I am amazed that it has taken this long for NCR to do a profile on the Knights of Columbus.  Being from the Midwest, I must register a protest.  First, I never heard of them before going to work for the Archdiocese of Chicago in 1993.  They were no where to be found in the suburbs of Chicago.  Rather more affiliated w/blue collar Chicago area parishes.  "Blowhards" of a type who represent the more conservative practice of East coast Catholicism.  They were begged to assume financial responsibility for the catastrophe that was originally referred to as the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, D.C., to which you refer.  A total failure!  Six paid staff fired summarily on a Friday afternoon in January 2003.  I know whereof I speak, as I was one of those who lost her job.  Carl Anderson is typically a smug male East Coast Catholic snob, pulling strings, w/bishops kow-towing all around.  Thank you for drawing attention to this small minded and fanatical Catholic group.