A Spanish courtroom has rejected an attraction by a gaggle of excommunicated nuns who joined a sect and had been ordered to depart their convent, confirming their eviction, an archbishopric mentioned on Friday.
9 nuns from the Order of Saint Clare cut up from the Vatican in Might 2024 over a property dispute and doctrinal wrangling, an affair that has fascinated Spain.
The Archbishopric of Burgos requested them to depart their Fifteenth-century convent within the northern city of Belorado, saying they’d no authorized proper to stay there after the excommunication.
However the nuns stayed put after a courtroom ordered them out final yr. They mentioned the convent belonged to them and appealed their eviction.
The Archbishopric of Burgos mentioned in a press release that it had obtained the judgement of a better courtroom that dismissed the nuns’ argument.
The property is a “authorized entity topic to Canon Regulation”, whereas “the possession of the convent’s belongings belongs to the authorized entity, and to not the nuns that inhabit it”, the assertion mentioned, quoting the ruling.
As for the previous abbess, her resolution to separate the convent from the Catholic Church together with the nuns “is clearly past her authority”, in accordance with the ruling.
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“Having established the defendants’ lack of possession rights over the Convent of Saint Clare in Belorado, they have to be evicted,” the assertion mentioned.
The ladies have declared allegiance to an excommunicated ultra-conservative priest who has rejected the validity of all popes because the loss of life of Pius XII in 1958. The Church considers the motion a sect.
