Fr. Albert Cutie taking the easy way once again, agreeing with everyone in the room for his show rather than facing a hard truth. And Ann Coulter, in her always kind manner, dropping the “Who’s the Christian here?” on him. Oof.
Fr. Cutie was a priest who had his own talk show and was kind of a big deal until he got caught on the beach with a woman (if you know what I mean). Then, he left the priesthood and joined the Episcopal Church, I believe, where he’s resumed his road to stardom and publicly criticized the Catholic Church for its rules about celibacy.
Ann is right in that children do better with mothers and fathers. That’s not an attack on single mothers. It’s a fact that our culture doesn’t want to accept but it’s a fact nonetheless.
HT Pewsitter
July 26, 2011 at 11:33 pm
Excuse my ignorance, but who the hell is Fr. (?) Albert?
July 26, 2011 at 11:45 pm
Do you have Google on your planet?
July 27, 2011 at 12:03 am
The attacks Ann received from the audience show the great disparity in how liberals vs conservatives think. Liberals "think" with their emotions and gut, whereas conservatives tend to be more detached and actually use logic and reasoning.
Ann was dead on. No one likes to hear the truth when it's ugly. I wish her the best!
July 27, 2011 at 12:26 am
I love my own mother dearly, but as the child of a single parent home I know full well that I missed out on having a father who cared for me. I thank God for her and for the faith she instilled in me, but I still wish that my father had been a more responsible man.
That is the truth for single mothers. They love their children, but they will never be fathers for their children.
July 27, 2011 at 12:44 am
"I never heard of you before" isn't really an insult to Ann, but rather a revelation of the speaker's ignorance.
Sarah's right about how this displays the fundamental disparity in logical thinking in between left and right.
Ann: Statistically speaking, children from single-parent homes are worse off than children raised by both parents.
Angry audience member: I was raised by a single parent and turned out okay, therefore this single exception proves that you are wrong. Also, you are evil and bigoted for even arguing your point.
Yeah, they really showed Ann.
July 27, 2011 at 12:50 am
It didn't take this guy long before he turned into Phil Donohue with a collar, did it? As Catholics we should all be relieved we now have one less "shepherd" like in Christ's church. I almost couldn't believe what I was watching. A priest hosting a trashy talk show? Where is his dignity?
July 27, 2011 at 12:56 am
Love ya, Ann. My God, this girl has balls!
July 27, 2011 at 1:23 am
I love that he acknowledges the statistics as credible and then decides not to accept them because they make people feel bad.
July 27, 2011 at 2:03 am
As my mother would say, "I hope he (Cutie) makes a better Episcopalian than he did a Catholic".
July 27, 2011 at 2:11 am
An example of why "talk" shows are a stupid waste of time. The host never seems to listen to what is actually said. The dispute was NOT about whether single mothers are incompetent or not. The issue is: Do kids fundamentally need a mother and a father? The answer is yes … and we were designed that way. The reality is that not all kids get what they need. Not all parents get what THEY need. This problematic reality is not helped by denial.
July 27, 2011 at 2:45 am
"Half of us didn't even know who you were until today."
Because fame = authority.
July 27, 2011 at 3:48 am
That Father Albert is such a peacemaker.
July 27, 2011 at 6:12 am
Sensationalism on top of sensationalism on top of sensationalism.
I am no fan of Ann Coulter, nor Fr. Cutie, nor television in general, but I think that she is dead on statistically. As Sarah said earlier, the right is usually more logical than the left, but as we see so often in polls, talk shows, interviews, and politics, people are so detached from logic and rational thought that it is almost an impediment to people today. This is most obviously due to the loss of the classical academic tradition.
July 27, 2011 at 6:14 am
Fr. Cutie turned his back on his priesthood and the Church for this?
July 27, 2011 at 11:34 am
Grief, every single sentence uttered in that clip was utterly depressing. To think that man is/was a Catholic priest. And supposedly one of the "good" ones too. May God have mercy on us.
July 27, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Go Ann Coulter! Loved her "you insulting me shows how great a mother you are" comment.
July 27, 2011 at 3:27 pm
beating a very dead horse…
so Fr Cutie was so into re-establishing a priesthood that was available to married men (order of the sacraments!) that he snuck around with a woman who already had a child and acted 'unchastely' with her while he had priestly faculties…maybe he didn't realize in all those years of seminary and at his ordination that it was too late for him to get 'married'…let's give him the benefit of the doubt.
I would not be surprised if- when he is raising another man's child- he does ask- I gave up the priesthood for this?! 🙁
July 27, 2011 at 5:43 pm
I'm in the middle of Coulter's book, Demonic. This clip shows an ex-priest ginning up a mob to attack her. That is what Dem's do, and the book lays it out very logically and clearly. If the people in the audience didn't know who the guest was, and they are working, single, mothers who go to school, how did they have the time and money to get their hair and make-up done, find and pay for a sitter, and participate in this show? I assume the tickets were free, because no one would pay to listen to a nobody-ex-priest to talk to someone too smart for them to understand.
July 27, 2011 at 6:13 pm
I watched this a second time without the sound to focus on the reaction of the audience. By the looks on the faces I think Coulter's message was getting through to some.
Ann is 100% correct and what she is saying is not news. Read *The Divorce Culture* by Barbara Whitehead (1998) it is one of the best books out there concerning the consequences of divorce. And though it's loaded with facts and statistics it reads like a novel; I couldn't put it down.
July 27, 2011 at 6:42 pm
Anonymous: Also, read The Case for Marriage, which Barbara Whitehead wrote with another author. Every statistic you could ever want is in there. I don't like Ann Coulter but she is dead on here.
Cutie has really traded his heritage for a bowl of gruel, hasn't he?
Gail F