Twelve Reasons Why You Should Be a
Knight of Columbus

1. To unite with 1.6 million Men and their Families men in the largest society of Catholics in the world working in over 11,000 local councils situated throughout North America and the Pacific.

2. To gain a unique opportunity for personal leadership development through the Knights organizational structure.

3. To share in the Knights' apostolate for the Catholic Church - the promotion of vocations, the Catholic Information Service (evangelical arm of our Church), prayer (particularly the Rosary), religious education and parish activities.

4. To participate in the Family Life movement of the Knights, a family organization of some six million men, women and children.

5. To work in the community for others who need you. Last year more than $110 million and over 55 million man man-hours of service were given by Knights in charitable and community endeavors, particularly for the retarded, the deaf, the blind, youth, the poor, the aged, the sick and many others.

6. To help build future leaders through the Knights' own Columbian Squires, and through Scouting, CYO, Big Brothers, 4-H Clubs, etc.

7. To enjoy with your family in your local council a wide variety of social, cultural and athletic activities.

8. To have available to yourself and your family a fraternal low-cost life and health insurance program.

9. To qualify for college student loan and scholarship programs for yourself and your family.

10. To receive COLUMBIA, the largest Catholic monthly magazine in North America.

11. To be remembered with your family in a monthly Mass offered by the Supreme Chaplain. Deceased members are remembered in a daily Mass at St. Mary's Church, the birthplace of the Order in New Haven, Connecticut.

12. To take pride in helping the Holy Father bring the message of Christ to the world by providing annually for global telecasts of the Christmas and Easter liturgies and other papal ceremonies from Vatican City.

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