The California couple, who along with two others, were held hostage and then shot dead by Somali pirates, was trying to make a difference in the world by distributing Bibles to remote areas around the globe, their pastor told the Catholic News Agency.

Scott and Jean Adam, of Marina del Rey, California, and friends, Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle of Seattle, were hijacked by Somali pirates off the coast of Oman, when their 58-foot yacht, the Quest, got separated from a fleet traveling from Australia to the Mediterranean.

U.S. naval warships were tailing the vessel as Navy officials tried to negotiate with the captors when gunfire broke out aboard the Quest Tuesday morning.

Msgr. Lloyd Torgerson, the pastor of St.

In the not-too-distant future, our six-year-old daughter may be the one that finally makes my entire hair go grey (not that it's going to take much to get me there but still).

She is sweet, affectionate, beautiful, full of personality and charisma, and very kind but she also has a bit of J-Lo (circa In Living Color) "fly girl" within her that surfaces from time to time.
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The new iPhone application for preparing Catholics for Confession, named Confession: A Roman Catholic App, is getting a lot of press lately. Some reports have called it a change of times for the Church or mistakenly reported it as a new way of confessing sins in the comfort and privacy of the home.

However, the application is nothing more than an examination of conscious, which has for years been in use and available to the laity.

On a recent Saturday morning, I woke up earlier than the rest of my family (not unusual) and went to the computer to do some reading (also not uncommon).

About an hour after being there, my 3-yr-old son comes around behind me without saying a word and cuddles up next to me and gestures with his arms so that I pick him up. I do so and sit him on my lap.

I wrapped my arms around him and held him in silence (he was still half asleep).

From a former porn star turned Christian evangelist to Pope John Paul II's role in the fall of communism in Poland, the second JP II International Film Festival, starting tomorrow in Miami, promises something of interest for the entire family.

This year’s event, themed “Mystery of Love,” will feature seventeen full length films and documentaries, as well as ten short films from the United States, Europe, South America and India.
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Last February, way before I started blogging, I experienced one of the funniest and most surreal circumstances in my life (and that's saying a lot), which I took the time to put on paper (pardon me, on computer) to share with friends and family.  Since it is Valentine's Day, I thought I would share the romantic tale of a man and his car (I should say in his car)...

When Marco Rubio announced his intentions to run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Mel Martinez in the summer of 2009, not many people, including me, gave him much of a chance to beat then popular Governor Charlie Crist for the GOP nomination.
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Abraham Lincoln once wrote, “Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.”

As funny as this statement may sound, there is some profound truth to it.

Think about it. What is purgatory? According to the Catholic faith, it is where we are put “through the fire” and, although, we will feel the greatest joy that we, as humans, have ever felt, we will also experience the greatest anguish that we have ever experienced.
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My wife and I genuinely enjoy spending time together.

Aside from the time we spend with our kids, ever since we got married, we make an effort to go out alone on date nights.

So, obviously, when my wife told me that we were going to her all-girl high school Class of 1986 twenty-five year reunion, last weekend, I thought nothing of it (yes, she usually tells me what we’re doing on weekends. If left up to me, we would hang out all day on the couch watching TV).

For those who haven't figured it out by now, one of my favorite areas of interest is theology. In fact, when my kids get a little older (if my wife gives me permission), I hope to take my private studies to a higher plateau and take some college level courses on the subject.

Meanwhile, I'll continue learning from some of my favorite theologians; Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, Dr. Scott Hahn and Fr. Robert Barron.

Today, Fr. Barron gives a great commentary on the conversion of St.
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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.
From a faith standpoint, I also write about my observations, interests, videos, and things that catch my attention, as well as, celebrities that are trying to live their religious beliefs in the public eye.
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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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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Books I Have Recently Read...
Books I Have Recently Read...
  • 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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