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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)