The day before Thanksgiving two nuns, a lawyer, and a locksmith showed up at the monastery and had the locks changed so that the caretaker could not enter the chapel and the remaining monastery anymore.
Our commentator puts the case of the Carmel in Philadelphia in a larger context of the crisis in the Church which started with the Second Vatican Council, and he issues a sort of battle cry, calling Catholics to resistance.
Sources say Rome and the local archdiocese did all they could to discourage a revival of the monastery – and that they are the ones who will receive the monastery's estimated assets of approximately $10 million.