What Happens When You Accuse ‘Powerful’ Men of Rape?

Sister Lucy Kalappura, who had previously protested against rape-accused Bishop Franco, was expelled by the church.

Here’s the major travesty that occurred when a woman called Sister Lucy Kalappura tried to do some things. She bought a car. She wrote some poems; some op-eds, even. Fiery stuff. Went to a TV interview or two, and shouted at a protest march – decrying the fact that a Bishop of her faith, accused of rape, was allowed to continue unscathed under the church’s eye.

Was it any surprise that she was asked to leave the said church’s congregation, told she had far too “rebellious an attitude” and far too questionable a “lifestyle” – when, really, what was she thinking protesting against a man of the church that courts were going to try for rape? Rape. Repeated multiple times, allegedly. Between the space of a couple of years, allegedly.