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Chances are your parish priest isn’t a member of a fire department dive team or doesn’t fly airplanes on his downtime. Father David Peck, 61, a former Wall Street financial executive, channels his driven personality into his roles as pastor of St. John Neumann Church in St. Charles, Illinois and as chaplain of Legatus’ St. Charles Chapter.

On the verge of his first big break, Liam Page (Alex Roe) has a “Sister Golden Hair” moment: He ain’t ready for the altar, and that’s where he leaves his high school sweetheart standing, opting to pursue a promising career in country music instead...

The Church is “at the same time holy and always in need of being purified,” stated the Second Vatican Council (Lumen Gentium, 8). That’s as true now as it was when the Reformation erupted a half millennium ago.

A woman wrote recently asking why the U.S. bishops had never said anything about the racist demonstrations and subsequent violence in Charlottesville this past summer. In fact, the U.S. bishops released two statements almost immediately condemning what took place there...

Debates over ethical questions often conceal a more fundamental disagreement about whether morality can be objective. A moral judgment that is subjective does not bind anyone, while a judgment that is objective is binding because it is grounded in something that is recognized to be true...

On December 1st, over 200 Legatus members from 18 different chapters gathered in Midtown Manhattan for the 20th Annual Legatus Christmas Gala...

In August 1815, St. John Bosco was born into a family of peasant farmers in Italy’s Castelnuovo d’Asti (at base of the Alps, near Turin), later to be named in his honor...

It has been said that death is the most important thing in life. How we die – the state of our soul at that critical instant, and the moral choices that affect it – is the only thing we can ultimately control...

As we complete the 30th anniversary of Legatus, 1987 – 2017, I take this opportunity to reflect on the lives of two great men and great Legates who recently passed from this life...

Aurora Griffin, 26, is living proof that faith and reason go together. Griffin graduated Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree in classics from Harvard University in 2014. She was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University, where she received a graduate degree in theology...

Do your New Year's resolutions begin with fervor, then flame out by February? Instead, take this opportunity to have your resolutions be more than a checklist of personal goals for the year...

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a chronic disorder of the digestive system. Its primary symptoms are abdominal pain and altered bowel habits (constipation and/or diarrhea)...

The age of technology is an age of distraction for many. The same digital devices that offer instant communication and seemingly limitless options for enrichment and entertainment also tend to demand our attention, disrupt real human interaction, and disturb our interior peace.

St. Benedict wrote his Rule in the sixth century as a guide for the monastic life, but it isn’t just for monks anymore; his wisdom provides sound spiritual counsel and practical advice for men and women living in today’s world as well...

When we truly recognize the presence of God at all times and in all situations, then prayer becomes natural to the places of our daily lives, just as it is natural to pray when we enter a church...

I personally find the beginning of a new year a most helpful time, an especially energetic time, a time to think deeply about making some new goals regarding those areas in my life that I most want to turn my attention to, both physically and spiritually...

On Tuesday, November 14, the six Legatus chapters of the Chicago area gathered together for an inspiring evening at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare...