When my wife and I first got married, we often enjoyed going to the movies or renting a film at Blockbusters, ordering pizza and opening a bottle of wine. We were up to date with the latest Hollywood movies, news, and celebrities on the scene.

However, thirteen years and three kids later, our movie watching has been relegated to animated Disney, Dreamworks and Pixar films, with the exception of the Chronicles of Narnia series. To be sure, we are more current on the careers of "Woody" and "Princess Fiona" than James Franco or Scarlett O'Hara (Ooops.  Several hours after posting this, my wife pointed out that it's Johansson not O'Hara, infamous character of Gone With the Wind fame).

I love being a dad.  In fact, apart from God and my wife, there is nothing greater in my life than my children (I'm sure not unique to most dads).  To think that God created three lives through the marital union between my wife and me is pretty profound. 

However, as most fathers and mothers will tell you, parenting takes a toll; and one of its casualties is sleep.

For the last five years or so, our bedroom probably gets more incoming overnight traffic than Grand Central Station.
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It always strikes me as ironic how some of us are so deeply concerned about animal rights (case in point Michael Vick was vilified as a monster), yet we turn a blind eye to a catastrophic problem that has wiped out an entire generation of Americans since 1973.

I am referring, of course, to the legalization of abortion in the Roe v. Wade decision, which became the law of the land thirty eight years ago last Saturday.
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I’m not much into pop culture.

In fact, I avoid watching sitcoms, TV dramas (unless my brother or his fiancé are making an appearance) and particularly the awards shows. I guess it’s all the anti-God, anti-family, anti-Christian and, most particularly, anti-Catholic messages spewed on network TV on a regular basis.

Probably the worst aspect of working in the television news industry is that the longer I work in the business, the more desensitized I become to human suffering.

For the past 20 years or so, I have covered stories of human anguish and pain, sadness and grief, desolation and despair.

Few things concern me more as a father than the external influences my children will have to deal with while growing up. Despite the moral values and standards that I hope to instill in them, society and the culture will many times draw them away (or at least tempt them) from what they learn at home.

So, when I read stories of young people who transcend the influences of today's world, albeit after experiencing its seduction firsthand, it gives me hope for my children's future.

The first Anglican bishops to accept Pope Benedict XVI's invitation, to come into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church, were ordained in London this weekend.

Former Church of England bishops, Keith Newton, John Broadhurst and Andrew Burnham, were ordained at Westminster Cathedral as part of the new "ordinariate" set up by Pope Benedict to allow disenfranchised Anglicans, and their U.S. counterpart Episcopalians, to join the Catholic Church.

So there I was at shelter three. 

We were fashionably twenty minutes late, since I had been waiting in the wrong side of the park before noticing I was at the wrong shelter.  Yet something wasn't right.

As I walked towards the party holding the hand of my son and daughter on either side of me, I noticed a kiddie blow up slide, that seemed to be more for my three-year-old son than my six-year-old daughter, who was the birthday girl's contemporary.

As a child in Poland, Karol Wojtyla dreamed of becoming an actor and playwright and some could say his flare for the dramatic continued during his more than 26-year papacy, where he became one of the most influential world leaders of the 20th Century, helping to bring down Communism in his homeland, inspiring millions and  surviving an assassination attempt in the process.

Does it say something about me when an hour after going to bed, my son gets up to go potty then comes into the living room, where I'm watching TV, and asks me, "Where's the tree, Daddy?" (Meaning the Christmas tree that has adorned our living room since the day after Thanksgiving until Wednesday; eighteen days after Christmas) After that long, he must have thought the tree was there to stay.

Granted, my wife doesn't want us to take down the tree until after Three Kings Day (Jan.
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This blog is basically what the title suggests, my attempts at living the Catholic faith to the best of my abilities.
I write about my struggles as a husband, father, son, brother and Christian man.
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I refer to it as life on a high wire because those of us who are trying to live our faith in today's culture are are walking a fine line over a precipice between two worlds; what our faith teaches and we know in our hearts and what the society accepts and expects us to accept.
God, religion and Christianity, especially Catholicism, have been under constant attack and this is my small way of fighting back.
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I'm not an expert or pretend to be. I'm just a lay Catholic who is living and learning, as I go, like many others.
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Born in Oriente, Cuba, raised in Hialeah, Fl and graduated from The U. I’m a husband, father, son and older brother. I was a lapsed Catholic for most of my life until attending a men’s spiritual retreat in April 2006, which totally changed my perspective on life. That weekend, the emptiness I had always tried to fill with the things our culture promises will make us happy (wealth, pleasure, power and honor; St. Thomas Aquinas’ 4 substitutes for God), was filled with the love of God. I have been passionately studying my faith and, hopefully, drawing closer to God ever since. Now, I see my purpose in life is to become a saint and to lead my wife and kids to heaven. It’s not easy! I am no expert by any means. I'm just learning and trying to live my faith to the best of my abilities.
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  • Long Shot by Mike Piazza with Lonnie Wheeler
  • The Protestant's Dilemma by Devin Rose
  • Jacob's Ladder; 10 Steps to Truth by Peter Kreeft
  • Absolute Relativism: The New Dictatorship and What to do About it by Chris Stefanick
  • Special Heart: A Journey of Faith, Hope, Courage and Love by Bret Baier
  • The Church and New Media by Brandon Vogt
  • The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
  • Confessions of a Mega Church Pastor by Allen Hunt
  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Be A Man! Becoming The Man God Created You to Be by Fr. Larry Richards
  • Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life by Charles J. Chaput
  • Raising Good Kids Back to Family Basics by Ray Guarendi
  • The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton
  • The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming by Henri J. M. Nouwen
  • How Firm a Foundation by Marcus Grodi
  • First Comes Love: Finding Your Family in the Church and the Trinity by Scott Hahn
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