The former nuns of Belorado are now officially, squatters for the Archbishopric of Burgos, which is legally responsible for the civil liability of the convents of Belorado, Derio and Orduña and which this Monday, after four months of conflict, denounced the schismatic nuns in court, demanding their expulsion.
Thus begins a process that, according to sources from the diocese, confess to elDiario.es, “will be long and complicated” and that could end with the Civil Guard entering the monastery to forcibly expel the excommunicated nuns. They themselves, in their only reference to the procedure that was activated this week before the Courts of Briviesca, have already announced that, in the event of an expulsion resolution, they would not comply with it. That is, they would not leave of their own accord, even with a court order, and that it would be the forces of public order who would expel them from the convent.
Four months and at least two bishops and three false priests later, the former nuns of Belorado continue to be confined to the monastery without much being known about them, beyond a few rumors. Some sources suggest that the former abbess, Laura Gil de Biedma, contacted a notary in Burgos to obtain guardianship of two of the five main nuns who continue to reside in the convent, but who have not been excommunicated.
This strategy, which uses the older nuns as a shield, seeks to break the history of the diocese of Burgos, which assures that the five older nuns do not agree with the schism. In addition, if the change of guardianship occurs, the former abbess would control the accounts and pensions of these two women, which would be a respite from the very harsh economic reality that the community is experiencing, practically without help and with a business, the truffle business, in bankruptcy. The attempt of the nuns to register as a civil association and, from there, to claim ownership of the convents has also failed: the Ministry of the Interior has refused the registration.
In fact, the Archbishop of Burgos, appointed pontifical commissioner (responsible) for Belorado by the Vatican, continues to pay the salaries of the dozen workers (tutors, gardeners and caretakers of elderly nuns, in a situation of dependency), although those responsible have already warned that “at some point” it will be necessary to “regularize this abnormal situation.”
In recent weeks, there has been a significant decline in the ranks of the schismatics with the departure of Sor Paz, the vicar of Belorado, right-hand man of the former abbess, with whom the group of excommunicated women is reduced to nine, while waiting to know the future of the five older sisters, whose families are following the situation with concern and in silence.
Other relatives of the schismatic nuns have begun to live with them, as is the case of a worker of the Episcopal Conference, officially on sick leave, and whom some sources place at the origin of a failed operation to sell chasubles and ecclesiastical vestments on the Internet, owned by Belorado.
A long and complicated expulsion
What will happen now? Sources close to the process tell elDiario.es that “far from it”, this will be the end of the story. First, we will have to wait for the Briviesca court to accept or reject the lawsuit filed by Iceta for processing, which could take between two weeks and three months. As it is a court without an excessive workload, this stage should not take too long.
Once the request is accepted, the corresponding judge must inform the parties, who will be able to formulate their arguments and raise judicial questions. The next step would be to collect the statements of the interested parties, a complicated moment, since the former nuns have already announced that they will not voluntarily participate in this process. Once the parties have been heard, the court would issue a resolution approving or rejecting the expulsion. This entire process could take between six months and a year and a half, according to the sources consulted.
However, the problem does not end there, since once the sentence has been pronounced, it can be appealed to the Provincial Court and, if necessary, to the Supreme Court, before becoming a final sentence. In the same way, after the conviction, the execution order would be issued, which could be stopped by invoking different causes, from the health problems of one of the nuns to, directly, the physical refusal of the former nuns to leave the property, in which case a police action protocol should be issued. It would not be strange, if the former abbess and her supporters do not abandon their attitude, to see the Civil Guard enter Belorado to expel the nuns.
False bishops and twenty priests
In the meantime, various circumstances may arise that should not be overlooked, such as the death or deterioration of the health of one of the senior nuns. Added to this is the influence of the new false bishop of Belorado, Rodrigo Henrique Ribeiro da Silva, who this week assured unwavering support to the former nuns, and even announced that he had at least twenty sedevacantist priests ready to go to Belorado. the convent.
Currently, a false Argentine priest, former Argentine champion of preparation of companion and former boxing judge, Sergio Casas, is spiritually taking care of the nuns expelled from the Catholic Church. This new “signature” is added to the failed cases of the false bishop De Rojas (author of the “Catholic Manifesto” with which the Poor Clares left the Church of Rome) or the priest and mixologist José Ceacero, whose clues were lost with the same speed with which they appeared in the small town of Burgos.
Meanwhile, and despite the presentation of the request for expulsion, the Archbishopric of Burgos continues to express “its willingness to help on the path to return to ecclesial communion, where they would be welcomed with delicacy and mercy, in the image of the parable of the prodigal son.”
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