I was in the Knights of Columbus and here is my honest opinion:
It is a completely irrelevant and ineffective organization. They are bleeding members and it is just a sterile club for boomers and Gen Xers to do fish frys and talk about the old days. And yes, they do a lot of honorable pro-life work but there is more that must be done to combat modernism/secularism/liberalism.
They are OBSESSED with getting people to buy their Insurance as thats how they make their money. They are a multi-billion dollar industry with a Catholic face. Just like Notre Dame University. Just like most "Catholic" schools and colleges.
It USED to be effective. They helped the Cristeros during the Cristeros War, WW1, and helped newly arrived Irish, Italian, and Polish immigrants be taken care of. They were especially effective at fighting Freemasonry, which was also their purpose.
Now? Completely useless.
I disagree that Catholic Fraternal Organizations are useless all together, but Nick is 100% correct that these 'clubs' are just used by old men to get some time away from their overbearing, domineering, and controlling wives. Ive heard them talk. I know.
I went to Mass and the "Grand Knight" of my particular chapter was behind me with his wife. The priest FINALLY said something about abortion being wrong and homosexuality being wrong, etc. The wife OF THE GRAND KNIGHT OF THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS says DURING MASS, "Sometimes, women need abortions." He said NOTHING. Why? Because he, like all the others, are cucked. I gave that bitch the dirtiest look i could possibly give and REFUSED to shake her hand during the "peace" section of the Novus Ordo Mass.
I quit the organization after that.
Its sad because it has a storied history but in the end did not adapt to what the youth wants, which is a radical Catholicism that makes most normie Catholics uncomfortable.
Sad.
Based on classical Islamic sources (Sahih Bukhari for Aisha at 9; Ibn Ishaq/Tabari for Banu Qurayza), modern US law maps roughly as follows:
Child sexual abuse under 12: federal mandatory minimum 30 years to life.
Hundreds of post-surrender executions: consecutive life sentences without parole for each first-degree murder, or federal death penalty (multiple killings aggravating factor).
Slavery/sex trafficking of captives: additional 15-life terms.
Combined result: multiple consecutive life sentences without parole, or death. Polygamy adds only years.
Tucker Carlson will be shilling for JD Vance to be the 2028 nominee for the next year, trying to convince everybody that Vance is the “America First” successor/alternative to MAGA.
Everybody who thinks he’s one of us should remember he is part of the CIA/Thiel “thing.”
When Christianity makes it into a movie or TV series (usually only to be attacked), it's typically Catholicism that's depicted. They love the cinematic stained glass and candles, and they love the "sexiness" of their too-short Catholic school uniforms on young females -- worn not with their white shirts tucked in, but tied at the midriff. When the liturgy is depicted, it's almost always the traditional Mass or one of those unicorn Novus Ordo Masses with lots of Latin and chant. The invariably alcoholic or pedophile priests will be wearing cassocks, and the vicious nuns will be in habits. Of course.
Catholic teaching, especially about sex, won't be shown as the sine qua non of civilization, but as an unjust, repressive way of thinking that produces neuroses, psychosis, and serial killers.
Even when non-Catholic Christians are depicted, they use Catholic imagery (e.g., the statue of St. Sebastian showing up in the closet in the 1976 version of "Carrie"). It's all so tiring.
Did you know you can obtain a PLENARY INDULGENCE for a soul in Purgatory by visiting a cemetery and praying for the dead during Hallowtide?
From November 1–8, the Church grants a plenary indulgence each day to those who devoutly visit a cemetery and pray, even silently, for the departed.
Imagine being able to help release a soul from Purgatory and bring them closer to Heaven through a simple act of love.
The Church Militant can help the Church Suffering.
Visit a cemetery. Pray for the dead. Offer your indulgence for a loved one who may have no one else praying for them.
The souls in Purgatory cannot merit for themselves. Let us not forget them.
Trump won the popular vote and an electoral college landslide with an historic mandate. The GOP controlled the House, Senate, White House, and a 6-3 SCOTUS majority.
Then they blew it all away by fighting Israel’s war.
THEY HAVE NOBODY TO BLAME BUT THEMSELVES.
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3. "Check again on the 1st of every month and tell me what came back"
Say line 1 tonight
Then read how to wire it into a team that never sleeps in the article below ↓
Somewhere in your house there is a statue or a picture of Our Lady. And somewhere in your family there is a child or grandchild who stopped listening a long time ago.
An exorcist says those two belong together, starting tonight.
Fr. Dan Reehil, an exorcist in Nashville, was taking questions after a talk when someone in the audience spoke up. They had heard him give this advice once before and had been passing it on to a lot of people. So he said it again for the whole room:
"FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE WAYWARD CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN, CONSECRATE THEM TO THE BLESSED MOTHER. GET A CONSECRATION PRAYER. YOU PUT THEIR NAME IN, YOU TAKE A PICTURE OF THEM, PUT THEM UNDER HER FEET."
Then he described what is really happening. A trade:
"SHE COMPLETELY ACCEPTS THIS EXCHANGE. SHE SAID, LOOK, I'LL PRAY FOR YOUR INTENTIONS, AND NOW YOU PRAY FOR MINE. WE'RE GOING TO TRADE."
You give her your child. You take up her intentions. And on the nights you have nothing left:
"THE DAYS THAT YOU'RE TOO TIRED AND YOUR PRAYERS ARE MISERABLE, HERS ARE STILL SPARKLING."
Anyone who has prayed for the same person for years knows those nights. The rosary you fell asleep halfway through. The prayer that was mostly worry.
Then he told them about his own mother. He says Our Lady asked her to make this trade, and to leave her children's prayers to Our Lady for a whole year:
"SHE SAID IT WAS THE HARDEST YEAR OF HER LIFE IN HER PRAYER LIFE, BUT IT WAS ALSO THE MOST FRUITFUL YEAR FOR HER KIDS IN PROGRESSING IN THE FAITH."
That was his mother's path, not a rule for yours. Nobody is asking you to stop praying for the people you love. Only to stop carrying them alone.
So tonight, find a photo of them. A print is best, but your phone will do until tomorrow. Set it at Our Lady's feet and say this out loud, with their name. Thirty seconds:
"Blessed Mother, I give you [name]. I place them under your feet and into your hands. Take my prayers for your intentions, and let your prayers carry my child. When mine are weak, let yours be strong. Bring them home to your Son. Amen."
Then leave the photo where it is.
👇 One word if their picture is going under her feet tonight: HERFEET.
Credit: Father Chad Community