Dear Brothers and Ladies The late Cardinal Basil Hume said, “The great gift of Easter is hope”. I was reminded of this on the Tuesday of Holy Week by my good friend Father Philip Baptiste who is a Chaplain to the Knights of St Columba in London. The words of His Eminence...
Join the Knights of St Columba this Wednesday 2nd March for their first 2022 Lenten Stations of the Cross. You can join live on Zoom (email headoffice@ksc.org.uk for codes) or join on our Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/KofSC/
Dear Brothers I am very honoured to once again share the President’s Christmas Message to the Brothers, Ladies and Families of the International Alliance of Catholic Knights. For a second year we approach the great feast of the Nativity of the Lord under the shadow of Coronavirus. Indeed at the...
Dear Brothers and Ladies The Officers of the International Alliance of Catholic Knights extend our heartfelt congratulations to Brother Bertie Grogan KSG, Supreme Knight of the Knights of St Columba, who has been awarded the Knighthood of St Gregory the Great from Pope Francis. Brother Bertie was presented with his...
Dear Brothers and Ladies As I sit down to write this Easter Message to our Knights and Ladies throughout the world, lockdowns and restrictions continue in some form, in all of our countries.Twelve months ago I wrote my first Easter Message just as international restrictions were being implemented. Restrictions which...
The events of the first Easter morning began quietly, in stark contrast to the violence and baying crowds which accompanied the crucifixion on Good Friday. Mary Magdalen went to the tomb early in the morning on the first day of the week – while it was still dark – while it...
Dear Brothers As I sit down to write this Christmas message to the Alliance I am reminded of what I wrote in March as we approached Easter. I said that I didn’t think that any previous International President had penned an Easter message under the restrictions imposed on us by...
Father McGivney will be beatified on Saturday, Oct . 31st 2020, at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford, Connecticut Link to Father Michael McGivney Beatification ceremony A link to the ceremony will be available here and on the Knight of Columbus website http://kofc.org later next week for those who...
I am delighted to hear this wonderful news, not only for the Knights of Columbus, but the whole International Alliance of Catholic Knights, that Fr Michael McGivney is to be beatified later this year. It was Father Michaels vision to found an organisation of Catholic laymen in the spirit of...
I am deeply saddened to inform you of the passing to his eternal reward of Brother Alan Diesel. Brother Alan was a Past Supreme Knight of the Knights of Da Gama (South Africa) and was also a founding member of the International Alliance in 1979. I was privileged to meet...