"The best experiences I've had in my life have been with Legatus. It helps everyone on his or her road to faith. The number one thing at the heart of every Legatus event is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. From my experience, Mass becomes an incredible moving force. Over time, we hear many exceptional homilies by brilliant Catholic cardinals, bishops, and priests, and hear many different talks by world-class speakers with messages you wind up putting into your life."
Lou DiCerbo
Owner, PCP Benefit Plans
Former President, NYC Legatus chapter
"It's an extraordinary organization that focuses on putting your faith into your business. It has changed both my personal and my business lives. . . . Legatus can go deeper in faith development in a way that the parish can't do. I have always believed that Legatus and other organizations are necessary to augment people's different lives."
Tim Busch
Founder, Busch Firm
CEO, Pacific Hospitality Group
'Legatus has made us a little more grounded in our faith. It has given us more confidence to talk to our children about our faith, so in that respect I think it has very much helped our family life. One of the wonderful aspects of Legatus is the fellowship that we have with other couples there. We go to hear the speakers but it's really the relationships we've formed with other people within our chapter that has just been so wonderful. It really does feel like a family at times.'
Elizabeth Thiede
Portland Member
'Legatus helps Catholic leaders in various areas see how their Catholic faith is their guide in whatever endeavor they are involved in. It brings good Catholics together to encourage one another and assist one another. And it helps members see how to be a more faithful witness to the Catholic faith in whatever area they as individuals are involved in.'
Cardinal Raymond Burke
Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura
"The lay mission of the Church transforms the world into the kingdom of God—and transforms the Culture of Death into the Culture of Life. Who better to take the lead in that lay mission than the kind of men and women in Legatus?"
Bishop Robert Morlino
Legatus International Chaplain, 2008-2009
'Legatus is a program in revitalizing the Catholic life of everybody who takes part. Members return to the sacraments, pray frequently, and learn more about
their religion. I think the payoff in every individual life has been very satisfying. It whets the appetite for more.'
Michael Novak
American Catholic philosopher, writer and diplomat.
"We have such a wealth of knowledge and wisdom in the Catholic Church. It is a treasure trove of tradition. One of the things I found inspiring was the number of faithful Catholics who could do so much because of their talents and abilities. A lot of times people talk about business ethics and greed, but Legatus is a great contradiction to that stereotype."
Jim Berlucchi
Former Executive Director, Legatus
'Legatus is a great support system. When you feel that the whole world is tumbling down around us and fear that all of our morals are gone, and that Christian charity is gone, you find through Legatus members that it's here and it's alive and they are all living it!"
Mary Armato
Executive Director, Port Ministries
"I found people that were doing a lot of different things from what I was. They were entrepreneurs, they were leaders, but they were people who were very frequently dealing with the same kind of issues I was, which was how to bring work-life balance into perspective in light of our Christian faith and our Catholic faith. There was an immediate rapport I felt with the people in the group."
Frank O'Reilly
Owner & Founder, Petrine Construction
"I think Legatus has been a strengh to the Church, making and forming Catholics whose faith means something to them . . . . We grow spiritually together because we share the Eucharist with so many dear to us and that we know well. It is a spiritual bond and highlight for everyone."
Sherry Durnan
Long Island Chapter Founder
"Legatus served as a blessing from the Lord to feed in my knowledge of the Faith and to grow in faith. Instead of spending time outside of work with secular friends in relationships that wouldn't necessarily build my faith or honor God, Legatus gave my wife and me the opportunity to be around committed Catholics who would help us grow in faith. In turn, we could share what we learned with them and become much more fruitful. Legatus was part of God's blessing to our family at a time in which we were desperately in need of growing our faith."
Tom Peterson
Catholics Come Home
"Legatus has tapped a need in lives of people to make a connection between their role as CEOs and leaders in the business world and their role as a Catholic follower of Jesus Christ."
Most Rev. Sam G. Jacobs
Bishop of Houma-Thibodaux
Legatus International Chaplain