The Poor Clares of Belorado, northern Spain, have launched a campaign for a new convent. Creating the website queremosunconvento.com (“we want a convent”), they are beseeching the help of the Spanish public to offer them a home in which to continue their religious life. The sisters have been formally excommunicated from the Catholic Church and evicted from their convent.
The sisters’ confrontation with the Church began in May 2024 when the community of 16 declared their separation from the post-Vatican II Catholic Church and their allegiance to sedevacantist Bishop Pablo de Rojas Sánchez-Franco. Their superior, Sister Isabel de la Trinidad, released a five-page open letter on May 13, 2024, along with an extensive 70-page “Catholic Manifesto”.
