathing, infants who cannot treatments to help prevention is key coordinate breathing with nursing or taking with wheezing, As with most viral a bottle, and individuals with fevers lasting but recent studies illnesses, prevention more than four or five days should seek medical have consistently is key. As of now, attention. Otherwise, the classic remedies are demonstrated no this means diligent the best: rest, fluids, and time.  L reduction in hospitalizations handwashing and staying home when sick. Masks or length of illness, so likely do decrease transmission to some extent GWYNETH A. SPAEDER, M.D., albuterol is no longer routinely (as evidenced by the near absence of RSV during is a board-certified pediatrician who trained at the recommended for RSV. Covid when masks were used widely). A preventive monoclonal antibody is available to very high-risk Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and The Covid-19 pandemic seems infants but not to the general population. holds a certificate in health care ethics from the to have dramatically changed the seasonal patterns and Unfortunately, there is not yet a vaccine National Catholic Bioethics Center. She has written severity of RSV. Traditionally available for RSV, but there may be soon. several articles on vaccine ethics and is a recurrent guest on the Doctor, Doctor podcast. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and three children. February 2023 | 36 | legatus.org

FEEDING THE MONSIGNOR JAMIE GIGANTIELLO FOODIE The sweet reward of being honest and just THIS PAST OCTOBER, I HAD What was wrong, however, thing in the Gospels. But the great pleasure of going on was that the people were being Jesus speaks of money as pilgrimage to the Holy Land. taken advantage of by those both an opportunity for While in Jerusalem, I thought moneychangers who were spiritual growth as well of those pivotal moments in the corrupt. They often cheated the as a barrier to spiritual life of Jesus before the events people instead of conducting an growth when money of His crucifixion. For example, honest business. Imagine today is used selfishly and once Jesus threw over the if your parish church told you without compassion. tables of the moneychangers that you had to provide the bread at the Temple, saying that for Mass, and then they sold the As vicar for development they had “made it into a den of bread to you outside the church of the Diocese of thieves.” Many people use this before you came in because they Brooklyn — raising event to fit their own personal knew that on Sundays all the millions of dollars agenda or attitudes about bread stores near your home annually for Catholic money, but let’s look at what were closed. Then consider what school tuition assistance, was really going on here. it would be like if the church also care of our senior priests, said it didn’t accept dollars to buy vocations support, In Jesus’ time, people traveled the bread, but rather you had to youth ministry, Catholic long distances and from many use Vatican currency, and the Charities, and many different places carrying exchange rate was up to the person working the other worthy causes — I have had the honor of various forms of currency table that morning. You would have no choice working with financially successful individuals to the Temple in Jerusalem but to take a loss on the exchange by purchasing who have worked hard and been honest and to offer sacrifice. When they the overpriced bread. The profit would then go to now give back. It is the virtues of honesty and arrived in Jerusalem, pad the pockets of justice in business that can aid us in our spiritual they needed to buy “Jesus speaks of money those working at growth, and it is the discipline of sacrificial a lamb or a bird or as both an opportunity the table. giving that can bring us to our sweet reward in whatever animal was the heavenly kingdom. prescribed by the It was not the law in order to offer for spiritual growth practice of honest Nourished by the Eucharist, may we all conduct sacrifice. Therefore, as well as a barrier to business that Jesus ourselves in business and in our personal lives it was not wrong was rejecting that with honesty, with justice, and as people of that these animals spiritual growth day at the Temple. giving. L were for sale near Rather, it was MONSIGNOR JAMIE GIGANTIELLO is the vicar for the Temple or that corruption and development of the Diocese of Brooklyn and host of the NET-TV cooking moneychangers were unfair practices on hand to