Excellent investigative reporting from NCR and yet more confirmation that the institutional American church is a religious arm of the GOP.

<<Kauffman documents that the Knights helped Catholics prove their loyalty to the United States by mobilizing church members behind World War I.>>

A harbinger of the embrace of militarism and "patriotism" in pursuit of political power that has come to characterize the Catholic right.

The KoC Museum happens to have a current exhibition on "World War I: Beyond the Front Lines."

http://www.kofcmuseum.org/en//index.html