The national and international media echoed the story of the former bishop of Solsona, Xavier Novell, and the writer Isabel Caballol. After many years of silence, the psychologist has also given an interview to “Col·lapse”, a TV3 program.
The couple recently got married in the Church, and they made it public on social networks. In fact, Caballol makes his family life public through Instagram because “he doesn’t want business to be done with my private life.” But how has he managed media pressure all these years?
The novelist explains that since she is not a public figure, the media themselves were in charge of building her character based on two books. “I wrote them more than a decade ago, and I’m not very proud. I was in a very weak moment in my life.” The media considered that they were erotic-satanic novels, but the writer denies this, ensuring that they talk about psychopathy and sects.
The psychologist believes that men are not only mind and body, but that there is something more transcendent. “I looked for it in Islam and it didn’t quite fit, Catholicism may fit better.” She also adds that they had to wait two years to get married, waiting to achieve secularization.
It was Pope Francis himself who allowed such non-denominationalism. In the case of bishops there is no specific protocol, so it is the pontiff who considers the reasons for secularization. “The Pope was exquisite, very tolerant and empathetic with people’s situations. There are people in the church who have not been up to par,” he confesses.
Caballol does not reveal how they met, but assures that it is far from reality. Although it was a beautiful story, the writer acknowledges that it was very difficult: “Love is like that. It disarms you. Our love was born in a flower between stones, against all odds.
