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Pope Benedict has never been shy with regard to environmental issues. He has spoken about the real meaning of progress and development — and what that means for our planet of limited resources.

The sexual abuse crisis has caused many to overlook the two millennia of solid teaching that the Catholic Church proposes to the world. As Donohue makes plain, the Church’s teachings remain the best guide to good living ever adopted.

Take a look at an older church in your city. It’s probably ornate. The rich decorations were donated by members of the parish in praise and thanksgiving to God. Catholics believe there’s much sense in ecclesiastical art, so we’ve always been generous in underwriting lovely churches — this was especially true of Catholics who lived centuries ago and who, though poor by today’s standards, took pride in making the house of God a real house, not just a barn.

When John Hunt relayed the message that the Thomas More Law Center was authorized to challenge the HHS mandate on behalf of Legatus, I realized we were mobilizing forces put into place years ago by one man — Tom Monaghan.

In our post-Christian American culture, patriotism is on the decline. But it’s a different story among church-going Christians. In my estimation, that uptick in patriotic fervor is directly related to the growing opposition to the socialist bent of the Obama administration and its flagship healthcare legislation, which was signed into law just two years ago.

Raised on a farm outside Omaha, 38-year-old Fr. Ryan P. Lewis was called to the priesthood early and ordained at 25. The canon law expert served as archdiocesan vice chancellor before becoming pastor of St. Thomas More in Omaha. His favorite part of the parish job is the school, where he teaches junior-high religion.

The Left has seized on world economic troubles as an excuse to “blame the rich guy” and paint the free market as selfish, greedy and cruel. Father Sirico argues that the opposite is true.

Cancer of the skin is the most common of all cancers. There are two main categories of skin cancer. Melanomas start in the pigment-making cells. These are rare and very serious skin cancers. I will focus on the second category, which includes the majority of skin cancers — basal-cell and squamous-cell carcinomas that start in the keratinocytes cells in the skin.

With the economy in the doldrums, times are difficult enough for businesspeople. Americans now have to decide whether to violate their consciences or a federal law. If left unabated, these dilemmas will continue — even if the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional.

When the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace issued a “note” last October on the global financial system, it would be an understatement to say that it generated a stormy debate. In March, however, the same Council released a new — and very different — document entitled The Vocation of the Christian Business Leader (VCBL).

Sue Pear, a long-time friend who was involved in helping us start Legatus, recently found an old copy of the first Legatus newsletter and gave it to me. It was dated August 1987. As I skimmed through the newsletter, I found it both nostalgic and inspiring to see how we have grown from those early days to where we are now.