But at his baptism, at age thirty, he has revealed to him the deep secret of his identity. In 1967, Jean Charon wrote the book Man in Search of Himself. There is a search we have all been on. When I was a teenager, I loved acting in the school plays. I tried out various identities in search of myself.
Identity is deeper than role playing.
It is deeper than a name on a legal document. I understood that. I found it inconvenient, maddening really, to be a Christian. I tried to shed that identity but it proved not to be so easy. It is a conceit of contemporary culture that we can be whoever we choose to be, but I do not think that is true.