Religion, Legatus

Why Southern California for Legatus Summit
I have been trying to figure this out for a while. This might be an answer.

Chaplain moved by Legatus mission

Abbot Eugene Hayes, O. Praem.
San Juan Capistrano Chapter
Even though he was born in Brooklyn, Abbot Eugene Hayes fell in love with Southern California — and the Norbertine Order — when he was a young man studying theology in New York. He joined St. Michael’s Abbey near San Juan Capistrano in the early 1970s.
Father Hayes was eventually named head of the Norbertine order before being elected abbot of St. Michael’s. Education is the primary apostolate of the abbey, which has nearly 50 priests and 20 men in priestly formation.
How did you get involved with Legatus?
I got to know members through the Knights of Malta and Knights of the Holy Sepulchre. I would occasionally be asked to speak or say Mass for the local Legatus chapters. Two years ago there was interest in starting the San Juan Capistrano Chapter, and they asked me to be one of their chaplains when the chapter was launched last year.
http://www.legatusmagazine.org/?p=1612

The Abbey has a current expansion project
http://abbeynews.com/Expansion-Current.html

statue of St. Michael
recently donated by Tim and Steph Busch
http://www.abbeynews.net/newsletter/Messenger200804.pdf page 5

TIMOTHY BUSH….HUGE

10 Questions for Tim Busch CEO of Pacific Hospitality Group
Here’s just a few…
What three people would you most like to have dinner with?
Pope Benedict XVI, President Bush and Bill Gates.

Who do you most admire in the business world?
Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino’s Pizza, who has given his wealth to creating a Catholic university and doing good with his resources.

What is your favorite charity?
Catholic schools that my wife and I co-founded in Orange County and St. Michael’s Abbey in Orange County.
http://www.napavalleyregister.com/business/10-questions/article_ab7ad288-c795-5262-af06-a69b80e17b1e.html

Must read…Timothy Busch is involved in everything. The West Coast Tom Monaghan?
http://jserrablog.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/busch-article.pdf

Recent Article..SYMBOLISM

Two remarkable reds fueled by Lodi grapes
Published: Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010

I turned the bottle around and read the back label did I realize that the wine indeed is named for Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, better known these days as Pope Benedict XVI.

Who would dare exploit in such a whimsical and commercial way the name of the pontiff? That would be Tim Busch, who with his wife, Steph, owns Trinitas Cellars, a wing of their posh Meritage Resort & Spa on the southern end of the Napa Valley.

Tim Busch is an Orange County entrepreneur long active in Catholicism. He donates generously to church programs, he collects religious icons, and when he founded the winery in 2000, he chose the Latin term for “Trinity” for his brand, which also produces a white wine called “Psalms” and a rosé called “Rose’ary.”

The pope appears delighted with this devotion, even the unorthodox practice of naming a wine for him, says Busch. On pilgrimages to the Vatican, the couple have presented the pope with bottles of their wines, including “ratZINger,” which received a notable papal blessing.

On that occasion, Busch recalls, the pope paused while taking his leave of an audience of about 100 to ask an aide to retrieve the bottle, the only gift of several that day that he took to his apartment.

“It’s probably still there on a shelf,” says Busch, noting that Benedict isn’t known to consume much wine.
http://www.sacbee.com/161/story/2456744.html

To be noted…If Timothy Busch founded 15 legatus chapter then he founded most if not all of the Legatus chapters in the West Region. Quite a feat for a guy that started out in the grocery business. Only in Ann Arbor…could there be such success.
http://www.legatus.org/public/contactlegatus.asp#wes

A picture is worth a thousand words. Nuf said

http://www.trinitascellars.com/trinityofwine.html

thx nikki..good one..might pop this over to reinhardt/EC..its legatus

Down but Not Out in Catholic Suburbia Inner-city parochial schools are not the only ones struggling.

Tim Busch has an answer to the epidemic of closing Catholic schools. And it has nothing to do with vouchers.

Amid the gloom Mr. Busch offers a prescription for revival: End the financial dependence on parish or diocese. Build attractive facilities. And compete for students.

