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Thursday, October 11, 2007




POLISH NUNS EVICTED

POLICE pushed their way into a Polish convent to begin evicting about 65 rebellious ex-nuns and a monk who occupied the complex illegally for two years.

The women had taken over the building in a rebellion against the Vatican, which had ordered the replacement of their mother superior, Jadwiga Ligocka.

"They were disobedient," said Mieczyslaw Puzewicz, a spokesman for the Lublin diocese of the Roman Catholic Church.

Police arrested Mother Jadwiga and a former Franciscan friar, Roman Komaryczko, who had been living with the nuns, police spokesman Mariusz Sokolowski said. He would not specify the charges.

A locksmith had opened the gate to the walled convent in the town of Kazimierz Dolny and police in riot gear pushed forward, encountering an onslaught of verbal aggression from some of the former nuns, Mr Sokolowski said.


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