Knights of Columbus: Forty-Nine- Years and Still a Closed Door

By John Moses

In the Knights of Columbuss Supreme Council Listing of New State Deputies, there is still NO African American State Deputies for 2012 (still a closed door for African Americans)..

This is the makeup of what the State Deputies in the Knights of Columbus in 2012 has looked like, They are mostly white men with the blacks in the organization stopped by the invisible ceiling of advancement in the organization. Proof of this can be found in their Columbian Magazine. This magazine is mailed out to over 2,000,000 knights a month. THIS THE PICTURE OF RANKING BY POSITION OF SUPREME COUNCIL OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS, ONCE A YEAR FIFTY TWO STATE DEPUTY TO ANNUAL MEETING OF TRAINING FOR THEN AT .S UPREME COUNCIL HEADQUARTER. NEW HAVEN CT. EACH STATE ELECTED A STATE DEPUTY TO RUN THE ITS STATE.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Dec 18, 2013
• ISBN: 9781491837337

John Moses

I was born in the west end of city of Cincinnati, Ohio, coming into the world on November 24, 1935. Mine was a family of a true Baptist father and a devoted Catholic mother. My father, who accepted my mother’s religion for his family, demanded that we become Catholics. My father’s family did not like Catholics. To them, it was a white man’s religion and a type of devil worship. They thought to be black in the Catholic Church was a sin against God and church. It took a few years for them to accept us as relatives and as part of the Cantrell family, but we finally became family. Because my grandmother was Irish, and my mother was a multiracial person, we are the fifth generation of Catholics. My children are at present the seventh generation of Catholics. We are still part of the America Catholic Church and will continue to be Catholic and tell our story of the war.

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Published by AuthorHouse 11/19/2013

ISBN: 978-1-4918-3732-0 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4918-3733-7 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013921211

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Contents

The Knights of Columbus: Why Are They Against Black Leadership?

Introduction

The Misunderstanding of God

Life of Pope Saint Victor

Pope Saint Gelasius the First

Pope Saint Miliades the First

What Is Said about the Three Africans Popes

African-American Gifts and Input

Father Bede Abram

Sacred Heart Program

Knights of Saint Peter Claver

Still 90 Percent White

Black History Note

Forty-NINEYears: Why?

What Is Up Or Down?

NINE—Years

NINE-Eight Years of Waiting

In the Knights of Columbus’s Supreme Council Listing of New State Deputies, there is still NO African American State Deputies for 2012 (still a closed door for African Americans).

This is the makeup of what the State Deputies in the Knights of Columbus in 2012 has looked like, They are mostly white men with the blacks in the organization stopped by the invisible ceiling of advancement in the organization. Proof of this can be found in their Columbian Magazine. This magazine is mailed out to over 2,000,000 knights a month. THIS THE PICTURE OF RANKING BY POSITION OF SUPREME COUNCIL OFFICERS AND BOARD MEMBERS, ONCE A YEAR FIFTY TWO STATE DEPUTY TO ANNUAL MEETING OF TRAINING FOR THEN AT SUPREME COUNCIL HEADQUARTER. NEW HAVEN CT. EACH STATE ELECTED A STATE DEPUTY TO RUN THE ITS STATE.

The Knights of Columbus:

Why Are They Against Black Leadership?

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Leadership by African Americans?

AS IS OR STATED IN PLACE HERE

Chapter five is a sublime of what this book is about. This is my story! My experience of what I, as an African American in the Knights of Columbus went through in trying to move up the ladder in this organization. I was part of the State Team as a Director for Community, Public Relations, Veteran Chairman and New Council Development Director. So, you can see that I