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At our recent Summit in January, emcee and speaker Matt Fradd gave a compelling talk entitled The Four Last Things. During his talk, he shared about a near death experience that he had last year and how it changed his whole perspective on life.

Arrested by the German Gestapo in 1944 for being “too Catholic” and sent to a concentration camp, Blessed Marcel Callo remains an exemplar for his faith devotion.

Some very prominent voices of late – in politics, media, Hollywood, even in the Church – have been quarantined through death, removal, or silence. Often it seems a life lived truthfully and honorably has no worldly worth, and can be seen by many as foolish and bygone.

Humility is a virtue that helps us keep everything – even business matters – in perspective.

John Dame is CEO of Dame Management Strategies, a management consulting firm based in Harrisburg, PA; Jeffrey Gedmin is a senior fellow at Georgetown University and at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London-based think tank. Here are some elaborations on their “Six Principles for Developing Humility as a Leader,” gleaned from an article they co-authored for Harvard Business Review several years back.

After living in Los Angeles for eight years, Mary Ashley Burton was taken aback when her new doctor in Ventura County accompanied her out the door after a check-up, and personally wrote out directions for her lab work and imaging.

The past year has caused employment challenges for many in the United States in a variety of industries, with one of the hardest-hit groups being recent college graduates seeking professional starts.

January’s Legatus Summit East in balmy Palm Beach at The Breakers — the first Summit on Florida’s Atlantic Coast in over 10 years — drew a remarkable Legate crowd of several hundred, enthused and intent on standing especially strong for Christ in tumultuous times. It was a much-needed recharge following a vexing year.

Anger. Distrust. Violence. Cancel culture. Everywhere we turn, we find divisiveness—on the street, in the halls of government, at workplaces, even among family members. As Catholics and Legates, how do we respond?

Jérôme Lejeune, a French medical doctor and worldclass geneticist, was declared venerable — the first step on the road to canonization — on the eve of the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision that “discovered” a constitutional right to abortion.

A little over a year ago, I had a big, beautiful blueprint laid out on my desk. After 10 years in our building, our Catholic nonprofit was moving to new office space.

In 1996, I was a newly ordained priest at a parish in Philadelphia. There, I met a little girl named Sarah. She was 10 years old, with long dark hair and the biggest blue eyes I had ever seen. Most of her time was spent at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia because a virus had damaged her heart. She loved rainbows and had made drawings of them in crayon. They were taped to the walls of her hospital room. For six months, the entire parish prayed for Sarah’s recovery.

Another Sunday without the Eucharist. I pray my other prayers with some extra zeal to mark the Lord’s day.

At work, you’re responsible for many people. You’re in relationships, and you’re integrated in a community where your choices influence others. My challenge to you is this: be the CEO not only of your own health, but also of those in your sphere of influence.

“I do not want to send them away hungry…” (Matt. 15:32) In the shadow of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem is a restaurant, Shepherds Nai, where you will never go away hungry!

In 2014, I was deeply honored to serve my dear friends, and brothers and sisters in Christ, as the president of the Denver Chapter. Our Chapter is the largest in the organization and has flourished for years, so it was a real joy for me to work side by side with such deeply committed people of faith.

Brian Dulin of Bucks County Chapter honored as 2020 National Program Chair of the Year

Father Dave Heney of the Ventura/LA North Chapter named recipient of 2020 West Region Chaplain Award