Bishop evicts sedevacantist Spanish nuns from their convent

A court in Briviesca, Spain, has upheld the eviction of the Poor Clares of Belorado by the Archbishop of Burgos, Mario Iceta.

The religious sisters broke from Rome in May last year when their superior, Sister Isabel de la Trinidad, released a five-page open letter on 13 May along with an extensive 70-page “Catholic Manifesto”. The community initially declared their allegiance to sedevacantist Bishop Pablo de Rojas Sánchez-Franco.

Rojas leads a heretical group called the “Pious Union”, which has chapels and Mass centres around Spain. They hold the sedevacantist position, which maintains that there have been no valid Popes since Pius XII (some date this further back to Pius X) due to liturgical and theological reforms, which they claim excommunicated subsequent Popes.