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When Fortune announced its list of the World’s Greatest Leaders, the top spot was awarded not to a captain of industry, but to the new pontiff. How did he manage to breathe new life into the Church so quickly? The answer lies in his humility — and the simple principles that spring from it.

Ordway, an atheist academic, was convinced that faith was superstitious nonsense. As a well-educated college professor, she was secure in her fortress of atheism, she was safe (or so she thought) from any assault by irrational faith.

Sadly, pornography is no longer just a men’s issue. Peter Kleponis presents an alarming in-depth look at the porn epidemic that is ruining lives, marriages, families and careers. With gross annual income well over $14 billion in the U.S. alone, the insidious porn industry is darkening intellects and deadening hearts by corrupting how we perceive and relate to the opposite sex.

Pastor of St. Thomas More Catholic Parish and St. Veronica Chapel in Narragansett, R.I., Fr. Marcel Taillon, 49, cherishes the “loyalty and spiritual friendship” among Providence Legates. Pivotal to his priesthood were the nuns of his youth. One, now 95, was the parish cook. “Every Sunday between Masses she would teach me a Thomistic virtue,” he remembers. “Hers was a hidden apostolate, but powerful. And, oh, her doughnuts!” She and other sisters told him he had a vocation. It wasn’t until he was a traveling businessman, however, that “everything sort of fermented.”

Faith-based films are not what they used to be. Moms’ Night Out (Patricia Heaton) and When the Game Stands Tall (Jim Caviezel) from earlier this year are proof of that.

With Left Behind (Nicolas Cage) opening in theaters this month, it’s time to revisit the question, “Do Catholics believe in the rapture?”

Houston’s Texas Medical Center (TMC) shines as one of the largest medical centers in the world.

When several members of Legatus’ New Orleans Chapter living in Baton Rouge met to form a new chapter in Louisiana’s capital city a decade ago, few thought it would blossom into the organization’s largest chapter.

Pro-life or pro-choice? This is one of our society’s most divisive issues. That dichotomy, however, masks the true issue — whether we have the right to end the life of an unborn child.

When Pope Francis landed in Seoul on Aug. 14, he was greeted by cheering crowds of jubilant Catholics — a fitting welcome from a country with Asia’s second largest Catholic population.

Many private foundations and non-profits rely almost exclusively on charitable donations for their work. Potential donors are challenged to exercise due diligence, so their funds are used properly.

The Catholic Church has not historically engaged intellectually with matters of business and economics. There is not, for example, an official Catholic “theology of business.”

The son of rural Polish farmers, Jerzy Popiełuszko was ordained a priest by Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski in 1972. In 1980, Cardinal Wyszynski asked him to celebrate Mass for striking steel workers. He organized adult education by bringing in teachers who taught the men about Polish literature, history, law, economics, and negotiation techniques. The young priest preached against Communism and organized charitable works to assist those suffering from injustice.

I just finished watching a three-hour miniseries on St. Padre Pio, and it got me thinking: Why aren’t we all as spiritually connected to Christ as he was? What does it take to realize your spiritual potential and become a great saint right now?

Why is it important for Legatus to have and maintain specific membership criteria? This topic has come up regularly at Board of Governors meetings, and it’s something I thought long and hard about when founding Legatus in 1987.