A Catholic bishop in has declared the Mother Superior of a cloistered convent guilty of adultery with a priest, and ejected her from the order of nuns in which she has lived for 25 years under vows.Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson issued the decree on Thursday night, acting on sweeping powers the Vatican recently granted him over the Discalced Carmelite Nuns, a small religious order that runs a monastery in Arlington. Olson said that, following an investigation, he found Mother Superior Teresa Agnes Gerlach 'guilty of having violated the sixth commandment of the Decalogue and her vow of chastity with a priest from outside the Diocese of Fort Worth.'
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