Simply do an internet image search for gang tats if you wish to see more. (old school) Latino gang members especially favor bleeding Christ tats.
Posted on 06/07/2012 1:32:13 AM PDT by mn-bush-man
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A 15-year-old Coon Rapids student says he wears a rosary as a necklace to feel close to his grandmother, who is suffering from breast cancer. But the Anoka-Hennepin School District told him to take the rosary off – or face the consequences.
Jake Balthazor says he prays for his grandmother’s health.
“She has breast cancer, and I’m trying to support her for it,” he said.
He wears his beliefs proudly. The rosary is one his grandmother gave him, but it’s also what landed him in the principal’s office.
“They think it’s like a gang sign,” Balthazor said.
A district spokesperson said the school asked Balthazor not to wear the rosary as a necklace again, saying policy forbids it.
The district’s student discipline policy forbids “any apparel, jewelry, accessories, or matter of grooming which by virtue of its color arrangement, trademark, or any other attribute (as a primary purpose) denotes membership in an organized gang.”
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It’s the Catholic Gang.It’s international. The big boss is some guy in Italy.
Two years ago, I went to a wake of a friend of mine, who had just past. He was big into ocean fishing, having a cabin boat. When he was laid out, he was dressed with having both a tee-shirt and Hawaiian shirt. I was surprised that the family not only a rosary together in his hands, but had a larger rosary put around his neck. The later really, really took me by surprise.
I don’t have a source, but have heard and read about it on different occassions.
That's not entirely true. Dominican nuns wear a rosary as part of their habit, but it's worn around their waist as a belt, not around their neck. (It's a very large rosary, not an ordinary one.)
But it's not jewelry, and it's not a necklace, and this kid is not a Dominican, so ...
You’re right. They shouldn’t be worn. One thing folks seem to be missing here: the young man is a lutheran, wearing the Rosary with his grandmother in mind. In truth, I would hope that this may lead him to conversion, and I will pray toward that end for this story. But at the moment, he is not Catholic. Let’s pray for him, and his conversion.
The school is correct in that, for most, a Rosary should not be worn. The school is idiotic, however, in attempting to claim that a Rosary is a gang sign. Even if some foolish gang were to try to use it as such, it is now, and has always been, and will always be, a Catholic sacramental.
BINGO!
That is what I was taught in Catholic school back in the 50's. Of course, that was before Vatican II, so I'm not sure what today's rules are.
His grandmother on the weekend.
Unbelieveable.
what do you have against lutherans?
I can't say that I've seen any boy or girl who wasn't likely to be in a gang wearing a basic black set of beads, so I don't know if they'd make any exceptions. Most likely they'd be told be a dean or guidance counselor to wear them under their shirt.
Three of those four are not rosaries. Only the white one on the bottom pick is.
Q: Can a rosary be worn as a piece of jewelry?
A: "Sacred objects, set aside for divine worship by dedication or blessing, are to be treated with reverence. They are not to be made over to secular or inappropriate use, even though they may belong to private persons" (CIC 1171).
Essentially, sacramentals such as rosaries must be treated with respect, particularly if they have been blessed. Reverence is the attitude of awe or respect that is most often given to sacred things. By its very definition, it is an interior disposition that usually cannot be determined by onlookers by appearances alone A person may be wearing a rosary as a statement of faith, to keep it handy for praying throughout the day, or to avoid losing it. Those reasons would be indicative of reverence and would not interfere with the canon’s directive that sacramentals must be treated reverently.
Ordinarily speaking, then, if someone is spotted wearing a rosary, he should be charitably presumed to be wearing it for just reasons. Only if the rosary is being put to an objectively sordid use (e.g., a rock star is using it as a prop in a music video, obscenely contrasting the symbolic purity of the rosary with the immodest or immoral actions of the performers) can we be sure that the rosary is being treated irreverently. Source:
http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/2004/0410qq.asp
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I suppose if it worn discretely (under a shirt), then it's not a big deal. When you consider the smaller single-decade rosaries that are offered in many colors and metal tones, it's obvious that it is expected that women will wear them as bracelets. So again it comes down to the wearer's intentions.
I wonder what the schools would make of a scapular?
It all depends on "whose" gang symbol you wear.
Thank God for your post. Of course, a rosary is not to be worn as adornment! Here in Texas, the only ones wearing rosaries are the little gangbangers.
The ignorant comments on this thread are unbelievable.
Code of Canon Law 1171
A fine way to expand the symbolism of the beads is to let them remind us of our many relationships, of the bond of communion and fraternity which unites us all in Christ.
APOSTOLIC LETTER
ROSARIUM VIRGINIS MARIAE
OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF
JOHN PAUL II
TO THE BISHOPS, CLERGY AND FAITHFUL
ON THE MOST HOLY ROSARY
For the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia, the Rosary is listed in our Constitutions as an official part of our habit
From their website
The Obama Halo picture comes to mind...
Exactly! That's what the nuns always taught us.
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