Mother Isabel de la Trinidad did not consult with her community, the Poor Clare Sisters of Belorado, when she decided to break with the Archdiocese of Burgos and join Pablo de Rojas Sáncez-Franco, a self-declared sedevacantist bishop, Sister María Amparo, 81, said in an interview with DiarioDeBurgos.es (May 18).
The nun has been in religious life for 62 years, 20 of them spent in Belorado. She left three days after the nuns' declaration of schism. Sister María strongly denies Mother Isabel’s claim that the decision was unanimous.
“You can’t make such a decision like that without a chapter, and there was no meeting. We were presented with facts that had already been established,” she said. According to the sister, the 16 nuns were called to gather in a parlour, where Pablo de Rojas Sánchez-Franco waited and told the nuns that he was now in charge.
Sister María says she spoke out against the [pseudo-] bishop at the meeting: “The Lord put words in my mouth. I told him: We are under the …More