facilitate these that take advantage of people. Jesus speaks show Breaking Bread. He also is pastor of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel- purchases. about money more than just about any other Annunciation Parish in Brooklyn, NY. LEMON DROP COOKIES Cookies: Frosting: powder, and salt until 4. Prepare the frosting by • 2 cups all-purpose flour • 3 cups confectioners’ sugar dough is formed. mixing the confectioners’ • 1-1/4 cups sugar • 1/4 cup water 2. Roll out pieces of dough sugar, water, and lemon • 1/4 cup shortening • 1 tsp. lemon extract approximately 3 inches extract. • 3 large eggs in length and place on a 5. When the cookies are • 1-1/2 tsp. lemon extract Directions: baking sheet. done and cooled, brush • 1-1/2 tsp. baking powder 1. Mix and knead the flour, 3. Preheat an oven to 350 on a layer of frosting and • 1/8 tsp. salt sugar, shortening, eggs, degrees Fahrenheit and allow about 10 minutes to lemon extract, baking bake for 12-15 minutes. sit before digging in! February 2023 | 37 | legatus.org

U.S. BRIEFS ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/AVALON_STUDIOCATHOLIC PRIESTS GROWING care treatments, according to the “I won’t mention the Lord’s name in ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/DAMIRCUDICMORE CONSERVATIVE, Wall Street Journal. The ads feature vain, and then I won’t kiss another FAITHFUL MORE LIBERAL actors posing as customers, tout woman,” the 53-year-old has said. ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/VMWASHINGTON — Catholic priestsbenefits of drugs with no mention“Sex scenes aren’t in it for me.” in the U.S. are becoming more of side effects, and promote Neal and his wife, Ruvé Robertson, conservative, even as their flocks medications for uses not approved said that not all of their releases are becoming more liberal, by the FDA. will be overtly religious, but every according to recent studies. Since the pandemic, online one of them will be “faith friendly.” Research on Catholic clergy by advertising has drawn hundreds of SOME CHANGING COLLEGE, the Austin Institute has found thousands of people to telehealth CAREER PLANS OVER that younger Catholic priests and companies for treatment of a STATE ABORTION LAWS recently ordained priests tend to be variety of medical and mental BERGEN COUNTY, NJ — Since the noticeably more conservative than health conditions, including with U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe older priests on a host of issues, controlled substances regulated v. Wade in June, abortion access has including politics, theology, and due to their potential for abuse. become an increasingly influential moral teaching. Those ordained Some employees and patients have consideration in students’ in 2010 or later are the most said their marketing practices college decisions, according to conservative of all. contributed to the abuse of a BestColleges survey of 1,000 controlled substances. current and prospective college While young priests hold on to ACTOR NEAL MCDONOUGH students. tradition, Catholic laity have been SAYS HE PLANS TO ESTABLISH moving in a more liberal direction. CATHOLIC FILM COMPANY Of those planning to enroll in an A 2021 survey for by the Center for HOLLYWOOD, CA — Catholic undergraduate program sometime Applied Research in the Apostolate actor Neal McDonough revealed in the next 12 months, 39 percent found that 62 percent said priests in December that he and his wife said that the court’s decision will should be allowed to bless same- Ruvé Robertson will launch a new affect their decision to attend sex relationships and only 38 production company that will college in a particular state. percent were very or somewhat produce content with Catholic opposed to euthanasia or assisted values. Similarly, 43 percent of current suicide. undergrads said that the CHARGE: TELEHEALTH RISE His strong overturning of Roe has led them FUELED BY MISLEADING ADS, convictions as to question whether they want to LEADS TO DRUG ABUSE a Catholic have remain in the state where they NEW YORK — Telehealth sometimes led to are attending college or transfer companies are flooding social McDonough losing elsewhere.  L media platforms like Facebook, roles, as was the Instagram, and TikTok with ads case when he was SOURCES: Catholic News Agency, Catholic News that don’t conform to longtime dropped from ABC’s Service, Aleteia, CNBC standards governing the marketing Scoundrels in 2010 of prescription drugs and health for refusing to do sex scenes. February 2023 | 38 | legatus.org

