Breakaway Spanish Nuns Excommunicated

A Spanish archdiocese announced Saturday that 10 Poor Clare nuns had incurred excommunication after they declared they had “voluntarily separated” from the Catholic Church.

The Archdiocese of Burgos said June 22 that a decree of excommunication signed by its Archbishop Mario Iceta had been sent to the 10 members of the Poor Clare community in the northern Spanish village of Belorado.