"Don Quixote Catholicism"

Fr. Dwight Longenecker on the need for evangelism in our modern culture that doesn't know what it doesn't know:

'[T]he Catholic faith, which is profoundly relevant (because everything in our society -- even our atheism-- is built on it) seems the most irrelevant thing to the vast majority of worldlings. How then, do we even begin to evangelize a world which is not simply lost as the ancient pagan world was lost, but is lost within a world that is still deeply Christian? Furthermore, those who reject Catholicism, continue to live and operate within a system of morality which upholds 'goodness' or 'spirituality' or 'decent behavior'--all of which comes from deeply Catholic assumptions. Therefore a huge proportion of the population follow a religion which is a vague, attenuated form of Christianity--a pale, milk and water variation of the real thing.'