Priest specialists?

Or priests with special needs?

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The celibacy issue is being raised once again because of Fr. Cutie - the whole affair sounds a bit like Dave Stone's problem when he left EWTN a while back. I understand priests are men, and like all men, they can go astray. But why does a priest's fall from grace always signal a call for an end to celibacy and an insistence on permitting married clergy, or even actively gay priests? Why is the idea of repentance and discipline scrapped in favor of lobbying for the Church to compromise regulation and Tradition? (I find it interesting that amongst those who call for a married priesthood, some would like to see women ordained as well.)

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Cutie seems to have been in favor of married priests, suggesting, "'a married priest would be just as holy' as a celibate one." (Perhaps, although I would have used 'could be as' instead of 'would be as' - but that's just me.)

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He also seemed to have created a rather specialized ministry: "I'm not the priest for the regular Catholic crowd," he told Hispanic magazine in 2007. "I made that decision a long time ago. I'm the priest for the lost sheep. Which is why I do the media thing and the press thing and the book thing."

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Charismatic and bilingual, Father Alberto is on a first-name basis with celebrities such as Gloria Estefan, Andy Garcia, Willy Chirino and Shakira, and he often presides over high-profile ceremonies in Miami's Cuban community. - Source

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I think that was part of the problem, Cutie became a celebrity himself.