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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.

17 October, 2007
 

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