{"id":19495,"date":"2025-03-04T01:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T01:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/learn\/texas-nuns-dismissed-from-religious-life-after-lengthy-feud-with-bishop-vatican\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T01:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T01:05:13","slug":"texas-nuns-dismissed-from-religious-life-after-lengthy-feud-with-bishop-vatican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianpure.com\/es\/learn\/texas-nuns-dismissed-from-religious-life-after-lengthy-feud-with-bishop-vatican\/","title":{"rendered":"Monjas de Texas expulsadas de la vida religiosa tras una larga disputa con el obispo y el Vaticano"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n La Reverenda Madre Superiora Teresa Agnes Gerlach del Monasterio de la Sant\u00edsima Trinidad en Arlington, Texas. \/ Cr\u00e9dito: Monasterio de las Monjas Carmelitas Descalzas de la Sant\u00edsima Trinidad<\/span>\n<\/div>\n

Personal de CNA, 29 de octubre de 2024 \/ 14:05 pm (CNA).<\/p>\n

Un grupo de monjas de Texas ha sido expulsado de la vida religiosa y devuelto al estado laical tras una larga disputa con su obispo sobre la administraci\u00f3n de su monasterio.<\/p>\n

La Madre Marie de la Encarnaci\u00f3n, presidenta de la Asociaci\u00f3n de Cristo Rey, dijo en una carta a la Di\u00f3cesis de Fort Worth el lunes<\/a> que las monjas del Monasterio de la Sant\u00edsima Trinidad en Arlington, Texas, han sido expulsadas de la Orden de las Carmelitas Descalzas y \"revertidas al estado laical\" despu\u00e9s de m\u00e1s de un a\u00f1o de desaf\u00edo sostenido a sus superiores.<\/p>\n

La expulsi\u00f3n pone fin a una amarga y divisiva disputa entre las monjas carmelitas y las autoridades de la Iglesia, que van desde el obispo de Fort Worth, Michael Olson, hasta el propio Vaticano.<\/p>\n

La controversia comenz\u00f3 el a\u00f1o pasado cuando Olson inici\u00f3 una investigaci\u00f3n sobre el monasterio en medio de acusaciones de que la Reverenda Madre Teresa Agnes Gerlach hab\u00eda mantenido una aventura con un sacerdote.<\/p>\n

Las monjas en mayo de 2023 presentaron una demanda contra Olson por la investigaci\u00f3n<\/a>, alegando violaciones de la privacidad y da\u00f1os al bienestar f\u00edsico y emocional de las hermanas. Olson finalmente expuls\u00f3 a Gerlach de la vida religiosa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

En abril de este a\u00f1o, el Vaticano declar\u00f3<\/a> que la Asociaci\u00f3n de Cristo Rey en los Estados Unidos de Am\u00e9rica supervisar\u00eda el \"gobierno, disciplina, estudios, bienes, derechos y privilegios\" del monasterio de Texas.<\/p>\n

Las monjas, sin embargo, desafiaron la orden del Vaticano, llegando incluso a asociarse con la Sociedad de San P\u00edo X<\/a> (SSPX), un grupo tradicionalista que no est\u00e1 en plena comuni\u00f3n con la Iglesia Cat\u00f3lica y tiene un estatus can\u00f3nicamente irregular.<\/p>\n

'Nuestro \u00fanico deseo es que se arrepientan'<\/h2>\n

El lunes, la Madre Marie de la Encarnaci\u00f3n dijo que el desaf\u00edo repetido de las monjas inclu\u00eda negar la autoridad del Dicasterio para los Institutos de Vida Consagrada y las Sociedades de Vida Apost\u00f3lica del Vaticano, as\u00ed como negar la autoridad de su obispo y de la propia Marie como su superiora. Dijo que las monjas tambi\u00e9n cometieron una \"asociaci\u00f3n formal ilegal\" con la SSPX. <\/p>\n

Estas violaciones fueron \"exacerbadas por su apropiaci\u00f3n il\u00edcita de la persona jur\u00eddica del monasterio carmelita\", escribi\u00f3 la Madre Marie. <\/p>\n

Las monjas \"confiaron a laicos\" la propiedad del monasterio, dijo, la cual \"les hab\u00eda sido confiada por innumerables benefactores, con el prop\u00f3sito de servir a Cristo en la Iglesia a trav\u00e9s de la vida carmelita descalza\".<\/p>\n

La expulsi\u00f3n de las monjas de la vida religiosa fue provocada \"por sus propias acciones\", escribi\u00f3 la Madre Marie. <\/p>\n

\"Pido sus continuas oraciones y sacrificios en nombre de estas siete mujeres\", dijo, a\u00f1adiendo que \"nuestro \u00fanico deseo es que los miembros expulsados del Carmelo se arrepientan, para que la propiedad mon\u00e1stica pueda volver a llamarse justamente un monasterio, habitado por monjas carmelitas descalzas, en buena posici\u00f3n can\u00f3nica con la Iglesia de Roma\".<\/p>\n

En una breve declaraci\u00f3n que acompa\u00f1a al anuncio, Olson se hizo eco del llamado de la Madre Marie a orar por las monjas expulsadas, al tiempo que orden\u00f3 a los cat\u00f3licos que se abstuvieran de asistir a misa en el monasterio. <\/p>\n

Tambi\u00e9n solicit\u00f3 que los fieles \"no ofrezcan apoyo financiero\" a las monjas. <\/p>\n

En una carta el mes pasado, Olson hab\u00eda respondido a los informes de que las monjas hab\u00edan reinstalado a Gerlach como priora en una elecci\u00f3n il\u00edcita. El obispo describi\u00f3 la medida como \"escandalosa\" y \"permeada con el olor del cisma\".<\/p>\n

En su carta del lunes, la Madre Marie se\u00f1al\u00f3 que una monja carmelita \"vota vivir de acuerdo con la regla y las constituciones de la Orden de las Carmelitas Descalzas\".<\/p>\n

Las monjas tuvieron la oportunidad de reunificarse con la Iglesia, se\u00f1al\u00f3, pero \"han elegido lo contrario, y sus elecciones han provocado el estatus diferente que ahora tienen\".<\/p>\n

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