Sr. Lucy Kalappura, who was dismissed from the Franciscan Clarist congregation for alleged non-compliance of its guidelines, has filed an appeal before the Vatican against the decision to expel her.
She had filed an email appeal to the Vatican as well as their representatives in New Delhi on Friday. She also sent an appeal by post on Saturday.
The congregation had stuck to its stance and issued a letter to her mother on August 10 to the take the nun back home. In a letter to her mother, the congregation said Sr. Lucy had breached its rules and the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, many times since 2015.
Sr. Lucy was in news ever since she participated in the protest against Bishop Franco Mulakkal of Jalandhar diocese in connection with a rape case of a nun.
She had dismissed the 14 charges levelled against her by the congregation, saying many of them were a “deliberate attempt” to paint her in “bad light.”
Sr. Lucy said the congregation cannot just throw her away as she, a high school teacher, had served the congregation for more than 33 years. She sought proper rehabilitation.
But in the letter to her mother, the congregation said that since she has a job and has been keeping her salary since 2017, it does not have any liability to pay her anything more.
(With input from PTI)
