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In an Aug. 18 statement on their website, the nuns said that Bishop Olson has subjected them to “unprecedented interference, intimidation, aggression, private...
Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth, Texas, and Rev. Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach of the Most Holy Trinity Monastery in Arlington, Texas. / Credit: Diocese of Fort Worth; Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity Discalced Carmelite Nuns Washington, D.C...
Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth (TX), granted extraordinary powers by the Vatican over the local Discalced Carmelites, dismissed the superior, Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach, from religious life on June 1; she appealed the decision to the Vatican.
A Texas bishop threatened to excommunicate a group of nuns. They banned him from their monastery after he accused a disabled nun of breaking her chastity vow with a priest.
Tensions rise between Carmelite nuns and Fort Worth Bishop Michael F. Olson over the nuns' acceptance of Olson's authority.