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Knights Killed in Iraq & Afganistan Eligible for Death Benefit 
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Past Grand Knight's Comments on Food Certificates
I would like to bring your attention to our Food Certificate Program. This program was instituted several years ago to help the Council raise money to fund its charitable projects. Since being started, it has done a decent job of adding dollars to the coffers. Because it is an easy and simple way of ...
Knights of Columbus Charities
For more than 30 years, Knights of Columbus Charities, Inc. has offered Knights an opportunity to make tax-deductible contributions for a variety of charitable ...
Where to turn No one deserves to be beaten or hurt at home. The violence is not your fault. You did not make it happen. You are not alone. You have choices. There are people to help and support you. You ... Christmas Party at Saint Mary’s Catholic Home On December 5th, the Council sponsored a Christmas Party for the residents of Saint Mary’s Catholic Home. Providing music for the occasion was Karen Scepansky. She was helped by The Edge Church, whose members, in the true spirit of Ecumenicalism, made a lot of people very happy with their singing. A special treat this year was provided by members of ARC School. Their assistance, made our work a lot easier & was appreciated by all. Special thanks goes to the participating Council members led by Grand Knight Frank Perrotto, Tom Scardefield & his wife Brenda, Al Mac Elrath, Henry Glover, Joe Rosito, Ed Ventura, Edsel Van Leuven, Ron Von Stentina, Dick Haughwout, and Bob Huster & his daughter. New Officers Elected & Installed At the 26 January meeting Richard Haughwout was elected as Deputy Grand Knight and Thomas Wittenberg as Outside Guard. Their period in office will end 30 June 2010. Worthy District Deputy Paul Riegert & his District Warden Albert Mac Elrath certified the installation The State of New Jersey and the U.S. Government passed the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act allowing a consenting individual to donate his/her organs upon death for the purpose of transplantation or medical ...
David Faust has been appointed insurance agent for Council 6173. He may be reached at 856-661-0371 (Office) or 609-868-6594 (Cell) Listen To The Poetry Of Pavel Chichikov -Today's Poem: Volunteers: Today: Volunteers - In the end, death comes for us all; no need to step forward. God bless and enjoy my poetry, Pavel Chichikov Our monthly TV Mass became a weekly TV program and over 30 years has remained the only regular, local Catholic TV presentation in Scranton, PA. On January 26, 1987 Catholic Television (CTV) of the Diocese of Scranton made its debut as a 24-hour cable TV channel. Today, it is the first and only Catholic Diocesan Communications Office...
The Bishops Speak out on Health Care Reform
As the debate on health care reform intensifies prior to an anticipated vote later this week, The NCBC would like to draw particular attention to comments from our bishops regarding the the status of the Senate bill and its provisions for abortion. While there are certainly other troubling ...
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Keep Christ in Christmas
Council installed "Keep Christ in Christmas" signs at Saint Mary's & Saint Thomas More. Special thanks goes to Tom Wakeley who designed & fabricated the supports.
Saint Mary's Catholic Home Christmas Party 2009
WHO CAN BECOME A KNIGHT?
Membership in the Knights of Columbus is open to practical Catholic men in union with the Holy See, who shall not be less than 18 years of age on their last birthday. A practical Catholic is one who lives up to the Commandments of God and the precepts of the Church. Application blanks are available ...
HISTORY OF THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
The Knights of Columbus began in the basement of St. Mary’s Church in New Haven,Conn., in 1882, when Father Michael J. McGivney called together a small group of pioneering Catholic laymen and founded a society designed to provide financial assistance for the ...
Father McGivney - Founder of KOC
Over a century ago, in mid-August of 1890, one of the largest funerals in the history of Waterbury, Connecticut, took place. The throngs who attended were grieving the death, at age 38, of Father Michael J. McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus.
Delegations were present from almost every ...
Joe Murray made Honorary Life Member
New Deputy Grand Knight & Outside Guard
Calender Updates
The Calender contains advance notice of upcoming events and is periodically updated -- just click on CALENDER on side tool bar.
Organ Donors Needed
Employment Opportunities
In accordance with the Knights of Columbus pledge to help members in need, Council 6173 is providing a list of job openings in our area to help our members. If you know of a job opening, please contact our Grand Knight at GK6173@njkofc.org
COUNCIL NEWSLETTERS
Council 6173 publishes a newsletter several times a year. To down load a copy in ADOBE PDF format click on the desired edition.
LOCAL KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL RECEIVES INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
FATHER McGIVNEY AWARD WINNER – Knights of Columbus Council 6173 of Cherry Hill, NJ is a Father McGivney Award winner. Named after the organization’s founder, Father Michael J. McGivney, the award is given in recognition of outstanding membership recruitment and retention efforts during ...
