Knights Of Columbus

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Illustration on the attacks on the Knights of Columbus by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Knights of Columbus Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

This 2017 photo provided by Carl Denaro shows him at the Knights of Columbus hall in Floral Park, N.Y. Denaro survived being shot on Oct. 23, 1976 by Son of Sam killer David Berkowitz, but has lived with a metal plate in his head as a result. Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017 is the 40th anniversary of Berkowitz's capture. (Courtesy of Carl Denaro via AP)

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Union president Herman Marshman, left, and challenger Vic Roppa, right, react as they listen to election judges tallying votes for executive board positions including president during the IBEW Local 272 elections Tuesday, June 20, 2017, at the Knights of Columbus in Midland, Pa. Marshman found himself in a fight not just with the company but with members who didn't want to lose more than they already had. (Rebecca Droke /Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

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Incoming union president Vic Roppa stands up to answer a question by outgoing union president Herman Marshman during a monthly IBEW Local 272 meeting Thursday, June 22, 2017, at the Knights of Columbus in Midland, Pa. After a dozen years leading the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 272 at FirstEnergy's Bruce Mansfield coal-fired power plant, Marshman found himself in a fight not just with the company but with members who didn't want to lose more than they already had. (Rebecca Droke /Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

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FILE - In this June 4, 2016, photo, the Knights of Columbus, Yerba Buena Lodge of San Francisco, stand guard as the casket, holding the body of a girl found in May 2016 and buried in San Francisco, is carried to her new grave at Greenlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Colma, Calif. The girl who died in 1876 and was found last year inside a small metal casket under a San Francisco home has been identified. The nonprofit Garden of Innocence project said Tuesday, May 9, 2017, that the child was 2-year-old Edith Howard Cook, who died on Oct. 13, 1876. (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File)

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A member of the Knights of Columbus offer prayer during Mass of Thanksgiving in Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the Archdiocese of Washington at the Cathedral of Saint Matthew The Apostle in Northwest on Sunday, September 21, 2014. Khalid Naji-Allah/ Special to The Washington Times

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John Winfrey, 52, Master of the Fourth Degree of the Knights of Columbus, foreground, stands for prayer during the the Mass of Thanksgiving on Sunday, April 27 at the Saint John Paul II National Shrine. Khalid Naji-Allah Special to The Washington Times

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Patrick Kelly, Executive Director of the Pope John Paul II National Shrine, center, along with members of the Knights of Columbus offer remarks during the unveiling ceremony of the renamed shrine dedicated to Pope John Paul II to reflect the sainthood bestowed upon him on Sunday, April 27 in Northeast. Khalid Naji-Allah Special to The Washington Times

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Members of the Knights of Columbus line the wall as National Columbus Celebration Association President James McCusker, right, speaks at the annual Columbus Day Wreath Laying which was held at the Columbus statue at Holy Rosary Church this year due to the ongoing government shutdown, Washington, D.C., Monday, October 14, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Members of the Knights of Columbus line the wall at the annual Columbus Day Wreath Laying which was held at the Columbus statue at Holy Rosary Church this year due to the ongoing government shutdown, Washington, D.C., Monday, October 14, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Murals are visible behind members of the Knights of Columbus who line the wall at the annual Columbus Day Wreath Laying which was held at the Columbus statue at Holy Rosary Church this year due to the ongoing government shutdown, Washington, D.C., Monday, October 14, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Members of the Knights of Columbus draw their swords and stand at the beginning of the annual Columbus Day Wreath Laying which was held at the Columbus statue at Holy Rosary Church this year due to the ongoing government shutdown, Washington, D.C., Monday, October 14, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Members of the Knights of Columbus draw their swords and stand at the beginning of the annual Columbus Day Wreath Laying which was held at the Columbus statue at Holy Rosary Church this year due to the ongoing government shutdown, Washington, D.C., Monday, October 14, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Members of the Knights of Columbus perform the presentation of colors at the beginning of the annual Columbus Day Wreath Laying which was held at the Columbus statue at Holy Rosary Church this year due to the ongoing government shutdown, Washington, D.C., Monday, October 14, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Members of the Knights of Columbus draw their swords and stand at the beginning of the annual Columbus Day Wreath Laying which was held at the Columbus statue at Holy Rosary Church this year due to the ongoing government shutdown, Washington, D.C., Monday, October 14, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Tom Santangelo of Dowell, Md. with the Knights of Columbus lines up before the start of the annual Columbus Day Wreath Laying which was held at the Columbus statue at Holy Rosary Church this year due to the ongoing government shutdown, Washington, D.C., Monday, October 14, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Members of the Knights of Columbus perform the presentation of colors at the beginning of the annual Columbus Day Wreath Laying which was held at the Columbus statue at Holy Rosary Church this year due to the ongoing government shutdown, Washington, D.C., Monday, October 14, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Members of the Knights of Columbus march into the annual Columbus Day Wreath Laying ceremony which was held at the Columbus statue at Holy Rosary Church this year due to the ongoing government shutdown, Washington, D.C., Monday, October 14, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)