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Spanish bishop loses church powers after marriage to erotica author

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The diocese of Solsona — where Xavier Novell Goma has been serving as a bishop — issued a statement on Saturday that said Novell is now forbidden from administering the sacraments and engaging in any active teaching, “both in public and private,” although he can still maintain his status as a bishop.
According to the statement, Novell, bishop emeritus of Solsona, entered into a civil marriage with Silvia Caballol on November 22, 2021, in the province of Barcelona. The statement then refers to Canon 1394.1 of the Catholic Church, which states that “a clergyman attempting marriage, even if only civilly, shall be subject to suspension.”

Novell became Spain’s youngest bishop in 2010, aged 41, when he was appointed to Solsona, a small city to the north of Barcelona in Spain’s northeastern Catalonia region.

Now, following his marriage to Caballol, Novell is no longer able to “exercise the rights and functions inherent in the episcopal office,” the statement from his diocese said.

Neither Novell nor Caballol has yet issued a statement regarding the suspension of Novell’s clerical powers or their recent marriage.

According to reporting by the BBC, Novell has supported gay conversion therapy and has also carried out exorcisms.
Caballol, 38, began her career as a novelist in 2015, according to a profile on the website of her publisher, Lacre. She is trained in clinical psychology as well as sexology and yoga, the profile says, and has also studied Catholicism and Islam.

She is described on the publisher’s website as “a person who longs to live to the fullest” and a “seeker of new emotions and sensations.”

Lacre also calls Caballol a “dynamic and transgressive author who has carved a niche for herself in the thorny literary world to turn all our moral and ethical considerations upside down.”

One of Caballol’s novels — titled “The Hell of Gabriel’s Lust” — promises to transport the reader to a world where they will find “psychopathy, sects, sadism, madness, the unreality of immorality and the crude struggle between good and evil, between God and Satan, and between the angels and demons.”

CNN’s Duarte Mendonca contributed to this report.

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Spanish bishop who married author of satanic erotica is stripped of powers | Spain

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Spain’s youngest bishop has been stripped of his church powers, the country’s episcopal conference said on Saturday, after he married a psychologist-turned-author of satanic erotica.

“As is publicly known, Bishop Xavier Novell Goma, bishop emeritus of Solsona, has contracted a civil marriage with Ms Silvia Caballol, on 22 November, 2021 in the town of Suria, in the province of Barcelona,” the conference wrote in the statement.

Any cleric attempting to get married, even if only civilly, is subject to suspension, the statement added.

The churchman will retain his title as a bishop but will not be permitted to carry out any of the roles associated with the post, including the administration of the sacraments. “Any teaching activity, both in public and private, is prohibited,” it said.

Novell became Spain’s youngest bishop when he was appointed to Solsona in 2010 aged 41, and was a highly regarded conservative who reportedly endorsed gay conversion therapy and practised exorcisms. He also attracted controversy with his support of Catalan independence.

Novell stepped down in August this year citing personal reasons, and the scandal broke weeks later, when the 52-year-old bishop’s relationship with Caballol, the author of works including The Hell of Gabriel’s Lust, became known publicly.

At the time, Novell was quoted by website Religión Digital as saying “I have fallen in love and want to do things properly.”

On the site of Caballol’s publisher Lacre, the 38-year-old writer and qualified clinical psychologist is described as “a dynamic and transgressive author who made her mark in the challenging world of literature upsetting our moral and ethical mores”.

Novell is now prohibited “from exercising all the rights and responsibilities inherent in the episcopal function”, said the conference, which did not rule out “other possible consequences”.

Novell has reportedly been seeking work as an agronomist in the Barcelona region.

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Bishop quits church after love with satanic erotica writer

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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 becoming smitten with a writer of Satanic erotic fiction, Silvia Caballol.

“I have fallen in love and want to do things properly,” said the now-ex-bishop, Xavier Novell, according to a report by BBC, which picked up the story from Spanish media outlets after the news of why Novell quit broke last month.

In addition to widespread media attention, the 52-year-old’s decision has also led to much internal criticism within the church. Some of his former colleagues told the Spanish media that they believed Novell to be possessed by demons. The situation is “not a problem of celibacy but rather of infestation,” one said, as reported by the National Post.

Before his scandalous resignation from the church, Novell was considered one of its rising stars, having become Spain’s youngest bishop in 2010 at the age of 41. His August departure reportedly shocked the religious community, although BBC reported that he had met multiple times with Vatican officials — even the Pope himself — ahead of his resignation.

Now in love but out of work, Novell is now looking for employment as a crop expert or agronomist in the Barcelona area, Religión Digital reported.

The woman he broke his vow of celibacy and commitment to Christ to be with, Silvia Caballol, is a divorced psychologist and erotic novelist whose titles include “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 publisher describes her as a “dynamic and transgressive author [who] turns upside down our ideas of morality and ethics,” according to the National Post. 

Novell has admitted in previous interviews that his infatuation with Caballol is not his first: Before becoming a man of God, he fell in love with and for a time wanted to marry and have children with an 18-year-old girl.

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