The Vatican has dismissed an appeal by a Kerala nun, challenging the Franciscan Clarist Congregation’s decision to expel her for “failing to give a satisfactory explanation for her lifestyle in violation of FCC laws”.

Sister Lucy Kalappura, who took part in a protest seeking the arrest of Bishop Franco Mulakkal, accused of raping a nun, was expelled by the FCC in August this year.

The congregation had charged her with publishing poems, purchasing a car and taking part in a protest against the rape accused former bishop of Jalandhar diocese.

Challenging the decision, the nun filed the appeal before the Congregation for the Oriental Churches in Vatican against the FCCs decision.

“The Vatican has dismissed her appeal,” a church source said here without elaborating.Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro has conveyed to the congregation the decision taken by the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.

“As you will see, the Congregation has rejected the Recourse presented by Sister Kalapura.If she will consider that the present decree is against her lawful rights, she can present a new recourse to the Supreme Tribunal of the Segnatura Apostolica within the peremptory term prescribed by the law,” the Nuncio said in his letter to the FCC.

Reacting to the decision, the nun said it was taken without hearing her part.The nun said she would not leave the convent as she has not done anything wrong.