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Rosary Sales Surge After ‘The Atlantic’ Calls Rosary ‘An Extremist Symbol’
National File ^ | August 17, 2022 | by PAUL AUBERT

Posted on 08/17/2022 10:48:17 AM PDT by Red Badger

The Atlantic's hit-piece on Catholicism and the rosary has actually increased rosary sales. in Christianity, Culture, News, Politics Rosary Sales Surge After ‘The Atlantic’ Calls Rosary ‘An Extremist Symbol’

Three online shops have reported a massive surge in the sales of rosaries following The Atlantic, a massive mainstream media outlet, publishing a hit-piece on the rosary, labeling it a sign of extremism. Rosary vendors told Catholic News Agency that their sales and/or social media followings have boomed, probably to the spite of The Atlantic.

As National File previously reported, Daniel Panneton wrote an article in The Atlantic which called the Catholic rosary a “symbol” of religious radicalism.

The Atlantic piece, titled “How the Rosary Became an Extremist Symbol”, describes in a negative light, the rise of Catholic media groups or figures who “actively” campaign “against LGBTQ acceptance in the Church,” and other progressive issues in American society.

Panneton explained that these traditional Catholics on social media were radical because of so-called “extremist homophobic and transphobic “groomer” discourse.”

The far-Left Atlantic also mocked the idea of “rosary-branded events.” Panneton wrote, “On this extremist fringe, rosary beads have been woven into a conspiratorial politics and absolutist gun culture. These armed radical traditionalists have taken up a spiritual notion that the rosary can be a weapon in the fight against evil and turned it into something dangerously literal.

The basic beliefs of Catholicism are evidence of “extremism” amongst politically active Catholics, according to Panneton.

The author hit back on traditional views of masculinity, grounded in the Catholic faith. “The militarism also glorifies a warrior mentality and notions of manliness and male strength. This conflation of the masculine and the military is rooted in wider anxieties about Catholic manhood.”

“But among radical-traditional Catholic men, such concerns take an extremist turn, rooted in fantasies of violently defending one’s family and church from marauders,” he added.

After attacking the Catholic religion’s views on homosexuality, transgender issues, pedophilia, and masculinity, the Atlantic went on to suggest the Church’s pro-life advocacy tied them to far-right extremism.

“The convergence within Christian nationalism is cemented in common causes such as hostility toward abortion-rights advocates,” Panneton claimed.

Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, OP, a Dominican priest of the Province of St. Joseph, told Catholic News Agency that the Atlantic piece was “classic misdirection.”

“The author takes what are basic Catholic positions on the nature of the Church, Christian morality, and the like, and posit that they are somehow ‘extremist.’ This is classic misdirection.”

CatholicVote, a Catholic super PAC and advocacy group, slammed the Atlantic for publishing “an attack on any religion’s sacred objects.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
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To: NorthMountain

I use the same method, wire, pliers and then 3 tiny lengths of chain to separate the decades. The web site has a section for mission supplies. Low cost as long as you are giving them away. They also have a nice selection of upscale supplies.


41 posted on 08/17/2022 6:49:47 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: stanne

Some people don’t understand the definition of “grace”.


42 posted on 08/17/2022 6:55:55 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Sometimes when you get to where you're supposed to be, it's too soon.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

“Some people don’t understand the definition of “grace”.”

They don’t. You’re right.

“grace, in Christian theology, the spontaneous, unmerited gift of the divine favour in the salvation of sinners, and the divine influence operating in individuals for their regeneration and sanctification.”

I think of it as favor, protection and power. Holiness too.


43 posted on 08/17/2022 9:04:11 PM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

“One of the 15 promises IS getting Grace for spreading the rosary devotion”

Right. The statement is an oxymoron. You don’t “get” Grace by spreading. You don’t get Grace by doing anything. Everything already has been done.


44 posted on 08/18/2022 1:57:20 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Sometimes when you get to where you're supposed to be, it's too soon.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

“ Right. The statement is an oxymoron. You don’t “get” Grace by spreading. You don’t get Grace by doing anything. Everything already has been done.”

The rosary is a Catholic prayer. The tenets of Catholicism apply


45 posted on 08/18/2022 2:20:59 AM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

“The rosary is a Catholic prayer. The tenets of Catholicism apply”

Oh. I was going for the tenets of Christianity.


46 posted on 08/18/2022 2:32:16 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Sometimes when you get to where you're supposed to be, it's too soon.)
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To: stanne

This is Monsignor Popes response to the article in the Atlantic. This thread is a good place to read his comments about the article. I didn’t go looking for this, we just read his blog. https://blog.adw.org/author/cpope/


47 posted on 08/18/2022 3:11:21 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

“Oh. I was going for the tenets of Christianity.”

