Knights of St. Columba

noun

an international, semi-secret fraternal and charitable order for Catholic laymen, which originated in New Haven, Connecticut in 1882 (the Knights of Columbus )

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The Freemasons, the Orange Lodge, the Knights of St Columba: all networks – the nearest we knew to the mafia or the IRA – and all to be condemned because they corrupted all kinds of processes, from the way councils awarded contracts to whom bosses chose to employ.

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