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Monsignor James C. Vlaun is devoted to Catholic media, his Long Island Legates, and the New York Jets, whom he serves as Catholic chaplain. His main ministry, however, is serving the new evangelization using a variety of media to champion the faith — as president and CEO of Telecare (the TV station of the Rockville Centre diocese), host of the nationally-syndicated radio show Religion and Rock, and author of such books as Feasts of Life: Recipes from Nana’s Wooden Spoon.

The fundamental reason for being Catholic is the historical fact that the Catholic Church was founded by Christ, and was God’s invention, not man’s — unless Christ, her founder, is not God, in which case not just Catholicism but Christianity is false.

In the late stages of the Second World War, when it was obvious that Germany would be defeated and France liberated, the young philosopher Simone Weil began to prepare a framework for healing the great rifts that had opened up in France.

She was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, the daughter of an Albanian grocer, in Skopje, Macedonia. At 17, she entered a congregation of Irish Loretto sisters. After six weeks of training, she set sail for India where she taught the daughters of prosperous families.

On Aug. 1, 2012, the effective date of the HHS mandate requiring employers to provide contraceptive services and abortifacients to their employees, I memorialized that unfortunate requirement with an e-mail message of hope and unified commitment to our Legatus family — and to bring a sense of urgency to this critical issue of our day.

The latest Flicka film is a throwback to family films of the 1970s and ’80s. Filmmaker and Legate Michael Damian (Hollywood Chapter) delivers a solid drama that Americans have long been deprived of. Toby (Black) is the new stable manager for a family in financial and emotional distress.

In 2008, Americans invested their hope in Barack Obama. What they didn’t know was that Obama is a man with a dark past that defines him — who he is, how he thinks, and where he intends to take America. D’Souza (The Roots of Obama’s Rage and Obama’s America: Unmaking the American Dream) finds answers to Obama’s past and reveals where America will be in 2016 if he wins a second term.

Traveling across America with his family in a big yellow school bus, Texas filmmaker Colin Gunn conducts a series of candid conversational interviews on his quest to discover the origins of our modern educational system.

You’ve seen the movie, now read the book, subtitled The True Story of Cristiada, the Cristero War and Mexico’s Struggle for Religious Freedom.

When Pope Benedict XVI normalized the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass, voices of protest rose up from many sides. The widespread fear was that the Pope had revealed himself as the reactionary defender of tradition.

John Kelly of Legatus’ Peoria Chapter takes readers on an epic journey from Moses to Obama in The Other Law of Moses: God’s Remarkable Plan for Prosperity. Compelling and fast-moving, it shows God’s great love for mankind while illuminating His plan for universal freedom and prosperity.

In May, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) announced in its final recommendation that healthy men should no longer get screened for prostate cancer with a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test because a resulting diagnosis may do more harm than good. The USPSTF is an independent agency made up of experts in preventive or family medicine who serve a four-year term.

In the last decade or so there has been a shift in the kind of argument usually advanced by abortion advocates. The new approach is to argue that laws against abortion violate the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment (“nor shall any state deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”).

The 1960s was a time of great tumult in the United States — one that had devastating effects on the country’s institutions and mores.

One of the great things about editing this magazine is that I get to live and breathe Catholicism 24/7. It also brings with it a great challenge: God expects me to live my faith visibly.