Arlington nuns drop latest lawsuit against Bishop
The Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity filed a notice of non-suit Tuesday, ending their pursuit of a temporary restraining order against Bishop Michael Olson, the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth
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The Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity filed a notice of non-suit Tuesday, ending their pursuit of a temporary restraining order against Bishop Michael Olson, the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth
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"We are not things to be traded or given away in backroom deals," the nuns wrote in a four-page response to the decree posted to their website Saturday afternoon.
"If we were to lose control of the Corporation and its assets it would allow the Defendants to remove us from our home, as they have already threatened to do," the Rev. Mother wrote. "I pray they be stopped."
Last year the nuns sued the Bishop and the Diocese after he began an investigation into allegations of a broken vow of chastity and removed Reverend Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach from her position as Prioress.
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The public legal dispute between the Carmelite nuns and Bishop Michael Olson isn't cooling down.
They wrote they had been subjected to "unprecedented interference, intimidation, aggression, private and public humiliation," as a direct result of Olson's attitudes and ambitions.
The Arlington monastery at the center of a summer-long dispute reopened its gates again for the first time in more than three months.
The Carmelite nuns will not appeal the decision made last month by a civil court judge, who determined the court did not have jurisdiction to hear their complaints.
A Tarrant County judge has decided the civil court does not have jurisdiction to hear the claims of an Arlington nun who filed a lawsuit against a Fort Worth bishop.
In the recording, the Reverend Mother named the priest as Bernard Murray, from the Transalpine Redemptorist in Montana.
Investigators from the Arlington Police Department visited a monastery Wednesday morning to speak with the nuns involved in a bitter dispute with the Bishop of Fort Worth.
Daily mass was set to resume for nuns Wednesday but there's no guarantee it will happen. The closure still bars parishioners.
Daily mass was set to resume for nuns Wednesday but there's no guarantee it will happen. The closure still bars parishioners.
Parishioners prayed for the nuns Wednesday morning.
Mass has been on pause for months since the church accused a nun of violating her chastity vow with a priest from another diocese.
A group of Catholics are meeting later Tuesday morning to pray for a resolution.
An Arlington nun at the center of a scandal was found guilty of violating her vow of chastity with a priest from outside the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth.
An Arlington nun at the center of a scandal was found guilty of violating her vow of chastity with a priest from outside the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth.
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"I offered him a chance to apologize, and he declined to do that," said Allred.
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