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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Main The history of the Knights of Columbus begins with its founding in 1882 by Father Michael J. McGivney at St. Mary's Parish in New Haven, Connecticut. The Knights of Columbus was initially a mutual benefit society for a membership of practicing male Catholics. Today, it advocates for Catholic causes and provides a range of philanthropic and support services to Catholic institutions worldwide. It is also one of the world's largest insurance companies and operates the shrine to Pope John Paul II in Washington, D.C.

The order was designed to foster members' pride in both their Catholic and American heritages and to establish standards of behavior for Catholic gentlemen. It expanded beyond Connecticut and the United States to establish its first international councils by 1905. The organization provided relief to soldiers in wars throughout the 20th century and fought anti-Catholic and racial prejudice. Its substantial membership and financial resources have enabled it to exercise considerable influence within the Catholic church and to promote Catholic views in social and political discourse.

Early history

Founding

A painting of the Michael J. McGivney
Michael J. McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus

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Michael J. McGivney, an American Catholic priest, founded the Knights of Columbus in New Haven, Connecticut. He gathered a group of men from St. Mary's Parish for an organizational meeting on October 2, 1881. It was incorporated on March 29, 1882. McGivney had originally conceived of the name "Sons of Columbus". James T. Mullen, who later led the organization, coined the name "Knights of Columbus", which expressed the ritualistic nature of the new organization and drew from positive historical associations.[1]

The Order was intended to be a mutual benefit society. As a parish priest in an immigrant community, McGivney saw what could happen to a family when the main income earner died. This was before most government support programs were established. He wanted to provide insurance to care for the widows and orphans left behind. In his own life, he temporarily had to suspend his seminary studies to care for his family after his father died.Шаблон:Sfn

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St. Mary's Church

Because of religious and ethnic discrimination, Roman Catholics in the late 19th century were regularly excluded from labor unions, popular fraternal organizations, and other organized groups that provided such social services.Шаблон:Sfn Papal encyclicals issued by the Holy See also prohibited Catholics from participating as lodge members within Freemasonry. McGivney intended to create an alternative organization. He also believed that Catholicism and fraternalism were compatible and wanted to found a society to encourage men to be proud of their American–Catholic heritage.Шаблон:Sfn

Fraternal organizations, which combined social aspects and ritual, were especially flourishing during the latter third of the nineteenth century, the so-called "Golden Age of Fraternalism.[2] New Haven's Irish Catholic men of the era could have joined one of many other organizations,Шаблон:Efn and Catholics of other ethnicities had additional options.Шаблон:Sfn

McGivney traveled to Boston to examine the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters and to Brooklyn, New York to learn about the recently established Catholic Benevolent League, both of which offered insurance benefits. He found the latter to be lacking the excitement he thought was needed if his organization were to compete with the secret societies of the day. He explored establishing a New Haven Court of the Foresters, but the group's charter in Massachusetts limited them to operating within that Commonwealth. McGivney's committee of St. Mary's parishioners decided to form a new club.Шаблон:Sfn

Catholic and American

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Christopher Columbus is the patron and namesake of the Knights.

Taking the name of Columbus was partially intended as a mild rebuke to Anglo-Saxon Protestant leaders, who upheld the explorer (a Genovese Italian Catholic who had worked for Catholic Spain) as an American hero, yet simultaneously sought to marginalize recent Catholic immigrants.Шаблон:Sfn[3] In taking Columbus as their patron, the founders expressed their belief that not only could Catholics be full members of American society, they were instrumental in its foundation.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn[3]

Of the first 28 members of the first council, 16 were born in Ireland.Шаблон:Sfn A majority of the first generation of Knights across the Order were immigrants.Шаблон:Sfn Joining the Knights gave the recent immigrants a mantle of "middle-class American respectability without forfeiting their preexisting ethnic and religious identities", and gave them "a rhetorical foundation for claims to full American citizenship".Шаблон:Sfn

Unlike many other Catholic organizations of the time, though, the Knights placed a greater emphasis on loyalty to their new world republics than they did on old ethnic divisions of the old world.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn McGivney envisioned an organization that would imbue members "with a zealous pride in one's American–Catholic heritage".Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In Canada, a similar sentiment held among early members.Шаблон:Sfn

The model of Christian knighthood promoted by the Order "provided Catholic men with a positive interpretation of the separation they would have experienced relative to the Protestant-dominated social and political context in New Haven."Шаблон:Sfn The Order effused a sense that as Catholic gentlemen and Knights of Columbus they should be regarded as exemplars of virtue, not aberrations from the dominant Protestant model of manhood.Шаблон:Sfn

High standards for members

Membership was limited to "practical" Catholic men or "Catholics in good standing" at the time of their application.Шаблон:Sfn Only "worthy" men were permitted to join.Шаблон:Sfn As Catholics in parishes that were predominately Irish and Irish-American, the demands placed on them by the church would be well known to them.Шаблон:Sfn

Perhaps to counteract the perception of the Irish as drunks or lower class, sobriety was demanded of members.Шаблон:Sfn The Order was the only fraternal organization in America at the time whose constitution did not exclude African American members,Шаблон:Sfn but "liquor dealers" were expressly prohibited from joining.Шаблон:Sfn Newspapers at the time published "sensationalized accounts of inebriated soirees" held by other organizations for Irishmen, but the "Knights' social functions—formal dinners, balls, and cotillions—also reflected members' aspirations toward middle-class refinement."Шаблон:Sfn

