Ex-nuns evicted from convent
Police evicted 65 rebellious ex-nuns from a convent they illegally occupied for two years after defying a Vatican order to replace their charismatic leader.
The former nuns walked out after a locksmith opened the gate to the walled compound and police in riot gear rushed in and arrested the mother superior, who has said she has religious visions. The women, whom the Vatican expelled from their order, took over the convent in Kazmierz Dolny in eastern Poland in rebellion against a 2005 order to replace Jadwiga Ligocka as mother superior.
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