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Sat, May 9, 2009
From talk shows to talk of town
BY LYDIA MARTIN
Charming, hip and part of an influential Miami inner circle that includes celebrities, TV news personalities and slick power brokers, Father Alberto Cutié has always appeared to navigate with ease the disparate worlds of clergy and society.
''He was very comfortable at a party,'' said nightlife fixture Gingi Beltran, a real estate agent who regularly attended Cutié's Sunday evening Mass at St. Francis de Sales on South Beach. ``But he didn't drink. And you never got a sex vibe from him. If anything, maybe when he was in the room he would calm the situation. He's a very serious priest who demanded a lot of respect.''
But now everyone knows: Father Albert -- sometimes known as ''Father Hottie'' for his dashing good looks -- is in love. And he's not sorry.
The scandal that will likely lead to his leaving the priesthood may sound like a telenovela script, spurred by a Mexican magazine's publication of spicy photos of the priest getting cozy with a bikini-clad woman on a Miami beach. It may even catapult him to greater fame. But the charismatic priest who has never been shy about the spotlight didn't plan any of this, he says.
Not his rise to the kind of celebrity that pr
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Florida Is Gripped by a Tale with a Heady Mix of Sex, Sand, God, Celebrity and Celibacy
By David Usborne
Independent (United Kingdom)
May 31, 2009
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/scandal-priest-father-cutie--goes-over-to-the-other-side-1693515.html
It will be standing or kneeling room only at the Church of the Resurrection in Miami when America's most famous Catholic Casanova, Alberto Cutie, makes a guest appearance this morning to deliver the sermon. Never mind that this particular congregation is not actually Catholic. Since Thursday, he hasn't been with Rome either.
Happily, Fr Cutie, always dashing in his dog collar, has never been averse to publicity. So great was his following on Spanish-language television and radio where he dispensed advice on God, love, and relationships, that he earned the nickname Padre Oprah. Yet right now he is at the centre of a national kerfuffle of a scope even he would surely never have wished for. But it's what happens when you juggle sex, celibacy and the church.
| Bishop Leo Frade, Fr Alberto Cutie and Ruhama Buni Canellis during Thursday's press conference at Trinity Cathedral, Miami Photo by AP |
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