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USE THE Cs

“The art of communication is the language of leadership.”

—JAMES HUMES

Matthew Kauth had always been a passionate and faith-filled man. When he chose to enter the seminary to become a Catholic priest, it didn’t shock those who knew him best. It was during his seven years of education in various seminaries throughout the world when he discovered a leadership gap in the church. He described the gap as a “lack of patrimony.” This is anything that is “handed down” in an institution—part of its tangible and intangible “wealth.” He felt this two-thousand-year-old profession was lacking a structure to help its men develop into the priests God had called them to be.

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