On Sunday February 14 TVNZ’s Sunday programme featured an interview with Maria Hall.
Hall was described as an ex-nun.
After spending 8 years as a member of the Palmarian Catholic Church she suffered a mental breakdown and walked away.
“I probably had to lose my mind in order to lose my faith,” Maria Hall told the Sunday programme.
The Palmarian Church is a cult which is not connected to the Roman Catholic Church.
It is still active with a following around the world.
Hall is the author of a book, Reparation: A Spiritual Journey, published in 2015.
Amazon describes the book as “the true story of one woman’s journey from the sweeping coastlines of New Zealand to the barren plains of Southern Spain, from youthful hope to deep despair, and from sin to reparation.”
The Christian Palmarian Church of the Carmelites of the Holy Face (Spanish: Iglesia Cristiana Palmariana de los Carmelitas de la Santa Faz), commonly called the Palmarian Catholic Church (Iglesia Catolica Palmariana), is a small schismatic Catholic church centred on El Palmar de Troya, Spain.
The church regards Pope Paul VI, whom they revere as a martyr, and his predecessors as true popes, but hold, on the grounds of claimed apparitions, that the Pope of Rome is excommunicated and that the position of the Holy See has, since 1978, been transferred to the See of El Palmar de Troya.
The Palmarian Catholic Church has had three pontiffs since its break from the Catholic Church; Clemente Dominguez y Gomez (Pope Gregory XVII) declared himself pope in 1978 until his death in 2005, Manuel Corral (Pope Peter II) succeeded Dominguez in 2005 and led the church until his death in 2011. He was succeeded by Sergio Maria (Pope Gregory XVIII) who was elected by conclave in 2011.
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