Nun justifies locking three nuns out of their convent and denying them financial means of support.

Nun justifies locking three nuns out of their convent and denying them financial means of support.
In this photo, they are still laughing together with their superior. Today, a conflict separates them. The three elderly Augustinian nuns are publicly fighting to be able to return to their former monastery near Salzburg. Their fellow nun, Beate Brandt, explains why that's not possible.
The three nuns from Salzburg, all over 80 years old, want to return to their former monastery in Goldenstein, which also includes a school. For almost two years, however, they have been living in a church-run retirement home near Hallein. Unjustly, they believe. The Augustinian nuns filed a lawsuit and made their grief public. Sister M. Beate Brandt is an Augustinian nun in Essen and president of the order's federation, to which the three Goldenstein sisters belong. In an interview with katholisch.de, she puts the conflict into context and explains how it all came about.
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