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When your parish's celebrity priest is named Father Cutie, and is a semi-famous local TV personality, you pretty much have to expect days like this:Priest Known as Padre Ophrah Strays in South Florida

They called the Rev. Alberto Cutié “Padre Oprah” for his insightful advice about relationships. Now his parishioners, his television and radio audience, and readers of his best-selling book, “Real Life, Real Love,” know he speaks from experience

On Tuesday, photographs in a Spanish-language tabloid showed the 40-year-old priest with deep blue eyes lying shirtless beside, and cuddling with, a dark-haired woman on a North Florida beach. Within hours, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami removed him from his post as pastor of a Miami Beach church, and now all of South Florida seems to be abuzz with discussions of celibacy, celebrity and temptation.

I assume he is the younger son of a landed gentleman.

The Wife of Bath, for her part, had no comment.