Free from the Catholic Church but also from that sect that had tried to circumvent and incorporate them. But in a new twistthe ten Poor Clare nuns of the monastery of Belorado (Burgos), excommunicated on Saturday by the archbishop of Burgos for the schism, today they also distanced themselves from the church of the Pia Unione di San Paolo Apostolowhom they had embraced, and pushed away the false bishop and founder of the sect, Pablo de Rojas Sanchez-Francofrom the monastery.
Rebel nuns: «Now we walk free and alone»
Today “they walk free and alone”, they assure in a statement taken from the Efe agency, in which they inform that they have removed Pablo de Rojas and José Ceacero, the self-styled priest who had acted as spokesperson, from the convent and that they have full control of the monastery. The two exponents of the Pious Union, “from whose jurisdiction we distance ourselves”, the former nuns point out, have no longer been in the monastery since Monday. The Poor Clares now claim that they recognize no other authority than “the courts of Justice”. The false bishop of the sect, excommunicated in 2019 by the Holy See, and his spokesperson had been residing in the monastery for weeks, under the pretext of giving “spiritual assistance” to the rebel nuns. In the statement, signed by its lawyers, However, the Poor Clares do not give up the economic-real estate battle undertaken with the archbishopric of Burgos.
The rebel nuns first broke with the Vatican, defining Pope Francis as a “usurper” and then with the archbishop of Burgos who excommunicated them, accusing them of a crime of no small importance in the Catholic world: “schism”. The nuns of Belorado who claim to have “voluntarily separated” from the Church whose authority they do not recognize.
Notes in the media such as «chocolate nuns» for the sweets they produced, the Poor Clares had announced on May 13th their decision to leave the Church and place themselves under the protection and jurisdiction of Pablo de Rojas Sanchez-Franco and his so-called Pious Union de Santi Pauli Apostoli, which is not in communion with Rome and whose founder was excommunicated in 2019. The reason for the dispute, according to what emerged, is also the real estate dispute relating to the convents of Belorado and Orduna. In fact, there is a monastery involved.
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The letter, signed by Mother Superior Sister Isabel de la Trinidad, stated that the community of nuns was the victim of “persecution”. In 2020, the community had reached an agreement with the nearby bishopric of Vitoria to purchase the convent of Orduña, in the Basque Country. But the operation had been “blocked by Rome”. To purchase the new building, the nuns would have wanted to sell another monastery but the Vatican prevented this. According to the mother superior, Rome “has put a spoke in the wheels of our community”.
We await the next episode with the moves of the rebel nuns.
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