At the Board of Government convention in 1887, a proposal was made to admit non-Catholics, but was strongly opposed by Supreme Knight John J. Phelan: "The Order cannot stultify itself or allow itself to masquerade in the garb of sanctity it wittingly desecrates. Our laws design us to be Catholics pure and simple."Шаблон:Sfn

Growth

Although its first councils were all in Connecticut, the Order spread throughout New England and the United States in subsequent years. The Order experienced "unparalleled success" in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Шаблон:Sfn It outpaced all other Catholic fraternities of the era.Шаблон:Sfn By 1904, only five states had no council.[4]

By the time of the first annual convention in 1884, the Order was prospering. The five councils throughout Connecticut had a total of 459 members. Groups from other states were requesting information.Шаблон:Sfn By 1889, there were 300 councils comprising 40,000 knights. Twenty years later, in 1909, there were 230,000 knights in 1,300 councils.[5] The one millionth member, Ferdinand Foch, joined the order in 1921.[6]

As the order expanded outside of Connecticut, structural changes in the late 1880s and 1890s were instituted to give the Knights a federalist system with local, state, and national branches of government.Шаблон:Sfn This allowed them to coordinate activities across states and localities.Шаблон:Sfn

The Charter of 1899 included four statements of purpose, including: "To promote such social and intellectual intercourse among its members as shall be desirable and proper, and by such lawful means as to them shall seem best."Шаблон:Sfn The new charter showed members' desire to expand the organization beyond a simple mutual benefit insurance society. Associate members who did not purchase life insurance were permitted to join in 1892.Шаблон:Sfn

On September 22, 1934, William Cardinal O'Connell was the first American to be made an honorary member of the Supreme Council.Шаблон:Sfn In 1937, Massachusetts State Deputy Patrick J. Moynihan stunned delegates by nominating Deputy Supreme Knight Francis P. Matthews for Supreme Knight, but Matthews declined the nomination.Шаблон:Sfn

Outside the United States

The Knights of Columbus have councils in many countries, including Canada, the Philippines, Mexico, Poland, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, the Bahamas, the Virgin Islands, Cuba, Guatemala, Guam, Saipan, Lithuania, Ukraine, and South Korea.[7] The first councils in Mexico and the Philippines were founded in 1905.Шаблон:Sfn Cuba's first council was established in 1909.Шаблон:Sfn

Canada

Canada Council number 284 was established in 1897 in Montreal. It was largely anglophone with only six French Canadian members. Its first Grand Knight, however, was J.J. Guerin, a member of the Quebec Legislature.Шаблон:Sfn Archbishop Paul Bruchesi of Montreal and several other bishops initially opposed the Knights' expansion into Canada.Шаблон:Sfn Private negotiations with Cardinal James Gibbons assuaged the fears of most.Шаблон:Sfn

In Toronto, however, Archbishop Denis T. O'Connor blocked efforts to expand into his archdiocese on the grounds that there were already too many Catholic societies in existence.Шаблон:Sfn Upon his retirement in 1908, new archbishop Fergus McEvay allowed a council to be formed on the condition that he be allowed to appoint the council's chaplain.Шаблон:Sfn The 131 charter members swelled to more than 600 in just eight years, and it became the largest council in Ontario with nearly 10% of all knights in the province.Шаблон:Sfn

The Knights grew rapidly in Canada, and by 1904 there was a state council in Quebec and one for Ontario and the Maritimes.Шаблон:Sfn Six years later, in 1910, the 60 Canadian councils had 9,000 members.Шаблон:Sfn While there were other Catholic fraternal societies in Canada in the 19th century, "none recruited as vigorously, grew as rapidly, or captured the public attention and imagination as did the caped and plumed Knights of Columbus."Шаблон:Sfn By then, the Knights were seen as "those laymen who could successfully defend the Church from external opposition when required and, more importantly, could voice the opinions and teachings of the Church, bringing them to bear of the problems of Canadian society."Шаблон:Sfn

Forty years after its founding, the Knights of Columbus had spread into Canada and had become a powerful enough presence there to generate a backlash from the nationalist francophone community.Шаблон:Sfn French Canadians created a competing society, the Ordre de Jacques Cartier, in 1926.Шаблон:Sfn

Columbian manhood

In contrast to most of the other fraternal societies of the era, which provided an escape from the extreme gender bifurcation of the Victorian era, "literature produced by the Knights of Columbus valorized affectionate bonds between men and their mothers, and idealized the relationship between men and their wives and children."Шаблон:Sfn The early records of the Order did not display concern about the purported feminization of men that arises from a commitment to family and faith.Шаблон:Sfn

Instead, Columbian manhood in the early documents equated manhood with the performance of one's duties as a Catholic and father.Шаблон:Sfn It emphasized being chivalrous, a loving husband, a good Catholic, and a solidarity with one's fellow man.Шаблон:Sfn Knights were seen as fathers and parishioners first.Шаблон:Sfn This sense of duty to faith and family was also reflected in the public events the Order conducted during its first two decades of existence.Шаблон:Sfn

