.- In
celebration of the one year anniversary of Benedict XVI’s election to
Pope last spring, the world’s 1.7 million Knights of Columbus have
adopted a resolution declaring their esteem and renewed support for the
German pontiff.
The April 9th resolution was formally adopted by Knight’s Board of Directors at the group’s Connecticut headquarters.
It praises the
Pope’s “devoted pastoral leadership and commitment to evangelization,”
and also laud’s Benedict’s first encyclical, Deus Caritas est, calling
the document “a source of wisdom and inspiration to the entire Church,
and especially to the Knights of Columbus, which counts charity as its
first principle.”
The Knights also
pledged their “loyalty, prayerful solidarity and continued cooperation
with [the Pope’s] pastoral programs to renew and grow the Church.”
Supreme Knight
Carl Anderson said yesterday that “With more than 135 million hours and
$63 million donated to charity last year by its members, the Knights of
Columbus has and will continue to answer the Pope’s call for
‘charitable activity [that] can and should embrace all people and all
needs.’”
The full text of the new resolution may be viewed online at the Knights of Columbus website, www.kofc.org.
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