The Palm Beach Post
By The Miami Herald   |  Breaking news, Gossip  |  June 16, 2009

Alberto Cutié walked away from a Coral Gables court early Tuesday morning, marriage license in-hand, according to a record posted on Miami-Dade County Clerk of Courts website that lists 35-year-old Ruhama Buni Canellis as the bride.

The couple was legally married by a judge, but sources say they still will have religious ceremony within the next week in an unnamed Episcopal church. The Rt. Rev. Leo Frade, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida, will officiate that wedding.

Not on the church list: Miami’s Trinity Cathedral, the diocese’s flagship church and one that dozens of international reporters flooded after the former Roman Catholic priest and Canellis switched Christian denominations on May 28.

Cutié gave his first sermon as an Episcopalian on May 31 at Church of the Resurrection in Biscayne Park and has started a yearlong process to become an Episcopal priest. In the meantime, he will continue to give sermons and rehabilitate ailing Episcopal churches, including Church of the Holy Comforter in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood.

Cutié left his position at St. Francis de Sales Catholic church in Miami Beach when photographs showing him nuzzling Canellis on a Florida beach — a violation of his vow of celibacy — were published in a celebrity magazine in early May.

BY JAWEED KALEEM

12 Responses to “Miami’s Alberto Cutié, bride married by judge, will have religious ceremony”

  1. The POPE ! says:

    Good for him!

    I wonder if all the Catholics would get upset if I got married TOO …????????????

    I mean I AM the POPE !!!

  2. Chuck Strouse says:

    Father Cutie seems to have been involved in a very un-Christian way in trying to getting his new wife’s ex booted from the country. See this Miami New Times story.

    http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2009/06/alberto_cutis_romantic_rival_g.php

  3. A. Robinson says:

    Give the man a break. Have anyone read their bibles for themselves? If not, let me tell you that not one person in the bible was married before being sexually active or snuggling with the opposite sex (man or woman). Leave the man alone. Let him enjoy his new bride and be happy. Who are we too judge? We are only acussers and God is the only one that can judge him wrong or right. His relationship with God is personal and his life is personal. I wonder if he was not a Priest would it have mattered if he was snuggling on a beach? Let them be. God bless him and his new bride.

  4. Rabbi Handler says:

    Good for him! Guess he got tired of masterbation…..

    God Bless CUTIE

  5. Unknown says:

    It is about time the catholic church does something about their priests getting married, maybe they would stop touching little boys.

  6. the gypsie says:

    If anyone reading this has ever been in love, then you know love wins out over any prior promise. Good for you Father Cutie. Now you can have the best of both worlds, a family and you can still serve God.

  7. georgie says:

    Good read, thanks for the info

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