Women may participate in K of C through the Columbiettes and other female auxiliaries, and boys may join the Columbian Squires. The order also owns the Knights of Columbus Asset Advisors, a money management firm which invests in accordance with Catholic social teachings.Īs of 2019, there were nearly two million members around the world. It is a Fortune 1000 company based on its annual revenues. Its wholly owned insurance company, one of the largest in the world, underwrites more than two million insurance contracts, totaling more than $114 billion of life insurance in force as of 2021. The organization also provides certain financial services to the individual and institutional Catholic market. The Knights promote the Catholic view on public policy issues, including opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion. In addition to providing an insurance system for its members, its charter states that it endeavors "to promote such social and intellectual intercourse among its members as shall be desirable and proper." It has grown to support refugee relief, Catholic education, local parishes and dioceses, and global Catholic social and political causes. The organization was founded in March 1882 as a mutual benefit society for working-class and immigrant Catholics in the United States.
The organization is named after the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. Membership is limited to practicing Catholic men. The Knights of Columbus ( K of C) is a global Catholic fraternal service order founded by Michael J. International Alliance of Catholic Knights.
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