Forming our minds

"Now most of us have Catholic wills, but not many of us have Catholic intellects.  When we look at the universe, we see pretty well what other people see, plus certain extra features taught us by our religion.  For the most part, the same influences that form other people's minds, form ours -- the same habits of thought, inclinations, bodily senses, indolences, worked upon by the same newspapers, periodicals, best-sellers, films, radio programs.  So that we have not so much Catholic minds as worldly minds with Catholic patches.  Intellectually, we wear our Catholicism like a badge on a lapel of the same kind of suit everyone else is wearing."  --from Theology and Sanity, by Frank Sheed, as quoted by Fr. Michael Keating in his presentation at Christ the King, and by Fr. Ed in his talk at the Parish Mission on Tuesday.