Word: priesting
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...only it were the worst thing that a Roman Catholic priest has been caught doing. The Mexican celebrity magazine TVnotas recently published 25 paparazzi photos of the Rev. Alberto Cutié, the popular Miami Beach priest famous for his Spanish-language television and radio talk shows, cavorting amorously on a Florida beach with an attractive woman. Over a three-day period, the pictures also captured him kissing her in a bar. In one of TVnotas's "in fraganti" shots, the woman wraps her legs around Cutié; in another, Cutié has a hand down her swimsuit, fondling her rear...
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...
...Cutié's penalty might elicit more than a few snickers from Catholics who have spent the 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...
...accordion and just kept playing it until it broke. I’ve since moved on to bigger and bigger accordions.” His childhood also exposed him to Irish music, now a focus of his performance. In his small town in upstate New York lived an Irish priest who played the concertina, a mini-accordion. “He would have concerts every week with great Irish musicians. Afterward they would have jam sessions,” Gurney says. “It was a lucky way to get into the music.” Gurney, who describes...
...cancelled some masses. But in Acapulco, the services went on during their normal hours. It was at Mass in Acapulco, however, that I saw the first people wearing masks. At the Cathedral downtown, the church was full. But some worshippers, mostly old people and children, wore surgical masks. The priest said that communion would not be placed on the mouth but on the hands of each parishioner; he also asked them not to give peace to one another by kissing or shaking hands, advising that they simply turn right and left to acknowledge fellow parishioners...