The Columbiad, "a monthly paper devoted to the interests of the Knights of Columbus", published an article in November 1903 comparing Knights of Columbus to chivalrous medieval Christian knights, extolling their shared traits of vigorous, virtuous, manly faith.Шаблон:Sfn "The Christian Knight," according to The Columbiad, "was the knight of spotless life, of Christian faith, of dauntless courage, of unblemished honor, faithful to his word, loyal and true, like the knights of King Arthur."Шаблон:Sfn Both had "manly virtue, valor, humanity, courtesy, justice and honor" and both were called to "rescue the helpless from captivity, to protect the orphans and widows, and assist the sick and poor."Шаблон:Sfn Knighthood, in the Columbian model, "valorized individual self-sacrifice for greater social welfare".Шаблон:Sfn It gave members "an aristocracy of character".Шаблон:Sfn

Columbian men were also expected to take an active role in fatherhood and child rearing.Шаблон:Sfn The Columbiad affirmed the role and duty of the father, encouraging men to show affection and to "assist their children intelligently and sympathetically to overcome" faults and character flaws.Шаблон:Sfn Men were also expected to have close and supportive relationships with their wives and mothers.Шаблон:Sfn

Fourth Degree

From the earliest days of the Order, members wanted to create a form of hierarchy and recognition for senior members;Шаблон:Sfn this issue was discussed at the National Meeting of 1899.Шаблон:Sfn As early as 1886, Supreme Knight James T. Mullen had proposed a patriotic degree with its own symbolic dress.Шаблон:Sfn From these discussions, the Fourth Degree was created, joining the three previous degrees on charity, unity, and fraternity.Шаблон:Sfn

About 1,400 members attended the first exemplification of the Fourth Degree at the Lenox Lyceum in New York on February 22, 1900.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The event was infused with Catholic and patriotic symbols, imagery that "celebrated American Catholic heritage".Шаблон:Sfn The two knights leading the ceremony, for example, were the Expositor of the Constitution and the Defender of the Faith.Шаблон:Sfn The ritual soon spread to other cities.Шаблон:Sfn The new Fourth Degree members returned to their councils, forming assemblies composed of members from several councils. Those assemblies chose the new members.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn[8]

In 1903, the Board of Directors officially approved a new degree exemplifying patriotism Order-wide, using the New York City model.Шаблон:Sfn The Order had a "desire to receive within its ranks only the best" and intended the men should be practicing Catholics. As one measure, each candidate was required to submit a certificate from his parish priest attesting that he had received Holy Communion within the past two weeks.Шаблон:Sfn

Fourth degree members belong to one of 3,109 assemblies, including 75 created in 2012.[9] The first assembly in Europe was established in 2012,[9] and in 2013 a new assembly for Boston-area college councils was created at Harvard University.[10] Шаблон:As of there were 335,132 Fourth Degree members, including 15,709 who joined the ranks of the Patriotic Degree the year before.[9]

In its early days, it worked to counter the bias that good Catholics could not be good Americans.Шаблон:Sfn The early Fourth Degree ceremony stressed the contributions Catholics from many countries had made to the United StatesШаблон:Sfn and had Catholic citizenship as its theme.Шаблон:Sfn

Color guards

Assemblies may form color guards, which are often the most visible arm of the Knights.[8] They often attend important civic and church events.[8]

The first Fourth Degree uniform, adopted in 1900, consisted of white ties, top hats and tails.[11][12] In 1940, the uniform was changed to a plumed chapeau, a tuxedo, a cape and a ceremonial sword.[12] With the 1940 uniform, the Supreme Master wore a dark blue cape and chapeau, a vice supreme master wore a light blue cape and chapeau, a master wore a gold cape and chapeau, a district marshal wore a green cape and chapeau, a faithful navigator wore a white cape and chapeau, an assembly commander wore a purple cape and chapeau, and color corps members wore red capes and white chapeaus.[8]

In 2017, the uniform was modernized to consist of a blue blazer, an official Knights of Columbus tie, and a beret, all of which are embossed with the fourth-degree emblem.[13][11][12] Members also wear a white shirt and dark gray slacks.[11][12] The ceremonial sword was retained.[11][12]

War efforts

Cristero War

Following the Mexican Revolution, the new government began persecuting the church. To destroy the church's influence over the Mexican people, anti-clerical statutes were inserted into the Constitution, beginning a ten-year persecution of Catholics that resulted in the deaths of thousands, including several priests who were also knights of Columbus. Leaders of the order began speaking out against the Mexican government. Columbia, the official magazine of the Knights, published articles critical of the regime. After the November 1926 cover of Columbia portrayed Knights carrying a banner of liberty and warning of "The Red Peril of Mexico", the Mexican legislature banned both the order and the magazine throughout the country.[14]

In 1926, a delegation of Supreme Council officers met with President Calvin Coolidge to share with him their concerns about the persecution of Catholics in Mexico. The order subsequently launched a $1Шаблон:Nbspmillion campaign to educate Americans about the attacks on Catholics and the church in the Cristero War.[15] The organization produced pamphlets in English and Spanish denouncing the anticlerical Mexican government and its policies. So much printed material was smuggled into Mexico that the government directed border guards be aware of women bringing Catholic propaganda into the country hidden in their clothes.Шаблон:Sfn[16] Twenty-five martyrs from the conflict would eventually be canonized, including six knights.[17][18]

