I was pleasantly surprised a few years ago when visiting our parish CCD class. A young boy simply said: “You have to be good in order to be happy.” I told him that St. Thomas Aquinas would be pleased to hear him say this. But how do we make good choices in life?

The Church has confronted a dazzling and depressing number of heresies in her long history – Gnosticism, Pelagianism, Jansenism, to name just a few – and one that for a time seemed on the verge of establishing its dark ascendancy over Christianity was Arianism. At its heart, Arianism proposed that the Son of God was not eternal but was created by the Father from nothing. Christ was thus a changeable creature, his dignity bestowed upon him as Son of God.

On the evening of February 7, 2018, the Legatus colors of red and gold adorned Hurstbourne Country Club as the newly inducted members of the Louisville chapter raised their glasses of Kentucky bourbon in celebration of becoming the 24th chartered chapter of Legatus in the Great Lakes Region.

Though not quoted once in Scripture, St. Joseph’s example as recorded in the New Testament reveals a just man who had the humility to take the Blessed Virgin Mary as his wife and to become the foster father of Jesus Christ...

Our mission as Legates is to study, live and spread the faith… I want to touch on the importance of studying our faith.

The role of Catholic clergy is pivotal in developing Western culture at key moments in history in this scholarly volume. Naturally folks like Sts. Augustine and Benedict get their due, but Slattery also highlights the impact of priests like Alcuin, mentor to Charlemagne...

These laws are based on the immutable principles of selling that I learned in my real estate days and are invaluable for effective evangelization.

Making decisions about assisted nutrition and hydration can be challenging. We are blessed with the gift of the Catholic Church’s clear moral teachings to guide us. While assisted suicide and euthanasia – seeking to eliminate the sufferer as a means of removing suffering – are always immoral, there are nonetheless times when there is no moral obligation for a patient to receive food and water. Here’s a quick primer on when and why.

According to Gallup's World Poll, many people hate their job and especially their boss. Only 15 percent of employees worldwide are enthusiastically engaged in their work – the rest would rather be doing something else. If we could successfully engage the remaining 85 percent, imagine how much more effective businesses would be.

As America tries to assimilate another school shooting in Florida, the uncomfortable question is: why wouldn’t such things happen when education and social structures teach that truth and morality are fluid? Who dictates what is right, wrong, tolerated or not?

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.

St. Clare was an early disciple of St. Francis of Assisi who went on to found a religious community for women, later known as the Order of Poor Clares, based on his rule. This volume beautifully presents her life and her story of faith, with particular attention given to her personal virtues and her fraternal relationship with Francis...

“Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth,” Pope John Paul II began his 1998 encyclical Fides et Ratio. Yet many Christians cannot adequately explain why they believe as they do...

Catholic apologist Patrick Madrid has assembled here a collection of personal stories of men and women who have come to embrace Catholicism because her teachings on life issues transformed their hearts...

Father Chris Monturo jokes that he celebrated his first Mass when he was six years old. Wearing a purple Washington Redskins poncho for a chasuble, the young Father Monturo could recite almost all the prayers of the Mass from memory...

Though many have heard of the “Protestant work ethic,” Dr. Paul Voss, a renowned leadership speaker and executive coach, presents a Catholic alternative. Voss, 53, president of the Ethikos consulting firm, discussed the “Catholic Work Ethic” as a speaker at the 2018 Legatus Summit.