OATH OF THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

Part #2

"I do further promise and declare, that notwithstanding I am 
dispensed with to assume any religion heretical, for the 
propogating of the Mother Church's interest, to keep secret and 
private all her agents' counsels, from time to time as they may 
instruct me, and not to divulge directly or indirectly, by word, 
writing, or circumstances whatever; but to execute all that shall 
be proposed given in charge or discovered unto me, by you, my 
ghostly father...
   "I do further promise and declare, that I will have no opinion 
or will fo my own, or any mental reservation whatever, even as a 
corpse or cadaver but unhesitatingly obey each and every command 
that I may receive from my superiors in the Militia of the Pope 
and Jesus Christ.
   "That I will go to any part of the world, without murmuring 
and will be submissive in all things whatsoever communicated to 
me...
   "I do further promise and declare, that I will, when 
opportunity presents, made and wage relentless war, secretly or 
openly against all heretics, Protestants and Liberals, as I am 
directed to do to extirpate and exterminate them from the face of 
the whole earth, and that I will spare neither sex, age nor 
condition, and that I will hang, waste, boil, flay, strangle, and 
bury alive these infamous heretics; rip up their women and crush 
their infants' heads against the wall, in order to annihilate 
forever their execrable race.
  "That when the same cannot be done openly, I will secretly use 
the poison cup, the strangulation cord, the steel of the poniard, 
or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity or 
authority of the person or persons whatsoever may be their 
condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may 
be directed so to do by any agent of the Pope or Superior of the 
Brotherhood of the Holy Faith of the Society of Jesus."
  (Copied from Bible Believers' Bulletin, November 1989.)
(Documented in the United States Congressional Record-House Bill 
1523, Contested Election Case of Eugene C. Bonniwell against 
Thomas S.Butler-Feb.15,1913, pp.3215-3216)