If that sounds like a business formula, it is. Mr. Busch is a good friend I came to know through Legatus, an association of Catholic CEOs. Spend any time around him, and you’ll find he believes that America needs Catholic schools more than ever, and that they can compete with the best. To prove it, he’s helped start up two privately run Catholic schools—St. Anne elementary school and JSerra high school, both in southern California.

Mr. Busch’s privately run Catholic schools, of course, are not the only new model showing promise. The 24 Jesuit-based Cristo Rey high schools across the country do a terrific job through an innovative work-study program. The bishop and his flock in Wichita, Kan., embraced a stewardship model that calls upon all parishioners to give 8% of their gross income, which allows the diocese to make all its Catholic schools tuition free. And Catholic universities such as Notre Dame and Boston College are reaching out to help run Catholic elementary and high schools.

“We can’t wait for vouchers, and we can’t look to the old model of relying on our pastors and bishops to come up with the money and answers,” says Mr. Busch. “If we want Catholic schools for our children and our society, we have to adopt new models that let us compete.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107204575039652927155186.html?mod=WSJ_HomeAndGarden_sections_BuyingAndSelling



snip…and here ya go…
A strategic plan written by researchers at The Catholic University of America suggests that the Archdiocese of Atlanta needs at least three more elementary schools.

The next Archdiocese’s schools to open, however, could take several years to build because of difficult economic times.
http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-s-catholic-schools-288469.html?cxtype=rss_news_128746

CUA
The Catholic University of America, founded in 1887 by the U.S. Catholic bishops with the support of Pope Leo XIII, is the national university of the Catholic Church in the United States. Established as a graduate research center, the university began offering undergraduate education in 1904 and today is home to 12 schools and 21 research facilities. Catholic University is the only American university with ecclesiastical faculties granting canonical degrees in three disciplines.
The university’s verdant 193-acre campus, located just north of Capitol Hill, allows students easy access to the wide range of educational, cultural and political opportunities that Washington, D.C. has to offer.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES
http://president.cua.edu/staff/trustees.cfm

Trustees related to Legatus summit:
Timothy R. Busch, Esq., Irvine, Calif.
Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, New York, N.Y.
Cardinal Francis E. George, O.M.I., Chicago, Ill.
Anthony R. Tersigni, St. Louis, Mo.

Article CUA…
Catholic University of America Hosts Rick Santorum

snip …2008, former Republican Senator Rick Santorum spoke at the Catholic University of America (CUA) in Washington, DC

snip… The University has allowed death penalty supporters and pro-war advocates such as Newt Gingrich, Sam Brownback, and Dick Cheney to speak on campus despite the Church’s teachings on these issues.
http://www.religiondispatches.org/blog/religiousright/602/an_act_of_hypocrisy:_catholic_university_of_america_hosts_rick_santorum

Ave Maria University and Catholic Univ of America connection.

September / October 2009
Pie in the Sky
What happened when a billionaire pizza mogul tried to build an elite Catholic law school.

….Around this time, Safranek decided he would pray every day for fifty-four days straight to St. Thomas More, the Renaissance lawyer and statesman who coined the word “utopia.” As he recited his Hail Marys, an idea began to percolate: Why not start a new Catholic law school? A few weeks later, Safranek caught word that Tom Monaghan, the eccentric billionaire who founded Domino’s Pizza, had sold his business and was planning to devote his fortune to conservative Catholic causes. So he hashed out a proposal and got four other University of Detroit Mercy professors and an administrator to sign on. To show they were serious, each of them offered to chip in $20,000 and work for free for a year.

Monaghan approached Bernard Dobranski, the dean of the law school at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and asked him to head up the new venture, known as Ave Maria School of Law. It was a risky proposition for a seasoned academic— giving up tenure, a generous salary, and the promise of long sabbaticals to take part in a startup venture. But the idea piqued Dobranski’s interest. The following day, he asked his friend, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to lunch and sought his advice. Scalia pressed him to take the job. The conservative justice was later flown out on Monaghan’s private jet to consult on the curriculum. Scalia was so enthusiastic about the project that he also persuaded his friend Robert Bork, the erstwhile conservative Supreme Court nominee, to join the faculty. Before long other prominent conservatives were lining up behind the project. They were so enamored with the idea, and the money Monaghan was willing to put behind it, that no one seemed to give much thought to the implications of a fast-food mogul wading into the world of higher ed.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/college_guide/feature/pie_in_the_sky.php?page=all

Bernard Dobranski
Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law at Ave Maria Law School.

