Posted on 06/01/2010 5:05:08 AM PDT by markomalley
As he stood in front of dozens of reporters a year ago to say he was leaving the Roman Catholic Church and marrying, celebrity priest Alberto Cutié took a plunge, putting his life on a path that would look little like what he imagined when he slipped on that first clerical collar in his 20s and and vowed a life of celibacy.
These days, he's a suburban 41-year-old husband, sharing a three-bedroom house in Miami Shores with his wife and her son, often cooking Cuban meals before a game of Chinese checkers.
On Saturday, after dusting off the same white stole he wore when he knelt before Miami's Roman Catholic Archbishop 15 years ago to be ordained, he put it back over his shoulders. Padre Alberto is a priest again, this time in the Episcopal church.
It's not the only change in his life. In six months, the padre will be a dad. Ruhama Buni Cutié is pregnant.
``God's not all that interested in you falling down. God is interested in you getting up again,'' Cutié told Episcopal bishops and hundreds of parishioners gathered Saturday at Church of the Resurrection in Biscayne Park for the ceremony marking his return to the priesthood. He spent the past year at Resurrection, studying Episcopal traditions as a lay minister.
It's a denomination, he proclaims, ``that is welcoming of all,'' including himself, a once invincible priest who has seen many Catholics ``act as if I dropped dead, as if I don't exist.''
As a Catholic, he secretly struggled with his church's stance toward homosexuality, contraceptives and his own celibacy. As an Episcopalian, he's speaking freely about his support of openly gay clergy, of birth control, and, when a woman's life is in danger, even abortion.
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So let's see if we have this straight: the proper action is to lower what God expects rather than to elevate your personal expectations.
Gotcha.
Exactly why my husband and I left the Episcopal church and converted to Roman Catholicism....
May God have mercy on his soul.
You nailed it.
The truth, plain & simple.
All except Christians.
(note the author: Jaweed Kaleem)
“celebrity priest”?
I think that’s about all you need to know
``I told him, sleep, because you will never sleep again.''A bit ironic ...
Boy- it looks like we lost a really good priest. (Sarc). Maybe he could tell us who the other CINOs are and take them all with him? Then there would be much less confusion.
Cutié is a fraud.
I would guess that Jaweed Kaleem is named for that Anglo-Saxon missionary, St. Jaweed.
He’s always been an Episcopalian at heart, in other words. If I were his wife, I’d have regular medical checkups. Supporters of homosexuality have often participated.
As a former Episcopalian, I find it humiliating to see what kind of “clergy” the Church now attracts. What a farce and a joke!
They’re ridiculous, but somehow they’re being allowed to take over whole societies and institutions, not just the Episcopal Church.
Sad but true.
I just love him. It’s a shame he had to leave the Catholic Church, but he has a great contribution to make — you’d know if you ever saw him speak in church.
His contribution seems to be in direct proportion to his abandonment of his faith.
My guess is that this guy wasn't a Christian as a Catholic...And he's still not a Christian as a Protestant...But he's a priest...
His attitudes sure reflected some issues with basic moral theology, that's a fact.
But it sure isn't my place to determine the state of anybody's soul. Protestant or Catholic.
And his wife's a Cutie...with an accent.
Interesting that the Episcopalian bishop treats his prior ordination as a Catholic priest as a valid ordination.
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