Narrow is the path to heaven, wide the path to perdition

As I travel around and visit with people, the picture that most Catholics have in their mind about the world is this: "Broad and wide is the way that leads to heaven and almost everybody's going that way, but narrow is the door and difficult the road that leads to hell and hardly anybody's going that way." Now this is a little scary because it's just the opposite of what Jesus said. So how did we get to this point, where so many of our fellow Catholics are believing something as a matter of Gospel truth that is just the opposite of the Gospel truth. Matthew 7: 13-14 “Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few." --Ralph Martin, Director of Graduate Theology Programs in the New Evangelization at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit and a Consultor to the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization