Alberto Cutie

(Getty Images) A popular Miami priest and media personality known as "Father Oprah" has left the Catholic Church and joined the Episcopal Church after he was photographed cavorting on the beach with his girlfriend. The Rev. Alberto Cutie (KOO'-tee-ay) was removed from his Miami Beach church after photos of him kissing and embracing a woman appeared in the pages of a Spanish-language magazine earlier this month. He was received into Episcopal Church in a ceremony Thursday at Trinity Cathedral and may later announce he will marry his girlfriend, which is allowed in that denomination. He must complete other requirements before serving as an Episcopal ... Read Full Story

Visit Twittley.com to read more about . MIAMI, FL – El Padre Alberto has been caught with another woman. As reported in TV Notas, it happened in broad daylight on Friday, October 2. The priest was seen with Wanda del Rajo, a Bronx schoolteacher with a “second career” that stretches from New Haven to Raleigh to Buenos Aires. Wanda and El Padre were discovered on Daytona Beach by an encyclopedia salesman named Leo Machuchal. “They were canoodling right there…in front of everybody!” said Leo. This is especially troubling, because Wanda del Rajo is married to a Christian book publisher in Raleigh, North Carolina. Mr. ... Read Full Story

Attention Catholic priests: stay away from the ladies. Catholic priest pro tip: don't get caught frolicking with a bikini babe on the beach if you want to keep your job. Just ask Alberto Cutie , celebrity padre and former head of St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Miami Beach, FL. He's been forced to resign after pictures of him rolling around in the sand with young lady surfaced in the popular Hispanic magazine TV Notas. From cbs4.com: Popular priest Alberto Cutie, who's been seen worldwide on Spanish-language TV shows, has been quickly relieved of his duties running his Catholic church and the Catholic ... Read Full Story

He is the priest with the girlfriend, caught by paparazzi on a Miami beach and now caught, he says, between love for a woman and his church. Only the Rev. Alberto Cutie, a celebrity among Hispanic Catholics for his good looks, media savvy and advice about relationships, can't have both. As Cutie decides between clerical collar and wedding ring, he is sure of one thing: He doesn't want to be "the anti-celibacy priest." The scandal enveloping Cutie since compromising photos of the couple hit the press May 5 has jump-started conversation about mandatory celibacy for priests. But among Hispanic Catholics in the U.S., there ... Read Full Story

The Rev. Alberto Cutié , a national figure with movie star looks, was removed from his Miami Beach church Tuesday after photographs appeared in TVNotas magazine showing him frolicking with a woman in the sand on a Florida beach. A wildly popular Catholic priest, newspaper columnist and radio and television personality, Cutié will no longer run operations or lead Sunday Mass at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church . more HERE and HERE ...this sends an important message from the Catholic Church: if priests...rape and sodomize underage boys they'll be protected and exalted...but if they cavort with a woman...immediate expulsion! Read Full Story