Church aghast at 'rosary chic'

[struggle4progress]

09:59 AM CST on Saturday, January 29, 2005
By MARY A. JACOBS / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News

<snip> When they and other trendy celebs started wearing rosaries as necklaces last fall, sales of the beads boomed in Europe. <snip>

Catholic clergy, not surprisingly, aren't impressed with the craze. <snip>

Father Morris noted that the rosary includes a crucifix, an "odd thing" to wear.

"The cross is an instrument of torture," he said. "Why not wear an electric chair?"

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/religion/stories/012905dnrelrosary-sider.4e717.html

[Maple]

1. People have been wearing crosses

complete with body for centuries.

They just noticed??

[Selwynn]

8. That's exactly what my first thought was

[CatholicEdHead]

2. Need to register for link

but I want to add this. 24/7 adoration is coming back. What used to be for just Nuns and Monks is being picked up by the laity.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5211613.html

"The Selanders, here every Wednesday from midnight to 2 a.m., are on the leading edge of a dramatic comeback of a centuries-old ritual. It's a year-round, 24-hour eucharistic watch.

From International Falls to Sleepy Eye, candles and lights blaze through the night at 38 Roman Catholic churches as someone continuously adores the thin circular wafer at the heart of the Catholic mass. The practice, once done mainly by nuns and monks, is known as "perpetual adoration."
Praying for the sick.
Joey Mcleister
Star Tribune

"It's a bottom-up phenomenon," said John Boyle, a professor of theology and Catholic studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. "It's been remarkable over the past 20 years to watch it grow, especially the past 10 years."

About 30 other state parishes have chapels where adoration takes place most hours of the week.

"The Archdiocese of Minneapolis and St. Paul ... probably has the most chapels of perpetual adoration of any archdiocese in the country. It's one of the most fruitful areas for this anywhere," said the Rev. Victor Warkulwiz, a Pennsylvania priest who travels the country to help start adoration programs and has been in Minnesota every weekend this month."

[struggle4progress]

4. Sorry about the registration

Consider trying www.bugmenot.com

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[Kerrytravelers]

5. Whew!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, I gotta chuckle, even if I am a Catholic.


At first, I thought, so what. I figured they were talking about Bono, who got his rosery from the Pope.

But Britney Spears? Good God. Spear Britney!

Will this girl ever go away?

[RUDUing2]

6. probably to the same extent that teachers wear rulers. Please do not

use this board as a place to make such inflammatory and foolish statements.

[RUDUing2]

7. Rosary's are not ornamental pieces..they are prayer tools...

to wear a rosary as a *fashion statement* is the equivalent of a non-jew wearing a *skull cap* as a fashion statement.

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