I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.

Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.

The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene.

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

C.S. Lewis said that conscience is nothing more than the voice of God within our souls; the bridge that links the creature to the creator

I do think American culture has shifted a little bit away from the contemplative more toward the visual, more toward the emotional, and more toward the expressive. I don't think there's a lot that can be done about that. We just have to understand that it's the product of technology and of the way people live now.