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Pope
Appoints Supreme Knight Anderson to Pontifical Council
New Haven, CT - Nov 2, 2006 Carl A.
Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, has been appointed by Pope
Benedict XVI as a consultor to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications
for a five-year term.
The Pontifical Council for Social
Communications, under the direction of Archbishop John P. Foley, a Philadelphia
native and a Knight of Columbus, is responsible for addressing issues and
interests in cinema, radio, television, and the news media as they pertain to
the teaching and mission of the Catholic Church.
Mr. Anderson, who has served as
Supreme Knight since 2000, also serves as a member of the Pontifical Council for
the Laity, a consultor to the Pontifical Council for the Family and to the
Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. He was also the only Catholic layman
from North America to serve as an auditor to two recent World Synods of Bishops,
in October 2005 and October 2001. In 1998, Pope John Paul II appointed him a
member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
From 1983 to 1998, Mr. Anderson
taught as a visiting professor of family law at the Pontifical John Paul II
Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at the Pontifical Lateran
University in Rome. In 1988, he became the founding vice president and first
dean of the Washington, D.C., campus of this graduate school of theology, now
located at The Catholic University of America.
Mr. Anderson holds degrees in
philosophy from Seattle University and in law from the University of Denver. He
is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia and is admitted to practice
law before the U.S. Supreme Court. He and his wife, Dorian, are the parents of
five children.
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