Supreme Treasurer Daniel J. Callahan, a well known civic leader in Washington, convinced Senator William E. Borah to launch an investigation in 1935 into human rights violations in Mexico.Шаблон:Sfn The order was praised for their efforts by Pope Pius XI in his encyclical, Iniquis afflictisque.[19]

World War I

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To prove that good Catholics could also be good Americans, and to mitigate some of the American Anti-Catholicism prevalent in the United States at the time, the Knights supported both the war effort and the troops during [[World War I|World WarШаблон:NbspI]]. Thousands of knights served in the American Expeditionary Forces, including William T. Fitzsimons, considered the first American officer killed in the war.[20] On April 14, 1917, soon after the United States entered the war, the board of directors passed a resolution calling for

the active cooperation and patriotic zeal of 400,000 members of the order in this country to our Republic and its law, pledge their continued and unconditional support to the President and Congress of the Nation, in their determination to protect its honor and its ideals of humanity and right.Шаблон:Sfn

Supreme Knight James A. Flaherty proposed to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson that the Order establish soldiers' welfare centers in the U.S. and abroad. The organization already had experience, having provided similar services to troops encamped on the Mexican border during Pershing's expedition of 1916.[21] Staff and chaplains were sent to every Army camp and cantonment.Шаблон:Sfn

With the slogan "Everyone Welcome, Everything Free", the "huts" became recreation/service centers for doughboys regardless of race or religion.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn They were staffed by "secretaries", commonly referred to as "Caseys" (for K of C) who were generally men above the age of military service. The centers provided basic amenities not readily available, such as stationery, hot baths, and religious services.[22] One well-known "Casey" was major league baseball player Johnny Evers of "Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance", who traveled to France as a member of the Knights of Columbus to organize baseball games for the troops.[23] A total of 260 buildings were erected and 1,134 secretaries, of which 1,075 were overseas, staffed them.Шаблон:Sfn In Europe, headquarters were established in London and Paris.Шаблон:Sfn The order continued this work until November 1919, at which point the effort was taken over by the federal government.Шаблон:Sfn

To pay for these huts and their staff, the order instituted a per capita tax on the membership to raise $1Шаблон:Nbspmillion.Шаблон:Sfn Local councils undertook their own fundraising drives which resulted in an additional $14Шаблон:Nbspmillion to support the effort.Шаблон:Sfn In 1918, just before the war ended, the Knights and other organizations undertook another effort to raise funds to support the welfare of the men fighting abroad.Шаблон:Sfn The amount apportioned to the order and the National Catholic War Council totaled $30Шаблон:Nbspmillion which, when combined with earlier efforts, funded efforts to support troops both in the United States and overseas.Шаблон:Sfn After the war, the Knights became involved in education, occupational training, and employment programs for the returning troops.[21]Шаблон:Sfn

As a result of their efforts during the war, "the Order was infused with the self-confidence that it could respond with organizational skill and with social and political power to any need of Church and society. In this sense, the K. of C. reflected the passage of American Catholicism from an immigrant Church to a well-established and respected religious denomination which had proven its patriotic loyalty in the acid test of the Great War."Шаблон:Sfn[24] The Knights used the legitimacy their war efforts and government partnership provided them to attract millions of new members.Шаблон:Sfn

In Canada, the order's charity work a "fusion of Catholicism and Canadian identity among Catholic laymen but [which also] signaled significant changes in Protestant Toronto's acceptance of English-speaking Catholics as loyal citizens."Шаблон:Sfn According to Supreme Knight Flaherty, "The war provided us with an opportunity to put ourselves before the public in a most favorable light."Шаблон:Sfn Since this time they have been "a leading American association".Шаблон:Sfn In fact, the Knights' efforts attracted so much positive publicity that anti-Catholics and opponents of the order began to complain.Шаблон:Sfn

After the war, the Knights built a series of playgrounds in Rome for the children of that city, overseen by past Supreme Knight Edward L. Hearn.Шаблон:Sfn The work was eventually put to a halt by Benito Mussolini as he wanted the allegiance of the Italian youth for the fascist party.Шаблон:Sfn

World War II

Shortly after the United States entered World War II, the order established a War Activities Committee to keep track of all activities undertaken during the war.Шаблон:Sfn They also, in January 1943, established a Peace Program Committee to develop a "program for shaping and educating public opinion to the end that Catholic principles and Catholic philosophy will be properly represented at the peace table at the conclusion of the present war."Шаблон:Sfn The committee conferred with scholars, theologians, philosophers, and sociologists and proposed a program adopted at the 1943 Supreme Convention.Шаблон:Sfn[25]

Canadian Knights

Less than two weeks after the outbreak of World War II, on September 13, 1939, Canadian Supreme Director Claude Brown wired each Canadian state deputy to inform them of his plans to establish a welfare program comparable to the "huts" sponsored by the order during World WarШаблон:NbspI.Шаблон:Sfn The Canadian government accepted his proposal by the end of October, and formed a unified organization including the Knights, the YMCA, the Salvation Army, and the Canadian Legion.Шаблон:Sfn Between December 1939 and April 1940, the Canadian Knights raised almost $230,000, "an extraordinary amount considering the fact that there were relatively few Knights in Canada."Шаблон:Sfn

