Sister Amparo, one of the Poor Clare sisters of the Monastery of Belorado (Spain), whose abbess published this Monday, May 13, the day of the Virgin of Fátima, a letter and a manifesto of schismatic content, has left the community to join another located in the Archdiocese of Burgos.
Sources from the Archbishopric of Burgos confirm to ACI Prensa that this Thursday the first abandonment of the community occurred, when barely four days have passed since the abbess announced that she had placed the sisters under the guardianship of a false bishop excommunicated in 2019 that supports sedevacantist thesis.
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Sister Amparo has been welcomed in the Monastery of the Assumption of Castil de Lences, where 15 Poor Clare nuns dedicate their days to prayer and the restoration of artistic fabrics and embroidery.
Communiqué from the Federation of Poor Clares and the Franciscan Province
On the same day that Sister Amparo arrived in Castil de Lences, the Federation of Poor Clares of Nuestra Señora de Aránzazu and the Franciscan province of Aránzazu made public a statement “in the name of our General Minister of the Order (OFM), Br. Massimo Fusarelli.”
In it, they first express their “surprise and pain at the attitude, writings and comments that our Poor Clare sisters of Belorado have made in recent days,” especially for their “harsh criticism of the Catholic Church” and notably for the call Catholic Manifestowhich in his opinion constitutes “a compendium of unfounded criticisms and erroneous interpretations” about the history of the Church, especially since the celebration of the Second Vatican Council.
After expressing its “total and fraternal communion with the Church, with its Pope Francis, with the Archbishop of Burgos, Don Mario Iceta and with Don Juan Carlos Elizalde, Bishop of Vitoria”, the Claretian federation asks “forgiveness for all the evil and damage that this situation, caused by an erroneous decision by the Poor Clare sisters of Belorado, has created within the Franciscan Family”, the Poor Clares in particular, but also among the faithful.
As was done in the communiqué of the Episcopal Commission for Consecrated Life of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, this communiqué contains a request addressed to the Poor Clares of Belorado so that they “reconsider their position, discern their doctrine according to the Franciscan modes of communion and fraternity and with Franciscan humility return to what they have always been.”
Finally, it is stated to the sisters of the Belorado-Orduña community that “we will always be willing to welcome them back into our family, of which they are also a part and from which they should never have left.”
The statement is signed by the president of the Federation of Poor Clares of Our Lady of Aránzazu, Sister Javier Soto and the Franciscan Provincial of Aránzazu, Brother José María Arregui.
Nicholas de Cardenas
Born in 1980, I am a Spanish husband and father and journalist with more than 20 years of experience in print and digital media, specializing in sociopolitical and religious information. I have worked for more than 10 years in defense of human rights and have accreditations in Journalism and Comprehensive Communication. Since July 2022, I have been a correspondent for ACI Prensa and EWTN Noticias in Spain, covering international events of the Catholic Church.