On the Assumption, Remember Atlantic Was Wrong to Call Rosary-Praying Catholics 'Extremist'

“When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son. After that, he saith to the disciple: Behold thy mother.” —John 19:26-27

A blessed feast of the Assumption or Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary! It is the commemoration of the fact that Our Lady, through a special grace from her Son Jesus, was taken up into Heaven body and soul.

But on this holy feast day, honoring both Jesus’s Mother and, as always—for Mary is only honored in light of her Son—Jesus Himself, I want to look at an insane article published by The Atlantic, claiming that the rosary is a symbol of extremist, violent nationalism.

The rosary is fundamentally a Scriptural prayer, but The Atlantic Aug. 14 article by Daniel Panneton is titled, “How Extremist Gun Culture Co-Opted the Rosary.” Sounds like satire, doesn’t it? He tries to argue that people who don’t support mutilating kids for LGBTQ+ ideology or murdering unborn babies are somehow a dangerous threat to society.