Our noblest citizens are worried about America. They are not so much distracted by events from outside the country in the realm of international politics, but rather what is happening to the soul of America. Lincoln never feared that America would be conquered from the outside, but he dreaded decay from within. Of the two kinds of barbarism, external or invasion from without, and inner barbarism of spiritual dry rot, the second is the more subtle and dangerous. Snakes which attack put us on the defensive more quickly than cancer which unseen mines all within: "It is easy to slide to hell.""  Archbishop Fulton Sheen