Reading G. K. Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man during his honeymoon in Rome profoundly changed his life and inevitably led to research into the Early Church Fathers and the history of the Catholic Church.
Dalam pengakuannya, membaca The Everlasting Man karya G. K. Chesterton selama berbulan madu di Roma sangat mengubah hidupnya dan ia terdorong untuk melakukan penelitian seputar para Bapa Gereja awal dan sejarah Gereja Katolik.