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A follow-up to 2016: Obama’s America, Dinesh D’Souza’s revealing documentary explores a novel idea: What if America didn’t exist? What would the world look like? The founding fathers warned us that our freedoms could easily be lost. America stands at a crossroads, and the way we understand our past will determine our future. The film takes 21st-century Americans into the future by first visiting the past.

Legate Jason Jones and co-author John Zmirak contend that the horrors of the 20th century could happen again unless we recommit to fundamental moral truths that safeguard human rights and the common good.

Inspired by a true story, When the Game Stands Tall tells the remarkable journey of legendary football coach Bob Ladouceur (Caviezel), who took the De La Salle High School Spartans from obscurity to a 151- game winning streak (1992-2003) that shattered all records for any American sport.

Nationally acclaimed evangelist John Luther (Remar) is the last obstacle in the way of sweeping religious reform. When a U.S. Senator (Davison) and Luther’s own supporters frame him for murder, an unprecedented era of persecution is unleashed.

Subtitled Wisdom from Faith, Philosophy, and Science about Happiness and Love, this book explores some of the most vexing problems in contemporary life. Appealing to reason rather than religious authority, the Kaczors tackle the most controversial and talked-about positions of the Church — on contraception, marriage, reproductive technologies, cohabitation, and divorce — arguing for the reasonableness of the Church’s views on these issues.

The latest in Schadt’s series on St. Joseph has a long subtitle: The Call to Fatherly Greatness - Prayer of Faith: 80 Days to Unlocking Your Power As a Father. He contends that society goes by way of the family and the family goes by way of the father, so if you want to change the world, change the father.

His father’s job forced the relocation of Fr. Michael Deering’s family from the South Side of Chicago to the Deep South when he was in his late teens. And he has dropped deep roots in Alabama. His degree in electrical engineering from Auburn equipped him for a longtime job in sales for Eastman Kodak. But the priesthood called, and he was ordained in 2002 at the age of 49. Today, Fr. Deering is pastor of two parishes and co-vicar general. He considers his Legatus chaplain role “not a duty, but a delight.”

This question has become more common in recent years with the passage of laws in some states that recognize homosexual unions and, more recently, judges legalizing same-sex “marriage."

The shortage of physicians caused by the Affordable Care Act is driving a significant change in primary care practices. There is a growing shortage of primary care physicians (PCPs), and experts say the shortage will grow.

Popes John XXIII and John Paul II were declared saints on April 27. Pope Francis presided and Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI attended. The canonization comes at a time of danger to religious liberty in our pluralistic and increasingly secularized country, with economic strains and laws that threaten the Catholic identity of health care ministries.

Pope Francis has made many business leaders uncomfortable since the publication of his apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium last November. It was followed in mid-May by his comments to the heads of United Nations agencies gathered in Rome.

One of the most descriptive definitions of man in Catholic tradition is that he is “capax Dei” or “capable of God.” Saint Augustine writes, “The mind is the image of God, in that it is capable of Him and can be partaker of Him” (De Trinitate, XIV, 8:11).

Mozilla’s Brendan Eichs was not the first person to lose his job for supporting marriage, but he was the most senior and most prominent to do so. Attacked for having given $1,000 to support California’s Proposition 8 six years ago, he was forced to resign 10 days after becoming CEO.

Australia’s only canonized saint, Mary MacKillop strove to tame her country’s spiritual and material poverty. She was the eldest of eight children born to Catholic parents from Scotland.

In mid-July, I’ll meet my fourth son. While preparing this issue of the magazine, it occurred to me that even though he hasn’t been born, he’s got a tough road ahead of him.