This church official has chosen corsets over crucibles.
A Spanish bishop, known for supporting gay conversion therapy and performing exorcisms, has left the Roman Catholic Church after being involved with a satanic erotic fiction writer, Silvia Caballol.
“I have fallen in love and I want to do things right,” former Bishop Xavier Novell said now, according to the BBC, citing Spanish media that first published the story of why Novell left last month.
In addition to widespread media attention, the 52-year-old’s decision has also provoked much internal criticism in the church. Some former colleagues told Spanish media that they believed Novell was possessed by demons and that “it’s not a problem of celibacy, but rather of infestation,” the National Post reported.
Prior to his outrageous resignation from the church, Novell was considered one of his rising stars after becoming the youngest bishop in Spain at the age of 41 in 2010. His August departure surprised the community. religious, although it is said that the BBC met several times with Vatican officials, but the Pope himself had it in front of him.
Now in love but out of work, Novell is looking for a job as a crop expert or agronomist in the Barcelona area, Religión Digital reported.
The woman with whom he broke his vow of celibacy and commitment to Christ to be, Silvia Caballol, is a divorced psychologist and erotic novelist who has between the titles “The Hell of Gabriel’s Lust” and a trilogy called ” Amnesia “. Caballol’s work has explored themes of madness, lust, sadism, God, and Satan. Her editor describes her as a “dynamic and transgressive author (who) turns our ideas of morality and ethics upside down,” according to the National Post.
Novell has admitted in previous interviews that his falling in love with Caballol is not his first: before he became a man of God, he fell in love and for a time wanted to marry and have children with an 18-year-old girl.