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Home / Awards / Servitor Pacis Award / 2007 THE SERVITOR PACIS AWARD RECIPIENTS 2007 - Supreme Knight Carl A. Anderson As Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, Carl A. Anderson is the chief executive officer and chairman of the board of the world’s largest Catholic family fraternal service organization with more than 1.7 million members. Since assuming his responsibilities as Supreme Knight in 2000, the Knights of Columbus has achieved new records in charitable giving providing in its latest year more than $139 million and 64 million hours in volunteer service. In addition, during this time the Knights of Columbus established the $1 million Heroes Fund to assist families of rescue workers killed on September 11, 2001; the $2 million Pacem in Terris Fund to assist efforts for peace in the Middle East by the Catholic Church; and was financial sponsor of the January 17, 2004, Papal Concert of Reconciliation. Mr. Anderson has had a distinguished career as a public servant and educator. From 1983 to 1987, he served in various positions of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, including Special Assistant to the President and acting Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison. Following his service at the White House, Mr. Anderson served for nearly a decade as a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. 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. Since 1988, he has been on the faculty and founding Vice President of the Washington, D.C. session of this graduate school of theology now located at The Catholic University of America. In 1988, Pope John Paul II appointed Mr. Anderson to the Pontifical Academy for Life. He was the only layman from North America to serve as an auditor to the World Synod of Bishops in October 2001 and 2006. In 2002, he was appointed to the Pontifical Council for the Laity. He has served as a consultor to the Pontifical Council for the Family, and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. That same year, he was appointed a consultant to the Pro-Life Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and reappointed in 2004 and 2007. In 2006, he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to the Pontifical Council of Social Communications. Mr. Anderson serves as a member of the International Scientific Council of the Studium Generale Marcianum of Venice. In 1994, he was a member of the Vatican delegation for the Fifteenth Meeting of the International Jewish Liaison Committee held in Jerusalem. In 2000, Pope John Paul II named him a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great. Mr. Anderson currently serves on the Board of Trustees of The Catholic University of America, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, and the National Catholic Educational Association.
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