(WHDH)– “These are my mom’s,” says Laura Pica, holding a necklace of pink rosary beads. The beads represent two things that are very important to Laura: family and faith. “These are made ...

“I call it an act of prayer,” said Stephney “Skip” Welch, 75, one of the rosary makers. “God is using my energy to put a pair of beads in somebody’s hands.

A follower prays with rosary beads at the pope's rosary for peace in Ukraine and end to wars worldwide, on May 31, 2022, at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome.

But despite the easy co-existence of her rosary beads and the copy of the declaration, the NSW senator sees a worrying divide between religious and non-religious Australians.