PICTURED: Priest who ‘sexted’ with Mother Superior of Texas nunnery is identified as former Navy officer, 38, who survived brain cancer before taking his vows in North Carolina
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The Catholic priest who allegedly ‘sexted’ with the former prioress of a Texas nunnery has been identified as a former US Navy officer who survived inoperable brain cancer before taking his vows.
Father Philip G. Johnson, 38, is the priest at the center of the sexting allegations that plunged the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity in Arlington, Texas into ecclesiastical chaos, DailyMail.com can confirm.
The convent’s 43-year-old prioress, Mother Superior Teresa Agnes Gerlach, was recently defrocked by Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson, who claimed that she had confessed to violating her vow of chastity with a priest.
For months, the identity of the priest and the nature of the alleged transgression remained cloaked in secrecy, even as Olson publicly decreed Gerlach …