{"id":13091,"date":"2009-05-30T23:47:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T23:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_father_oprah_leaves_for_episcopal_church_plans_to_marry\/"},"modified":"2009-05-30T23:47:22","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T23:47:22","slug":"rns_father_oprah_leaves_for_episcopal_church_plans_to_marry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13091","title":{"rendered":"RNS: &#39;Father Oprah&#39; leaves for Episcopal Church; plans to marry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The celebrity Miami priest known as &#8220;Father Oprah&#8221; converted from Catholicism to the Episcopal Church on Thursday (May 28), weeks after pictures surfaced of the cleric canoodling with his girlfriend on a Florida beach.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Alberto Cutie and his girlfriend were received into the Episcopal Church at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Miami on Thursday, according to the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Catholic clerics, Episcopal priests are allowed to marry, and Cutie, 40, plans to wed his girlfriend and pursue ordination in the Episcopal Church, according to the diocese.<\/p>\n<p>The diocese said Thursday&#8217;s ceremony culminates a &#8220;two year discernment process&#8221; for Cutie, indicating that he had considered converting long before photos revealing his relationship with the woman were published by Spanish-language media earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/news\/display.php?NewsID=18176\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The celebrity Miami priest known as &#8220;Father Oprah&#8221; converted from Catholicism to the Episcopal Church on Thursday (May 28), weeks after pictures surfaced of the cleric canoodling with his girlfriend on a Florida beach. The Rev. Alberto Cutie and his<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13091\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,42,158,66,168,154,184,177,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ecumenical-relations","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}