1st brought up in Justice's thread which covered Weston Priory, a quite liberal "Catholic" establishment, Sister Teresa Forcades is more in the limelight these days. Tomorrow, elections closely watched by the world will take place in restive Catalonia, Spain's wealthiest and most industrialized province.
Background about the wayward so-called nun is provided by a 2013 interview by the BBC. Sister Teresa can only be more well known 4 years later.
There was an illegal referendum on October 1, 2017 to determine whether Catalans wished to secede from Spain. Grievances are mainly economic, with Catalan nationalists insisting that Madrid receives all their taxes but spends its largesse only on poorer Spanish areas like Andalusia. [ This sounds like an excuse to me. ]
However, Sister Teresa goes way beyond in her strident calls for socialism to replace capitalism. Is it socialism - or a proto-Communism ?
Her ideas of government takeover of all banks and many other radical features is terrifying Spanish officials.
The BBC reported :
"A Spanish nun has become one of Europe's most influential left-wing public intellectuals. This year, thousands have joined her anti-capitalist movement, which campaigns for Catalan independence, the reversal of public spending cuts and nationalisation of banks and energy companies.
There's no politician quite like her. She's never without her nun's headdress, and says that everything she does is born of deep Christian faith and devotion. Yet, she has been strongly critical of the church and the men who run it.
Followers of her movement, Proces Constituent, which has signed up around 50,000 Catalans this year, are mainly non-believing leftists. She won't run for office, and says she won't create a political party, but she's undeniably a political figure on a mission - to tear down international capitalism, and change the map of Spain."
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24079227
Surely this sister Teresa Forcades is a front for some sinister organization. The nun's veil is only a prop. In the same interview, sister Teresa admits that the minute she feels her monastic life has become 'sacrificial', she will abandon it !
More shockingly, she favors all the usual radical social agenda, loudly criticizing the Vatican with strident tones of feminism. The fake nun supports women priests, abortion, homosexuals not only being allowed to participate in the Church but to actually serve at the altar !
This agenda can only be a Soros or similar type of operation to undermine the stability of Spain, always regarded as the most Catholic country in Europe, on religious as well as economic and political fronts. A real threat ! She looks innocuous, but is a powerful speaker, holding throngs of followers in her grip.
If this model of a socialist sister Teresa succeeds in breaking off Catalonia from Spain and pushing a ridiculously radical program, surely it will become a blueprint for attacking other countries with similar charismatic figures who arose from 'nowhere'.
PS. The fake-nun has her own Youtube channel.