Father Michael McGivney was a son of Irish immigrants, a parish priest, and the founder of the Knights of Columbus and he soon he may also be a saint. He was born on this day in 1852. Father McGivney served as a parish priest in New Haven, CT in the late 1800s where the Catholic community was a discriminated-against.
Seated in a small black wagon pulled by his father, 7-year-old Michael McGivney Schachle happily rolled along the hallways of the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville last week, innocently unaware that people were staring at him in awe as he passed by.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CNS) How to be true pastors in the world.
That was the message Nashville Bishop J. Mark Spalding shared with members of the Knights of Columbus from all over the world as they, along with their families, gathered for the opening Mass of the 140th annual Knights of Columbus Supreme Convention Aug. 2 at Nashville s Opryland Resort and Convention Center.
Bishops, priests, deacons and religious from around the world also were in attendance.
At the beginning of his homily, Bis