After years of devotion and prayers, the cause for the beatification of Father McGivney, the founder of the Knights of Columbus, has reached a significant milestone. On Saturday, Oct. 31st 2020, Fr. McGivney was officially declared Blessed by the Catholic Church.
I am delighted to hear this wonderful news, not only for the Knights of Columbus, but the whole International Alliance of Catholic Knights, that Fr Michael McGivney is to be beatified later this year.
I am deeply saddened to inform you of the passing to his eternal reward of Brother Alan Diesel.
Brother Alan was a Past Supreme Knight of the Knights of Da Gama (South Africa) and was also a founding member of the International Alliance in 1979.
I am sure that since the founding of the Alliance in 1979 no President has sat down to write his Easter message in the circumstances, we find ourselves in at present.
In my own country of Scotland, we are in total lockdown with no one able to leave the house except for essential reasons and even our churches are closed to the public.