The filing includes an affidavit from Reverend Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach warning that once the association of contemplative orders the Vatican appointed to govern the sisters is in control, it can do anything it wishes, including taking the monastery.
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After a diocesan investigation and lawsuits, a community of cloistered Carmelite nuns in Arlington, Texas, said they no longer recognize the authority of Bishop Michael F. Olson of Fort Worth.
The lawsuit was dismissed June 30 when a county court in Texas ruled the allegations from the Carmelite monastery involved church matters, not civil law issues.
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