Professor Robert P. George, the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, visited Sydney recently as keynote speaker at the John Paul II Leaders Forum. Praised by US Supreme Court Justice and former Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan as "one of the nation's most respected legal theorists", he is the celebrated author of fourteen books and numerous articles.

I asked the Professor how he, as an economic and social conservative, and a strongly committed Christian, was received at Princeton University and in America's notoriously secular academic circles.

This was his answer.