Is it okay to wear a rosary as a necklace?
On One Hand: It Is Okay if Worn for PrayerIt is OK to wear a rosary around your neck, so long as you are wearing it for prayer, according to the Life Teen website. Life Teen is an international Catholic movement that provides resources about the church to teens. Anyone who knows the six easy prayers can pray using a rosary. You do not even have to be Catholic, according CatholiCity.com.On the Other: It Is Not Okay If MisusedAccording to Life Teen, Madonna made wearing the rosary as a necklace popular in the 1980s. The problem was that she was wearing it while singing about who she was going to sleep with next. Wearing the rosary as jewelry when you have no intention of praying is misusing it.Bottom LineMembers of many religious orders, including Franciscans and Dominicans, wear rosaries in order to pray.