WORLD BRIEFS REPORT: NIGERIA MILITARY Last May, archaeologists discovered Matthew Bunson. But first he FORCED RESCUED GIRLS, a small, well-preserved wooden must be declared a saint, and then WOMEN INTO ABORTIONS box holding 15 silver tetradrachma proclaimed a Doctor of the Church ABUJA, Nigeria — Reuters published coins in a cave in the Darageh by an ecumenical council or a pope. an investigative report into a Stream Nature Reserve. The coins For now, before these steps are clandestine program run by the were minted by Ptolemy VI of Egypt taken, Catholics and others can Nigerian military in which some and date up to 170 B.C., which is just dedicate themselves to Benedict’s 10,000 girls and women rescued before Seleucid King Antiochus IV teachings. “His gifts to the Church after being held captive by Islamic Epiphanes began harsh persecution and the knowledge and wisdom militants since 2013 have been of the Jews. of humanity do not need the title forced to undergo abortions. The two books of Maccabees are of Doctor of the Church to be The forced abortions reportedly accepted as canonical Scripture appreciated and cherished,” took place because the unborn by the Catholic Church but were Bunson said. children were conceived through excluded from the Bible by POPE: RESIGNATION LETTER rape or forced marriage to members Protestant reformers. ALREADY SIGNED IN CASE of radical Islamist groups such as BENEDICT XVI: COULD OF ‘MEDICAL IMPAIRMENT’ Boko Haram. The Nigerian military HE SOMEDAY BE NAMED VATICAN CITY —Pope Francis has denied any wrongdoing and DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH? said in December that he has has refused to investigate. ROME — Some Catholic thinkers already signed his resignation and have begun to speculate whether has given it to one of the Vatican Many of the women say they would the late Pope Benedict XVI, who cardinals in the event he is not able not have aborted their children if died December 31, might one day to continue governing the Catholic they had the choice. Despite the be named a Doctor of the Church, Church due to an impediment to his circumstances under which they joining the likes of St. Thomas health. conceived, they believed, as one said, Aquinas and St. Thérèse of Lisieux. the “child had done nothing wrong” Benedict’s résumé of holiness and “I have already signed my and didn’t deserve to be punished contributions toward doctrinal resignation,” Pope Francis said in for the sins of their fathers. teachings certainly qualifies, a Spanish newspaper interview, DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT said author and theologian noting that he gave it to Cardinal COINS OFFERS PROOF Tarcisio Bertone, who was Vatican FOR BOOK OF MACCABEES secretary of state until 2013. “I JERUSALEM — A trove of 2,200-year- signed it and told him: ‘In case of old coins found near the Dead Sea impediment for medical reasons documents bloody persecution or whatever it may be, here is my preceding the famous Hanukkah resignation.’ They already have it.” revolt when Jews fled to the desert, “Now someone will go to ask as written in I Maccabees 2:29. Bertone for it: ‘Give me that piece of Archaeologists say it is the first paper!’” the pope joked, laughing. L physical proof that Jews fled to the SOURCES: Catholic News Agency, Judean Desert during the upheaval and persecution under Antiochus Catholic News Service, Mercatornet, Times of Israel IV Epiphanes. February 2023 | 39 | legatus.org

GUEST DAVID MILLS VOICE About those haters: Pray, don’t rebuke WE LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE The insight applies people rage at others, and to the cabbie and many rage at Christianity people like him. in general and the Catholic They’d be better Church in particular. They human beings if rage at us when they take us to they cared about represent the Church. This will the people they only get worse. abused. They’d learn kindness, The anger and hatred so generosity, many journalists, activists, patience. And politicians, and pundits showed it would be a for Catholics and the Church win-win for them: after the Dobbs decision was They’d even be leaked and then again when better critics. the Supreme Court released They’d hit more it gives a good example of accurately because how the world reacts when they’d see their ISTOCKPHOTO.COM/KUPPA_ROCK Catholic teaching conflicts target better. with the world’s passions and institutions. People reacted It implies even with even more anger and more to