There’s nothing like good food and libations to bring a family together (Then again, even bad food with good libations works just as well). Add the sun, the beach, a tent and, this year, even a volleyball net, and it’s our annual family vacation at Sanibel Island Beach in the Gulf Coast of Florida.

Alright, I must admit, despite living in South Florida, it’s probably one of the few times of the year that I venture onto a beach.  I hate sand!  I hate being in wet sticky clothes and lugging around beach chairs, an umbrella, a cooler and plastic beach toys.
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Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

He could well have been referring to Cuba's opposition leader Oswaldo Paya, who like King, was a symbol of unwavering faith in God and of peaceful activism for a civil and just society.

Word from several news outlets that Katie Holmes is returning to the Roman Catholic Church, where she was raised before marrying superstar Scientologist Tom Cruise, has been causing a stir in the entertainment community and on the Internet since early last week.

According to reports, the 33-year-old actress has registered as a parishioner at the historic Church of St.
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Sometime around mid-morning on a recent Sunday, after stopping for some pastelitos at Ricky Bakery (which may not have been the best choice after failing to fit into my tuxedo for a black-tie affair the previous night), as we headed to pick up our kids for lunch in Key Biscayne, where they had stayed for the weekend, I turned to my wife, put my arms around her ever so gently, looked into her eyes and said in earnest, “We’re not spring chickens anymore!”

On another day, she may have taken except
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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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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...
  • 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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