Vatican lodges religious freedom complaint over verdict involving French nun cruxnow.com

In response to a decision by a French court to award damages to a nun dismissed from her religious order after 34 years of service, the Vatican has lodged a formal protest with the French embassy to the Holy See complaining of violations of religious freedom.

“Such a sentence by the Tribunal of Lorient,” the note said, referring to the municipality where the case was heard, “could raise not only questions regarding immunity, but, since it regards internal discipline and membership in a religious institute, could also give rise to grave violations of the fundamental right of religious freedom and of the right of free association of Catholic faithful.”

The case pivots on Mother Marie Ferréol, who had been superior of a small traditionalist community of French religious women founded in 1943 by an abbot close to the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who led the community of St. Pius X in breaking with Rome over reforms following the Second Vatican Council….

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