Apart from the Holy Mass itself, the rosary is without a doubt the most iconic form of Catholic prayer. In films, all a director has to do to show that characters are Catholic is place a rosary in their hands. In a roundabout way, I can attribute my own conversion to the rosary.
As we political laymen try to understand – and as the world’s statesmen try to resolve – the tragedies in Gaza and the ongoing war in Ukraine, we encounter an element common to all military crises: the danger of centrifugal force.