Ave Maria Lecture Speakers
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

Faculty Profiles
Judge Robert H. Bork, Professor of Law
http://www.avemarialaw.edu/index.cfm?event=about.deansMessage

you are the legatus specialist nikki..thx

nikki6278 wrote:Mr. Busch is a good friend I came to know through Legatus, an association of Catholic CEOs. Spend any time around him, and you’ll find he believes that America needs Catholic schools more than ever,

I was beginning to think about this in another thread in the forum here about the spiritual battle taking place, and this struck me. I've been reading this thread nikki and it's been very informative. I don't know a lot about legatus, but you've been providing excellent posts here. thanks.

What I was beginning to think about and now wonder if it's ever the more true and not merely speculation is, with all the music industry, bad politicking, poor economic policies (thus poor economy), and in general the decline of public education in the U.S.; this is a good in-roads for the Catholic Church. Bad guy, good guy, but play for the same team. Catholic Church has been doing a tremendous amount of image (reputation) building recently so they are playing the "good guy"? That's as far as my current knowledge brings me but of course all that is happening in the world isn't made public.

Thanks for the nice comments!

I too think something is up with the church....It is not about being "Catholic" anymore?

Archbishop speaks at Ave Maria convocation

Cardinal Francis George, archbishop of Chicago, told a crowd Tuesday at Ave Maria University the Catholic faith, too, has a spectrum of viewpoints on how the religion should adapt to fit into a 21st century culture.

George relayed Pope Benedict's definition of reform, which is a renewal of faith instead of a return to Catholicism of generations ago.
http://www.news-press.com/article/20100203/NEWS0104/2030383/1075/Archbishop-speaks-at-Ave-Maria-convocation

Yet another story about conversion. hmmm

Sister Teresa Benedicta will share her parents' rich conversion story from humanism and Judaism to the Catholic faith, and her own journey in the faith, at the February meeting of the Ave Maria Founders Club.

Sr. Benedicta also will talk about her call as a member of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, one of the fastest-growing orders in the United States. She is the host of the EWTN weekly TV series Truth in the Heart and also teaches at the Donahue Academy.

begins at the 5 p.m. Mass. Following Mass is dinner at The Bean (at your own cost) with the presentation at 7 p.m.
http://www.aveherald.com/calendar/view/924/6.html

Jewish Museum hosts exhibition on Pope John Paul II

A few days before workers carefully unpacked transcripts, photos, prayer books and other items highlighting Pope John Paul II’s special friendship with the Jewish people, Karen Falk was hopeful the collection would inspire many to live out the pope’s call for interfaith understanding.

The items, on loan from Poland, Italy and Israel, will make up a landmark exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Maryland, opening Sept. 2 and running through Jan. 1.

“A Blessing to One Another: Pope John Paul II and the Jewish People” will be presented by the Jewish Museum, The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore, the Baltimore Jewish Council and Catholic Charities.

snip
Pope John Paul II holds a special place in the hearts of Jews, Falk said. The late pope grew up in the small Polish town of Wadowice, where he befriended many Jewish people.

During his pontificate, John Paul became the first pope since the first century to visit a synagogue and the first pope to establish diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Israel. He also was the first to make an official visit to Israel and the first to ask for forgiveness for the Catholic Church’s past treatment of Jews.
http://www.catholicreview.org/subpages/selectedstory.aspx?action=8650

more Jewish/Catholic symbolism just prior to Legatus

The young tearaway who's in the running to be next Pope

When Pope Benedict XVI kicks off his four-day visit to the UK with a greeting from the Queen at Holyrood House in Edinburgh on 16 September, he will be accompanied by a gaggle of cardinals known as "Princes of the Church". And, if high-level leaks are correct, among them will be a handsome, modest and very intelligent man who is a potential contender to be the next pontiff. If that were to happen Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson would be the first African pope for 1,500 years.


