Many people wonder if the “Knights of Columbus” are associated with freemasonry. The short answer is no. The Knights are exclusively a Roman Catholic organization that requires that all members must also belong to the Catholic Church. They are an official organization that is endorsed by the Vatican. This organization was founded in 1882, 165 years after the first freemason grand lodge was founded.
The goals of this organization are to make good men better men and to organize and support charitable causes. These goals are the same as those of freemasonary. The biggest difference is that the Knights only allow Roman Catholics to join, while Freemasonry is open to all religions.
One can speculate that due to the anti-masonic fervor by the Catholic Church, and the continued demand for fraternal organizations by the public at large, that the Church saw a need to create this substitute. They were established in 1882 by Father Michael J. McGivney.
In general freemasons and the Knights of Columbus respect each other and are even friends on a personal level. However, due to the obligations that both masons and knights take, neither is allowed to discuss specific details of their rituals and traditions with the other. Nor are they allowed to participate in any official lodge meetings of the other organization.
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They aren’t friends, Both Knights of Columbus and Masonry are enemies.
Masons do philanthropy,
Knights of Columbus seeks for Charity not for philanthropy
masonry mostly is secretive organizations, knights of Columbus isn’t secretive.
Masonry Believes all religions are equal in dignity
Knights of Columbus opposes such perspective, and fundamentally believes that Only the Catholic church is the True Church however treats people of other religions with respect and dignity, not because of their religions nor to agree towards their religions, but because there is an Understanding that God created all men with equal dignity and all are called to discover the truth
Masons believe that there is different versions of truth according to each individual and therefore different moralities masons believe all religions have truths
Knights of Columbus doesn’t believe that all religions are true nor believes that morality is relative, nor based on individualistic perceptions.
knights of columbus treis to help people come to the true catholic faith by example more than words.
freemasons don’t believe in a universal morality but a set of moralities that coincide in some aspects and others might differ, but claim that everyone their own moralities which according to them all are ‘right’
Knights of Columbus does say only Catholics can join the group not as in an elitist perspective but in the specific sense that the ones joining will commit a life first to God, then live by example and then through that example attract others to the faith, which starts from the private life a personal relationship to God without being superficial.
freemasons believe a person can choose his own morality based on rationalistic perceptions.
Catholics do philanthropy however philanthropy existed long before masonry.
but the essential component is Christian Catholic charity above philanthropy
masonry due to their secretive organizations are elitists, they only select some and certain men that they deem is according to their perspectives deemed worthy and claims that every men must be a deist and must believe in some way or form of deity.
In Knights of Columbus someone believing in any deity isn’t sufficient to qualify, but helps enable people to discover the truth without feeling coerced, nor pressured.
if a person has questions about catholic faith deep Theological then Knights of Columbus sends that person to a priest to answer deep question understanding that we aren’t perfect and that only God through his priesthood gives the gift of the faith alone,
knights of Columbus adheres and believes in all dogmas of the Catholic faith in addition to the early Holy church councils
Masons claim that they don’t believe in dogmas but they believe instead in agendas, and then they define what an agenda is which is a way to change society.
masons acknowledge that knights of Columbus isn’t masonic
https://www.myfreemasonry.com/threads/knights-of-columbus-and-freemasonry.30046/page-2
unfortunately, there is some few members that tried to infiltrate the knights of Columbus which when the bishops and cardinals and priests find out reminds them that any member that decides to betray the faith by of those that (relatively few) became masons are automatically excommunicated and therefore cease to be Catholics those who decided to join masonry.
any knight of Columbus that is discovered to join masonry are expelled from the knights of Columbus rightfully so.
reason is because masonry has fiercely opposed Catholicism in different time periods in different moments of history and questions the early church councils and questions the doctrines of the Catholic Faith and tries to reduce the catholic faith as being supposedly ‘equal’ to all other religions which is impossible.
In Another words Masonry has nothing to do with Knights of Columbus
nor is knights of Columbus a ‘spin off’ from masonry.
Knights of Columbus believes fundamentally in Theocracy-Monarchy based Democracy.
Masons oppose Monarchy and believes in Liberal-modern democracy and for a time some of them believed in socialism.
which Masonry, Liberalism, Modernism and Socialism the Catholic Church Fiercely Opposed.
since Masonry, Liberalism, Modernism and Socialism they believe in Rationalism and has rationalism as the main basis of their structural groups and organizations.
although the Catholic Church is logical and has reason but knows that not everything can be explained by reason alone.
while on the other hand Masonry believes everything in the world according to their own perspectives can be solved by reason alone which is a subcomponent of the so called French revolution idea of enlightenment, which they the masons different masonic groups call that the age of reason.
Knights of Columbus say about Lord this particular partial part of verse 6 , although isn’t the entire verse quoted, Gospel According to St John14:6 “6 Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. …”
and also “. 30 He that is not with me, is against me: and he that gathereth not with me, scattereth.”- Gospel According to St Matthew 12:30 this is why KoC (Knights of columbus) Doesn’t believe other faiths are the ‘truth’
” 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said to them: Ye princes of the people, and ancients, hear: 9 If we this day are examined concerning the good deed done to the infirm man, by what means he hath been made whole: 10 Be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God hath raised from the dead, even by him this man standeth here before you whole.
11 This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, which is become the head of the corner. 12 Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved. 13 Now seeing the constancy of Peter and of John, understanding that they were illiterate and ignorant men, they wondered; and they knew them that they had been with Jesus. 14 Seeing the man also who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it. 15 But they commanded them to go aside out of the council; and they conferred among themselves,” – The Acts of the Apostles 4:8-15
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12 Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved. -The Acts of the Apostles 4:12
which verse 8 of the same chapter of the Bible confirms that the Holy Spirit inspired the Apostle Saint Peter
this is why the Catholic church said outside the Catholic church there is no salvation
masons believe that all other deities can save according to their own perceptions people
but in Catholicism Knights of Columbus recognizes and acknowledges that only Our Lord Jesus Christ can save souls.
Even when We catholics pray to the virgin Mary she prays to God and she asks God to save our Souls
this is why Catholics and masons cannot agree.
masons and Catholics opposes each other.
for masons believe in multiple relativist so called ‘truths’ while Catholics believe only in one Truth
masons believe all religions are supposedly the same but Catholics don’t believe in such thing