The bishop of Solsona "will continue to be a priest" even if he marries his pornstar girlfriend today, who could be pregnant

• Controversy Xavier Novell: the personal and nationalist drift of the bishop of Solsona

The story of the particular

Spanish

, namely,

former bishop of Solsona, can take a definitive turn of the script today: his civil wedding with

the writer of erotic-satanic novels who has stolen his heart and for the one who has abandoned, along the way, his practice as a clergyman.

The editorial staff of

In Catalonia, it revealed that on October 7 Novell and Caballol had submitted the application to the Civil Registry of Sùria (Barcelona) to be able to contract a civil marriage. Said request starts the marriage file, but the wedding may not be celebrated until after the mandatory 15-day period ordered by the Civil Code so that any person can present the "impediments" that they know for which the wedding cannot be celebrated. As Four has revealed after that fortnight, the civil link could be held today and also points to another bombshell: the couple could be expecting twins.

This would, in principle, be the climax of the Church-Novell rift. But ... does that wedding also automatically imply that the former bishop will cease to be a priest? Will that union make you a secular man, that is, not a clergyman?

To find out about these and other questions,

has contacted

who, in addition to being the most mediatic priest in Spain, is an expert in canon law, the matter at hand. "He will never be a layman. He will never be separated from the priesthood, but will only be able to renounce the office and stop practicing as a cleric," he tells us. And he explains the reasons: "He has received the sacrament of Holy Orders, one of the sacraments whose effects are never erased and cannot be reiterated. He is a bishop for eternity and can never lose that episcopal character. Another thing is that the Church , after a procedure, prohibit him from serving as a bishop and no longer consider him as such. " That is, a kind of Bishop Emeritus,but with residence in Manresa and not in the Arabian peninsula.

Xavier Novell in an interview for EM.ANTONIO MORENO

On this procedure that is commonly known as "getting out of the priesthood" and that in canon law is formally a "process of secularization"

A lawyer and expert in the Catalan Church, points several questions to LOC: "Rome could grant it, but we still do not know if it has completed it. It is a complex process and, as is everything with the Roman bureaucracy, slow. Reports are needed , to know the current state of the priest, the reasons that lead him to abandon the office ... It is a long procedure, but normally it ends up being granted ". In this regard, the only thing that has been revealed so far is that Novell only resigned from the Diocese of Solsona on August 23 and that Pope Francis ended up accepting said resignation, which was based on the "personal reasons" that later transcended, his loving relationship with Caballol.

Having clarified the question that a priest will never cease to be a priest in the eyes of God and the Church, although yes of men, a thorny issue remains to be resolved: celibacy.

According to Father Apelles "even if the office is abandoned and the sacred order ceases to be exercised, this does not mean that he is freed from the promise of celibacy. It is necessary that the

dispense with this promise."

The secrecy that surrounds the entire Novell Church outlet prevents us from knowing if you have requested it.

But Apelles points out that if he has not been granted and he marries civilly that "marriage will be null (before the Church) as is that of a baptized person who marries only civilly or that of a divorced person who contracts new marriages before the judge. ".

Sílvia Caballol.

Once the formal-canonical questions are resolved, the people remain: a bishop in love who abandons his "office" for a woman.

In this regard, Father Apelles wants to specify in LOC some of his previous statements that, according to him, have been "de-virtualized."

"I did not say that the problem is 'the woman', but 'who is the woman'. On the one hand, it is not only a public sinner who scandalizes those who read her novels with erotic scenes, which does not seem the most appropriate so that a bishop falls in love with her, but on top of that it seems that she has

Cover of a book by Sílvia Caballol.

A Satanism, that of his novels, which is perhaps what has raised the most dust of all the edges of this story. Apelles elaborates on this: "It is fair to say that we do not know if she is only a student of Satanism, a practitioner of some cult or simply has a certain morbid complacency with evil (which is what seems most likely to me), which also makes it easier for her to sell her books.

I think everything has a more prosaic explanation: a man and a woman who are attracted.

But beyond that attraction, another of the reasons he pointed to when

left the Diocese was his "tiredness."

"He tried to do his best, but the Diocese is small, old, with poor clergy ... and he could do little. He did not have the support of his priests or of the other bishops. Currently in the Church neither the bishops nor the priests they feel supported, but each one goes to his own thing ", clarifies Apelles.

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