Posted on 08/24/2023 10:40:05 AM PDT by ebb tide
In an increasingly bitter dispute between a Texas bishop and a local Carmelite monastery, the nuns are defying an order by Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson that prohibits Catholic laity from visiting and praying at the monastery.
The nuns of the Most Holy Trinity Monastery in Arlington, Texas, issued a defiant three-page statement Wednesday in which they said that Bishop Olson does not have the authority to close off their monastery and that their chapel remains open to the public.
The nuns further claimed that Bishop Olson and the diocese continue to deny them the sacraments, including Mass and confessions.
The monastery statement, written by attorney Matthew Bobo, said that though “Bishop Olson continues his vindictive personal war against the Arlington Carmelite nuns,” they “do not and will not recognize this bishop’s unwarranted and unauthorized abuse and wielding of the complete power he suddenly is trying to exercise over the monastery.”
Bishop Closes Monastery Doors to the public; Nuns Open Them Anyway
Though Bishop Olson has declared the monastery closed to the public, Bobo said that the nuns “decided to open their gates and allow the lay faithful to come and pray at the monastery’s chapel.”
“The monastery and all of its property belongs to the Discalced Carmelite nuns,” Bobo said. “No one has the right to tell a private property owner who can and cannot come onto their private property … The Bishop has tried to isolate the Arlington Carmelite nuns, cutting them off from their longtime supporters and in so doing preventing the lay faithful from attending their church of choice.”
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Feisty nuns! Gotta love it!
Under ATF, rulers are guns.
Bishop Olson strongly appears to be yet another sodomite in the putative church hierarchy.
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