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By Albert Cutie


He used to be a Roman Catholic priest whose love affair grew to become headline information. Now, he stocks his explosive story-in his personal words...

In this deeply own and arguable memoir, Father Albert Cutié tells in regards to the devastating fight among upholding his sacred can provide as a clergyman and falling in love. Already conflicted with turning out to be ideological alterations with the Church, Cutié used to be pressured to unexpectedly switch his lifestyles the day that he was once photographed at the seashore, embracing the girl he could later name his wife.

Once a poster boy of the Roman Catholic Church-loved and fashionable through millions-Cutié came upon that he used to be now not chuffed and ready to stay as a celibate priest, particularly having to guard the variety of positions he was once not in contract with. For years he stored his dating a mystery, whereas he soul searched and prayed for solutions. the affection that he deemed a blessing used to be bringing him towards God, yet farther from the Church. In Dilemma, Cutié tells approximately breaking that promise, reigniting the very heated debate over needed celibacy for Catholic monks, starting a brand new lifestyle and researching a brand new manner of serving God.

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I was determined to be a good soldier of the Church. Therefore, I chose to believe, with all of my heart, that every­ thing the Vatican said had to be right. CHAPTER THREE � LIFE AS A PA R I S H P R I E S T A few days before ordination, the bishop informed my class- mates and me that we would each be assigned to a pastor— someone who would guide us during our first years in the ministry. I was excited by this news, enthusiastically imagining a mentoring program already in place and a guide who could help me adjust to my new life as a parish priest.

The people in that Key West parish were also great. As a deacon-intern, I taught in the parish school, prepared and preached sermons on Sundays, visited the sick, buried the dead, worked with some of the families at the navy base, and helped with almost every daily activity around the church. ” We would get together with young adults from the parish and teachers from the school at a local pub to have drinks while we talked about life, spirituality, and every topic under the sun. There was one beautiful teacher in the school to whom I felt strongly attracted, but I kept my distance—sometimes making a great effort to avoid her—to make sure that we would only be friends.

As a matter of fact, I was closer to Havana than I was to Miami. It was common for me to drive 440 miles from the seminary to the parish and back almost every weekend. I was the first young man to be assigned to that community in many years. Although I had spent most of my life in South Florida, I had never traveled down the entire length of the Florida Keys. In fact, my first and only time driving in that direction with my family, I was about nine years old and my parents, sisters, and I got stuck halfway to Key West when our car broke down near Marathon.

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