A nun who kept her pregnancy a secret has shocked the Roman Catholic Church by giving birth to a baby boy.
A cloistered nun has stunned her mother superior and sisters after giving birth to a baby boy after complaining of severe stomach pains.
The sister, who belonged to an order in Macerata, in the eastern Italian region of Le Marche, claimed to have no idea she was pregnant when she was rushed to hospital in agony, after which she gave birth.
The pregnancy has embarrassed the Church, and the nun will be forced to leave her convent in Rieti, north of Rome, to "lead a secular life with her baby, away from religious institutions", according to a spokesman from Delio Lucarelli, the bishop of Rieti.It is believed that the nun, originally from Bolivia, arrived at the convent in June when she was already unknowingly pregnant.
She was said to be in the process of taking her vows to qualify as a nun.
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What is said in your link is 'It is believed that the nun, originally from Bolivia, arrived at the convent in June when she was already unknowingly pregnant. She was said to be in the process of taking her vows to qualify as a nun'.
However digging a little deeper reveals a different story to the slant put on it by your source. Either way it hardly condones the fact that 'Sister Roxana would have to leave the Little Disciples of Jesus convent.' No room at the inn?
The baby's birth has provoked an outcry in the Catholic Church since Sister Roxana took a vow of "poverty, chastity and obedience" when she became a nun in September 2012.
"How do I feel? More like a mum than a nun," she said after the birth of the baby.
But until the birth she was convinced she was suffering from an ongoing gastric infection and cystitis, a bladder infection, and thought the swelling in her abdomen was related to poor digestion. She had also lost track of her menstrual cycle.
When doctors conducted an ultrasound and told her she was in an advanced stage of pregnancy she screamed: "I can't give birth, I am a nun."
Father Benedetto Falcetti, head of the regional branch of the Catholic charity Caritas, said Sister Roxana appeared to have fallen pregnant when she returned home to renew her passport.
"It all happed in El Salvador between March and April last year," he said.
"It was the rekindling of a childhood flame."
Local bishop Delio Lucarelli said Sister Roxana would have to leave the Little Disciples of Jesus convent where she has lived at Campomoro, near Rieti. The head of the convent, Sister Erminia Pusceddu, said: "She did not know how to resist temptation."
Sister Roxana has also written a letter of apology to the order's mother superior, Elvira Petaraca, for breaking her vows.
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