Nuns shun Vatican and say they follow controversial clergyman in row with links to purchase of monastery
A community of nuns in northern Spain has split with the Vatican and claimed they are being persecuted by the Catholic Church because of a property dispute.and belong to the Order of St Claire, announced their departure from Catholic orthodoxy in May with a 70-page online statement.
The archbishop of Burgos, Mario Iceta, gave the nuns until Friday to appear before an ecclesiastical tribunal to defend their actions, warning that they would be excommunicated if they failed to do so. They responded with a defiant letter confirming their position. In it, they said that authorities “who are neither valid nor legitimate have no power over our souls” and that the archbishop “does not have the ability to impose spiritual punishment such as the farce that is excommunication”.
However, no such agreement was reached and the archbishopric subsequently confirmed that it was proceeding with the excommunication of 10 nuns from the community.
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