Knights Say They Can't Oust Pro-Abort Members, But Pro-Life Members, Yes

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Pro-Life Catholics Should Picket Knights of Columbus Convention

Contact: Kenneth M. Fisher, 714-491-2284, 714-260-3821 cell, crcoa@dslextreme.com

ANAHEIM, July 30 /Christian Newswire/ -- Pro-life Catholics in the Washington, D.C., area should picket the 2010 Knights of Columbus annual convention this August 3-5 over the group's refusal to expel pro-abortion politicians, says Kenneth M. Fisher, founder and chairman of Concerned Roman Catholics of America, Inc.

"Pro-life Catholics should make sure that every Knight at the convention knows that the leaders of the Order have refused, in writing, to stop harboring pro-abortion politicians in the Knights," says the Southern California-based Fisher. He cited a letter that the Knights' Supreme Counsel and General Advocate, John A. Marrella, wrote to Massachusetts State Deputy William F. Donovan on April 15.

Fisher points out that in the letter, Marrella warned that "subordinate councils" must leave the disciplining of pro-abortion Knights up to the Supreme Council -- yet at the same time, Marrella also wrote, "If the public figure's bishop has not excommunicated him for his public positions on issues relating to matters of faith and morals, it would be highly inappropriate for the Knights of Columbus to do so."

"So the Supreme Council is insisting that nobody in the 1.4 million-strong order can do anything at all about the pro-abortion politicians right in their midst," says Fisher. "That is preposterous. Besides, expelling a member is not 'excommunicating' him -- and you can bet the Knights would rightly kick out racists and criminals

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