Since you posted the same thing three times, I guess I should answer.
Priestly celibacy is a discipline not dogma. Is it a good idea? I don’t know, I couldn’t live that way. Recently, an elderly priest at my parish included a plea for marriage, but I think the vast majority of priests support the current status.
No matter, that is the vow he took. When he found that he could no longer keep it, he should have gone to his superior. Getting caught on the beach is just tacky. In addition, this is a two year relationship. It’s not like he got drunk and woke up in a whorehouse. I think he should now find a new way to serve the church. Raising some catholic children would certainly be one way.
Having him back as a priest would be like rehiring a bookkeeper after you caught him embezzling.
That' s been known to happen ... at least he might tell where he stashed the swag!!
In re multiple postings Repititio Mater Scientiae and wish me luck in mastering the MAC, which I am finding rather less adept at handling FR than my PC.
Now the Father Cutié deal: this fellow needs to take a long hike in the Pyrenees. A two-year hike from one monastery to another. Then, he also oughta grow a beard to cover that smirking cutie-pie face. Take him off TV. Perhaps my years of work in the blasé home of Roman Catholicism have made me un-puritanical, but to me, this is no big deal ... a garden-variety clerical fornicatory arrangement. Time for everyone to go to confession and go home. Sack cloth. Ashes. Basta.
Padre Cutié done the crime. The church has many ways for him to do the time. They do not include Oprah appearances or a movie, hai capito?