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ROBERT ALTLAND: ROSARY WAS YOUNG CATHOLICS’ WEAPON

By ROBERT ALTLAND

This Rock Volume 4, Number 11   November 1993     Up Front By Karl Keating   Letters   Dragnet   WITH THE POPE IN DENVER By KARL KEATING   Sidebar James Akin: "Don't Take His Literature! He's Anti-Catholic" By James Akin   Sidebar Thomas W. McGovern Had To Prove His Catholicism To Catholic Chaperones By Thomas W. McGovern   Sidebar Paul Czarnota Got Cheers Along Pilgrimage Route By Paul Czarnota   Sidebar Robert Altland: Rosary Was Young Catholic's Weapon By Robert Altland   Sidebar How Phil Sevilla Made Friends By Giving Truth By Phil Sevilla   Sidebar Patti Snyder Confirmed By Voice In The Wind By Patti Snyder   ONLINE ISN’T OUT OF LINE FOR APOLOGISTS By JEFFREY MIRUS   Classic Apologetics Consolation for Apologists By John Henry Newman   Fathers Know Best Eternally Begotten Son   Definitions "Catholic" By James Akin   Old Testament Guide 1 & 2 Kings By Antonio Fuentes   Verse by Verse    Subscribe    Permissions

WHILE waiting to board our buses to the vigil site, we noticed a preacher near us speaking strongly against the Pope. We weren't sure how to react. Arguing would have been foolish. Just ignoring him seemed the best solution. But two girls in our group walked up to him, knelt down, and began to say the rosary.

Within a few minutes ten more joined. Before we were through the first decade, he was surrounded by people praying. He continued to preach, but he was affected. When the rosary was over, the two girls went up and gave him a hug. As we left I looked back and noticed he was in conversation with a staffer from Catholic Answers.