Spanish court orders expulsion of rebellious light nuns from his convent

A Spanish court ordered the expulsion of a group of excommunicated nuns of the Catholic Church of his convent. If they do not voluntarily comply with the order, they will be poured into force, the court decreed.

The nuns, from Order of Santa Clarathey announced in May last year that they had decided vatican Due to doctrinal differences and allegations that his desire to buy another convent had been blocked.

Since then, the Clarissas declared loyalty to an ultra-conservative Father excommunicated that rejected the validity of all popes Since the death of Pius XII in 1958.

The ecclesiastical answer was quick: immediate excommunication and a request to abandon the convent. THE Burgos Archbishop He asked the nuns to leave the place, a 15th century building in the northern city of Belorado, given that, after being excommunicated, they had no legal right to remain there.

The nuns, however, refused to abandon The convent. The archbishopic, in turn, emphasizes that the five clarisas who did not join the schism and remain at the scene are “legitimate monastic community of Santa Clara ”.

In a decision dating from Thursday, which the AFP agency consulted, a court in the city of Briviesca supported the decision of the archbishop, having ordered the nine nuns that are still left in the place that abandon and deliver the convent to the church.

“If they do not voluntarily meet, They will be poured into force“The court said, noting that The Church had presented valid documentation owned, while the nuns did not offer legal title that justified their continued use of property.

The magistrate who judged the case, who did not establish a specific date for the eviction, condemned the former ferreiras to pay the court costs of the process. Only two were spared: one who had already abandoned the convent before the trial and another who fulfilled the legal process, says the.

During a hearing, on Tuesday, the lawyer of the nuns, Florentino AláezI had said that your clients would resort If the court decided they had to leave the convent.

“The convent is ours“ Sister Palomaone of the excommunicated nuns. “We are not isolated nuns, we are a cool entityand are our properties, ”he added.

Last year, the nuns issued a 70 -page manifesto declaring its break with the church. Accuse the ecclesiastical authorities of sabotage a purchase Planned from another convent in the Basque Spanish country and denounced what they called the Vatican’s “doctrinal chaos” and “contradictions”.

The Clarissas declared loyalty to Pablo de Rojas Sánchez-Francoan excommunicated priest in 2019 that leads the marginal group “União Pia de São Paulo Apostle”. Rojas joined the Sitevacantismoa radical belief that all popes since Pius XII (1939–1958) are illegitimate.