“You Shall Know the Truth”

An Account of Recent Events at

The Philadelphia Carmel

Introduction

On the morning of April 9th, 2021, 9 Carmelite Nuns, with 3 novices, quietly left their Monastery at 1400 66th Ave, Philadelphia, to begin the long drive back to their former home at Valparaiso, Nebraska, leaving one 80-year-old Sister alone in the Monastery. No explanation was given at the time, but soon various traditionalist websites were posting articles with screaming headlines: “OCD Carmelites of Philadelphia abandon their cloister; flee to Nebraska for unknown reasons.”[1] “Sudden so far unexplained departure of Philadelphia Carmelites.”[2] “Philly Carmelites departure confirmed by three priestly sources…so when will kneeling be banned?”[3]

Some of the facts in these articles were true: the Nuns had left, and no explanation was given. The departure remained unexplained, but not for long. Since no explanation was given, emotion and imagination filled in the gap. However, as one character in an unusual murder mystery said, ‘“Give me research. After all, the truth of anything at all doesn’t lie in someone’s account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time…Truth isn’t in accounts but in account books.” “A neat phrase,” Grant said, complimentary. “Does it mean anything?” “It means everything. The real history is written in forms not meant as history. In Wardrobe accounts, in Privy Purse expenses, in personal letters, in estate books.”’[4] In other words, history is to be found in documents established at the time of events. The Nuns who left the Philadelphia Carmel on April 9th made no statement at the time, but they had made many statements before their departure, statements in print in the documents that were written at the time, statements which show their intentions of departure before they acted on them. If they had made these intentions known at the time, they would have spared much anguish to themselves and to others.

[1] https://nonvenipacem.com/2021/04/12/breaking-ocd-carmelites-of-philadelphia-abandon-their-cloister-flee-to-nebraska-for-unknown-reasons/

[2] https://wdtprs.com/2021/04/sudden-so-far-unexplained-departure-of-philadelphia-carmelites/

[3] https://nonvenipacem.com/2021/04/14/update-philly-carmelites-departure-confirmed-by-three-priestly-sources-so-when-will-kneeling-be-banned/

[4] Tey, Josephine. The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant Book 5) (pp. 142 & 144). Scribner. Kindle Edition.

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