A former priest who left the Roman Catholic Church because he fell in love with a woman is not only a priest again at a new church but will soon be a father.
On Sunday Alberto Cutié, 41, presided over his first service as an Episcopalian priest at the Church of the Resurrection in Biscayne Park. After the service he said things have been going great for him.
“It’s been very good. I’m really trying to serve the same God that I have always served, obviously in a different church, and serving the community as a priest is a real blessing,” said Cutié.
Bless his heart, I pray he and his family do well. It’s nice to see a guy join TEC because he fell in love with a woman.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacckkkk. [To say anything more would be an occasion of sin.]
He made the right move. Solemn vows to God have an exit clause in the TEClub.
Alas, although Fr. Cutie has a demonstrated ability to attract a large Hispanic following and the need to evangelize Hispanics is certainly great, this local paper’s report is troubling. And that’s because it shows that the Cuban-American ex-Catholic threw a lot more overboard than just his vow of celibacy when he joined TEC. He clearly signals his acceptance of the amoral, relativist nonsense that dominates TEC these days when he declares:
“I think homosexual people should not be called intrinsically disordered. I think all of us are children of God…and most priests know it. They just aren’t free to talk about it.”
Good grief, it looks like he’s swallowed the PB’s (and the culture’s) universalism hook, line, and sinker. Yes, we are all God’s creatures and thus beloved by our Maker. But only those who believe in Christ and are born from above are the children of God, as John 1:12-13 insists.
I think Catholic Mom (#2) is right. This is sickening. He may be a great communicator, but he peddling the wrong gospel.
Also, note the slant of the reporter. Fr. Cutie’s problem wasn’t that he “fell in love” with a woman, but that he broke his vow by his choices. It wasn’t a sin to “fall in love,” but it was to a sin to cultivate and consumate a romantic relationship. Our amoral culture typically fails to note the difference.
David Handy+
Makes me wish Anglican bishops were were like David Niven in the movies: old WASP gentlemen. Now back then some of them were playing the same game — spite Rome and try to protestantise the immigrants. But of course I respect the belief that one’s side is right. And defend all faiths’ rights to govern themselves and to their property. But Frade and Cutié have no honour, end of story. Let’s see; man breaks vow and defies bishop’s authority, then changes his faith after he’s caught: would you bring him on board as a priest in your diocese? I was willing to give Frade (a born Protestant not an ex-RC) the benefit of the doubt when ¡Padre Alberto, superstar!, converted until Frade made a crack about the Inquisition, then I took that back. Again I’m convinced this won’t do what Frade wants — turn the local Cubans into Piskies. I’m just struck by the hypocrisy of it all.
And Cutié’s remarks on celibacy in the main article are — how do you say? …ah, yes — stupid. The man went to seminary; he knows better. The future ordinariate priests will be ordained [i]de novo[/i] as far as the Holy See is concerned ([i]Apostolicæ Curæ[/i]… but very nicely acknowledging the good they did in their previous ministries), the same as the Orthodox discipline of ordaining married men; not at all the same as an RC priest who leaves his post to get married.
Elves: please change ‘were were’ to ‘were’. Cheers.