In the past two days, the Roman Catholic Church has made a big news that has shocked the jaws of believers around the world.
Xavier Novell, the star of the church with a promising future and the youngest bishop in Spanish history, announced his resignation and quit the church.
The bishop, known for his exorcisms, submitted his resignation late last month, telling the church that the withdrawal was "for personal reasons."
But today, several church media reported that the real reason for Norville's departure was that he was hopelessly in love with a Satanic astringent love story writer and could not maintain his commitment to celibacy.
Bishop, Satan, astringent romance novels, love, the elements are as complete as onion news,
But that's how it really happened...
In Spain, there are few Catholics who are unaware of Norville, who would have had a promising future within the Church.
Born in 1969, Norville was quick-witted and eloquent, and those who knew him well said he was smart.
He graduated in agricultural technical engineering in 1990 with an interest in theology, and a few years later entered the seminary, where he soon rose to prominence.
The local diocese had high hopes for him and sent him to Papal Gregory University in Rome to study theology, where he received a bachelor's degree in theology in 1997 and, upon graduation, was ordained as a priest of the Diocese of Solsona.
Norville's promotion is very fast. In 2010, the Vatican promoted him to bishop of the Diocese of Solsona, administering 140,000 parishioners.
That year, he was only 41 years old, becoming the youngest bishop in the history of Spain and the eighth youngest bishop in the world.
Because of his youth, eloquence, missionary and passion, Norville was very popular in Solsona.
He also enjoyed publishing his views on religion and politics on television and was well known.
Back then, if you said Norville would be in love, no one would believe it.
Catholic priests and bishops are subject to celibacy and cannot fall in love and marry for the rest of their lives, and someone asked Norville in 2011 what to do if he really fell in love with a woman.
Norville replied firmly:
"If one day, I meet a woman who attracts me because of her lifestyle, or thoughts, or behaviors, makes me want to marry her. Well, what I had to do and what I would do was not look at her again. ”
Good Bachelor's Manifesto,
But how firm this passage was then, how much it hits the face now.
Because, after meeting the female writer Silvia Caballol, he fell in love quickly and ended his bishopric career.
Sylvia, 38 and 14 years younger than Novéville, lives in Morocco with two children and is divorced.
She had a degree in psychology and had also studied sexology, yoga, Catholicism and Islam, and was a knowledgeable woman.
But she also has a very special identity:
She is an expert in Satanology and the author of satanic astringent novels.
Sylvia's work is more flavorful, and the publisher's recommendation to her is, "A writer who dares to cross the line has drilled a hole in the thorny literary world, subverting all our moral and ethical cognitions." ”
The degree of this ethical subversion, well, can be seen on the cover of her novel.
Sylvia has two notable works, a trilogy published in 2016, "Amnesia," about the love-hate entanglement between a mafia boss who sells human beings and the girl he is going to sell.
"Would you fall in love with a murderer?" Will you fall in love with your executioner? "What happens when attraction is stronger than moral law and social pressure?" ”
The other, the title of the book is exciting enough, is called Gabriel's Hell of Desire.
Published in 2017, the book promises to immerse readers in "the prison world, psychosis, cults, abuse, madness, and lust," and more bluntly, "this is the primal struggle between good and evil, between God and Satan, between angels and demons." ”
She portrays two opposing protagonists:
One is Gabriel, who is a psychopath, a downright madman who seems to be a demon.
The other is Helena, a psychologist who studies prisons, who also has some mental problems, and is really an angel.
(Image of angel Gabriel in oil painting)
The book also boldly quotes a quote from the Bible:
"The existing heavens and the earth have been saved, waiting to be burned by fire."
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Writing Satanic romance novels, in fact, there is nothing, people have their own hobbies.
The supposedly holy bishop fell in love with such a female writer, which surprised everyone.
The media did not know how Norville and Sylvia met, and speculation may be that Norville wants to learn theology of demons.
Norville was known for his exorcisms and often used demonic knowledge, and Sylvia was an expert in this area, and when the two talked, they became friends, and when they talked, they became lovers.
Last month, Norville told a friend, "For the first time in my life, I fell in love with a woman and I wanted to do the right thing," The Catholic news network Religion Digital reported. ”
This "right thing" is to resign and quit the church.
Norville's love affair alarmed the Spanish Church and shocked Pope Francis.
Love is also counted, but why is it satanic romance novel writer, this is unreasonable?
The Abezsa newspaper reported that the Diocese of Solsona believed that the bishop was possessed by demons and wanted to exorcise him.
"The Bishops' Conference is very worried, believing that what happened to Norville is not a simple issue of celibacy, but an 'infection'. That is, he was invaded by demons. ”
"The bishop is a master of exorcisms, and man will always encounter regurgitation during exorcisms, and this anti-phagocytosis comes from his lover Sylvia Capolol. She was a divorced woman who wrote not only astringent novels, but also Satanic novels. ”
Even, Pope Francis said that he would exorcise the demons for Norville himself, which he proposed twice, but was refused.
"The Pope himself said that he could exorcise demons for him, but the bishop chose to refuse, and the Church thought that the bishop was hiding something. He had been affected by the evil forces that dominated him, but he wanted to continue to hide. ”
The religious news network Info Vaticana even found a technical term for the matter, called mooring.
It refers to a kind of black magic in which someone has promised to remain celibate, allowing him to rekindle the flames of love.
But Lucia Caram, an Argentine nun who lives in Spain, said the remarks were not reliable because love was not the reason for Norville's resignation.
The core reason is that he is "not in a good mental condition".
"It's not a story of a 'bishop seduced by women again'. A woman should no longer be seen as sinful and bear the blame for breaking celibacy for him. ”
"Norville's views are increasingly extremely conservative, whether it's kicking girls in short skirts out of his church, promoting sexual orientation correction in the LGBT community, or clashing with other clergy to get rid of priests he doesn't like."
"None of this has anything to do with women. In essence, it is he who is psychologically weak and makes decisions casually and irresponsibly. The church should elevate his mental health. ”
Norville was indeed a conservative bishop, and his homosexuality corrections were criticized by the Vatican, but he did not change his teachings.
(In fact, he himself was once gay and had received corrective treatment.)
He also had a strong negative attitude toward abortion, calling it "the greatest extermination in history" and "the Holocaust of Jews."
Politically, he was also radical, supporting Catalan independence and was the only bishop to take a stand in the 2017 independence referendum.
This summer, Norville also visited several Catalan leaders imprisoned for sedition to provide them with spiritual comfort.
In this resignation storm, several Catalan leaders are also the only ones to support him.
In this way, falling in love with Satan's writer of astringent romance novels is not such a special thing for him. His behavior gradually became impulsive and uncontrolled.
Although the outside world was surprised, Norville was unmoved, neatly resigned from the bishop's position, moved to the city of Manreza in the province of Barcelona, and began to live with Silvia.
No one knows if their love affair will last, but one thing is certain:
Sylvia's novel, perhaps there is new material...