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Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson issued the decree on Thursday night, acting on sweeping powers the Vatican recently granted him over the Discalced Carmelite Nuns, a small religious order in Texas.
Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth, Texas, has dismissed the superior of a Carmelite monastery from religious life, in the latest move in a public dispute with the religious community.
The Reverend Mother Superior Teresa Agnes Gerlach of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas. / Credit: Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity Discalced Carmelite NunsWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 2, 2023 / 12:40 pm (CNA).Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth, Texas, issued a decree Thursday dismissing Reverend Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach from religious life following a nearly six-week-long investigation into an alleged sexual affair involving a priest.In his decree, Olson announced he had found Gerlach, prioress of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, "guilty...
The decree was made in response to the Bishop investigating the monastery's head nun breaking her vow of chastity.
Amid the investigation, the bishop banned the monastery from celebrating daily Mass and blocked access to regular confessions.