This is the latest development in an increasingly bitter dispute between the Fort Worth bishop and nuns at the Most Holy Trinity Monastery in Arlington, Texas.
A Carmelite prioress and several other nuns at a Texas monastery may have excommunicated themselves by publishing a statement challenging their bishop.
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