In large cities, recreation centers were established, and morale programs were run in a number of training camps.Шаблон:Sfn Hostels were established for servicemen on furloughs first in Canada, then England, and eventually across Europe.Шаблон:Sfn Sporting events were organized, musical and comedy shows were produced, and even academic courses and a library were provided.Шаблон:Sfn

Recognizing the danger the volunteers who staffed these camps were undertaking, the Canadian government gave them a stipend equal to that of a captain in the Canadian Army and made them eligible for retirement and disability pay.Шаблон:Sfn F. O'Neil, who ran the Knights' recreation center in Hong Kong, was captured by the Japanese and was made a prisoner of war.Шаблон:Sfn Six volunteers, including Brown, died during the war.Шаблон:Sfn

Canadian Knights, and not the government, provided supplies for Catholic chaplains.Шаблон:Sfn Bishop Charles Leo Nelligan of the Military Ordinariate of Canada wrote that Шаблон:Blockquote

Supreme Knight Francis Matthews "expressed a feeling of pride" on behalf of the entire order at the Canadian Knights' efforts, and membership in Canada more than doubled between 1939 and 1947.Шаблон:Sfn

Conflict with the Ku Klux Klan

Since its earliest days, the Knights of Columbus has been a "Catholic anti-defamation society".Шаблон:Sfn These efforts increased during the 1920s as the Knights, the "pre-eminent Catholic fraternal organization",Шаблон:Sfn sought to correct misconceptions about Catholicism.Шаблон:Sfn

Not long after the establishment of the Fourth Degree, during the nadir of American race relations, a bogus oath was circulated claiming that Fourth Degree Knights swore to exterminate Freemasons and Protestants. In addition, they purportedly were prepared to flay, burn alive, boil, kill, and otherwise torture anyone, including women and children, when called upon to do so by church authorities.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn "It is a strange paradox," according to some commentators, that the degree devoted to patriotism should be accused of anti-Americanism.Шаблон:Sfn

The "bogus oath" was based on a previous oath falsely attributed to the Jesuits more than three centuries earlier.Шаблон:Sfn The Ku Klux Klan, which was growing into a newly powerful force through the 1920s, spread the bogus oath far and wide as part of their contemporary campaign against Catholics (which was part of a campaign against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, of whom many were Catholic).Шаблон:Sfn[26][27] During the 1928 Presidential election, the Klan printed and distributed a million copies of the oath in an effort to defeat Catholic Democratic candidate Al Smith. Thomas S. Butler (R), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, read it into the Congressional Record.[28] The bogus oath was refuted by the Committee of Public Information, a propaganda agency of the U.S. Government established during World WarШаблон:NbspI.Шаблон:Sfn

Misunderstanding Catholicism, the Klan alleged that Knights were only loyal to the Pope and that they advocated the overthrow of the United States government.Шаблон:Sfn Across the country, local, state, and the Supreme Councils offered rewards to anyone who could prove that the widely circulated oath was authentic.Шаблон:Sfn No one could, but that did not stop the Klan from continuing to publish and distribute copies. Numerous state councils and the Supreme Council believed that this "violent wave of religious prejudice was actuated by mercenary motives". They believed publication would stop if the KKK were assessed fines or punished by jail time assessed. They began suing distributors for libel.Шаблон:Sfn The KKK ended its publication of the false oath. As the Order did not wish to appear motivated by a "vengeful spirit", it asked for leniency from judges when sentencing offenders.Шаблон:Sfn

To help combat this misconception, the K of C submitted the actual oath of Fourth Degree members for examination by various groups of prominent non-Catholic men around the country. Many made public declarations attesting to the loyalty and patriotism of the Knights.Шаблон:Sfn After examining the true oath, a committee of high-ranking California Freemasons, a group identified as a target in the bogus oath, declared in 1914:

The ceremonial of the Order [of the Knights of Columbus] teaches a high and noble patriotism, instills a love of country, inculcates a reverence of civic duty and holds up the Constitution of our Country as the richest and most precious possession of a Knight of the Order.Шаблон:Sfn

In Muncie, Indiana, a local council organized a march of 750 people to protest the KKK.Шаблон:Sfn

Pierce v. Society of Sisters

After World War I, many native-born Americans had a revival of concerns about assimilation of immigrants and worries about "foreign" values; they wanted public schools to teach children to be American. Numerous states drafted laws designed to use schools to promote a common American culture, and in 1922, the voters of Oregon passed the Oregon Compulsory Education Act. The law was primarily aimed at eliminating parochial schools, including Catholic schools.[29][30] It was promoted by groups such as the Knights of Pythias, the Federation of Patriotic Societies, the Oregon Good Government League, the Orange Order, and the Ku Klux Klan.Шаблон:Sfn

The Compulsory Education Act required almost all children in Oregon between eight and sixteen years of age to attend public school by 1926.Шаблон:Sfn Roger Nash Baldwin, an associate director of the ACLU and a personal friend of then-Supreme Advocate and future Supreme Knight Luke E. Hart, offered to join forces with the Order to challenge the law. The Knights of Columbus pledged an immediate $10,000 to fight the law and any additional funds necessary to defeat it.Шаблон:Sfn

The case became known as Pierce v. Society of Sisters, a seminal United States Supreme Court decision that significantly expanded coverage of the Due Process Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment. In a unanimous decision, the Court held that the act was unconstitutional and that parents, not the state, had the authority to educate children as they thought best.[31] It upheld the religious freedom of parents to educate their children in religious schools.

