ACI Prensa Staff, Apr 3, 2024 / 07:00 am
After obtaining a dispensation from Pope Francis, the bishop emeritus of Solsona in Spain, Xavier Novell, has entered into a canonical marriage with psychologist and author Silvia Caballol.
Caballol announced the marriage on Instagram this week, saying: “Xavier and I have finally been able to get married in the Church, thanks to the mercy of the Holy Father who has granted him laicization.”
“It has been a long road, but we have been able to regularize our canonical situation: to get married as we wanted to and be able to receive Communion again,” Caballol announced.
“I don’t think our love nor the Church deserves to be hidden. Nor do I believe that the cover-up that accompanied my husband’s resignation [as diocesan bishop] two and a half years ago was entirely correct,” she added.