A bitter feud over sex, drugs, and power has gone all the way up to the Vatican.
There’s a strange saga unfolding in Texas. It involves allegations and accusations of illicit sexual relationships, drug use, theft, abuse, spying, planted evidence, and plots to steal a multimillion-dollar property. The people involved are Catholic priests, bishops, and some pretty fired-up nuns.
What has become an open, bitter feud between the bishop of Fort Worth and 10 cloistered nuns in Arlington, Texas, has scandalized and thrilled American Catholics. The cops, the courts, and the Vatican are involved. Onlookers are taking sides. It’s still unclear who’s going to come out on top. And it all started with a startling confession from a devout nun.
The series of events began in December 2020, shortly after Mother Teresa Agnes Gerlach, the 43-year-old prioress of the Discalced Carmelite nuns of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, had a seizure. Gerlach, who had joined the order as a teenager, normally lives a life of quiet prayer and seclusion.
But this sexting confession itself was questioned too. The nuns’ version of events places the April 2023 confession on the 25, as Gerlach was recovering from a recent surgery and was still groggy from anesthesia. The bishop’s version of events has her confessing the previous day, with a clear head. At some point in this two-day period, shAdvertisement
Crucially, for our narrative and for the drama that would come. Olson didn’t limit his investigation to just his conversation with Gerlach. He started pulling the rest of the nuns in for separate interviews.Now, it’s important to know some things about Carmelite nuns.
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