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Knights of Columbus-South Bend Indiana Club is a historic Knights of Columbus building located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States.It was built in 1924, and is a three-story, Renaissance Revival style brick and terra cotta building.
The Knights of Columbus was the first organization to provide college scholarships to veterans returning home from World War I. [51] The War Activities Committee first announced in August 1919 that 50 scholarships would be awarded, including tuition, fees, books, equipment, and room and board. [51]
Samuel F. Williams, a black man, was a member and among other activities, spoke on the stage of the 1896 Knights of Columbus Massachusetts State Convention to an audience that included two future Supreme Knights. [19] The path to individual membership in a local Knights council did not explicitly exclude African Americans. Each local council ...
The national organization was called the Supreme Council, state organizations were called advisory councils. Motto "Virtue, Mercy and Charity". Differed from Royal Arcanum in that it offered $2,000 or $4,000 certificates to the dependents on the death of its members, whereas, the Arcanum only offered $3,000.
The Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus (more simply referred to as the Supreme Knight) is the title of the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the Knights of Columbus. The organization comprises approximately 1.9 million members in more than 15,000 councils and operates an insurance company with over $109 billion of life ...
The first Knights of Columbus state organization to recognize the Squire Roses was Washington, D.C., and was followed by the Knights of Columbus in Virginia. As of 2016, the formation of new Squire Circles in the United States and Canada is discouraged, since the Catholic Church has a desire to move youth activities from exclusive clubs into ...
The Knights of Columbus were politically active from an early date. In the years following the Second Vatican Council, however, according to Christopher Kauffman, the Catholic anti-defamation character of the order began to diminish as Catholics became more accepted, and the leadership of the order attempted to stimulate the order's membership to become more aware of the religious and moral ...
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. [113] In March 2016 the Knights of Columbus delivered to Secretary of State John Kerry a 280-page report entitled Genocide Against Christians in the ...