Friday, February 18, 2011

Alberto Cutié, the Father who became a father


From Palm Beach-

Camila Victoria Cutié was born with her eyes open.

They're a steely blue, like her father's.

Her father, the priest.

His eyes were the first thing she saw when she was born two months ago. Now, their eyes meet again as Alberto Cutié kisses her on the forehead, gives his wife, Ruhama, a quick peck on the lips and rushes off to say Mass on a recent Sunday at the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection in north Miami .

Later, they will gather with his family across town to celebrate the two months since his daughter's birth. A pair of paparazzi will follow them, at a distance, with video cameras.

Life has never been the same for The Rev. Alberto Cutié, the former Roman Catholic priest, since that infamous day on the beach almost two years ago when paparazzi caught him kissing the woman who would become his wife. And that, as it turns out, is a good thing.

"When I was 17, I expected something very different from life than when I turned 41," he says, as he dresses in a cream-colored vestment in a room behind the altar. "You have to give yourself permission in life to change your mind."

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/accent/alberto-cutie-the-father-who-became-a-father-1262990.html

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