Isabel Pedrejon

Updated Monday, April 1, 2024-22:02

  • LOC Xavier Novell, former bishop of Solsona, happy with his twins

With certain news it seems that the Church is advancing by leaps and bounds.

Xavier Novell

(54) was not only the youngest prelate in our country, but after being

bishop of Solsona

for eleven years he left the diocese for personal reasons. The reason? He had fallen in love. The lucky one was

Silvia Caballol

(40), a writer of

erotic-satanic novels

with whom he married civilly in the

Súria peace court (Bagés, Barcelona).

This Monday, Silvia announced through her

Instagram

that "I honestly believed, after so much time that you have been with us, that I would not hide from you that Xavier and I have finally been able to get married in the church,

thanks to the mercy of the Holy Father

who has granted secularization".

It has been a long road, but it has been worth it. Both wanted to receive communion again and after a secularization process in which Xavier has been guided by

Pope Francis,

the couple is happy to have been able to regularize their canonical status. The Pope has looked after the interests of the new marriage as well as that of his twin daughters,

Coaner and Míriam,

2 years old. Silvia brings two other children from a previous relationship.

At all times, the bishop's wife - he is still a prelate, but without being able to exercise the ministry - has made it clear that "I do not believe that darkness is what our love, nor the church, deserves. Nor do I believe that the concealment that accompanied "My husband's resignation two and a half years ago was not a success at all." As published by

Vida Nueva Digital,

the family spent this

Holy Week

in the monastery of

Poblet (Tarragona),

founded in the year 1150. In this way they were able to enjoy a rural, quiet and peaceful environment to "cultivate spirituality," Silvia concluded.

Xavier is a technical agricultural engineer, ordained a priest in 1997 and worked as a teacher at the Faculty of Theology of Catalonia. Additionally, he holds a Doctor of Theology from the Gregorian University of Rome. In 2010 he became the youngest bishop in our country. Silvia has a degree in psychology from the

Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)

where she also completed a postgraduate degree in

Health Psychology.

She has studied sexology, yoga and the Catholic and Islamic religion. In 2016 she edited

Amnesia Trilogy

and a year later

Gabriel's Hell in Lust.

The bishop has been a character who has always been surrounded by controversy due to his conservative stance regarding the LGTBIQ community, he is a born anti-abortionist, he voted in the 1-0 referendum in 2017 and has been in favor of voluntary celibacy or changing the role of women in the Church.