Catholic Bishop Resigns After Falling In Love

Xavier Novell, a Spanish bishop, has stop the church after he reportedly fell in love with an writer of satanic erotic fiction.

 

The 52-year-old cleric, who turned Spain’s youngest bishop in 2010, resigned on the finish of final month, citing “private causes”.

 

Catholic publication, Religión Digital, reported that he and Silvia are in a relationship.

 

Xavier stated he had “fallen in love” and that he “wished to do the suitable factor” when he was requested about his relationship with Silvia – who wrote The Hell of Gabriel’s Lust and the erotic trilogy Amnesia.

 

Silvia’s guide, The Hell of Gabriel’s Lust, discusses occultism, sadism and covers “the uncooked wrestle between good and evil, god and Devil and angels and demons”.

 

Some sources declare that Pope Francis urged Xavier to have an exorcism himself to “free his troubled spirit” – however he refused.

The bishop has beforehand come below hearth earlier than for his hyperlinks to so-called “homosexual conversion remedy”.

 

He was accused of holding a marriage between a girl and one of many younger males who attended the “therapy” – with out the assist or consent of the native priest or bride’s mother and father.

 

He has additionally been an outspoken supporter of independence for Catalonia.

 

Two former ministers from the insurgent Catalan authorities who have been imprisoned on prices of sedition have been a few of those that expressed their assist of Xavier’s resignation.

 

Mr Rull stated: “Bishop Novell has at all times been by the aspect of political prisoners, with phrases and, above all, with deeds, changing into one of many few exceptions from the Catalan Church hierarchy.”