Knights and Squires/Uniforms or Costumes?

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LOL…AR 15 would consolidate support of both 1st and 2nd Amendment…Who could argue with that? Might be an interesting post for the World News regulars to ponder.
 
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If the Knights are going to now have sidearms, I hope they’ll be able to use them to take out any domestic terrorists who burst into the church and try to massacre the congregation or kill the priest during Mass.
 
LOL…Yeah, because that has been quite a problem lately…every time I go to Mass, I’m thinking this might be the day I become a martyr!
 
Really? I haven’t seen “several”, but I have heard of priest being killed while taking confessions in Mexico…horrible things happen, but when they are isolated, it is not justification for the Knights to be armed…perhaps you were being as over dramatic as I was.
 
At my parish, we’re lucky to have multiple police officers as parishioners. I’m pretty sure my pastor has asked all of them to split the Sunday masses among themselves and atttend in plainclothes with their duty weapon. Better to have and not need than need and not have.
 
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We are fortunate to have them.

In the downtown high crime areas, I’ve seen them attending in full uniform.
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Do you honestly think a nutcase with a semiautomatic weapon will think, “This is scsry…there are guys dressed in Dracula tuxedoes with feathery hats and swords”…LOL…just saying…and, is physical protection of the priest part of the K of C misdion statement?
 
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Bear was responding to my comment about police. We’re talking about law officers, not KofC
 
While the situation of danger in a church is real, I think you took a tongue in cheek remark way too seriously to push some agenda you have. Bye now.
 
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@Dochawk is high (ish) in the KofC… Maybe he knows?
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Just the Grand Knight for my council, and a Past Navigator of a Fourth Degree assembly, but I’ll stick in what I can . . .

The fringed and plumed hat is indeed a "chapeau.’ In particular, it is a fifteenth century admiral’s hat.

there is about a year left on the old regalia. I’m not sure how much problem there is shipping the new, but it seems to need to be ordered through the Knights, while the old could be ordered from a number of places (we had a local tailor doing it ih duBois,PA).

The sword remains an option with the new regalia.
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In the berets and suit jackets? The look like the secret police of a repressive dictatorship in them, IMO.
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More commonly, seen as looking like paratroopers for a banana republic . . . but you are far form the only one to react like this. Relly far . . .
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If the Knights are going to now have sidearms, I hope they’ll be able to use them to take out any domestic terrorists who burst into the church and try to massacre the congregation or kill the priest during Mass.
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I actually attended a callout once where the large numbers of us was actually about security for the bishop, as a nut job who had threatened him was on the loose. Professional security was also on and, but we made for a lot more eyes . .
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and, is physical protection of the priest part of the K of C misdion statement?
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That, actually, would be the Ancient Order of Hibernians (in whicht our founder, Fr. McGivney, was involved in the American offshoot, and some of our things are derived.)

The AOH was formed specifically to protect priests from the British army in Ireland, which was rounding them up[ and summarily executing them. (Pretty much every group further out than the AOH needed suppression by the Irish themselves . . )

But, yes, the KofC would take this role without hesitation (as would the AOH in America, which was formed at the request of the AOH to protect immigrant Irish women[among other things, from marrying protestants . . . think of the mother’s rosary mentioned in Gone With the Wind ]).

As for myself, I won’t be buying the new costume. I’ll keep my cape and chapeau for my own burial, as well as for funerals of those who request real regalia as their own.

As a historical note, the current regalia goes back to about the 20s, before which a white tuxedo was used. We got a bit less forma 🙂

And the search goes on for my great-grandfather’s sword 😦

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Lots of problems in Mexico. They’d need the extended magazines for whatever they are carrying. Saw a photo of a crime scene in Sinaloa State; in view were bodies B and C (which of course, implies body A out of view) along with a large number of AK-47 casings

We get some attendees in uniform periodically. Had a highway patrol guy show up in full uniform with his Sig in .357Sig on the belt, PD folks show up at times in full uniform as well.
 
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