Last night I got inducted as a 1st Degree Knight of Columbus, not because I want to be active in the organization or get anything out of it, but because I want to convince these Modernist conservatives that they can't support baby-killer politicians whatsoever—no matter how much they care for Mexican illegal immigrants, "the poor," and "right to life"—nor be Freemasons and still claim to be Catholic. (I consider both these classes of people excommunicated, if being a Modernist alone doesn't incur excommunication, because the 1917 Code says both Communists and Freemasons incur automatic excommunication.)
 
Yes, there is an oath to secrecy not to discuss "directly" or "indirectly" the initiation rituals; they say it's to keep the initiation rituals new an exciting for new members. The only reason I can talk about it while not violating the oath I probably should've never taken is because they fortunately have an escape clause that says we're only bound to the oath insofar as it doesn't conflict with the Catholic faith. Well, I'm very suspicious of this organization, and I think it does conflict with the Catholic faith (e.g., the wholehearted support of Vatican II's "human right" to "religious freedom" novelty and the support of the Americanism heresy, which includes believing in the separation of Church & State). The parallels to Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ are very disturbing (e.g., the goal of Communism and Masonry is to make husbands spend less time with their wives and family, and "fraternity" is one of the goals of both), and many Knights apparently are Masons, so I think the very essence of the organization, not necessarily the people who comprise it, is extremely troubling; if a goal of the Knights is to convert Freemasons, then maybe that excuses its being semi-occult, but, as ex-32° Freemason John Salza and also ex-Knight said, the KofC censures anti-Freemasonic materials, even if Salza's pamphlet had the imprimatur and nihil obstat! Particular KofC councils have done good, e.g., donating ultrasound machines and fighting an uphill battle against the bishop for my orthodox friend's admittance to seminary (a battle they lost ∵ the bishop played a war of attrition), but what are works without the Faith in its complete integrity? It's a part of the faith to be fishers of men, to be triumphalist, even if you're a minority being Catholic!
 
The only lay ecclesial society I've seen that's good is my wife's Confraternity of Christian Mothers, and I don't even know if that society exists on a large scale in the Church anymore, since the booklet she has for it was printed in the '40s; it's good because the priest leads everything. I used to be a part of Communion & Liberation. That one is perhaps even worse than the Knights because they weekly study the errors of Modernism, promoted by the movement's founder Msgr. Luigi Giussani, as though Modernism and "Church reform" were the "charism" of their movement! (Well, it is!) (It, like the KofC, too, isn't lead by priests.) As this article said, the KofC distracts men from the sacraments, esp. Communion.
 
I'd ask for my ICRSS priest's council regarding whether I should be a nominal Knight in order advance the pro-life cause, but he's a Knight himself (so is an FSSP priest I know), so I know already what he'd say. Therefore, I seek your council on whether I should remain a member, and monetarily support them for $30/yr, or whether my presence in this "fraternal organization", however much it's beyond the merely nominal, causes scandal, more harm than good, and will damage my faith. Thanks
 
(This issue is really making me consider moving somewhere close to an SSPX chapel because, as my SSPX friend said, even the indult priests are infected with Modernism.)
 
UPDATE: I found something good in The Angelus: “The Knights of Columbus”