A very popular Miami priest known as “Father Oprah” was removed last week as head of the Miami Archdiocese’s international radio network and as head of his parish after the Spanish-language magazine TVnotas ran photos of him embracing a woman at a bar and at a beach. His real name is Father Cutie.

Love is crazy, love is stronger than the holy spirit. Last month, Fernando Lugo, the president of Paraguay, an ex-Roman Catholic priest, has been hit with a series of paternity claims, days after he acknowledged fathering an illegitimate child while he was a priest.

These two cases reveal the immense challenges that Pope Benedict XVI has to face. The rule of celibacy for priests doesn’t work. As the Tutsi of Burundi say, “Where there is love there is no darkness.”