Sentences with phrase «catholic fraternal»

About Knights of Columbus Founded in 1881 as a Catholic fraternal benefit society, the Order of the Knights of Columbus was formed to render financial aid to members and their families.
From 2000 to 2006, he served as Supreme Knight and CEO of the Knights of Peter Claver, Inc., the largest African American Catholic fraternal order in the United States with units in 35 states and the District of Columbia.
In 1937, at the behest of the Knights of Columbus (a Catholic fraternal service organization named for the voyager), President Franklin Delano Roosevelt set aside Columbus Day as a federal holiday.»

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The report stresses the importance of «fraternal correction» among the bishops, recognizing that accountability, given the polity of the Catholic Church, means chiefly the accountability of bishops to one another.
And so Courage was born, a spiritual and fraternal support group of Catholic lay men and women who aspire to live chaste lives in accordance with the teachings of the Catholic Church.
While Thursday's gathering was decidedly smaller than the epic concert, it seemed to generate no less a fraternal spirit as Dolan, who was joined by Catholic Charities» Executive Director Monsignor Kevin Sullivan and other members of the organization, spoke emphatically of their backing of the Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices Act.
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