A group of nuns accused Fort Worth’s Catholic bishop of shutting down their monastery over “fabricated” allegations that the reverend mother violated her vow of chastity with a priest.
The nuns, who live at a secluded monastery in Arlington, said in a lawsuit filed this month that Bishop Michael Olson and the diocese have abused their power and invaded the sisters’ privacy.
According to a court affidavit, the bishop and other diocese leaders stormed into the monastery on at least three occasions in April and interrogated the nuns for hours, seized their computers and a phone, and later blocked priests from conducting Mass for them. The affidavit is signed by the monastery’s head nun, the Rev. Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach.
