FORT WORTH, Texas (OSV News) -- The bishop of the Diocese of Fort Worth, Texas, shared new details in a June 11 video about his recent investigation into the superior of a monastery of Discalced Carmelites, alleging the nun admitted to consensual sexual misconduct with a priest to the diocese's vicar general as well as to a fellow nun.
"This very sad matter is an internal pastoral matter," Bishop Michael F. Olson, 56, said in an eight-minute video posted on the Diocese of Fort Worth's YouTube channel, during which he denied several claims alleging wrongdoing related to his investigation at the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, which is located in his diocese.
"It has hurt me deeply because I love the sisters and the Arlington Carmel very much," he said. "I have known the sisters for over 30 years, and I have prayed with them and I have relied on their prayers."
In the video statement to the diocese's Catholics, Bishop Olson said he wanted to clarify aspects of what he called "a matter that is currently causing all of us much pain, confusion and heartache."
"This is a church matter. This is a pastoral matter. This is a spiritual matter," he said. "Others have attempted to draw me into addressing this matter in the inappropriate venues of civil court and also in both social media and the mainstream media, and I will not do so."
He said others "have asserted baseless and false claims into the public mind, causing confusion."
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