CHARITY, UNITY, FRATERNITY, PATRIOTISM

The Montana Knights of Columbus recently announced that during the year 2006 members and their families gave $162,823 to a wide range of charitable, youth, community and church activities and programs.

"These totals represent a remarkable outpouring of generosity in money and, more importantly, in personal commitment on the part of the Knights," said Bob Murphy, State Deputy of the Knights of Columbus in Montana.

The Knights of Columbus is a Catholic family fraternal service organization. With more than 1.6 million members in the United States, Canada, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Mexico and several other countries., it is the largest organization of Catholic laity in the world.

Internationally, state and local councils volunteered 56.7 million hours of service to programs serving the Church and their communities and contributed $130 million to charitable and benevolent causes during 2003.

In Montana the $162,823 in contributions breaks down $69,051 to youth activities $45,777 to community activities, $47,995 to Church activities. During the year Montana Knights gave 203,750 hours of volunteer service. Made 15,913 visits to the sick or bereaved and provided 1,041 blood donors.

In a statement issued at the Order's international headquarters in New Haven, Conn., Knights of Columbus Supreme Knight, Carl A. Anderson said, "the volunteer hours and dollars given by Knights in Montana added to those of their brother Knights throughout the world stand as a testimony to the remarkable generosity of these Catholic laymen who are committed to the highest ideals of service to the Church and their communities.

Knights of Columbus are Catholic gentlemen committed to the exemplification of charity, unity, fraternity, patriotism, and defense of the priesthood. The Order is consecrated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Order is unequivocal in its loyalty to the Pope, the Vicar of Christ on earth. It is firmly committed to the protection of human life, from conception to natural death, and to the preservation and defense of the family. It was on these bedrock principles that the Order was founded over a century ago and remains true to them today.

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Vivat Jesus!