Kerala High Court: No police safety for Kerala nun in opposition to eviction from convent

The Kerala High Court on Wednesday mentioned that police safety can’t be supplied to Catholic nun Lucy Kalapura, who has been expelled from the Franciscan Clarist Congregation (FCC), if she continues to remain within the convent.
Hearing her petition looking for police safety on the convent in Karakkamala village of Wayanad district, the bench of Justice Raja Vijayaraghavan mentioned she may be supplied with police safety provided that she strikes out to some other place of her alternative.
The Vatican had rejected Sister Lucy’s attraction in opposition to her termination from the FCC.
Earlier this month, when her petition got here for listening to, the FCC had furnished earlier than the High Court the termination order, and the following rejection of her attraction by the best judicial authority within the Catholic Church within the Vatican — the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura.
The decide had then noticed, “Prima facie, it seems to me that the continued residence of the petitioner (Lucy) within the convent after her proper to proceed as a member of the FCC has extinguished, will solely result in steady strife and conflicts.’’

On Wednesday, the courtroom saved to that stand and mentioned Lucy can not proceed within the convent as a member of the congregation. The courtroom additionally advised Lucy that it can not subject an order permitting her keep on the convent, as her proper to proceed within the nunnery as a member of the congregation has been extinguished.
Sister Lucy has had a long-standing rift along with her congregation. She participated in an agitation in 2018 demanding the arrest of bishop Franco Mulakkal in a case of alleged rape of a nun.