You start reading C.S. Lewis, then you’re reading G.K. Chesterton, then you’re a Catholic.

My mother converted when I was 16. She was the driving force behind religion in our family. So, I'm sure I was heavily influenced by that. But, I also was, and still am, convinced by the Catholic churches historical claims to represent the continuity with the early Church that other forms of Western Christianity lack.

The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways.

You start reading C.S. Lewis, then you’re reading G.K. Chesterton, then you’re a Catholic.

Even secular people can't really escape from the need to rest their ideas on some belief, some sort of commitment that is not scientific commitment.

I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say.

The fact that institutional churches have gone into decline doesn't mean that we're going to enter some purely secular age. Secular people need to be aware of that.