'Father Oprah' Caught in Photo ScandalCBS News
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(May 6) - Faithful supporters of Father Alberto Cutié have expressed shock and disbelief after photos of the celebrity priest in a Spanish-language magazine showed him kissing and fondling a woman on Miami Beach, CBS Station WFOR-TV reports.
On Tuesday the Archdiocese of Miami relieved Father Cutié of his duties at St. Francis de Sales parish on Miami Beach and at the Catholic radio station Radio Peace and Radio Paz.
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A celebrity priest dubbed "Father Oprah" has been relieved of his duties after a Spanish-language magazine published steamy photos of him embracing a woman on a beach. "First photos of a priest 'in flagrante' with his lover," the cover of TV Notas says.
"This is a difficult day for everyone in the Archdiocese of Miami," said Archdiocese spokeswoman Mary Ross Agosta. "We pray for Father Alberto."
The photographs, which will be published Thursday in the TV NOTAS magazine, show Cutié and an unidentified woman caressing and kissing while in bathing suits on the beach. Sources say the photos were taken in February.
Some of the photos were obtained by the Miami Herald, and they showed Cutié locked in an embrace with the woman. The photographer has also not been identified, but according to the Herald, he had initially tried to sell the photos to MEGATV for several thousand dollars. But his offer was turned down.
The photos raise a question: Did Cutié, who was ordained as a priest in 1995, break his church-cherished vow of celibacy?
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