us, who hatred on social media. have been told to try to look at others Priests get it worse than the the way the Lord who died for them looks at We need a verbal smack, but that rarely changes rest of us, of course. They get them. Especially when they attack us. Jesus tells anyone. We’d want kindness and forgiveness. more abuse in person than we us to turn the other cheek when someone hits laymen do. Bullies target them us, and then He explains what that means: “Love But Jesus doesn’t just tell us to speak more because they know your enemies, do kindly. He tells us to love the abuser with real priests won’t fight back. good to those who actions. He tells us to do them some good we can As the sex abuse scandal “Jesus doesn’t just hate you, pray for do them, and the primary good we can do them went on, one friend in tell us to speak more those who persecute is to pray for them. (And if you’re a priest with an New York City told me and insult you.” abuser cabbie, tip them well.) he’d had to get used to kindly. He tells us to Why? So that “you comments like one he love the abuser with may be true sons He tells us to do what Thomas More is said to got from a cabbie: “So, of your Father in have urged. Not to react or defend ourselves, not off to diddle some little real actions to reproach and rebuke, but to pray for them. An engaged Our Father and Hail Mary would do. boys, are ya, Father?” He heaven, who makes It will do them some good, as God decides. heard such insults from his sun rise on the all sorts of people. evil and equally on the good, his rain fall on the just and equally on And I find it does me great good. I can’t feel Saint Thomas More is the unjust.” To do as Jesus tells us here is “to be either the hurt or the anger that I’d felt. supposed to have said: “We perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Sometimes I even feel a liking for the person, would all much better mend and that can lead to a real conversation.  L our ways if we were as ready to I think we can say that Jesus expects us to apply pray for one another as we are the Golden Rule to our speech: Speak to others DAVID MILLS has edited Touchstone and to offer one another reproach the way we would want others to speak to us. First Things magazines and now writes columns and rebuke.” If he didn’t say it, That includes speaking to others who’ve just for several Catholic publications. someone did, and that person abused us. If we’d been rude or cruel or piggy, was right. how would we like our victims to respond? February 2023 | 40 | legatus.org

Fall,Ltravegela,tursetrsetyaltse,: and celebrations Legatus members and guests enjoyed a slate of events including pilgrimages, Enclaves, and first-class celebrations during the fall of 2022 (clockwise, from right): (1) Sally and Tom Herder enjoy the festivities as the Orlando Chapter marked its 25th anniversary of its founding with an early December celebration. The evening included a special tribute to Bill Brown and his late wife, Joanne, who were instrumental in the chapter’s chartering. (2) Larry and Mary Anne Egan of the Western Massachusetts Chapter enjoy the atmosphere outside the Festhalle Schottenhamel in Munich, Germany, during the second of two Legatus pilgrimages to see the famous passion play in Oberammergau. (3) A sportsmen’s lodge was the setting for the 2022 Men’s Enclave held in late October at The Broadmoor’s Cloud Camp in Colorado Springs, CO. (4) At the Women’s Enclave in early November at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, (from left) guests Ally Juncadella and Anouka Juncadella enjoy a breakfast with Cindy Keenan and Mariher Ordonez of the Orlando Chapter along with Maria Juncadella of the Miami Chapter. (5) More than 170 Legatus members and guests gathered in New York City in December for the annual Legatus Northeast Gala. After the rosary, Confessions, and Mass at Church of Our Savior celebrated by Bishop Frank Caggiano of Bridgeport, CT, participants assembled for a black-tie gala at the Union League Club and heard a talk from keynote speaker Bill Donahue (right), president of the Catholic League, seen here with Tom Monaghan, Legatus’ founder, chairman, and CEO. 41February 2023 | | legatus.org