He was born in 1948 in what was then known as the Gold Coast, a British colony in West Africa. As a boy he was, like his compatriot the former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan, a subject of the Queen's father, King George VI. Indeed, for a few years after the king's death he was her subject, but in 1957 the Gold Coast attained independence and became Ghana.

His Eminence Cardinal Turkson, the fourth of 10 children, has wasted little time in hitting the highest reaches of the Roman Catholic Church. He is 122nd in seniority among the 179 cardinals, many of whom have retired and would never be regarded as papabili (papal material). In precedence, the Ghanaian stands just a few places behind the Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, Keith O'Brien, and the semi-retired former archbishop of Westminster, Cormac Murphy-O'Connor.

snip
As a priest in his forties he was preparing for a doctorate at the Biblicum, the famous biblical institute in Rome, when the Archbishop of Cape Coast, John Kodwo Amissah, died. At 43 he was offered – and reluctantly accepted – the job in Ghana's former capital, dominated by its castle, a reminder of the horrors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Cape Coast Castle was the last halt in Africa for thousands – including, possibly, Michelle Obama's forebears – before they were sent to the American plantations.

Archbishop Turkson was named Cardinal 10 years later. In October last year he was called to Rome and made president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, charged with getting Catholic social teaching accepted worldwide. He has spoken out against the environmental impact of global businesses and he accuses them of doing too much open-cast mining in Ghana, just because it's easier and cheaper. Consequently, he said, villages are wiped out. "They build a few shacks for the displaced people and leave it at that.... When you move people off land they have been farming, you are also taking away their jobs and livelihoods. People think mining companies bring jobs, but when we visited those areas we found far more jobs were lost than new ones created. After the surface mining, the forest cover and the top soil are gone. What's left is a deep, gaping crater." Governments, he said, must not sign away their environmental future.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/the-young-tearaway-whos-in-the-running-to-be-next-pope-2064792.html



our next Pope? and some say the last pope...interesting mention of Michele Obama...

Auschwitz then, ground zero now

Edith Stein was executed at Auschwitz on Aug. 9, 1942, for the crime of being a Jew.

As a teen, she moved away from her Jewish faith to atheism until she experienced a religious conversion at age 29. She eventually converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Carmelite nun a few years later.

Ms. Stein gained renown as a writer, philosopher and speaker.

In 1932, she denounced Hitler and Nazism. She wrote the pope and asked him to denounce the Nazis and "to put a stop to this abuse of Christ's name." A public denunciation didn't come until 1937, when Pope Pius XI condemned the tenets of Nazism in his German encyclical, "With Burning Anxiety." On Palm Sunday in 1937, it was read from the pulpit of every Catholic Church in Germany, resulting in increased persecution of Catholics.

The horrors of Auschwitz were prayerfully commemorated in 1979 when Pope John Paul II visited the site during his historic trip to Poland. There, at "this Golgotha of the modern world," as he characterized it, the pope invoked Edith Stein:

"... Many victories were won [here]. I am thinking, for example, of the death in the gas chamber ... of the Carmelite Sister Benedicta, whose name in the world was Edith Stein...Where the dignity of man was so horribly trampled on, victory was won through faith and love."

snip
A group of Carmelite nuns purchased an abandoned building at Auschwitz in 1984 and opened a convent. There they prayed for the souls of the army of innocents executed on those grounds, very much in the tradition of Edith Stein's words: "it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone."

Jewish groups were concerned. To some, it seemed as if the site of the Auschwitz memorial was being hijacked by the religion of their oppressors.

snip
Pope John Paul II interceded and asked the nuns to move. In his mind, the good accomplished by a Carmelite convent at Auschwitz would be outweighed by the pain it caused to Jewish groups. Their mission, their prayers, could continue in a convent at a different location.

A similar drama unfolds today, only this time, it is a Muslim group that wants to build a mosque near ground zero.

http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=293883

lots of symbolism...

Old news...so why run a huge article on the guy?



Tom Monaghan: Joining The Giving Pledge a charitable way to spread faith

AVE MARIA — Tom Monaghan entered the world penniless and plans to leave the world the same way.

The Ave Maria University founder has used the billions he’s earned from starting one of the world’s largest pizza chains to benefit others. Because philanthropy has always played a big role in his life, it should come as no surprise Monaghan would make a pledge to donate his wealth to charity.

