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...Harvard Class of 2013 Facebook.com group: 1,208 members Number of posts under “Trying on APs?... Is it worth it anymore?”: 25 Number of trees planted for the Dalai Lama: 1 tree Number of student and faculty members present at Memorial Church, for the Dalai Lama’s talk, “Educating the Heart”: over 900 Number of cars secured for Dalai Lama and his crew: Entourage-worthy Number of cases of “probable” swine flu at the Harvard Dental School: 3 cases Number of tourists...
...suffer through a lecture on marriage from a celibate kid just out of seminary, Cutié's romantic romp might just make him a more appealing priest - more human, perhaps, than Catholic clergy who deny communion to divorcées, gays and anyone else who dares violate the church's litany of non-negotiable rules. "He was doing this fairly out in the open," notes one Miami Catholic who knows Cutié well and has undergone marriage counseling with him. "Most priests who do this usually try to hide it, but this wasn't some dirty little tryst...
Most Catholics probably don't approve of Cutié's affair. Still, will they back the archdiocese? Cutié's punishment is understandable at first glance, at least for his hypocrisy if not for the betrayal of his oath of celibacy. To the Catholic Church, priestly ordination means a marriage vow to the church - the "bride of Christ." In a statement, Miami Archbishop John Favalora said Cutié's actions "cannot be condoned despite the good work he's done as a priest." (See pictures of a Catholic congregation fighting to save its church building...
...past few decades watching the priestly perdition parade of sexual abuse, parish embezzlement and doctrinal intolerance. The Archdiocese of Miami has had to pay out millions of dollars in sexual-abuse settlements in recent years - including a case involving a former priest at Cutié's South Beach church, St. Francis de Sales. (One of Cutié's tasks, in fact, has been to heal the wounds at that parish.) To his credit, Favalora is trying to restore public trust in his archdiocese and the church. But so long as Cutié wasn't frolicking with a minor (female...
Nonetheless, the Cutié scandal is sure to ratchet up debate over clerical celibacy in the Catholic Church, a spiritual ideal that seems to collide more often today with biological reality. (See the recent paternity-suit travails of Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, who has admitted to fathering a child and is alleged to have sired others while he was still a priest.) A bigger problem for the church, however, may be Cutié's Oprah-like standing in the Latino community - the only demographic where U.S. Catholicism is experiencing growth. America's Catholic bishops, many of whom are widely accused...