CHAPTER socializing throughout the evening and previously known as the Bass NEWS at the Brookside Mansion, which Mansion. The Sisters of St. Francis was decorated with crèches for of Perpetual Adoration bought the FORT WAYNE Christmas. home along with more than 65 The Fort Wayne Chapter celebrated Brookside is a sandstone mansion, acres of surrounding landscape its Advent social on the campus formerly the private residence from the Bass family in order to of the University of Saint Francis of industrialist John Henry Bass relocate their college fo Fort Wayne in December. Following Mass from Lafayette, IN, in 1944. celebrated by Fr. Daniel Scheidt, chapter chaplain, members enjoyed instrumental music and FORT WAYNE. Members and guests of the Fort Wayne Chapter gathered at the historic Brookside Mansion on the campus of the University of Saint Francis for their annual Advent social.  BISMARCK. The Bismarck Chapter celebrated Advent at St. Mary’s Central High School in December. COLUMBUS. The Columbus Chapter recently celebrated its 15th anniversary Members shared Christmas traditions and discussed recent and upcoming pilgrimages. Members with Bishop Earl Fernandes as an honored guest. Among those members who Gene and Sue Jackson spoke of their philanthropic work, and members Glen and Renee Hochhalter attended the event were (from left) Cole Ellis, Michele Ellis, Jenny Messerly, Bill received first pilgrimage pins from Fr. Thomas Grafsgaard, chaplain, for having attended Legatus’ Messerly, and Dale Ganobsik. Oberammergau pilgrimage. February 2023 | 42 | legatus.org

CHAPTER NEWS FORT WORTH. The Fort Worth Chapter welcomed three new member couples FORT WORTH Horn specializes in teaching during its November meeting. At its November meeting, the Catholics to graciously and Fort Worth Chapter held the persuasively engage those investiture into the chapter of who disagree with them in a three new member couples: constructive dialogue, relying Cary and Kathy Hy, Bob and on the use of “dialectic,” Katie Karl, and Wes and which juxtaposes opposed or Patrice Hall. Guest speaker contradictory ideas and seeks to at the reception that followed resolve their conflict. Author of nine at the Fort Worth Club was books on the Catholic faith, Horn Trent Horn, apologist for appears frequently on the Catholic Catholic Answers, whose Answers Live radio program and topic was “The Beginner’s has his own podcast, The Counsel Guide to Sharing Your Faith.” of Trent. ORANGE COUNTY. Gathered at the November event of the Orange County Chapter are Philippe Matta, Ralph Linzmeier, guest speaker Chris Check, Dale Rincon, Ann Rincon, and Lisa Merlino. Check, president of the apologetics organization Catholic Answers, spoke on the topic “What Were the Crusades?” at the event, which was held at the Pacific Club in Newport Beach, CA. SAN FRANCISCO. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone (seated, front center) hosted the San Francisco Chapter for Mass and a reception at his residence in early December. After members sang Advent carols, the archbishop gave a talk on “State of the Archdiocese: Goodness, Beauty, and Truth.” Above: A recent chapter event at the Spinnaker Restaurant in Sausalito featured a panel discussion on “A Catholic Response to Homelessness.” From left are Angela Chargualaf, regional director; Leah and Chris Zubiate; Jim Castelaz, chapter president; panelists Erick Brown and Joe Boerio; Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J.; panelist Ellen Hammerle; and Hailey Castelaz. February 2023 | 43 | legatus.org

CHAPTER NEWS INDIANAPOLIS. The Indianapolis Chapter met for Mass at Marian University followed by dinner at the Woodstock Country Club for its monthly event and Christmas celebration on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. The date also marked the 33rd anniversary of the chapter’s formation in 1989. During the evening, the chapter invested 2023 president Beth Leonard and introduced its new officers. DETROIT. The Detroit Chapter held its Advent celebration on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception at the exquisite Orchard Lake Country Club. The duet of Stacey Mason and Ken Krach provided music for Mass as well as entertainment throughout the evening. PASADENA. Among attendees at the December meeting of the Pasadena Chapter were (from left) Christine Farguson, Mary Zeman, hospitality chair Denise Meraz, Susan De Pietro, and chapter secretary Joanna O’Toole. Right: Also at the December meeting, new member couple Tariq and Theresa Marji are inducted into the chapter. February 2023 | 44 | legatus.org

