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Supreme Knight Calls on Catholics to Say 'No' to Pro-Abortion Politicians
    Leader of largest Catholic fraternal organization exhorts Catholics to
live their faith in all areas of life, including politics

    QUEBEC, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Addressing the leadership and
more than 1,000 members of the Knights of Columbus and their families at
the organization's 126th Annual Convention being held in Quebec, Supreme
Knight Carl Anderson highlighted the organization's accomplishments over
the past year, and laid out a vision for a future in which values play a
key role. The speech was also broadcast live throughout Canada and the
United States on Catholic television network, and worldwide on EWTN radio,
television and internet.

    Speaking after greetings to the Knights were heard from the Pope, via
the Cardinal Secretary of State, and the presidents of the United States,
Mexico, and the Philippines, Anderson highlighted the organization's
remarkable charitable giving last year, which totaled more than $144
million and more than 68 million hours donated to charity by the more than
1.75 million Knights worldwide.

    Anderson also called on Catholics to "shine a bright line of separation
between themselves and all those politicians who defend the abortion regime
of Roe v. Wade."

    He added: "Imagine if this year millions of Catholic voters simply say
'no' -- no to every candidate of every political party who supports
abortion." He added, "It's time we stop accommodating pro-abortion
politicians, and it's time we start demanding that they accommodate us.
What candidate or political party can withstand the loss of millions of
Catholic voters in this election or the next?"

    He concluded: "Catholic voters have the power to transform our
politics. And if faithful citizens can build a new politics -- a politics
that is not satisfied with the status quo but one that is dedicated to
building up a new culture of life. There are more than 150 million
Catholics in North America, and if we stand together and demand better from
our politicians, we can transform politics. And if we truly hope for a
culture of life and a civilization of love, then we must first think, and
then act, in new ways."

    A complete transcript is available at http://www.kofc.org
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