I'm a Strange Product of What Should Not Have Been a Religious Upbringing

"i'm a strange product of what should not have been a religious upbringing in the traditional use of the term, when i was growing up," he says. "My mother and father had very, very different approaches to the whole subject of religious life... My mother was a very sacramental person, as catholics are ... The other sacraments were to be celebrated as you went through life." He adds that his parents never darkened the doorstep of a church after leaving sunday school.