CHAPTER NEWS VENTURA-LA NORTH ANN ARBOR. Judy and Jim Berlucchi close the Ann Arbor Chapter’s annual Christmas party by leading a rousing sing-along. Right: Among attendees In December, 37 at the festive occasion at Barton Hills Country Club are member couples Sara and Jim Berkemeier (left) and Steve and Renee Alexandrowski. members and guests of the Ventura-LA North Chapter met at the Westlake Yacht Club for their annual Advent meeting. Fr. Luke Mata, Opus Dei vicar for California, celebrated the Vigil Mass for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception and delivered an inspiring homily about the “crazy” love God has shown for us through the Blessed Mother — by preparing her as a virgin to give birth to Him and giving her great power to intercede for us as our own mother. The chapter also DETROIT NE. In early December, the Detroit NE Chapter celebrated its 20th anniversary with a Mass featuring music by Italian tenor Aaron Caruso. bestowed honor on Father Jeffrey Day, chaplain, celebrated the Mass and gave a talk on angels afterward during dinner. Among those in attendance were Fr. Day’s parents, outgoing president Dennis and Vickie, along with Legatus national president Stephen Henley and his wife, Krista. In his remarks, Henley gave a shout-out to the Weingartz Justin Alvarez for his family for their role in forming the chapter. two years of service, outgoing treasurer Jenifer Carmichael for 14 years of service, and member couple John and Nancy Borchard for hosting the chapter’s recent 25th anniversary meeting. VENTURA-LA NORTH. Chapter members and guests assembled for their annual Advent meeting at the Westlake Yacht Club in early December. February 2023 | 45 | legatus.org

CHAPTER NEWS MEMBERS IN THE NEWS best and honest efforts every day president Three members of the Kansas and then assist others you work of Donnelly City Chapter were among those with to do the same.” College in recognized among the “250 Most Kansas City, Powerful Business Leaders” in “Don’t be afraid to be KS, was LEAVEN PHOTO BY JAY SOLDNER their region by Ingram’s Magazine, a risk-taker,” urged honored the leading business publication Peggy Dunn, mayor recently with serving Missouri and Kansas. of Leawood, KS. the St. Rose Included in the listings were pieces “Always prepare by Philippine of “Best Advice” offered by each thoroughly reading all Duchesne Monsignor Stuart Swetland honoree. materials provided in advance of meetings Award given or presentations. annually by the Archdiocese of Paul Seek out a valued and Kansas City since 2006. Archbishop Thompson, Peggy Dunn trusted mentor.” Her Joseph F. Naumann presented husband, Terry Dunn, CEO of chairman/CEO of JE the award in late November after Country Club Dunn Construction a Mass at Sacred Heart Parish in Bank, advised: Group, echoed his Mound City, KS, home to the St. Rose “Have an wife’s third point: Philippine Duchesne Shrine. The inquisitive “Surround yourself with award honors groups or individuals mind and a outstanding mentors.” who promote Catholic education, passion for vocations to the priesthood or Paul Thompson what you do. religious life, or devotion to the Encourage Terry Dunn Monsignor Stuart W. saint. “They chose me personally, others and enjoy team successes. Swetland, chaplain but I think they’re honoring the Most importantly, demonstrate of the Kansas City Chapter and great work going on at Donnelly leadership by providing your own College,” Monsignor Swetland remarked before the Mass. PHOENIX. Members and guests of the Phoenix Chapter gathered in mid-December for their annual Christmas party, first with Mass at the Diocese of Phoenix chapel and afterward a dinner at the University Club. The Floriani Group provided musical entertainment throughout the evening, and Fr. Tom Ennecking led a singalong of Christmas carols on the piano. February 2023 | 46 | legatus.org

CHAPTER NEWS JUPITER-PALM BEACH NE WISCONSIN. Two new members were invested into Legatus during a recent meeting of the NE Wisconsin Chapter. From left are then-regional At a recent meeting vice president Nate Wine; new member couple Chuck and Jill Estermann; Fr. Tom Farrell, chaplain; and sponsors Donna and John West. Right: Bill of the Jupiter-Palm Raaths (center), a founding member, was awarded the prestigious Ace pin for recruiting five or more members since the award was established in Beach Chapter at the 2014. He is the only chapter member to have earned five Legatus pins. Flanking him are chapter president Jeff Pallini (left) and Fr. Farrell. Jupiter Country Club, members Fred and Jane Topor brought and offered a presentation on a painting of St. Ignatius that they had commissioned from their granddaughter, Drew Topor, who is a graduate