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The 140th Knights of Columbus Supreme Convention kicked off with an Opening Concert and Annual Awards Session Monday, Aug. 1, at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. The Sewell family of Douglasville, Georgia, were named the International Family of the Year during the Awards Session. Family patriarch Robert Sewell of the Saint John Paul II Council 10821 has been a knight for 15 years.
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International Family of the Year, Blessed McGivney Medal recipients announced
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Throughout the 140th Knights of Columbus Supreme Convention, delegates and their families, had the opportunity to participate in Adoration daily.
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Faith, prayer encouraged throughout the convention
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Bishop J. Mark Spalding, along with his brother bishops and priests from around the world, celebrated Mass Tuesday, Aug. 2, at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, to officially open the 140th annual Knights of Columbus Supreme Convention. Bishop Spalding, joined by his fellow bishops, prayers over the bread and wine during the Eucharistic Prayer.
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‘Be true pastors in our world’
Pope Francis and Chief Wilton Littlechild say farewell to each other July 29, 2022, in Iqaluit, Nunavut, as the pope prepares to return to the Vatican after a six-day visit. Littlechild, a 78-year-old lawyer, survivor of abuse in a residential school and former grand chief of the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations, had lobbied hard for the pope to visit Canada and apologize to residential school survivors. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
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’I ask forgiveness’
