By Fr. Dwight Longenecker, The Imaginative Conservative - Enchanted by the place, I returned some months later to make my annual retreat. I took with me a rosary that a concerned parishioner gave me, and the Protestant boy that I was, felt dismay at such a Catholic devotion. The worship of Mary was a Catholic heresy! Should I really entertain such a practice? Remembering F.D. Maurice’s dictum that “a man is most often right in what he affirms and wrong in what he denies,” I decided to give it a try.