Expulsion is not an option...

...as far as the Knights of Columbus are concerned.

One can only imagine if God had engaged in this thinking, where we might be today? Arm-in-arm with Lucifer, perhaps, skipping merrily into chaos?

With respect to so-called "Catholic" politicians who are members of the Knights, and who support the murder of unborn babies,

Patrick Korten, the Knights' Vice President for Communications, told California Catholic Daily "We expect that council membership committees, when considering applications from potential new members, would take a person's views on abortion and life issues into account... the statement of policy is not used to expel men who are already members."

Apparently it's OK for traitors and accomplices of murder to remain in their midst, while loyal knights may attempt to persuade them to see the light.

While the Knights are to be commended on their wonderful works of charity and evangelization efforts, this 'policy' defies all logic, at least to me. This refusal to deal with such men leads to division and disunity.

Recognition of there being only one Lord, who is head of the mystical
body, underlines the unity that should obtain among all the many
members of this single body. All its members are solidly built on
Christ when they confess "only one" faith--the faith that he taught and
which the Apostles and the Church have expressed in clear statements of
doctrine and dogma. "There can be only one faith; and so, if a person
refuses to listen to the Church, he should be considered, so the Lord
commands, as a heathen and a publican (cf. Mt 18:17)" (Pius XII,
"Mystici Corporis", 10).

From the Navarre Commentary for Ephesians 4:4-6

From Genesis and throughout history we have more than enough examples of allowing poisonous beings to remain within a community and, examples of rightly expelling others.

But what about notorious pro-same sex marriage and pro-abortion politicians who remain on the Knight's membership rolls?

"We don't give up on them, nor, as some Protestant groups once did, do we "shun" them. They are our brother Knights. Out of brotherly love, we wish to help them save their souls," Korten explained in an e-mail message to California Catholic Daily.

It seems Korten's understanding of history is deficient since the Catholic Church expelled heretics and apostates long before there were protestants. One doesn't help his brother by refusing to administer the harsh medicine needed to bring him back to life as he stands on death's doorstep.

Why, I wonder, do they have any criteria at all for membership?