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Monsignor Dennis O’Donovan, 70, has a brother and sister, both of whom are happily married with children. He is happily married to the Church, which he served as a monk before asking to be released to the Archdiocese of Portland, Ore., more than 30 years ago. Oregon is “a secular society with a vengeance,” he says, and Legates serve a leavening role by witnessing to their faith and by reaching out to other Catholic leaders, who tend to stand out in a state where Catholics are in the minority.

Oncologists may soon change the way they treat early stage breast cancer following a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). In recent years, women undergoing lumpectomies had a “sentinel lymph node dissection” (SLND), removing one or two draining lymph nodes from the armpits.

The 2011 Legatus Summit in Naples captivated a record number of Legates and chaplains in early February. The enjoyment of each new Summit seems to wash over the memories of previous Summits and the graces that flowed from each.

Terri Schiavo’s tragic death in 2005 raised many significant cultural questions.

Filmmaker David Kyle’s BloodMoney goes where few documentaries have dared go — into the belly of the beast that is Planned Parenthood. He exposes the truth behind the nation’s billion-dollar abortion industry and its systematic exploitation of women.

They were stolen from their homes, locked in chains and taken across an ocean. For more than 200 years, their blood and sweat helped build the richest, most powerful nation the world has ever known.

The sequel to Fatherless and second in his trilogy, Gail has written another heart-pounding page-turner for Catholics straining to hear their Church’s voice in what Pope John Paul II called the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church.

As one of the country’s leading chastity speakers, Stenzel knows that most teens fall into sexual sin because they don’t know the truth. Her book’s subtitle sums up its theme: What You Need to Know About the Physical and Emotional Consequences of Sex Outside of Marriage.

Few reading this magazine would debate that the moral fabric of our nation has been ripped apart by spiritual and cultural warfare. At times it seems we don’t even recognize the America we so passionately loved as children — an America so many have bled and died to protect.

Voltaire once remarked that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman. A similar thing could be said about the popular business ethics model of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): It’s neither about business nor ethics.

By its own admission, what our age finds most unacceptable in the Church’s perennial wisdom is her sexual morality. Almost every controversial issue dividing “dissenters” from the Church’s teaching is about sexual morality: fornication, contraception, homosexuality, divorce and most especially abortion.

When Johnson quit her job as the director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas, the media went wild, lawsuits were filed, and pro-life advocates rejoiced. In Unplanned, she reveals the details of her dramatic move from abortion rights advocate to the pro-life movement after she witnessed an ultrasound-guided abortion. She knew she was on the wrong side.

While there are no Catholic restaurants or Catholic grocery stores, there are specifically Catholic hospitals, clinics, hospices and nursing homes. Why? Catholic health stems from how Jesus conducted his public ministry. He not only preached and forgave sins, but he cured, restoring sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, and speech to the mute.

Bernadette Soubirous’ humdrum life would have likely gone unnoticed except for a luminous two-month interlude. She was the oldest daughter of an impoverished miller in Lourdes, France. At 14, Bernadette was undersized, afflicted with chronic asthma, uneducated and had not yet received her first Communion. But on Feb. 11, 1858, the Virgin Mary appeared to her in a rocky cave.

I’ve often wondered why abortion rights advocates can’t look at an ultrasound, study a few biology text books and logically conclude that human life begins at conception. For those of us in the pro-life movement, it’s patently obvious. Facts are facts.