Nun Kicked Out of Convent for Using Facebook
February 21st, 2011
A convent in Spain has expelled a 54-year-old nun for spending too much time on social networking website, Facebook. María Jesús Galán, 54, overcame the resistance of some of her companions at the 14th-century convent to install a computer.
With the aid of modern technology, “Sister internet,” as Galán became known among her fellow nuns, digitalized all of the convent’s documents but it was the creation of her own Facebook page that led to a campaign to have Galán expelled from the religious community.
Sister Maria Jesus Galan said on her Facebook page that “They have kicked me out,” after disagreements over her online activities at the convent in Santo Domingo el Real, Toledo.
Sister Galán’s personal preferences, as listed on Facebook, include “reading, music and making friends.” She has 300 friends listed on her Facebook page and now has fan pages with thousands of supporters from around the world calling for her to be allowed back into the order.
Sister Maria won a government prize in 2008 for digitising the archives of the convent and making them accessible to the world.
She is now looking for work and pondering carrying out one of her life’s ambitions: to travel to London and New York. And she has not lost her faith: “It is a change to my way of life, but it is not a tragedy. God is good and he will help me.”
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