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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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Join this live webinar to learn more about the living benefits of life insurance and see if you are missing out on often-overlooked financial features to help shield your family. Fraternal Benefit Event Time: Monday, October 27th at 7pm CST Register here: www.kofc.org/livingbenefitsFBE ...

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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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Thousands of U.S. pilgrims, including college Knights, gather in Rome for the Jubilee of Youth as half a million people flocked to Rome for the Jubilee of Youth, held July 29 to Aug. 3, more than 4,000 young adults from the United States gathered at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls on July...

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Michigan’s newest college council, named for Blessed Carlo Acutis, will witness his canonization of a dozen members of Michigan’s newest college council — St. Carlo Acutis Council 18672 in Detroit — will travel to Rome to witness the historic canonization of their council&rsq...

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An Ohio council hosts an annual softball game to build community among Knights and parishioners from two local parishes taking his lead off first base, Scott Deering turned on the jets when his teammate slugged an extra-base hit into the outfield. Nearing third base with sights set on home, Deeri...

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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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