They have also called for national healing and reconciliation following a series of violent mass murders including the Pulse nightclub massacre and 2015 San Bernardino attack . Supreme Knight Carl Anderson has also said that the United States owes the victims of the Charleston church shooting in 2015 " a debt of gratitude for showing us a noble path , " calling them " courageous Christians . " During the early part of the 20th century , both the Supreme and local councils found themselves in agreement with the principles of the Progressive movement . Senator Albert J. Beveridge , an intellectual leader of the Progressive movement , was the featured speaker at " a grand patriotic demonstration " at Carnegie Hall in 1906 , and James C. Monaghan , the Supreme Lecturer , frequently spoke out in favor of progressive causes in '' Columbiad '' and elsewhere . The Massachusetts State Council was supportive of New Deal policies in 1933
Charleston church shooting
Charleston church shooting
Political activity of the Knights of Columbus