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Rebel nuns refuse eviction

A Polish court has issued eviction notices to a group of rebellious nuns who have defied orders from the Catholic Church to leave the convent they have occupied for two years. The 64 nuns took over the building in 2005, rejecting the Vatican’s decision to replace their mother superior, who had taken decisions she said were based on religious visions and had upset other nuns. Court officials told Reuters that eviction notices had been sent to the nuns last week.

The building’s electricity was cut off in April, but sympathisers from the town of Kazimierz Dolny have continued to provide food and water under cover of darkness. In displays of slightly less than Christian behaviour, the nuns have occasionally thrown stones at journalists trying to speak to them.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .