Spanish nuns who separated from the Catholic Church are excommunicated

Spanish nuns are excommunicated! – Ten Spanish Poor Clare nuns claimed to have made the choice to voluntarily separate from the Catholic Church and place themselves beneath the authority of a false bishop not acknowledged by the Church. In response, the archbishop of Burgos, Mario Iceta, excommunicated them and was appointed pontifical commissioner to handle this matter.

In a press release despatched to the media this Saturday, the Archbishopric of Burgosdiocese to which the Belorado monastery belongs, in northern Spain and the place the nuns are, reported that Iceta has communicated the decree of excommunication and the ipso facto expulsion from consecrated life to each one of many ten sisters who incurred schism.

Yesterday, Friday, the nuns had despatched a burofax to the archbishopric wherein they refused to seem earlier than the Ecclesiastical Tribula, as that they had been requested, by not recognizing their authority, and communicated their “unanimous and irreversible place” of abandoning the Catholic Church, on the similar time which assured that any canonical sanction reminiscent of excommunication might be null.

On Could 13, these ten nuns introduced, with a manifesto and a public letter, their departure from the Catholic Church to put themselves beneath the tutelage of the Pious Union Sancti Pauli Apostoli, based by the false bishop Pablo de Rojas, excommunicated in 2009.

Spanish nuns excommunicated

The Archbishopric has indicated that, regardless of the excommunication of the ten nuns, “there continues to exist a monastic group fashioned by the sisters who haven’t incurred excommunication, as they haven’t supported the schism”; These are the 5 older sisters and three others who, though they don’t seem to be within the monastery for the time being, belong to the group.

Spanish nuns excommunicated

The excommunication of the ten nuns implies that they have to depart the monastery of Belorado, though the authorized providers of the Archbishopric, in a gathering subsequent Monday, will analyze the steps to soak up the face of the brand new scenario.

The battle arises as a result of the ecclesiastical authorities refuse to permit the nuns to promote an empty convent that they personal, since they want the cash to purchase one other monastery.

EFE