With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christianity and keep the values. This, Nietzsche says, is an illusion...Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.

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.

Capitalism encourages entrepreneurs to act with consideration for others even when their ultimate motive is to benefit themselves.