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Directed by Michael Landon Jr., The Shunning was first broadcast as a Hallmark Channel original movie. About to embark on an arranged marriage with the bishop of her Amish community, 19-year-old Katie (Panabaker) realizes she can’t go through with it when she learns she’s adopted — that is, not truly Amish.

This inspiring faith-based film shows that family and God are far more important than worldly success. After a disastrous debut on the pro circuit, a young golfer (Black) finds himself unexpectedly stranded in Utopia, Texas, and welcomed by an eccentric rancher (Duval).

Snowmen is a humorous and heartfelt coming-of age story about three unlikely heroes and the winter that changed their lives forever. After a surprising discovery in the snow catapults three small-town boys into the spotlight, the best friends hatch a plan to be remembered forever by setting a Guinness World Records title.

The director of a Catholic retreat center in Pennsylvania, Flaherty has come up with more than just a catchy title. “God on the phone” expresses his faith that divine providence can be revealed even when someone dials a wrong number.

Widmer, the former Swiss Guard and accomplished CEO well-known to many Legatus members, reveals how the lessons learned while serving and protecting Pope John Paul II helped shape his later success as a corporate executive.

New York’s gregarious archbishop shares his perspective on a wide range of areas affecting the present and future of Catholicism through a series of conversations with journalist John L. Allen Jr.

Monsignor Michael Billian, 53, just served 12 years as chancellor of the Toledo diocese. Before that he led one of Toledo’s premier Catholic high schools, giving him invaluable experience as an educator and fundraiser. Just a few months ago — in September — he got his first full-time parish pastoral assignment.

Healthnetwork is an advocate of preventive medicine and executive physicals. Over the years, we have received many questions about these programs. For more depth and clarity on executive physicals, I spoke to Donald D. Hensrud, MD, MPH, who chairs the division of preventive, occupational and aerospace medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

As one who has experienced Legatus for almost 20 years, there’s no question that my fellow Legates are honored to participate in the free enterprise system here in the U.S. and abroad.

Medicine is a noble profession dedicated to helping patients maintain or restore their health and life. Health and life are intrinsic goods of the human person. Thus the medical profession is defined not by its provision of some commodity, but by its mission to contribute to human flourishing. But our culture threatens this truth, both in specific policies and in pervasive attitudes.

Debt and deficits seem to be on everyone’s minds these days. Whether it be worries about the American government’s fiscal woes, the prospect of Greece defaulting, Europe’s fragile banking system or the debt-as-a-way-of-life culture that disfigures so many lives around the world, many people are seeking guidance on how to extricate themselves from this mess with their souls intact.

The Mass is a spiritual banquet, best appreciated as you read the menu ahead of time and anticipate the flow of the courses. The Mass splits into two balanced halves: the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist.

“I expect great things of him,” St. Peter Canisius of wrote Stanislaus Kostka. He had in mind the accomplishments of St. Francis Xavier and other early Jesuits. But Stanislaus died before he could do anything … except live for God and become a saint.

I’m always encouraged when I meet a bishop who loves Legatus. It happens quite frequently for a couple of reasons: because Legatus will only establish chapters in dioceses where it is welcomed by the bishop and because we send our magazine to every U.S. bishop and a few others abroad.