student at Parsons School of Design in New York City. The painting is based on the image of Ignatius from a 16th-century painting by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens. The Topors commissioned the work to donate to the Cathedral of St. Ignatius of Loyola in Palm Beach, FL, after the rector there expressed a desire to add artwork featuring the church’s patron saint. At the same meeting, JUPITER-PALM BEACH. At a recent chapter meeting, Fred and SE FLORIDA MULTICHAPTER. EWTN news director Raymond Arroyo chapter members heard Jane Topor show off their granddaughter’s painting of St. Ignatius signs copies of his new children’s book, The Wise Men Who Found Christmas, from guest speaker Nic that they commissioned for the cathedral in Palm Beach, FL. during a recent multichapter event at the Trump International Golf Club in Davidson, a convert West Palm Beach, FL. Eighty members of the Jupiter-Palm Beach and Fort to Catholicism from Lauderdale Chapters were in attendance. Assisting Arroyo at the signing table northeastern Minnesota are (from left) Michael, Charlie, and Joey Gusmano. Below: Participants in the who was about to move event assemble outside the club. with his wife and family to Cambodia in order to serve the poor there as Catholic missionaries. February 2023 | 47 | legatus.org

5 MINUTES JIM GRAVES WITH Museum pilgrimage with a Wall Street missionary AUTHOR/EXECUTIVE STEPHEN AUTH TO ADDRESS LEGATUS MEMBERS AT SUMMIT ‘23 STEPHEN AUTH IS EXECUTIVE What do you do as a vice president and a chief street evangelist? investment officer for Federated Global Equities. He I lead a group of missionaries, has had a long career working many of whom work on Wall on Wall Street and regularly Street, who engage people appears in the media to discuss on the sidewalks of the city economic issues. He will be about their faith with the end a featured speaker at this goal of getting them back to month’s Legatus Summit 2023 Confession and into the life of in Orlando, FL. the Church. In the time I’ve been Auth is a member of Regnum a missionary we’ve reached Christi and is on the board of out to 3 million people, about the Lumen Institute, a Catholic 200,000 of whom talk to us and business leadership group about 20,000 of whom have he helped found in New York. can bring us closer to God. I will be exploring come back to the Church through making their He is involved in a number of some of the big themes and archetypes that first Confession in many years. apostolic activities, including occur over the centuries in great works of art leading a spiritual tour of the and how they remain relevant in today’s quest Our lay missionaries set out in a matrix around Metropolitan Museum of Art for God. Old St. Patrick’s and sometimes the new St. called “Man’s Search for God: Patrick’s. They are easily identifiable in their A History of Art through the We’ll look at works from ancient Egypt, Greece, T-shirts (and purple scarves during the winter) Prism of Faith.” He explores and Rome, the medieval period, Baroque and and arms full of rosaries. themes from that tour in his Renaissance art, and through to the moderns. 2022 book, Pilgrimage to the It is a journey through time They approach those Museum: Man’s Search for God that I find moves people and who walk by as joyful Through Art and Time. witnesses of the faith. We He is also a street missionary gets them to think more deeply “I tell our missionaries try to encounter people in New York City as detailed in about God and how we can where they are, and if his 2019 book, The Missionary draw closer to Him. that it was love and they’ve been away from of Wall Street: From Managing joy that converted the Money to Saving Souls on the How did you get active in Roman Empire. People the Church, we gently Streets of New York. Regnum Christi? suggest that they get who don’t have it and back inside the Church What will be your and that things will go Summit topic? Regnum Christi is a lay see it are attracted by it better for them if they do. I plan to talk about art and evangelist movement affiliated It sounds crazy to some, spirituality based on a with the Legionaries of Christ. but it can lead someone pilgrimage you can take by I was in the intensive care to go back to Confession going to an art museum. I will unit after experiencing heart for the first time in years. review how artists over the failure, and I received Anointing of the Sick from past 5,000 years have sought a Legionaries priest. I made my first Confession I tell our missionaries that it was love and joy God through art and how art in 30 years, and the priest concluded that I had that converted the Roman Empire. People who a lot of talent but was using it for my own sake don’t have it and see it are attracted by it. L and not for God. I resolved to change that. I went on a mission to Mexico, saw in someone the face JIM GRAVES is a contributing writer for Legatus magazine. of Christ, and realized that I was called to be a missionary. February 2023 | 48 | legatus.org