Racial integration in the U.S.

To combat the animus targeted at racial and religious minorities, including Catholics, the Order formed a historical commission which published a series of books on their contributions, among other activities.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The "Knights of Columbus Racial Contributions Series" of books included three titles: The Gift of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois, The Jews in the Making of America by George Cohen, and The Germans in the Making of America by Frederick Schrader.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

As the 20th century progressed, some councils in the United States became integrated, but many did not. While the membership system at the time did not explicitly exclude African Americans, as few as four or five negative votes against a prospective candidate (no matter the size of the council) was enough to deny someone entry. This occurred in a racist manner often enough, especially the Deep South, that the Josephites helped found the Knights of Peter Claver in 1909 for African Americans.[32]

Meanwhile, Church officials and organizations increasingly encouraged integration. By the end of the 1950s, KoC Supreme Knight Luke E. Hart was actively encouraging councils to accept black candidates.Шаблон:Sfn In 1963, Hart attended a special meeting at the White House hosted by President John F. Kennedy to discuss civil rights with other religious leaders. A few months later, a local KofC council rejected a black man's application because of his race, notwithstanding that he was a graduate of Notre Dame University. The Six council officers resigned in protest, and the incident made national news. Hart declared that the process for membership would be revised at the next Supreme Convention, but died before he could see it take place.Шаблон:Sfn

The 1964 Supreme Convention was scheduled to be held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans. A few days before the Convention, new Supreme Knight John W. McDevitt learned the hotel admitted only white guests, under the state's racial segregation policy. He threatened to move the Convention to another venue. The hotel changed its policy and so did the Order. The Convention amended the admissions rule to require that a new applicant could not be rejected by less than one-third of those voting. In 1972 the Supreme Convention amended its rules again, requiring a majority of members voting to reject a candidate.Шаблон:Sfn

Recent history

Heads of state

In 1959, Fidel Castro sent an aide to represent him at a Fourth Degree banquet in honor of the Golden Jubilee of the Order's entry into Cuba.Шаблон:Sfn Supreme Knight Luke E. Hart attended a banquet in the Cuban Prime Minister's honor in April of that year sponsored by the Overseas Press Club.Шаблон:Sfn He later sent him a letter expressing regret that they were not able to meet in person.Шаблон:Sfn

Hart visited President and fellow Knight John F. Kennedy at the White House on Columbus Day, 1961.Шаблон:Efn Hart presented Kennedy with a poster of the American flag with the story of how the Order got the words "under God" inserted in the Pledge of Allegiance.Шаблон:Sfn

New building

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Knights of Columbus headquarters

The Order opened a new headquarters in New Haven in 1969.Шаблон:Sfn The 321', 23 story building took two years to construct, including 40 days to pour the concrete for the elevator well.Шаблон:Sfn Construction cost less than $10Шаблон:Nbspmillion.Шаблон:Sfn At the time it was the tallest building in the city, but as of 2018 it was the third tallest.Шаблон:Sfn

The ribbon cutting took place during the 87th Supreme Convention where Governor John N. Dempsey and Hartford Archbishop John F. Whealon each spoke and Apostolic Delegate Luigi Raimondi gave a blessing.[33] The architect for the building, which broke ground in 1967, was Kevin Roche.[33] The order's headquarters had been housed, at various times, in five other buildings.[33] The first was in the law offices of Driscol and Asher next to city hall across from New Haven Green.[33][34]

Popes

As the Order and its charitable works grew, so did its prominence within the Church.Шаблон:Sfn The Supreme Board of Directors was invited to hold their April meeting at the Vatican in 1978, and the Board and their wives were received by Pope Paul VI.Шаблон:Sfn Pope John Paul I's first audience with a layman was with Supreme Knight Dechant, and Pope John Paul II met with Dechant three days after his installation.Шаблон:Sfn

Pope John Paul II traveled to the Dominican Republic and Mexico in 1978, and Dechant was invited to attend and welcome the Pope to the Americas.Шаблон:Sfn It was also while there that Dechant was invited to establish the Order in the Dominican Republic.Шаблон:Sfn During the pope's 1979 visit to the United States, the Supreme Officers and Board were the only lay organization to receive an audience.Шаблон:Sfn

In 1997, the cause for McGivney's canonization was opened in the Archdiocese of Hartford. It was placed before the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in 2000. The Father Michael J. McGivney Guild was formed in 1997 to promote his cause, and it currently has more than 140,000 members.[35] Membership in the Knights of Columbus does not automatically make one a member of the guild, nor is membership restricted to Knights; members must elect to join. On March 15, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI approved a decree recognizing McGivney's "heroic virtue", significantly advancing the priest's process toward sainthood. McGivney may now be referred to as the "Venerable Servant of God". If the cause is successful, he would be the first priest born in the United States to be canonized as a saint.[36]

The Knights of Columbus were among the groups that welcomed Pope Benedict XVI on the South Lawn of the White House on April 16, 2008, the pontiff's 81st birthday, during his visit to the U.S.[37] In March 2016 the Knights of Columbus delivered to Secretary of State John Kerry a 280-page report entitled Genocide Against Christians in the Middle East, which led to the State Department's declaration that "ISIS's systematic massacre of Christians in the Middle East had reached genocidal proportions."[38]

