When Spanish Bishop Javier Novel resigned last month, the Catholic Church said briefly that it was a matter of “personal reasons.”
It is now clear that Javier Novel has fallen in love with the author of satanic-erotic novels, the BBC reported, citing the Spanish Catholic website Religion Digital.
In 2010, Novel became the youngest bishop in Spain at just 41 years old. He is from Catalonia.
He created a long-condemned therapy, according to which gays become heterosexual men again. He also performed exorcisms.
In Spain, Javier Novel was seen as a rising star in the Catholic Church. And now hop – resign because of sinful love!
Javier Novel has met with the Pope several times. He shared extremely conservative views on abortion and homosexuality. He was also an outspoken supporter of Catalan independence.
The love of his life is the divorced Sylvia Cabayol. She is a psychologist and author of erotic novels.
One of her books is called “Hell in Gabriel’s Lustful Desires,” and another of her hits is the Amnesia trilogy.
In the summaries of his books, Cabayol promises his readers “sadism, madness and lust.” And of course – the struggle between good and evil, God and Satan, etc.
The former bishop is now looking for a job as an agronomist in the Barcelona area.
The local Catholic website Religion Digital was able to contact the former bishop and get an explanation. “I’m very much in love and I want to do things the right way,” he said.
This postmodern Spanish drama raises for the first time the question of the celibacy of priests.
In an old interview, Javier Novel admitted that he fell in love with an 18-year-old girl when he was young and wanted to have a family and children. Then he decided to take a different path.
His decision to give up a 52-year church career and become an agronomist sparked a heated debate in the church itself. According to Dominican nun Lucia Karam, “Javier is completely out of his mind.”