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MEET THE JIM GRAVES CHAPLAIN Confession is a favorite part of his priesthood FR. THOMAS FARRELL, NE WISCONSIN CHAPLAIN, MINISTERS TO SIX WORSHIP SITES FATHER THOMAS FARRELL on me. The first was Fr. Norbert Verhagen, my in to help me. In my new assignment I have met serves as chaplain of Legatus’ father’s cousin, who was a Maryknoll priest in similar success by offering hours for Confession; NE Wisconsin Chapter. He Mexico. He would visit and show videos of the previously, it was only available by appointment. grew up in rural Wisconsin in work he was doing. The other, Fr. Alfred Hietpas, an observant Catholic home, was pastor of the parish where I attended school. What are some of the effects you have one of four children. seen in people who come to you for His father worked When I was older, I Confession? in a paper mill and began attending daily came home to lead Mass and reading St. Confession helps you to form your conscience, to the family rosary Bridget of Sweden’s think about what is right and what is wrong. Fear nightly. Father reflections on the of the Lord does not mean being afraid of God, attended Catholic sufferings of Jesus and but in being attentive to how we’re living our schools and upon saying her 15 daily lives. People who come to me may be struggling, finishing high school prayers. These prayers but what is good is that they know they have to went to work in a changed my life. I be accountable to God about how they live. It bakery. A devotion to credit my priesthood to makes a difference. St. Bridget and daily St. Bridget. Mass led him to a seminary program I entered the seminary I love seeing the sincerity of our penitents with the Diocese of at age 30. However, and seeing how they have a change of heart Green Bay, which included going back to school was challenging for me as I regarding things they have done. I also know an opportunity to earn his am not academic. I was ordained a priest at age 38. that when someone is going to Confession bachelor’s degree. regularly, he or she will not be leaving the Why does your parish Church. I make a point of talking about the He was ordained a priest in encompass so many importance of Confession 1992 and has since served in a churches? when I preach: we need variety of parishes. Presently, “Fear of the Lord does to make ourselves right he serves as pastor of Stella not mean being afraid with God and be properly Maris Parish, which serves Because of a shortage of prepared to receive the six church sites on the Door priests, we tried to combine of God, but in being Eucharist. Peninsula between Green Bay the churches into one, but the attentive to how we’re and Lake Michigan, a popular people didn’t like it. Also, as The founder of Legatus, tourist destination. He is also Door County is a resort area, living our lives Tom Monaghan, knows the chaplain for the Missionaries of the Word in Baileys Harbor, people like to come to these importance of the Sacrament WI, a community of nine sisters churches for weddings. of Reconciliation and makes who work with youth founded it available when Legatus by Mother Mary Catherine, What do you like most members meet. a former member of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity. about the priesthood? Tell me about your involvement What led you to the I love providing the Sacrament of Reconciliation with Legatus. seminary? to the people. It has a tremendous power in their lives and can help them come closer to God. In It is a wonderful apostolate that brings God into Growing up I knew two priests my previous parish we had Saturday morning the workplace. I’m always pleased to attend their who had a wonderful influence Confessions, one of the few in the area to do so, events, and I learn a lot from their speakers. L and we were hearing 60 to 80 Confessions a Saturday. I had to have three or four priests come JIM GRAVES is a contributing writer for Legatus magazine. February 2023 | 50 | legatus.org