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Legatus’ silver anniversary is reason to celebrate, and we hope you’ll join the festivities by advertising in our award-winning magazine. We have a number of special issues to mark our 25th anniversary year. Opportunities abound!

Legatus’ silver anniversary is reason to celebrate, and we hope you’ll join the festivities by advertising in our award-winning magazine. We have a number of special issues to mark our 25th anniversary year. Opportunities abound!

Legatus chartered three chapters in the span of two weeks, beginning with a record-setting event in Orange County, Calif., on Nov. 18. The fourth Legatus chapter in Orange County -- the Orange Canyons Chapter -- reached chartering status with a 41 member couples, besting the New Orleans Chapter's 37 couples in August 2000.

How do you refer to your pastor? How about your local bishop or archbishop? Years ago, I made a conscious effort to refer to and address clergy using their title and last name. For example, when referring to or addressing our early Legatus chaplain, I would say “Fr. Rutler” rather than “Fr. George.”

It’s not often that a Legatus member couple writes a screenplay and casts a former James Bond in the lead. But this month, the world will be treated to exactly that. Michael and Janeen Damian, members of Legatus’ Hollywood Chapter, helm this Hallmark Channel film starring the longest-running Bond, Sir Roger Moore.

Since 1965 the number of priests in the U.S. has fallen by 30,000. But over that same period, more than 30,000 laypeople have become employed by parishes and other Church institutions.

Fr. James A. Bramlage recently retired from full-time ministry, consisting of decades of pastoral work and a seven-year administrative stint for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. Vacating his longtime post as pastor of the Cathedral of St. Peter in Chains has freed him to pinch-hit for priests throughout the archdiocese, read more books (history and historical fiction, especially), spend more time in the kitchen creating concoctions his friends call gourmet (though he balks at the frou-frou-sounding appellation) and devote more time to serving the chapter he helped found.

Knee pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal complaints that bring people to their doctors. Pain can be acute (immediate) or chronic (long term). Here is an overview of the causes, symptoms and treatment of acute knee pain.

By the time you read this, we’ll be well into Advent and you’ll have noticed some changes in the Mass. Akin’s highly readable, information-packed volume lays out the facts. He goes straight to it, quoting Church documents so readers can grasp why the liturgy has changed.

In her latest book, Catholic radio host Teresa Tomeo shows that the self-image of American women is being distorted by pop culture. With its emphasis on youth, physical beauty and sexuality, the secular media encourages women — and girls — to see themselves primarily as sex objects.

After nearly a decade of fighting with every branch of their state government over the definition of marriage, Californians finally got their say in 2008 when they approved Prop 8, the voter initiative that restored the traditional definition of marriage to the state’s constitution.

Contrary to what you’ve heard, homosexuals have not won the right to marriage in the state of New York. There will be no wedding bells as homosexuals walk down the scented aisles of churches and exchange vows.

The current lingering economic malaise has led some to question the validity of the market economy. I will draw again from the forthcoming Catechism for Business to explore what the Church has to say about capitalism and socialism.

Christ never engaged in unnecessary acts. He instituted the sacrament of Confession (aka Penance or Reconciliation) as the ordinary or normative way of having one’s sins forgiven. This means that it’s the standard way.

“A new kind of martyrdom!” exclaimed St. Ambrose, bishop of Milan. The assembly cheered and applauded. Ambrose was celebrating St. Agnes because she was a virgin, a martyr — and a child. She was executed in Rome in 304 AD during Emperor Diocletian’s vicious persecution.