Police evict nuns

Police evict nuns after two-year convent rebellion

Police forced their way into a Polish convent yesterday, evicted about 65 former nuns, and arrested the mother superior and a monk who had occupied the complex illegally for two years.

The women had taken over the building in a rebellion against the Vatican, which had ordered the replacement of the mother superior, Jadwiga Ligocka, who had reportedly had visions.

"They were disobedient," said Mieczyslaw Puzewicz, of the Lublin diocese of the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican formally expelled the women from their Sisters of Bethany order last year.

Police said they planned to question the mother superior and a former Franciscan friar, Roman Komaryczko.

A locksmith opened the gate to the walled convent in the eastern Polish town of Kazimierz Dolny and police in riot gear pushed forward, encountering verbal aggression from some of the nuns, a police spokesman, Mariusz Sokolowski, said.

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