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Legatus founder Tom Monaghan invites Legates and their families to get an executive physical at the Cooper Clinic. Join Monaghan and your fellow Legates on a trip to the world-renowned clinic in Dallas, Texas.

After more than 30 years as a priest of New Jersey’s Trenton diocese, Monsignor Leonard Troiano, 67, faced one of the biggest challenges of his priesthood last fall when Hurricane Sandy devastated his parish.

Being somewhat of a film connoisseur, I am rarely surprised by movies these days. Action films have predictable plots, comedies have typical crude humor, dramas are often overacted, and Christian films tend to be preachy and cheaply produced.

For many Americans, 9/11 was the first time they had considered the nature of Islam. In his book subtitled The Struggle for the Soul of the West, Kilpatrick argues that Islam is a religion of conquest and subjugation and that despite 9/11, many Americans still don’t know this truth because it conflicts with their belief that all cultures and religions are equal.

Weigel’s new offering contends that the Church is on the threshold of a bold new era in its 2,000- year history. The era defined by the 16thcentury Counter-Reformation is on its way out, and a new evangelical era is on the rise.

The Church has always shared her Master’s holy unpopularity. But never before the “Sexual Revolution” did her (and his) unpopularity center almost exclusively on sex.

Over the past decade, emergency room visits for sports/recreation-related traumatic brain injuries (TBI), including concussions, among children and adolescents increased by 60% — and 71% of these visits were males; 71% were aged 10-19 years.

Government secularism is on the march against religion, and its generals have announced they intend to take few prisoners. For proof, look no further than the Free Birth Control Rule (as I call it) promulgated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

As the world waited eight years ago for the white smoke to emerge from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, millions wondered not only who the next pope would be, but also how anyone could possibly follow the man who was already being referred to as “John Paul the Great.”

This is a story of patients and a doctor’s care, of suffering, patience and perseverance, of a man with a passion — and a bit of impatience.

Ever lost something that gave you safety and security: your job, health, etc.? If so, did you get angry with God? Blessed Emperor Karl I Habsburg knew this type of loss, but his response provides a great example for our age.

Having a bird’s eye view on history is not all it’s cracked up to be. When white smoke billowed forth from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney on March 13, I was atop the colonnade of St. Peter’s Square.

I have been reflecting on my younger years. You know, those formative, impressionable years of elementary school, high school and college that formed so much of who we become in adulthood.

Imagine you were leading a large sports team without being told exactly what game you’re playing. Someone places a nondescript ball in front of you and says: “Play!” So you start. Every so often when you touch the ball, the ref’s whistle admonishes you.

After more than 30 years as a priest of New Jersey’s Trenton diocese, Monsignor Leonard Troiano, 67, faced one of the biggest challenges of his priesthood last fall when Hurricane Sandy devastated his parish.