Monaghan joined dozens of other billionaires in recently committing to give away large chunks of their wealth as part of a pact. The Giving Pledge, thought up by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, is a $125 billion charity drive that involves some of the wealthiest families in the world.

SNIP
Interesting ....These are participants in The Giving Pledge, by state

CALIFORNIA: Eli and Edythe Broad; Michele Chan and Patrick Shoon-Shiong; Ann and John Doerr; Larry Ellison; Barron Hilton; Joan and Irwin Jacobs; Lorry I. Lokey; George Lucas; Alfred E. Mann; Tashia and John Morgridge; Bernard and Barbro Osher; Herb and Marion Sandler; Jeff Skoll; Tom Steyer and Kat Taylor

GEORGIA: Bernie and Bill Marcus; Ted Turner

HAWAII: Pierre and Pam Omidyar

WASHINGTON D.C.-MARYLAND: David M. Rubenstein; Vick and Roger Sant

MICHIGAN: Tom Monaghan

MISSOURI: Jim and Virginia Stowers

NEBRASKA: Warren Buffett; Walter Scott Jr.

NEW YORK: Michael R. Bloomberg; Barry Diller and Diane Von Furstenberg; Elaine and Ken Langone; Ronald O. Perelman; Peter G. Peterson; Julian H. Robertson Jr.; David Rockefeller; Jim and Marilyn Simons; Sanford and Joan Weill; Shelby White

OKLAHOMA: George B. Kaiser

PENNSYLVANIA: Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest

TEXAS: Laura and John Arnold; T. Boone Pickens

UTAH: Jon and Karen Huntsman

WASHINGTON: Paul G. Allen; Bill and Melinda Gates

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2010/aug/29/tom-monaghan-giving-pledge-ave-maria-university/

Faith of His Father’s; is Barack Obama a Christian?
By Timothy Birdnow Sunday, August 29, 2010
There is an ongoing dispute about the religion of Barack Hussein Obama; is he Christian as he claims, or a Moslem? Nearly one in five Americans believe he is Muslim; and this number has the mainstream news media in near hysterics. We are told that we have to take his word for it, because this is a matter of personal belief and who he claims to be is who he must be. Or so the media says. But Islam is notorious for allowing deceit in matters pertaining to infidels. Consider Quran 6:22 066.002

snip
This is known as Taqiyya, which translates roughly “Concealing, precaution, guarding.‚Äù Taqiyya means a Moslem does not have to tell the truth. In fact, if he is in the service of Allah, lying is not just acceptable but compulsory.

Thus, having established that IF Obama is a Muslim, then we can see it is entirely permissible for him to lie about being a Christian.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/27103


LOL is entirely permissible for Barack Hussein Obama to lie....LOL

This is known as Taqiyya, which translates roughly “Concealing, precaution, guarding.‚Äù Taqiyya means a Moslem does not have to tell the truth. In fact, if he is in the service of Allah, lying is not just acceptable but compulsory.

a big LOL to that..

Clarence Thomas – opus dei

Justice Clarence Thomas may have the closest ties to Opus Dei. His conversion was handled by Opus Dei priests John McCloskey, the highly visible American face of Opus Dei as well as Father Paul Scalia (Opus Dei priest and son of the Supreme Court Justice). Joining in the ceremony was the non-Opus Dei, but socially conservative priest Monsignor Peter Vaghi.

Thomas was raised Catholic. He attended a Benedictine seminary for time on a track to enter the priesthood, but left after encountering racist comments there. Upon his marriage to Kate Ambush, he began attending an Episcopal church. Thomas and his first wife subsequently divorced. Shortly thereafter his remarriage to Virginia Lamp, Thomas converted back to Catholicism, but his return was clearly with a stricter traditionalist bent. This is not only indicated by his Catholic reintrodoction by the aforementioned Father McCloskey, Monsignor Vaghi and Father Paul Scalia but his acquaintences since then.

As an example, Justice Thomas has made appeared at Tom Monaghan’s Ave Maria Law School, delivering the school’s first annual Ave Maria Lecture in 1999.
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/4/29/15140/0729

http://www.muckety.com/Clarence-Thomas/3939.muckety