Comment

I appreciate your response, and I believe the Nun’s version of events. But this latest action is playing right into the Bishop’s hands and plan. I don’t know what their alternatives would be. The Vatican might never rule on the appeal, leaving the Chapter imprisoned under the conditions you and they describe until they fall apart. I have to say, I am triggered every time someone cites that appalling recording as an indication of Bishop Olson’s magnanimity. It completely supports the Nun’s story that they believed they had a good relationship with the Bishop and the Diocese up until then. They were blindsided by that interrogation and confiscation of phones and computers, violating the enclosure to do so. They did not consent to the recording, and it’s release violates any sense of human decency. Of course he didn’t record his temper tantrum. Every restriction he has imposed since that tantrum validates the Nun’s version. But this latest action deprives them of the few rights they still had. Perhaps they should sell and move. Lord have mercy.