Riot police evict nuns

65 Polish nuns, defrocked by the Vatican, were evicted from their convent by police in riot gear.

According to a spokesperson for the Catholic Church, the nuns were "disobedient" when they refused a Vatican order to replace their mother superior.

“They were disobedient,” said Mieczyslaw Puzewicz, a spokesman for the Lublin diocese of the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican formally expelled the women from their Sisters of Bethany order last year, but has revealed almost nothing about the dispute.

Their electricity was cut-off a year ago, according to MSNBC.com and the nuns survived on food smuggled to them by nearby residents.

One version of the story is here.