Posted on 02/19/2023 6:50:29 PM PST by marshmallow
The sisters had gifted the monastery to the Vatican in a last ditch attempt to save their way of life, only to have the Pope forcibly remove and defrock them.
(Crisis Magazine) — For more than seven hundred years, the Franciscan monastery of Santa Chiara has stood overlooking the glorious waters of the Amalfi Coast in the town of Ravello, the “city of music” and the “pearl of the Amalfi.” Poor Clares came to Ravello in 1297, just after the death of St. Francis, and the monastery and town have flourished together for almost a thousand years.
The monastery grounds, church, and manuscript library have been deemed historically significant by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. The sisters support themselves financially by means of a historic hotel and by producing limoncello.
But the monastery now stands at the brink of suppression and destruction, thanks to recent interventions by Rome, which reached a crescendo just last week when two of its nuns were defrocked for attempting to remain in the cloister in which they had vowed to live out the rest of their lives.
In March of 2021, the monastery received an order from their monastic federation to close down and for its five nuns to transfer to various other monasteries around Italy. When news spread of this, the town of Ravello mobilized to stop what the mayor, Salvatore Di Martino, described as a loss of one of the city’s most symbolic places, both architecturally and spiritually.
Townsfolk organized demonstrations, and the city government convened emergency sessions to pass resolutions calling upon the religious authorities to find a way to spare the monastery.
On their part, the five nuns all initially refused to leave the monastery. Then, two of the nuns reconsidered, agreeing to be transferred elsewhere......
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May the Pope be transferred to Beijing China.
Didn’t Francis also reinstate someone whom the CDF removed over raping nuns?
They got it all spelled wrong: It’s not Pope, it’s Poop..... /s
This guy is godless, communist jackass.....just pure, outright evil.
Sede Vacante
will no one rid us of this meddlesome priest?
Francis the Fraud’s aggressive mendacity to his Flock and the Holy Scripture is an indication of who it is he really serves.
Moloch approves.
Amén.
Vindictive little sh&t isn’t he???
This Pope is not Catholic.
Ping
One lunged marxist isn’t even good enough to be the anti Christ. Guy’s the lamest evil pope ever. Just a garden variety marxist faggot that most Catholics ignore.
will no one rid us of this meddlesome priest?
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Well said!
We have a Poor Clare monastery in our city. I pray that that pretender to the Throne of St. Peter doesn’t decide to shut them all down.
How ironic that this Pope, whose namesake was the inspiration for St. Clare, indeed is the one to close this monastery.
I am starting to really despise this man.
I can’t believe anyone is a member of a church run by a madman.
And they can’t do anything about it, but leave. Over half of the world’s cardinals wanted this thing.
The Catholic church is led by sickos.
Over half of the world’s cardinals wanted him as Pope.
Your bigger problem is with them.
The whole dang apparatus is corrupt.
Our parish bulletin always has a supposed quote from Pope Francis each week, mostly bland reflections. I wonder who actually composes them.
Francis is herding his sheep right into Hell, really unbelievable.
One of the cruelest human beings.
The monastery is gonna make a very nice hotel overlooking the Med...or the Tyrrhenian Sea, I guess. It’s a long way down to the water’s edge...but what a friggin’ view.
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