Based on militant Church History in the matters of anti-Islamic Crusades, and Counter-Reformation against Martin Luther, Knighthood is radically linked to 'Church Militant Theology', which is antithetical to the example and teaching of Jesus.
Jesuit Pope Francis is strikingly different from Jesuit founder and soldier Ignatius of Loyola. Few institutions are more anachronistic than that of ecclesial knighthood and its theology of militancy.
Internal Church reform is needed today especially away from militant theology to a sense of universal concordance - meaning, the KofCs need a lightning strike of updating beyond its self-aggrandizing cult of medievalism.