Ruhama buni canellis bio
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By Mike Clary and James D Davis
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
May 7, 2009
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/slf-priest-scandal-bn050609,0,5665100.story
MIAMI - The Rev. Alberto Cutié acknowledged Friday that he was in love with a woman and has no regrets about the relationship, even though the romance has jeopardized his career as a Catholic priest, the Miami Herald reports.
"Do I feel bad about it? . . . No," he said emphatically in a televised interview with Spanish-language network Univisión.
The interview was done by Aquí y Ahora co-anchor Teresa Rodríguez.
"I can say, with sincerity, that she's a woman I love," he said, noting he had known the woman, Ruhama Buni Canellis, a 35-year-old Miami Beach resident, for 10 years.
He also said only he was to blame for his actions, which he knew would draw criticism from the public.
Canellis issued a sta
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Of course all humans have an impulse to justify their sinful actions. It requires grace and humility to not try to justify them and to acknowledge their sinfulness.
That makes this kind of a dog-bites-man story, but it’s a dog-bites-man story that’s going to be getting a considerable amount of attention in the next few weeks, so we may as well deal with it in advance.
The basics of the story are this: Fr. Albert Cutié (a.k.a., “Padre Alberto,” a.k.a. “Father ‘Oprah’” due to his radio and television appearances), formerly of the Archdiocese of Miami, has now written a book titled, Dilemma: A Priest’s Struggle With Faith and Love, in which he justifies his actions in connection with the scandal that began in May 2009. That scandal has not ended, however. In fact, as we will see, the book continues and has the potential to amplify the scandal—taking “scandal” in its historical and theological sense, meaning that more people may be led into sin as a result of this book.
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Alberto Cutié
Catholic priest turned Episcopalian priest
Alberto R. Cutié (born April 29, 1969, in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Cuban-American Episcopalpriest who is also known as Padre Alberto. He was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1995. He has an internationally recognizable name, due to his work as the host of television and radio programs.
Cutié left the Roman Catholic Church in May 2009 after publication of photographs showing him with a woman at the beach and his subsequent admission that he was in love.[1] He has said that mandatory celibacy was only one of the theological differences that led him to leave the Catholic Church.[2] He later married Ruhama Buni Canellis and joined the Episcopal (Anglican) Church. He now serves as rector of St. Benedict's, an Episcopal parish in Plantation, Florida.
Media appearances
[edit]Cutié, the middle child and son of Cubanexiles,[3] was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. As a teenager he worked as