NATION : 3 Protesting Nuns Face Dismissal
Three rebel nuns who locked themselves in a wing of their convent last October face dismissal from the Carmelite order if they do not submit to Vatican rulings and abandon their protest by July 1, a Roman Catholic Church spokesman said today.
The church is urging the dissident traditionalist nuns to concede defeat and emerge from their self-imposed eight-month exile in an infirmary at the Monastery of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel, said Timothy Manning, a spokesman for the diocese of Paterson.
The Carmelite community in the monastery will begin a 40-day expulsion process July 1 if the nuns--a 72-year-old former prioress and two other sisters who are protesting liberalization of their order--do not submit to church authority by then, Manning said.
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