The disabled Texas nun caught sexting with a priest is defying Vatican orders to leave the monastery — leading her head bishop to close it to worshippers while threatening to excommunicate th…
“Therefore, because the salvation of our souls is our first duty before Almighty God … we hereby state that, in conscience, we no longer recognize the authority of, and can have no further relations with, the current Bishop of Fort Worth,” they wrote.
The Carmelite monastery, in Arlington, Texas near Fort Worth, was donated to the nuns by a wealthy local family.Commissary,” he wrote, the latter referring to his power as a delegate of the Pope in the matter. “Thus, it is with deep sorrow that I must inform the faithful … that Mother Teresa Agnes, thereby, may have incurred upon herself excommunication.
The nuns replied once more in the astonishing war of words Saturday, accusing Olson of waging “private warfare against us.”
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