For ten years of my life (1977-1987)I was a Marxist with a Catholic Christian bent. In other words, I was a Pelagian heretic given over to the better works of Liberation Theology. I was no poseur of collectivism. I was drawn into a vision, not a crowd to belong to. I followed it out of moral concerns and not for any desire for anything for myself. That’s the truth. But all along, in the back of my mind, I was always probing and testing the ideas against its critics. I think that is what saved me, intellectually. Spiritually, what saved me was a dogged pursuit of the truth about humanity and about Jesus Christ. And the truth about myself as well, under a spiritual director and through some psychotherapy.

In the end I found that there is a darkness everywhere that no social construct can dispel. Only a decision to face the truth and enter the Light. And so I passed from being a heretic to being a more realistic mind.