SPAIN SEEMS THAT HE WANTS TO ORDER THE SKY AND CATALONIA

After the congress of Denmark votes in favor of a friendly agreement between Spain and Catalonia to find a negotiation form for the independence among both he has entered in the Catalan process until the sky by means of two of its feminine representatives in the earth The nun Dominica of the convent of Santa Clara of Manresa Lucía Caram is not willing to remain silent. After publishing yesterday 'La Vanguardia' that the embassy in Spain of the Santa Headquarters called it to the order.    

It confirmed to have received a letter of the Apostolic Nunciate in Madrid that threatens it to the silence and a bigger observance of the conventual life. The nun attributes that warning of the ambassador from the Vatican Renzo Fratini to pressures of the Spanish Government and of Catholic groups of right-wing sign. Yesterday afternoon, CiU announced that Lucía Caram will participate today, in the one it “Salon del Tinell” of Barcelona, in a public act - under the conversation format -, with the president of the Generalitat, Artur Mas, and the mayor from Barcelona, Xavier Trias.    

In declarations to RAC1, Caram assured that its "bothersome social speech to the Government" and it put name and last names to the supposed pressures to the Vatican. It mentioned the minister Jorge Fernández Díaz and Cristóbal Montoro; to the general vice secretary of the PP, Carlos Floriano, and to the popular parliamentary spokesman, Rafael Hernando. He also said to have received a threat of death days before the consultation Catalan sovereignty of November 9 the 2014.  

In the television chain Four, Caram accused the Government of wanting to silence it again, that which caused a note of having denied of the Ministry of the Interior (he notices that nobody is believed thanks to the minister good faith). The nun also mentioned several portals of internet of the Catholic right that would be carrying out a campaign in her against. "If they tell me that she remains silent, the stones will screech", she said the religious Dominica to the radio station RAC1. I won't give to the threats neither those that seek to gag me. The Gospel is source of freedom. There are red lines that cannot spend", she added later hours in a message in Twitter. Caram, instigator of the Foundation Rosa Oriol that assists to 1.300 families with social problems, has participated in a constant way in debates and television programs of different nature.     

"The Government has complained before the Nunciate and the nuncio has sent a letter inviting to my community to that calls me to the silence", he told to the chain Four. The community of Santa Clara of Manresa is formed by a reduced group of nuns. As she has been able to know this newspaper, the warning insinuates that the Santa Headquarters could prepare the closing of the convent and to proceed to the transfer of the nuns. Caram also confirmed that last Friday it was received in Rome by the secretary of the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life (Roman dicasterio that he supervises the activity of the religious orders), the Spanish Franciscan José Rodríguez Carballo. The meeting was cordial, according to its version. After the encounter, Lucía Caram has requested audience to the Pope Francisco.    

The other celestial case that bothers vastly in Spain and that the politics also wants to put order in the designs of the supreme court it is the case of Teresa Forcades she considers to abandon the religious life temporarily to be candidate to the presidency of the Generalitat for the platform Process Constituent, or with a wider candidacy of the left sovereignty, a similar candidacy to “Barcelona en Comú”, to Catalan scale. Last night, in declarations to the television channel 8TV, the nun of the monastery of Sant Benet (mountain of Montserrat) she explained that she doesn't trust of Artur Mas, for what won't request the exclaustration until the elections of September 27 have been summoned.  

The Catalan bishopric has reacted with extreme wisdom in the face of the information on the exam from the Vatican to the situation of the nuns Lucía Caram and Teresa Forcades. On the part of the bishopric of Vic, of which the nun's Dominica convent depends Caram, it was made consist officially that "the diocese doesn't have any open process and it is not pronounced on the contacts that Sister Lucía Caram has had with the Nunciate and the Santa Headquarters."    

From the bishopric of Sant Feliu of Llobregat in whose diocese the monastery of Sant Benet is located, that is to say, Teresa's community, communicated that there is not any declaration of valuation on Sister performance Teresa or on the article published in La Vanguardia". Regarding the exclaustration reprieve for Teresa Forcades, the bishopric informs that the application of the same one only depends on the mother abbess of the community and of the Santa Headquarters, without she has any jurisdiction the bishopric of Sant Feliu of Llobregat." 

The life can give many turns, so much at personal level as institutional. It is the case of the Benedictine nun Teresa Forcades, willing to abandon the convent temporarily to head a political candidacy to the presidency of the Generalitat. And it is the case, also, of the organ of government of Catalonia that have an ecclesiastical directing maximum after their breakup in 1714 again. In fact, of the 129 presidents of the Generalitat that have been named along the history of the institution, 120 have been ecclesiastical, from the first of them in 1359, Berenguer de Cruïlles that was bishop of Girona, until Josep de Vilamala, sexton of Sant Esteve de Banyoles that occupied the position when the ordinance of the duke of Berwick abolished the institution. That is to say, Catalonia has lived 355 years almost followed with presidents of the religious Generalitat. The only exception took place with the count Joan I d'Empúries in 1376. 

Nevertheless, the functions that he had the old Diputació of the General of Catalonia were much more limited that the current competitions. It "charged the taxes and it acted as institutional guarantee before the king. He doesn't have anything to do with the one that was established with Francesc Macià, beyond to recover their name and to settle in their palace to maintain the historical continuity of Catalonia like political fellow.