Church Militant & the Holy Rosary

We are the Church Militant and the Holy Rosary is our weapon in the spiritual warfare "with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens" (Ephesians 6:11-12).

According to this op-ed piece in "The Atlantic", the author - Daniel Panneton, a writer based in Toronto, Canada - writes that the “rosary has acquired a militaristic meaning for radical-traditional (or “rad trad”) Catholics.” This is the type of anti-Catholic bias that Blessed Father Michael Joseph McGivney and Catholics faced and they overcame it with perseverance in faith.

The author also zeroed in on the Knights of Columbus and the Order's efforts to encourage Catholic men to courageously go into the breach, calling it an "extremist turn":

In 2015, Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix issued an apostolic exhortation calling for a renewal of traditional conceptions of Catholic masculinity titled “Into the Breach,” which led the Knights of Columbus, an influential fraternal order, to produce a video series promoting Olmsted’s ideas. 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.

The author got such backlash from Catholics so much so that he actually changed the title of his piece from "How the Rosary Became an Extremist Symbol" to "How Extremist Gun Culture Is Trying to Co-opt the Rosary".

Well, let's be Holy Rosary "extremists" and "rad trad" Catholics and pray the Holy Rosary even more fervently! Like the founder of the Knights of Columbus, God made us courageous!

Article #1: How the Rosary Became an Extremist Symbol

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/radical-traditionalist-catholic-christian-rosary-weapon/671122/

Article #2: Rosaries are flying off the shelves after ‘The Atlantic’ article suggests link to ‘extremism’

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252046/rosaries-atlantic-extremism

Article #3: ‘The Atlantic’ publishes article on the rosary as symbol of far-right, violent extremism

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252038/the-atlantic-publishes-article-on-the-rosary-as-a-symbol-of-far-right-violent-extremism