In Service to One. In Service to All.

Welcome to Knights of Columbus, Council 6417 in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Canada. The Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Roman Catholic fraternal organization providing 1.9 million members with volunteer opportunities in service to the Catholic Church, their families and communities.

We are:

• Men committed to Christian formation and the four pillars of Charity, Unity, Fraternity and Patriotism.

• Brothers voluntarily bound by chivalric duty and moral obligation to serve and protect those most in need.

• Soldiers defending our faith, families and nation.

• Strong right arm of the Church.

We support:

• The social doctrine* of the Church including:

  • A robust vision of religious liberty that embraces Roman Catholicism's role in the private and public spheres.

  • Policies that promote a Culture of Life and oppose legislative efforts that promote pornography, contraception, sterilization, cloning, the destruction of embryos, abortion/infanticide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.

  • The dignity and the irreplaceable value of the family founded on the Church’s understanding of marriage as the faithful, exclusive, and lifelong union of one man and one woman joined in an intimate partnership of life and love.

• Saint John the Apostle Parish. Please visit the Parish website for posted events and activities.

*Lest the social doctrine of the Church be reduced or manipulated by Marxist theory a proper reading of the Instruction on Certain Aspects of the Theology of Liberation is required.