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Rebellious ex-nuns evicted from
Polish convent
WSN Network
Kazimierz Dolny, Poland: The police pushed their way into a Polish
convent on Wednesday and evicted about 65 rebellious ex-nuns. They
arrested the mother superior and a monk who had occupied the complex
with them illegally for two years.
The women had taken over the building in a rebellion against the
Vatican, which had ordered the replacement of their mother superior,
Jadwiga Ligocka. “They were disobedient,” said Mieczyslaw Puzewicz,
spokesman for the Lublin diocese of the Roman Catholic Church. The
Vatican formally expelled the women from their Sisters of Bethany
order last year. Police arrested Mother Jadwiga and a former
Franciscan friar, Roman Komaryczko, who had been living with the
nuns, and planned to question them, police spokesman Mariusz
Sokolowski said.
A locksmith had opened the gate to the walled convent in the eastern
Polish town of Kazimierz Dolny and police in riot gear pushed
forward, encountering an onslaught of verbal aggression from some
nuns.
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October, 2007
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