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Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson meets in private audience with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican during the October 2005 Synod for Bishops (L’Osservatore Romano photo, courtesy the Knights of Columbus).
 
Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson meets in private audience with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican during the October 2005 Synod for Bishops (L’Osservatore Romano photo, courtesy the Knights of Columbus).
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Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson meets in private audience with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican during the October 2005 Synod for Bishops (L’Osservatore Romano photo, courtesy the Knights of Columbus). President John F. Kennedy, a member of the Knights of Columbus, receives a framed copy of the Pledge of Allegiance from Supreme Knight Luke E. Hart at the White House in 1961. The Knights of Columbus was instrumental in adding the term “under God” to the Pledge (courtesy of the Knights of Columbus).
President Ronald Reagan addresses the 100th Knights of Columbus Supreme Convention in Hartford in 1982 (courtesy of the Knights of Columbus). Knights of Columbus from around the United States are regular participants in the March for Life held in Washington, D.C. each year on the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion on demand. Knights also participate in Canada’s National March for Life in May (courtesy of the Knights of Columbus).
At Ground Zero in New York, Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson and Former Supreme Chaplain Bishop Thomas V. Daily join New York Police Department chaplain Rev. Robert J. Romano and Msgr. Ralph J. Maresca, secretary to the bishop. The Knights of Columbus Heroes Fund distributed a total of more than $1.3 million to families of emergency workers who died in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. A K of C “Army Hut" in Europe during World War I. The motto of these centers of respite for U.S. soldiers was: “Everybody Welcome; Everything Free” (courtesy of the Knights of Columbus).
St. Mary’s Church in New Haven, Conn., on the edge of the Yale University campus, was the birthplace of the Knights of Columbus in 1882 (courtesy of the Knights of Columbus). Portrait of Father Michael J. McGivney, the founder of the Knights of Columbus, by Richard W. Whitney (courtesy of the Knights of Columbus).
 
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