This is for readers, not necessarily for you. I find debating the regular Free Republic hateful, ignorant anticatholic Free Republic commenters to be impossibly closed minded and illogical as to defy debate.

However, this is an article about the rosary. And I do expect the FR hate Catholic to be represented here. The hatred toward the Blessed Mother is particularly strong here.

No need to respond with illogical, uninformed Catholic hatred

I wont engage any further wasting my time.

Any article on the rosary is expected to draw it out.

Jesus founded the Catholic Church.

“Presbyterianism originated in the 16th-century Protestant Reformation and the teachings of John Calvin of Switzerlan d and John Knox of Scotland.”
Encycl. Of Cleveland history

Here’s encyclopedia Britannica

“As a branch of Christianity, Roman Catholicism can be traced to the life and teachings of Jesus Christ in Roman-occupied Jewish Palestine about 30 CE.“

“ The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation)[1] was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church”
wiki

Also from Britannica:
Lutheranism as a religious movement originated in the early 16th century Holy Roman Empire as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church...


48 posted on 08/18/2022 5:30:48 AM PDT by stanne
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To: MomwithHope

Msgr Charles Pope

Thanks so much. Saved for later.


49 posted on 08/18/2022 5:31:43 AM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

Hilarious.
‘Bye.


50 posted on 08/18/2022 6:14:36 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Sometimes when you get to where you're supposed to be, it's too soon.)
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To: Red Badger; MayflowerMadam; stanne; ConservativeMind; ealgeone; Mark17; BDParrish; fishtank; ...
"The Atlantic's hit-piece on Catholicism "

As actually protesting against what it sees as an abuse of it, as in,

These rad-trad rosary-as-weapon memes represent a social-media diffusion of such messaging, and they work to integrate ultraconservative Catholicism with other aspects of online far-right culture. The phenomenon might be tempting to dismiss as mere trolling or merchandising, and ironical provocations based on traditionalist Catholic symbols do exist, but the far right’s constellations of violent, racist, and homophobic online milieus are well documented for providing a pathway to radicalization and real-world terrorist attacks. The rosary—in these hands—is anything but holy.

This reaction is what I see as extreme, even though I am one who affirms that praying to Mary or any created being in Heaven is nowhere taught or exampled by by believers despite over 200 prayers recorded by the Holy Spirit in Scripture, but is one of the distinctive Catholic teachings are not manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels).

51 posted on 08/18/2022 6:25:51 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him who saves, be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: Red Badger
EVERYONE should be able to enjoy free exercise of their religion - without exception.Even Catholics!

First Amendment Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

52 posted on 08/18/2022 7:13:57 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good. )
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To: Red Badger

There are plenty (!) of threads on FR that deal with specifics of various religions. I hope this thread doesn’t get into a debate about HOW and WHY people practice their religion.

THIS is about freedom. I will defend all Constitutional rights.


53 posted on 08/18/2022 7:19:40 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good. )
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To: kinsman redeemer

The Bible told us this was coming.........................


54 posted on 08/18/2022 7:21:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: daniel1212

It is a distinctive Catholic teaching that there is a communion of saints. That we pray to the saints for intercession that is what we do when praying to The Blessed Mother

free republic anticatholics are distinct in their ing Moran e of Catholic teaching that they profess

So stop wasting my time.


55 posted on 08/18/2022 7:41:50 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Red Badger
Orthodox Judaism (the real thing) is absolutely totalitarian in its discipline. Orthodox Jews wear kippot, tzitziyyot (fringes), and distinctive clothing.

The only reason that the Left doesn't pick on them to the same extent is that it doesn't see them as a religion, but as some sort of decriminalized sin whose protection justifies totalitarian secularism.

These "anti-chrstians" who don't recognize any other religion than chrstianity and who patronize non-chrstian religions as honorary homosexuals are actually the most fanatical chrstians of all.

56 posted on 08/18/2022 7:48:58 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Secularism is a fraud and a failure.)
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To: bunkerhill7
They just pissed off 15 million illegal aliens

Lol!

But remember, in the world of pro wrestling the heels never feud among themselves.

57 posted on 08/18/2022 7:52:29 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Secularism is a fraud and a failure.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
Orthodox Judaism (the real thing) is absolutely totalitarian in its discipline.

Most religions and its zealots are.

“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” ― Robert A. Heinlein

58 posted on 08/18/2022 7:56:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: daniel1212
one of the distinctive Catholic teachings are not manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (which is Scripture, in particular Acts through Revelation, which best shows how the NT church understood the gospels).

I recommend an electron microscope. You get more new data that way.

59 posted on 08/18/2022 7:59:39 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Secularism is a fraud and a failure.)
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To: stanne
free republic anticatholics are distinct in their ing Moran e of Catholic teaching that they profess

Also, it comes with a frammis.

60 posted on 08/18/2022 8:01:17 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Secularism is a fraud and a failure.)
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