Martin E. Keoughan
In Loving Memory Of Martin E. Keoughan January 10, 1943 --- November 11, 2009 I'M FREE Don't grieve for me, for now I'm free I'm following the path God has chosen for me. I took His hand when I heard him call; I turned my back and left it all. I could not stay another day, To laugh, ...
The New Encyclical
Greed is good." Gordon Gekko, the name of an unscrupulous Wall Street financier who is the main character in the film Wall Street, 1987 "When those at the helm are motivated by purely selfish ends, instruments that are good in themselves can be transformed into harmful ones. But it is ...
Articles from Columbia Magazine
Latest articles in the Knights of Columbus COLUMBIA Magazine
GENERAL FOURTH DEGREE INFORMATION
Any Third Degree member in good standing, 6 months from date of first degree date, is eligible for membership in the Fourth Degree. The primary purpose of the Fourth Degree is to foster the spirit of patriotism by promoting responsible citizenship and a love of and loyalty to the Knights' respective countries through active membership in local Fourth Degree groups (called "assemblies"). Certain members of the Fourth Degree serve as honor guards at civic and religious functions, an activity that has brought worldwide recognition to the Knights of Columbus.
INSURANCE AGENT
Knights Killed in Iraq and Afghanistan Eligible for Death Benefit
The Knights of Columbus will begin paying an accidental death benefit to the families of members of the Catholic fraternal order who are killed while in military service in Afghanistan and Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Obama Orders Army NOT To Fly U.S. Flag in Haiti
It’s bad enough that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is giving short shrift to American manufacturers and our economy by ordering extravagant new crystal stemware from Sweden to make the crystal cabinets in America’s embassies sparkle impressively, but now we learn that Barack ...
Homeland Security assessed threat of pro-life rally in Wisconsin
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security conducted a “threat assessment” of a pro-life and pro-abortion activists before a planned Wisconsin rally last year, yet later admitted that the groups in no way threatened national security. Although the DHS has since destroyed its copies of ...
A SPEECH THE MEDIA WON'T AIR
On Thursday, May 27, 1999, Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to speak to the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee. What he said to our national leaders during this special session of Congress was painfully truthful.
Catholics and the Freemason
What is the Catholic Church's official position on Freemasonry?
Meditation of the Day
The Grace of Mary's Birth
Father Mathew Kottaram Celebration
Father Mathew Kottaram had a wonderful send off On Sunday June 22, 2008, he celebrated Mass at 11;30 A.M. followed by refreshments and Indian singers and dancersas we bid a fond farewell to a very special Priest.
Catholic Bishops Join Pro-Life Groups Against Abortion-Executive Order Idea
The pro-life office of the nation's Catholic bishops has join other pro-life groups in condemning an 11th-hour strategy that would have pro-life Democrats support the pro-abortion Senate health care bill in exchange for President Barack Obama issuing an executive order banning abortion funding in ...
Catholic Hospitals Sign Deal to Bank Amniotic Stem Cells
Biocell Center Corporation and the Caritas Christi Health Care network of hospitals have agreed to launch a programme to cryopreserve stem cells from amniotic fluid. The Italian biotech firm, which has its US headquarters in Medford, Massachusetts, will collaborate with New England’s ...
Hillary Clinton Pledges Massive Funding for Global Abortions
While Russia is trying to reduce the number of abortions, in the USA, President Obama’s Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is doing just the opposite. In a recent speech, she declared, “We have pledged new funding, new programmes, and a renewed commitment to ...
Science Scores New Breakthrough in Adult Cell Transformation
According to an Irish Times report, scientists have reached yet another milestone in the effort to produce replacement cells for any tissue type in the human body. A team from Stanford University in California has converted cells from a mouse’s tail directly into brain cells. Though much ...
BIOETHICS: HUMAN DIGNITY AND NATURAL MORAL LAW
The Holy Father received in audience members of the Pontifical Academy for Life, the president of which is Archbishop Rino Fisichella. The academy is currently meeting for its annual plenary assembly. "The problems revolving around the question of bioethics", said the ...
How to Wear Holiness
A Christian’s transformation from the old self to a new man or woman in Christ is not a self-help program. A fundamental premise of Christianity is that we cannot do it by ourselves. No matter how well intentioned we may be, we just don’t have what it takes
to “pull off’ the change consistently.
Catholic Poetry - A Faithful Utterance
In the Know with Father Joe
Dear Fr. Joe: What is a mortal sin? If I commit one, do I automatically go to hell?
Daily Mass from St. Ann's Media
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