Eviction Suit? Nuns of Belorado Excommunicated
The decree of excommunication will become final after ten days if the nuns do not appeal. They announced on Friday that they would not take part in any ecclesiastical process.
Five other sisters living in the convent were not excommunicated because they are elderly and in need of care.
On June 24, Mgr Iceta threatened the ten sisters with eviction: "If they do not leave voluntarily in the near future, our legal department will have no choice but to take legal action," the statement said. The archdiocese did not set a deadline for the nuns.
According to the archdiocese, the excommunicated nuns have no legal right to remain in the convent or its property.
Pablo de Rojas, a self-appointed "bishop" to whom the nuns have submitted, is currently living in the convent.
As was clear from the start, the nuns will find themselves in a legal battle for money with poor prospects in court. The Poor Clares are legally organised as a federation and not as individual juridical entities (as the Benedictines once were).
A bitter fact: If the nuns had preached abortion, heresy and paganism, no one would have "excommunicated" them.
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