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MIAMI — A popular priest known as “Father Oprah” has left the Roman Catholic Church and joined the Episcopal Church less than a month after a tabloid published photos of him cavorting on the beach with his girlfriend in a scandal that rocked South Florida’s Spanish-speaking community.
On Thursday, the Rev. Alberto Cutie held a news conference at the pulpit of the Episcopal Church’s Trinity Cathedral. Standing behind him: the Episcopal bishop, a half- dozen Episcopal priests and his girlfriend.
He said in a statement that he “began to have spiritual and deep ideological struggles” and “has seen the ways that many of my brothers serve God as married men, with the blessing of forming a family.”