Military and college councils

In each autumn since 1966, the Supreme Council has hosted a College Council Conference at their headquarters in New Haven, Connecticut.[39] The first convention was held at Boston College.Шаблон:Sfn As of 2018, there are more than 300 college councils.[40][41]

A new Military Overseas Europe Special District for the Fourth Degree was established in 2013.[42] More than a hundred Department of Defense civilian employees and active duty personnel based in Germany, Italy, and Britain took part in a special Fourth Degree Exemplification Ceremony at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany in 2013.[42] In that year exemplifications were also held in Camp Zama, Japan, and Yongsan Garrison in Seoul, Korea, where there are existing assemblies.[42]

Supreme Conventions

President Richard Nixon addressed the Supreme Convention in 1971.Шаблон:Sfn President Ronald Reagan spoke in 1982Шаблон:Sfn and 1986[43] and George W. Bush spoke in 2004.[43] George H. W. Bush spoke as vice president in 1984 and then again as president in 1992.[43] President Bill Clinton sent a videotaped message to the 111th Supreme Convention saying the Order's "contributions to the Catholic Church and to your communities merit our applause".[43]

Other

In August 1955, 300 office workers at the Knights' headquarters went on strike for four days.[44] The unionized employees, mostly women, won a pay increase of 3% or $2 a week, whichever was greater, as well as improved sick and vacation time.[44] A five-member panel was also established to review pay scales.[44] Henry O'Brien, the local archbishop, sided with the workers during the walkout and described it as a "serious embarrassment" for the church."[45] On November 1, 1959 the members of the Office Employees International Union struck again, this time for 92 days.[46] The 350 workers bargained for a $3.75 a week immediate salary increase and an additional raise of $2.75 per week beginning on October 31, 1960.[46] The complete package was $1.50 more than what the Order had been offering during most of the strike.[46]

In 2017, an IT contractor sued the Knights of Columbus and accused them of breaching a verbal contract.[47] On September 12, 2019, a jury found the Knights had indeed breached its verbal contract with List Interactive and awarded $500,000 in damages.[48] A report on this situation in The Tablet cited Pope Francis' teaching on "a poor Church for the poor", and contrasted this teaching to the high salaries given to members of the Knights' Board of Directors, the use of a Washington lobbyist employing the son of the Supreme Knight, and vigorous encouragement of insurance policy sales by the Knights' chief insurance officer.[49]

Insurance program

Year Reserve Fund Assets
1896Шаблон:Sfn $12,000

The original insurance system devised by McGivney gave a deceased Knight's widow a $1,000 death benefit. Each member was assessed $1 upon a death, and when the number of Knights grew beyond 1,000, the assessment decreased according to the rate of increase.Шаблон:Sfn Each member, regardless of age, was assessed equally. As a result, younger, healthier members could expect to pay more over the course of their lifetimes than those men who joined when they were older.Шаблон:Sfn There was also a Sick Benefit Deposit for members who fell ill and could not work. Each sick Knight was entitled to draw up to $5 a week for 13 weeks (roughly equivalent to $125.75 in 2009 dollars).[50] If he remained sick after that, the council to which he belonged determined the sum of money given to him.Шаблон:Sfn

The need for a reserve fund for times of epidemic was seen from the earliest days, but it was rejected several times before finally being established in 1892.Шаблон:Sfn

Since its first loan to St. Rose Church in Meriden, Connecticut in the late 1890s, the Knights of Columbus have made loans to parishes, dioceses, and other Catholic institutions.Шаблон:Sfn By 1954, over $300Шаблон:Nbspmillion had been loaned and the program "never lost one cent of principal or interest".Шаблон:Sfn

In the post-World War II era, the interest rates on long-term bonds dipped below levels at which the Order's insurance program could sustain itself, and Supreme Knight Hart moved the order into a more aggressive program of investing in real estate.Шаблон:Sfn Under his leadership, the Order established a lease-back investment program in which the Order would buy a piece of property and then lease it back to the original owner "upon terms generally that would bring to our Order a net rental equal to the normal mortgage interest rate".Шаблон:Sfn

Late in 1953 it was learned that the land upon which Yankee Stadium was built was for sale. On December 17, 1953, the Order purchased the property for $2.5Шаблон:Nbspmillion and then leased it back for 28 years at $182,000 a year with the option to renew the lease for three additional terms of 15 years at $125,000 a year.Шаблон:Sfn In 1971 the City of New York took the land by eminent domain.[51]

Between 1952 and 1962, 18 pieces of land were purchased as part of the lease-back program for a total of $29Шаблон:Nbspmillion. During this time, the amount of money invested in common stock also increased.Шаблон:Sfn In 1969, a requirement that all members between 18 and 26 take out insurance was abolished.Шаблон:Sfn

