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Spanish nun: schismatic monastery has become ‘a cult’

A Poor Clare who left her monastery in Burgos has said the superior announced the community was leaving the Church without consulting its members

Filipe d’Avillez
May 24, 2024
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A Poor Clare nun who left her monastery of Belorado, in Burgos, Spain, says she had to leave to avoid becoming part of a cult, after her community declared it was leaving the Catholic Church and placed itself under the jurisdiction of a sedevacantist self-proclaimed bishop. 

Poor Clare sisters at the monastery of Belorado, together with Pablo de Rojas Sá…

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