Louis Pepe feels he has a special connection to Blessed Michael McGivney, and not just because he’s a long-standing Knights of Columbus member and Father McGivney (1852-1890) was the organization’s founder. He is helping to lead an effort by the Knights of Columbus to have a statue of the founder erected in every diocese in New York State.
Bishop Robert Brennan was joined by members of the Bishop Daily Council No. 17000 of the Knights of Columbus and several parishioners for a special Christmas tree lighting at the Cathedral Basilica of St. James on Sunday, December 18.
The Knights of Columbus will provide armed forces members and veterans who were wounded in battle or suffer from serious illnesses an all-expenses paid trip to Lourdes for the Ninth Annual Warriors to Lourdes Pilgrimage, a week-long faith journey co-sponsored by the Knights and the Archdiocese for the Military Services in Washington D.C.
Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore joined a small group of leaders from the Knights of Columbus on a four-day trip to Poland and Ukraine to help distribute aid from the fraternal organization to orphanages and other service centers assisting refugees from the war in Ukraine.
Knights of Columbus councils in Brooklyn and Queens began hosting in 2002 an annual Family Picnic and fundraiser to honor people who died in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. This year marked the event’s 20th anniversary.
The Star Council Award is the highest honor given to a parish council of the Knights of Columbus. Council #5911 from St. Anastasia Parish in Douglaston received the award in 2006 and again this year.
The Tablet, in collaboration with the Archbishop John Hughes Council of the Knights of Columbus, invites youth to express their faith through art by participating in this year’s DIGITAL Easter art contest.
Lenten Friday fish fries, a staple at many Catholic parishes in some regions of the United States, were among the many things put on the back burner during the coronavirus pandemic.
Towing a trailer full of canned goods and fresh water behind his pickup truck, David Goeller pulled out of his driveway in Williamstown, New Jersey, one February evening facing 900 miles of open road.
Some 80 years before the Pilgrims voyaged west seeking religious freedom in the “New World,” the Catholic faith was already embraced by some longtime inhabitants of North and South America — the native people.
