I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.

I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.

My truth is that I am a gay American.

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.

I have two extraordinary daughters, who, I can say proudly, are doing very well in school and in piano. Daughters are a father's joy.

I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.