Newman and the Rosary
By Michael Pakaluk
Many Protestants who become Catholics pass through three stages in their Marian devotion. They begin by thinking the Rosary is not something bad, as they had supposed; they next come to think it is very good; and finally, with experience and as their faith grows, they may see that it is very powerful.
As today falls between the Feast of the Holy Rosary and the memorial of St. John Henry Newman, I want to write on Newman and the Rosary.
I see nothing of this progression in him, but rather a recognition of the great goodness of the devotion from his earliest days as a…
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