For year's Father Alberto Cutié was one of the Catholic Church's most
media savvy priests. His stints hosting and guesting on television and
radio shows and doling out relationship advice in books and newspaper
columns earned him the nickname "Father Opera."
Though, the media and
his burgeoning celebrity became his ultimate undoing when pictures of him cavorting with a bikini clad lady appeared in a Spanish-language tabloid. Now he's honing his media savvy on his former church in a new book that pulls no punches.
Cutié eventually married that bikini-clad lady, now Ruhama Cutié, joined the Episcopal church (an institution that allows homosexual priests), and recently welcomed his first child.
Unsurprisingly he's critical on the church's celibacy policy, and blames it partially for the string of sex abuse scandals that have plagues the church.
Unsurprisingly he's critical on the church's celibacy policy, and blames it partially for the string of sex abuse scandals that have plagues the church.
He also take direct aim at former Miami Archbishop John Favalora "an aloof CEO'' with a "cold and rigid approach."
In
other words, Cutié pulls very few punches, and this rare outpouring of
grievances by a former Priest should cause controversy.
Though,
Cutié claims in the book he began to question much of the church's
policy and teaching in 2003, it took years and a sex scandal (that, lets
be honest, really shouldn't be classified as a sex scandal) to speak
out.
We wonder how many other Priests in the church secretly disagree
with much of their policy?
They certainly wouldn't be the only Catholics
to doubt some of their church's most controversial teachings.