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Members of Legatus are many things: leaders, business owners, directors, philanthropists, and at least in two cases, matchmakers.

It was a little over two years ago when Legatus central regional director Ken Darnell reached out to Bishop David Kagan of Bismarck, North Dakota, to gauge the bishop’s interest in starting a Legatus chapter there.

In an unprecedented chartering, Legatus’ new Kansas City Chapter is the first to encompass two adjacent dioceses of the same name (Kansas City, MO; and Kansas City, KS). And the eve of the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary (August 14) provided the perfect setting.

A burgeoning Florida chapter that got derailed during the financial crisis of 2008 just celebrated its first holiday season as a new “ambassador village” of Legatus.

Two major coastal cities are home to the newest Legatus chapters, as a fresh wave of faith enthusiasm swells far and wide.

The spiritual, inspirational, and leisure event of the year for so many Legates, the 2018 Summit in late January at the Ritz-Carlton Grande Lakes in Orlando, FL was a sold-out success. The three-day “Be Not Afraid” event held January 25-27 stirred Legates far and wide to be radically bold in their witness for Christ through the Catholic truth in engaging the challenges of the day. This year’s Summit showcased over 13 renowned Catholic speakers...

Joseph Tort and Keith Kiser are Legates deeply involved in providing young faithful a thorough, well-rounded Catholic education as well as a solid moral foundation.

“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,” is a saying expressing the power of family influence. For three Legate families, both intentional formation and the osmosis of shared lives brought forth a new generation looking very familiar indeed.

Marriage has its moments of joy, love and happiness, and certainly its crosses. Human weakness, tragedy, and everyday stresses of work, finances, and raising children can strain any marriage.

The institution of marriage is under attack today, perhaps more than at any other time in history. In a 2015 address, Pope Francis said the family “as God wants it, composed of a man and a woman for the good of the spouses and also the generation and education of children, is deformed by powerful contrary projects supported by ideological colonization.”

As an Internet safety consultant, Legate Ryan Foley is keenly aware of the threat online pornography poses to families. With desktop and laptop computers, cell phones and tablets now as common as coffeemakers in many homes, anyone who can tap a keypad or keyboard and view a screen can easily access pornographic images....

Driving into Houston a few days after Hurricane Harvey swept through eastern Texas in late August, J. Antonio Fernandez saw huge piles of sheetrock, carpets, clothes and other debris stacked along the streets in America’s fourth-largest city...