Rev. Alberto Cutié | 05/07/2009 9:25 am
'Padre Oprah' Catholic Rev. Alberto Cutié Caught With Woman on Beach, Church Peeved

The Catholic Church is none too happy with popular Rev. Alberto Cutié after the popular Miami Beach priest said priests should be able to marry — and was then caught out and about with a woman.
Rev. Cutié, 40, is wildly popular in Florida and is a bestselling author and host of his own show, "Padre Alberto." He’s known as "Padre Oprah" for his advice on love and relationships. But last week he told a Spanish-language Miami TV station that Catholic priests should be allowed to wed, saying: "If they [church officials] want to discipline me, let them discipline me, but I think the option would be better and healthier.” He was then caught getting a little too cozy with a woman in public. He was relieved of his duties, and while the Church says it’s up to him whether he wants to repent, the Episcopalians may have a better offer for him.
”He is welcome in our church,” Bishop Leo Frade of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida told The Miami Herald. ”For us, a single guy on the beach with his girlfriend is no problem. Episcopalians look at this and scratch their heads.”
Meanwhile, Cutié’s supporters — and there are a lot of them — are holding a rally this morning in support of him in South Beach.
”We are gathering together to show our friendship and support for all the work he has done in Miami and around the world,” Yohayra Dajud de La Fuentes, a parishioner and rally organizer, told the Herald. "He changed our lives and is a channel of God’s light.”
What do you think? Should Catholic priests be allowed to marry?























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She would have felt strange, too, I assure you. She’s probably too polite to correct them.
BTW, I have posted a lot of source material in the Pakistan refugee section; tell me what your thoughts are.
Money. The vatican doesn’t want to support a family. Thus the reason for the vow of poverty. The vatican supplies the priest with everything, home, car, food, clothing, healthcare, EVERYTHING. Cheaper to pay for 1 man vs man, woman, children.
LOL, the church throws out someone for hanging with an adult woman, but shelters pedo priests. Is there something wrong with this picture?!
He’s right, of course…priests should be able to marry…
We are so on the same page here. I am not familiar with this priest but it sounds like he at least openly stated his opinion and was not doing something creepy behind closed doors.
I was not raised in the Catholic Church but my husband was. At one time I had respect for the Church. That all went out the window when the scandal broke a few years ago. When the previous pope died, a young priest I am acquainted with said he believed the new pope would allow priests to marry. Obviously he was mistaken about that.
The weird thing is, the Church seems to not understand why people are not attending mass in droves the way they used to. They simply don’t get it.