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Article: Face it, we've lost; Catholics in an alien culture.(Column)
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- Commonweal
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- May 17, 1996
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Even when the signs are right under our noses, clamoring for our attention, most of us don't like to admit we are in grave trouble. For to admit this would be to recognize that life can no longer go on as usual. And while life as usual may not be the most pleasant thing in the world, at least it is something we have grown used to. This is the condition known to pop psychology as denial.
Thus many people refuse to recognize that their kids are on drugs, their spouses are cheating, their bosses are ready to fire them, they have developed a grave illness, etc.
American Catholicism is like that. It has long been in a state of denial as to how hostile the dominant ...