In the late 1980s, Past Grand Knight Robert Mendoza and his wife, Vera, of John F. Kennedy Council 5729 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, established a Crusade for Life prayer program in their parish to ask the Blessed Virgin’s intercession for an end to abortion. Based on a Supreme Council initiati...

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With more than 230 million people, Nigeria is the sixth most populous country in the world and by far the most populous in Africa. It is home to as many as 100 million Christians, including 35 million Catholics. But ethnic and religious tensions, primarily between Muslims and Christians, have made t...

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Nearly 2,000 people, including Knights and their families, packed the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, Maryland, on Sept. 14 for a Mass celebrating the 50th anniversary of the canonization of the shrine’s patroness — who, in 1975, became the United States’ ...

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Nearly 200 representatives from 70 college councils across North America gathered in New Haven, Connecticut, Sept. 26-28 for the 60th annual Knights of Columbus College Councils Conference. This year’s theme, “Ambassadors for Christ,” encouraged college Knights to share the hope of...

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Frank Kotnik’s enthusiasm for toy trains began when he received his first Lionel train set as a child in the 1960s. In 2015, while visiting the Railroad Museum of Long Island with his son, Kotnik was impressed by the museum’s boxcar fundraiser featuring commemorative cars for various com...

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Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly and Supreme Chaplain Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore were part of a delegation of Catholic leaders who traveled to Jerusalem, the Palestinian West Bank and Israel from Sept. 2-6, in an expression of solidarity with Catholics and all those suffering from the effects ...

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Growing up in Ukraine today means facing the daily threat of drone attacks, and more than 19,000 children in Russian-occupied areas have been forcibly deported since the war began — an act the United Nations has recognized as a war crime. The statistics paint a grim picture of lost innocence: ...

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Faced with the choice between death and denouncing the Vatican, the United States, and the United Nations, Bishop Patrick J. Byrne was resolute as he answered the North Korean judge: “There remains only one course — that I die.” Captured in Seoul in the summer of 1950, having refus...

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During the blazing summer of 2024, four National Eucharistic Pilgrimage routes set out from opposite ends of the United States, traversing vast swaths of the country. Tens of thousands of Catholics knelt in prayer and adoration as Eucharistic processions passed through cities and towns, often led by...

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