Is Vatican’s Arlington Carmel decree a win for due process?

Canonists are likely to note the Vatican's approach to appeals from the Carmelites of Texas

As the latest chapter of a saga that began one year ago, the Vatican made a ruling last month in the case of the Arlington, Texas, Carmelites locked in a dispute with Bishop Michael Olson over allegations of sexual misconduct on the part of Mother Theresa Gerlach, who has been replaced by the Vatican as the community’s superior, even while the nuns at t…