Pope Receives Knights of Columbus

Members of the Board of Directors of the Knights of Columbus were received in an audience at the Vatican on Friday, October 3 by Pope Benedict XVI. Supreme Knight Carl Anderson said, "On behalf of our more than 1,750,000 members and their families in the United States, Canada, Philippines, Mexico, the Caribbean and Poland we pledge greater efforts in building a new culture of life in all the countries in which we work." In his address, the Holy Father responded, "Dear friends, in the spirit of your founder, the Venerable Michael McGivney, may the Knights of Columbus discover ever new ways to serve as a leaven of the Gospel in the world and a force for the renewal of the Church in holiness and apostolic zeal."

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