Six months since the Belorado Schism. Six months of soap opera which has had everything and for which we do not see the end on the horizon, despite the fact that the courts have set a first date for the exit from the convent of the excommunicated former nuns: January 23. Fraudulent businesses, pastries, “fake” bishops, million-dollar debts, Vatican intervention, decree of excommunication, ultra-conservative doctrines, several abandonments and threats of expulsion for a community which was devoted to chocolate and which continues Today. its takeoff, announcing the creation of a new pastry collection, whose name perfectly defines the situation: ‘RqueR’.
It all started on May 13, 2024, when the Poor Clares of Belorado published their “Catholic Manifesto,” a 70-page collection in which they declared all doctrines of the Church after the Second Vatican Council invalid, denying the authority of the later popes. . and declared Francisco a “heretic.”
Shortly afterward, it was learned that a bishop was at the origin of this writing. fakePablo De Rojas, who, accompanied by his chaplain, José Ceacero (better known as the “cocktail priest”), took charge of the religious care of the nuns. And also in economic matters: it did not take long to learn that, in addition to theological criticism, the real reason for the rupture was the Holy See’s veto on buying and selling, in the hands of a “benefactor » unknown from two other monasteries attached to Belorado: Derio and Orduña. The possible scam exceeded ten million euros.
The alarm sounded in the diocese of Burgos and in the Vatican, which appointed Archbishop Mario Iceta pontifical commissioner for Belorado. Their first actions were to intervene in the stories of the nuns and try to start a dialogue to make them renounce their attitude and, above all, to be able to take care of the older nuns, who have not joined the schism.
All attempts failed and on June 22, Iceta decreed the excommunication of the ten rebel Poor Clares (only seven remained, after the flight of three of them). The excommunicated women, led by the former abbess, Sister Isabel de la Trinidad (now Laura García de Viedma), denounced the archbishop in court for abuse of power and attempted to register as a civil association to change the property of monasteries, something which was not authorized by the Ministry of the Interior.
During the summer, the former nuns took advantage of the opportunity to expel De Rojas and Ceacero and “recruit” a new false bishop, the Brazilian sedevacantist Rodrigo Henrique Ribeiro da Silva who, along with the new chaplain of the former nuns, a Argentine champion of the companion of attack in their country, they currently reside in the convent.
Paralyzed businesses and online equipment sales
The former nuns have changed lawyers several times and currently have a “press manager”, while they continue their activity on Instagram since the closure of their website and accuse the archbishop of having asphyxiated them financially. At the same time, the diocese showed the “accounts” of the former Poor Clares, who have a monthly deficit of 13,642 euros, and saw how, throughout these months, all their attempts to start new economic activities failed. On the one hand, the Town Hall did not allow them to maintain an illegal dog breeder, they had to cancel almost all their orders for truffles and chocolates due to lack of money and they even sold chasubles and other items online. liturgical materials.
Six months later, the “Belorado soap opera” leaves little trace of a solution. The expulsion request presented in September by the diocese of Burgos was admitted for processing last week by the court of Briviesca, which set a date for a possible departure of the former excommunicated nuns (the five elder sisters, of whom it is not known nothing, they could stay in the same one): January 23, 2025. Even if, as the nuns have already announced, they will not voluntarily agree to leave the convent. The Civil Guard, which had to go to Belorado several times during this period, could be responsible for forcibly expelling the nuns, an image that will surely go around the world.
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