Cloistered Carmelites in Arlington, Texas, insisted on their continued communion with the Catholic Church Aug. 23 in a statement from their civil attorney.
The bishop - who has now been banned from the priory - threatened the nuns with excommunication in a saga that has rumbled on for months and sparked an intervention from the Vatican.
The bishop - who has now been banned from the priory - threatened the nuns with excommunication in a saga that has rumbled on for months and sparked an intervention from the Vatican.
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.