By Matters India Reporter
Mananthavady, Dec 19, 2019: A court in Kerala on December 19 allowed a Catholic nun dismissed from her congregation to remain at her convent.
The Mananthavady Munsiff Court that heard the petition from Sister Lucy Kalappura gave an injunction to her ouster from the convent and posted the case for January 1.
Sister Kalappura was dismissed from the Franciscan Clarist Congregation in August for her alleged failure to keep her religious vows of obedience and poverty.
Since then, she has been up in arms against the convent. Some supporters joined her to approach the court to block the congregation’s move to remove her from the convent in Karakkamala in Wayanad district of Kerala.
The congregation’s decision was supported by the Vatican.
Sister Kalappura incurred the wrath of her congregation when she supported a group of Missionaries of Jesus sisters who had staged a sit-in Kochi demanding the arrest of Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar who had alleged raped a nun multiple times.
Sister Kalappura became a target of the Church authorities after she criticized their stand in the case.
Earlier in December, the Kerala High Court declined to ban Sister Kalappura’s autobiography titled “Karthavinte Namethil (In the name of Christ)” that narrates her experience of clerical abuses.