"Inside are the nuns who, on May 13, 2024, broke with the Roman Catholic Church, which entails excommunication. They have no intention of leaving, but on March 12, they will be evicted by court order, with backup from law enforcement if necessary. If you wish for assistance, please call this number, reads a second sign hanging below the first. On a side door, there is graffiti that urges them to Occupy and Resist."
"The case of the rebel nuns, initially seen as an eccentricity that attracted worldwide media attention, has become an endless legal battleground of civil and criminal lawsuits in which even the Holy See has intervened. On Monday the sisters launched a website, queremosunconvento.com (wewantaconvent.com) appealing to the solidarity of the Spanish people and the empty expanses of rural Spain to find a new place to live if the eviction goes ahead."
At the locked Monastery of Saint Clare of Belorado, nuns who broke with the Roman Catholic Church on May 13, 2024, face excommunication and a court-ordered eviction scheduled for March 12 with law enforcement backup. Signs on the gate solicit assistance and a newly launched website, queremosunconvento.com, seeks alternative housing across rural Spain. Graffiti around the convent shows both solidarity and hostility. The dispute has evolved into prolonged civil and criminal litigation involving the Holy See. The archdiocese asserts canonical expulsion strips the nuns' legal status, while the sisters' defense contends the monastery separated from the Church and is therefore governed by Spanish civil law.
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