This Wednesday, March 13, Pope Francis received the controversial nun Sister Lucía Caram and the members of the team of the Spanish portal Religión Digital, which regularly publishes content contrary to Catholic doctrine.
The Vatican Press Office did not share information today about the Pope’s audience with Caram and the Religión Digital journalists.
In a note published today, Religión Digital, which celebrates its 25th anniversary, points out that the Holy Father met with them for half an hour and told them, among other things: “Do not lose hope. “Continue fighting for this living Church and making it known.”
In the text they explain that the Pontiff met with them in “the back room of the Paul VI Hall, (la auletta)”, which is “the same office where he received [Volodimir] Zelenski, [Nicolás] Maduro or Raúl Castro.”
Caram, a Dominican nun, participated in the meeting; the director of Digital Religion, former priest José Manuel Vidal; the journalists José Lorenzo and Jesús Bastante; as well as Father Ángel García Rodríguez, president of the NGO Messengers of Peace; and topics such as “the Church in Spain, future challenges, her health, extreme critics, the question of seminaries, futurerips or the validity of Vatican II” were discussed.
According to Religión Digital, they gave Pope Francis, for his 11 years of pontificate that he celebrates today , “a special gift: the tens of thousands of supports received in the RDconelPapa campaign, for which Francisco greatly appreciated the displays of support coming from from all corners of the world.”
On the other hand, Sister Lucía Caram commented on Facebook that “we saw a serene and very whole Pope. We were able to talk, listen and share. I gave her a gift that moved her: a case with the book of the gospels and psalms carried by a soldier who died on the front” in the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Lucía Caram is a Dominican nun of Argentine origin who lives in Spain. She is 57 years old and is known for various controversial positions, such as her support for Catalan separatism.
In 2023 he spoke out in favor of homosexual couples being able to “ marry in the Church ”.
In 2017, Sister Lucía Caram assured that Saint Joseph and the Virgin Mary had sexual relations, because it is “normal.” That same year, in an interview with porn actor Nacho Vidal, the nun criticized that “for a long time the Church has dedicated itself to stoning those who did not live according to the norm.”
In 2014 he told La Opinión de Málaga that “those who freely make the decision [to abort] have to be the people. The Church cannot get involved. Not even God, who made us free for a reason.”
In 2013, interviewed by the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo , she defended the use of contraceptive methods and assured that ” hell does not exist.”