Vatican rejects third appeal of Kerala nun Lucy Kalappura

The Vatican has rejected another appeal by Keralite nun Sister Lucy Kalappura against the Franciscan Clarist Congregation’s (FCC) decision to expel her for “failing” to explain her lifestyle, which allegedly violated church rules.

According to an internal church communication, Apostolic Signatura, the Catholic Church’s highest judicial authority, rejected the nun’s third appeal against her dismissal from the century-old Congregation.

The appeal of Lucy Kalappura is rejected by Apostalica Signatura and the dismissal is confirmed,” a communication in the Congregation said.

A church spokesperson confirmed to PTI that the nun’s final appeal had been rejected by the Vatican.

However, Kalappura spoke out against the Church decision, claiming that she had no knowledge that her appeal had been taken up for trial and that the current move amounted to injustice and a violation of the truth.

Kalappura’s first appeal against her expulsion by the FCC was denied by the Vatican’s Congregation for Oriental Churches, prompting her to file a second appeal in March of this year.

The nun had filed a second appeal with the Vatican, alleging that the ‘disciplinary action’ was taken because she had participated in protests by a group of nuns calling for the arrest of a bishop accused of raping a fellow nun.

Kalappura, who took part in a protest by Missionaries of Jesus Congregation nuns calling for the arrest of Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who is accused of raping a nun, was expelled from the Roman Catholic Church by the FCC in August 2019.

The congregation had labelled as “grave violations” Sister Lucy’s possession of a driver’s licence, purchase of a car, taking out a loan for it, publication of a book, and spending money without the permission and knowledge of her superiors, and the Vatican had ratified the decision.

The nun, on the other hand, had dismissed the congregation’s charges against her, claiming that many of them were a “deliberate attempt to paint her in a bad light.”

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