“You know the theory that a frog put in a pan of water will stay there as the temperature rises and the poor thing doesn’t sense the increase in temperature and eventually boils to death.
“The biggest problem with American Catholics is that the majority of them are asleep. Lulled by materialism, the good life and the cares of the world, they’re blind to the real crisis facing America and blind to the real crisis facing the Catholic Church. They’re frogs in a pan of water.”
In a recent commentary, Father Dwight Longenecker (parish priest at Our Lady of the Rosary Parish, Greenville, SC) reflected on the serious challenges (he described them as '”poisons'”) of relativism, utilitarianism, and sentimentalism facing Catholics in the U.S.
To access Fr. Longenecker’s complete post, please visit:
Standing on My Head: Wake Up and Smell the Catastrophe (2 DEC 12)
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