The Holy See has formally protested to France after a French court ruled that a former high-ranking Vatican official was liable for what the court determined to be the wrongful dismissal of a nun from a religious order.
FILE - Pope Francis , left, listens to Cardinal Marc Ouellet 's opening address as he attends the opening of a 3-day Symposium on Vocations in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. –
The Vatican confirmed that Pope Francis had tasked Cardinal Marc Ouellet, at the time the head of the Vatican’s bishops’ office, with conducting an investigation that ended with the Holy See taking a series of canonical measures against Valette, including her expulsion after 34 years as a nun in the order.
According to French Catholic daily La Croix, the Lorient court found the nun's expulsion was without merit, and ordered Ouellet, the religious order and other defendants to pay over 200,000 euros in material and moral damages, as well as fines. The defendants are appealing, La Croix said. As a result, the Lorient court decision represented an unusual intrusion of secular justice in internal church matters, prompting the diplomatic complaint from the Holy See.
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