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.

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.

Couples who work together must balance relationship across career and family life.

Whether husband and wife are equal partners at work, they certainly must be at home, according to Meg Cadoux Hirshberg, author of For Better or for Work: A Survival Guide for Entrepreneurs and Their Families.

Quarterback-turned-financial advisor, Travis Lulay values faith, family, and football – in that order

Carl N. Karcher (1917-2008), founder and CEO of one of the nation’s largest fast food chains, Carl’s Jr., was an unabashed Catholic – a daily communicant, man of prayer, and avid supporter of religious, pro-life, and politically conservative causes.

Sarah Landman had been stuck on a problem at work for several months when she happened to mention it to her Legatus Networks business deals group.

Pope St. John Paul II famously said: “The future of the world and of the Church passes through the family.”

January is the month when we ring in a new year with the hope that it will be both happy and prosperous. After the unusual challenges of 2020, our greeting might belie an underlying skepticism, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic that dogged us much of this past year remains with us at the turning of the calendar. We do wish for happier times.

One key source of happiness for those in the workforce is job satisfaction, often heavily dependent upon the social aspects of the office environment, a sense of purpose and value, and the opportunity for advancement.

Although the Ku Klux Klan has long ceased to be a significant influence in American life, when it is recalled it is typically thought of as an anti -black group of the Old South. But its adherents were active in other parts of the country as well and the targets of its ire also included Roman Catholics.

Biden-Harris supporters are compiling “Enemies Lists,” reminiscent of totalitarian regimes. “Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) tweeted in November.

Peace of soul is a precondition for fostering peace on earth. The first step is to conform to the will of God, the Father of our Savior.

Legates soon will have a timely opportunity at Legatus Summit East 2021 to learn how to be salt and light in a world that has seen much decay and darkness amid the political unrest and Coronavirus lockdowns of 2020. Among the Summit speakers at the Jan. 14-1 conference in Palm beach, FL, will be Andrew Abela, dean of the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America, and Andrew Swafford, associate professor of theology at Benedictine College, Atchison, KS. Abela will discuss "Faithful Catholic Business Leadership in a Time of Moral Hyper-Confusion," and Swafford, "The Catholic Faith in the Letter to the Hebrews." Here is a preview of their talks.

In April 1988, I accepted the invitation to join the newly formed Legatus initiative. The mission of Legatus was complementary to my mission, and so I welcomed this opportunity to collaborate with other Catholic executives.

Despite his call for unity, Joe Biden threatens to unravel a longstanding source of harmony in America — religious freedom. He is entitled to his views on religion. He would not be entitled to employ the power of government to drive traditional religious actors and their beliefs from American public life.

The founding principles of the United States are under attack – not only from historical revisionists, but also from a growing popularity of socialist ideology.

Father Ramil Fajardo, a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago in residence at its Holy Name Cathedral, recalled the first night of rioting in May triggered by the death of George Floyd.

As much as he enjoyed working with investors during his 32-year Wall Street career, Legate Mike Donoghue felt he had another purpose – to use some of what he had learned to help those less fortunate.

There’s no doubt that this has been the strangest of years. It’s possibly the strangest in living memory and certainly the strangest since the 9/11 terrorist attack of 2001.