Modern program

Year Insurance in force
(billions) 		Assets
(billions)
2019[52][13][53] $109+ $26+
2018[54] $109 $26
2015[24][55] $99
2014[56] $100 $24
2013[57][58] $90 $19.8
2012[59] $88.4 $19.4
2011[60][61] $83.5 $18.0
2010[62] $79.0 $16.9
2009[62] $74.3 $15.5
2008[62][63] $70.0 $14
2007[62][34] $66.0 $13
2006[62][64] $61.9 $12.2
2005[62] $57.7
2004[62] $53.3
2003[62] $49.1
2002[62] $45.6
2001[62] $42.9
2000[62][57] $40.4
1999[62] $38
1997[65] $30
1992[66] $20
1990[67] $14 $3.6
1981Шаблон:Sfn $6.4 $1
1976Шаблон:Sfn $3.6 $656 million
1975Шаблон:Sfn $3
1971Шаблон:Sfn $2
1964Шаблон:Sfn $1+
1960Шаблон:Sfn $1

The Order offers a modern, professional insurance operation with more than $100Шаблон:Nbspbillion of life insurance policies in force and $19.8Шаблон:Nbspbillion in assets Шаблон:As of,[57] a figure more than double the 2000 levels.[9][57] Nearly 80,000 life certificates were issued in 2013, almost 30,000 more than the Order's closest competitor, to bring the total to 1.73 million.[9] The program has a $1.8Шаблон:Nbspbillion surplus.[9]

Over $286 million in death benefits were paid in 2012 and $1.7Шаблон:Nbspbillion were paid between 2000 and 2010.[9] This is large enough to rank 49th on the A. M. Best list of all life insurance companies in North America.[63] Since the founding of the Order, $3.5Шаблон:Nbspbillion in death benefits have been paid.[68] Premiums in 2012 were nearly $1.2Шаблон:Nbspbillion, and dividends paid out totaled more than $274Шаблон:Nbspmillion.[9] Over the same time period, annuity deposits rose 4.2%, compared to an 8% loss for the industry as a whole.[9]

Every day in 2012 more than $10 million was invested, for a total of $2.7Шаблон:Nbspbillion on the year, and an annual income of $905Шаблон:Nbspmillion.[9] The Order maintains a two prong investment strategy. A company must first be a sound investment before stock in it is purchased, and secondly the company's activities must not conflict with Catholic social teaching.[9] Citing the awards they have won, the Order calls themselves "champions of ethical investing".[24]

The order also provides mortgages to dioceses, parishes, schools, hospitals, seminaries, and religious orders at "very competitive rates" through its ChurchLoan program.[69]Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn The profits are used to pay life insurance claims.[69] An average of $20Шаблон:Nbspmillion in loans are made each year, with an average loan totally $1.8Шаблон:Nbspmillion.[69] By 1954, over $300 million had been loaned and the program "never lost one cent of principal or interest".Шаблон:Sfn Over $500Шаблон:Nbspmillion had been loaned by 2008.[69]

Products include permanent and term life insurance, as well as annuities, long term care insurance, and disability insurance.[57] The insurance program is not a separate business offered by the Order to others but is exclusively for the benefit of members and their families.[70] According to the Fortune 1000 list, the Knights of Columbus ranked 880 in total revenue in 2017[71] and, with more than 1,500 agents, was 925th in size in 2015.[9] All agents are members of the Order.Шаблон:Citation needed

The Order's insurance program is the most highly rated program in North America.[9] For 40 consecutive years, the Order has received A. M. Best's highest rating, A++.[9][72] Additionally, the Order is certified by the Insurance Marketplace Standards Association for ethical sales practices.[73] Standard & Poor's downgraded the insurance program's financial strength/credit rating from AAA to AA+ in August 2011 not due to the Order's financial strength, but due to its lowering of the long-term sovereign credit rating of the United States to AA+.[74][75]Шаблон:Efn Additionally, the insurance program has a low 3.5% lapse rate of the 1.9 million members and their families who are insured.[9][57] Forbes publishes an annual list of what it refers to as "America's Best Insurance Companies", and it has included the Knights of Columbus insurance program on this list since 2022.[76]

Awards

The order sponsors a number of international awards. The first, the Gaudium et Spes Award, is named after the document from the Second Vatican Council, and is the highest honor bestowed by the order.[77][78] It "is awarded only in special circumstances and only to individuals of exceptional merit" and comes with an honorarium of $100,000.[78] Since its institution in 1992, it has been awarded only twelve times.[78]

The second highest international award, also given only "when merited", is the Caritas Award.[79] Named for the theological virtue alternatively translated as either charity or love, it recognizes "extraordinary works of charity and service".[79] The order established the Grand Cross of the Knights of Columbus, but awarded it only to Cristobal Colón y de La Cerda, Duke of Veragua and descendant of Columbus, when he visited the U.S. in 1893.[80]

Gaudium et Spes Award winners:[77][78]

Supreme Knights

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Supreme Conventions

President George Bush shakes hands with fourth degree knights
George W. Bush greets Fourth Degree Knights at the 122nd Annual Convention

The Knights of Columbus invites the head of state of every country in which they operate to the annual Supreme Convention.[81] In 1971, President Richard Nixon gave the keynote address at the States Dinner; Secretary of Transportation and Knight John Volpe had arranged this first appearance of a U.S. president at a Supreme Council gathering.Шаблон:Sfn

President Ronald Reagan spoke at the Centennial Convention in 1982.[82] Reagan presented the order with a President's Volunteer Action Award at the White House in 1984.[15] President George H. W. Bush appeared in 1992. President Bill Clinton sent a written message while he was in office, and President George W. Bush sent videotaped messages before he attended in person at the 2004 convention.[83] President Barack Obama also sent written messages during his term in office.[84]

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