He has been active in long distance endurance cycling -- including twice completing the "Death Ride" -- and has cycled in at least five different countries. He is a golfer as well. As a youth he participated in basketball, baseball, and football. He is the author of a book called, "Mortal Adhesions: A Surgeon Battles the Seven Deadly Sins to Find Faith, Happiness, and Inner Peace." He is also active as a speaker, giving lectures at parishes about the Camino de Santiago and the Shroud of Turin. His story also includes having served three years as a captain in the Air Force Medical Service during the Vietnam War AND being a cancer survivor.