Ex-Catholic Father Cutié marries – and joins an ‘ultra liberal, pansexual’ church

IN May we carried a report that Catholic priest Father Alberto Cutié, of Miami, was contemplating leaving the Church to marry the woman he loved.

Cutié - a priest with a complicated love life

Well, he’s since ditched the Church, and gotten hitched to 35-year-old beautician Ruhama Canellis, a divorcee (gasp!) just days before before geriatric Pope Ratzinger – in “a tender, personal and theologically beautiful letter to every Catholic priest in the world” – called on them “to live fully the gift of celibacy”.

If this were not enough to cause Catholics to choke on their silly biscuits, Cutié’s also joined the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection – a move which has outraged David W Virtue, who runs Virtueonline – “the Voice for global orthodox Anglicanism.”

The “real scandal”, thunders Virtue, is the speed with which Cutie’s was received into the “pansexual” Episcopal Church by the “ultra-liberal” Episcopal Bishop of Southeast Florida, The Rt Rev Leo Frade.

Virtue doesn’t like Frade much. Why? because he supports gay rights. So much so that:

When he marched with Anglican Primates and bishops through the streets of London during a Lambeth Conference promotion of the Anglican Communion’s Millennium Development Goals, he wrapped himself in a rainbow flag declaring, ‘when we talk about justice and mercy, we need to remember that gay and lesbian persons are discriminated against by the church and the government.’

Frade also:

Soon also become a player in the liberal Episcopal house of the Lord with such notable plays as his declaration that heterosexual marriage is discriminatory and urging fellow Floridians to oppose Amendment 2 to Florida’s Constitution, which would define marriage as only between a man and a woman.

He also voted to depose two godly orthodox bishops for failing to conform to the doctrine and discipline of The Episcopal Church.

Virtue adds:

The Episcopal Church, as a constituent member of the worldwide Anglican Communion, has moved way beyond the biblical bounds of heterosexual sex within marriage to a place that not even Sufi the Rumi would be found.

There’s another twist to the Cutié tale, involving Ruhama Canellis’ ex-lover, 44-year-old Indonesian Maxi Ratunuman, an illegal immigrant, who claims in a law suit that the newly-weds want him “out of the picture” by having him deported.

The couple “planned to be married and have children,” according to the lawsuit, until she “began cheating” with Cutié.

Cutié and Ruhama Canellis

The Indonesian’s attorney, Robin Hellman, said the couple once lived together.

He was helping her pay her mortgage and for remodeling work on a house she owned. He broke up with her four and a half years ago, after he caught her in bed with Cutié.

The lawsuit claims Cutié and Canellis wanted Ratunuman “out of the picture” because they believed he had:

Information and documentation that would bode badly for them.

It doesn’t define exactly what that documentation was. Hellman declined to provide details, which she said would come out eventually.

There’s gotta be a movie in this saga. Sex and the Godly has a good ring to it.